In a new interview with AntiHero Magazine, former Scorpions alumni Herman Rarebell and Francis Buchholz discuss their current gig with Michael Schenker’s Temple Of Rock, as well as they’re time in Scorpions. Read an excerpt below:

Q: How did you both reconcile musically with Michael after so many years apart?

Herman Rarebell: "There was no suggestion and no help so that’s why I jumped in to do this for one tour only, and I asked him via Francis as we haven’t talked in years. So anyway, we talked and talked – everything is fine to make a long story short – and then Francis joined the band and also Doogie our lead singer. So, from 201… 2012, sorry, the band Temple Of Rock was basically formed and plays under the same lineup since.”

Q: Which is good, a continuity of the band’s lineup. What is your first musical memory that you can recall?

HR: “This, tapping on cups, and my mother told me – and usually it happened in the kitchen, when I was four or five years old, though I can’t think back, I can remember all of this – it got on my mother’s nerves. My mother bought me a pair of brushes, the brushes drummer’s used in those days, it was fashionable, and my grandfather said ‘don’t give him this, it maybe will go way into his flesh and blood’.”

Q: Was it difficult in the early days of the Scorpions to break out of your home country and go on to achieve world fame, really? To breakout, first of all to make a name in Germany, and then spread it all over the world?

HR: “Yes, it’s a lot of work involved. We did our own management and we started out in Hanover where we are from. We played, started in Germany, booked everything ourselves, then we got somebody to help us with the booking and we could play in Holland, Belgium, France. We did our first tour in the UK in 1975. So it was a lot of work building and playing in those clubs. And the tour in 1975 I still recall we did earn so little money that we had to stay the night in guest houses, in the cheapest guest houses we could get with youth beds. What can you do when you have to sleep in a bed with blankets which were not that clean? After the tour I was ready to quit.”

Q: How do you look back at the musical history and the legacy that you’ve created together?

HR: “It was a wonderful time. We played the so called “heavy rock” music before the term was invented, “heavy rock”. But I can’t complain. Speaking for myself, I’m very happy with my music life so far and it’s great to go back 50 years. I started when I was about 12 or 13, and now I’m 66.”

Read the complete interview at AntiHeroMagazine.com.