European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse For us the fans in America Are fantastic out so Are the audiences in Europe they be grown up. In America the people want to scr Hans bring their heavy Metal act to Home ground fans of the heavy Metal band the scorpions Are in Lor a treat this Mont the scorpions schedule will take the through some european cities including a appearance in Iho monsters of Rock shows in Nurnberg aug 30 and Mannheim aug. 31. Two members of the German band from Hannover walked a few minutes with a Tripos reporter wend Blufland at a press conf once a week ago. 0 do you prefer Louring in inc or europe1 Klaus Meine for us. The fans in America Are fantastic bul so Are the audiences in Europe they be grown up. In America the people want to parly Rudolf Schunker in Europe the people want to see How Good the band is q will you play any of your now material Al the Monsler Sof Rock shows Meine probably no. People pay a lot of Money to hear us. They Don l want us to slug Skull on them they want to Hoar the songs they know Horn the albums maybe one song it s Dill cull to say. We May do a Medley of songs irom our albums. Q How s your voice holding up Vou had problems with it a while ago. Meine it s Fine so far i had iwo operations in 1981 02 lower love nodes on the vocal cords this was Vilc we were recording blackout in Cologne the lust doctor i saw said. You should find Anol Hor of q what was your reaction to that Meine-1 was shocked i Well to different doctors laughs1tien to a voice specialist in Vienna to took seven months to get voice Back. I look electric shocks in inroad. It was no Lun. Q it s taken the scorpions a Long Lime to headline a major festival Meine Well it took a Lew years to got out of e Europe. To did t make it big in America until 1979. Q what were your musical influences Schenker led Zeppelin the Yar Birds o the of her band members wrote songs for his new album where you and Rudolf usually write them Meine on the nov album everybody has a Chance to while now material in the past Rudoll and i wrote most of the songs everybody writes and we pick Oul the Best ones q hard Rock ii under attack in America and your albums have been criticized for their sexually explicit Cove Arl. Will you change anything As a result o 1his? Meine we won t change our wanting or cover Art we never were task toss we Don t want sexy album covers to sell albums to want to have Good music and a Good package As wet. Q will Chi pics complain he scorpions music has t changed when the now album is released Schenker we have our slyly we can go a Little bit this Way or this Way we can do better songs within our style. Like the rolling stones. They stay the same but they keep doing Good songs. If the songs got better and the style stays inc same the songs get worse l s not of. Other dates and local ions Are aug 16, Donnington England aug 23. Stockholm Sweden and aug 27, Budapest Hungary tickets Are available Al itt outlets or on the German Economy Tor 44 Marks a ticket. The scorpions claim their Slage and Light show will be the biggest Evor seen Al a Rock concern in Germany. The headline Bill includes ?.y Osborne def Leppard Bon govt and Warlock wednesday August 13, 1966 5b.s Liki Phal Rudolf Schenker in Europe the people want to see How Good the band is the stars and stripes Page 13
