SCORPIONS In The Studio With MICHAEL SCHENKER; Photo
October 19, 2013, 11 years ago
German hard rock legends the SCORPIONS have posted a picture of Michael Schenker meeting his brother Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine and producer Mikael "Nord" Andersson (Sting In The Tail) in the studio.
As reported this past week here, MTV Unplugged by the Scorpions will be released on November 29th as double CD, DVD, Blu-ray and in various other digital and physical configurations.
Last July, Scorpions guitarist Matthias Jabs spoke with Billboard about raiding the vaults for "unfinished songs from the early '80s, leftovers from the Blackout album, Love At First Sting, which some people think is our best time." So far, he said, the quintet has worked on a dozen tracks with producers Mikael "Nord" Andersson and Martin Hansen, and more is on the way.
"We will dig in again and maybe have a selection of 16 to 18 songs and pick the best 12 from those," Jabs added. "It's actually very good material." The idea for the project, he adds, "came from the fans. They were the ones saying, 'There must be some extra material from those days,' and they were right."
Scorpions are adding new parts to the existing recordings, while most of the songs "didn't have proper lyrics, just blah blah blah blah working lyrics. So in almost every song the lyrics have to be re-written."
And while he acknowledges that while "the time reflects on the music" from three decades ago, Jabs promises the group is taking pains to modernize the new recordings. "We're doing it the way we are recording albums today," Jabs explains, "but the basic ideas, the riffs, the feel, the way they were written and arranged, we try to keep as much from the old recordings as possible. Thirty years later no one would come up with these ideas we came up with when we were younger, so we want to keep that spirit in there."
