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Schenker announced that the tour was postponed until 2007, and a few days later his web site posted an upside-down MSG logo with the message “MSG is done.” Apparently, members of Schenker’s touring band members were complaining about pay, but they worked out their differences in time to tour Asia. The band toured Europe, but just as MSG were preparing to visit the U.S., the situation became grim again. Fans and critics praised Schenker’s playing on the album, which many said was his best effort since MSG’s early Eighties classics.
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MSG’s Tales of Rock ’n’ Roll featuring guest appearances by several of the band’s former vocalists, including Gary Barden and Graham Bonnet, was finally released in March 2006, a few months late for MSG’s true 25th anniversary. I will not come back to America unless Bella and Linda stop threatening me in unfair ways for the sake of money.” Unfortunately, I must sacrifice this USA tour to protect myself to be able to keep playing music. Schenker explained the situation to his fans with the following message posted on his site: “I am announcing the cancellation of the MSG USA tour since I did not receive the official letters from Bella Piper and Linda Schenker that I have requested. “I am being threatened with my passport suspended, my assets frozen and jail time.”Īlthough Schenker was living in Los Angeles at the time, he was unable to come home due to his legal hassles, so he temporarily moved to Germany. “I don’t feel safe coming back to the States,” Schenker announced. Schenker reacted by airing his dirty laundry via a lengthy letter posted on his web site, michaelschenkerhimself. Linda Schenker and Piper claimed that the guitarist was a deadbeat dad, and Lewis publicly accused him of not paying his income taxes and other debts. Meanwhile, his ongoing problems with Bella Piper (with whom he fathered two daughters, Chinua and Essenz), his ex-wife Linda and Nancy Lewis came to a boil. In the latter half of the year Schenker arranged a tour with former Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth, signed a new endorsement deal with Dean Guitars and announced plans to record a 25th anniversary MSG album featuring a variety of guest vocalists from throughout MSG’s history. But only three months after she was hired, Lewis was dismissed in an acrimonious split. He toured throughout Europe and the U.S., released the Schenker-Pattison Summit album The Endless Jam and MSG’s World Wide Live 2004 DVD and hired a new personal manager, Nancy Lewis. Schenker got his musical career back on track in 2004. To survive, he was forced to sell his few remaining personal possessions, including three Gibson Flying V guitars-his trademark instrument-that he had used extensively with UFO and MSG. Schenker’s manager Bella Piper had allegedly cleaned out most of the money he had earned since the Nineties from selling exclusive recordings over the internet and playing with UFO. During the previous year, Schenker’s wife, Linda, had sold off most of his personal possessions before disappearing to Thailand with the couple’s son. When Guitar World last caught up with Schenker, in October 2003, the guitarist was rebuilding his life one piece at a time, attending rehab and living in a modest hotel in Phoenix, Arizona.