I love the fact that they are so united and wealthy but not showing it. Wearing ordinary clothes and owning 100s of thousands of dollars worth of vintage guitars. So humble, matthias is my main influence and would love to sit down with him once, even if just for 5 minutes, it would be insane to meet my idol❤
Great guy 🥰 I’m 53 years old and I’m a professional guitar player, and when I was young, about 14 years old, on the very beginning of playing guitar, the two guitar players who impressed me the most was Eddie Van Halen and Mathias, and it was for me the beginning of the big love I have for the guitar, so Mathias is very important for me in my heart for the love and passion I have for the guitar ❤️ So thank you so much Mathias for your music and your fabulous guitar playing 🥰
Go back to 1984. I was an 80s teenager & guitar player. When Scorpions put out the new song & video for Rock You Like A Hurricane, I have always thought it was one of the greatest guitar solos ever!!! It's a blazing solo!
i drank Bass beers with this guy for several hours in a hotel bar in 1991 He even bought me a few after I ran out of money.....one of the greatest nights of my life..This is when I learned to correctly pronounce his name.....Mateeus Yobs
I sat with him in a hotel bar in Nashville Tennessee. He was very gracious and kind, and loaned me a Marlboro ❤ and talked with me. I had followed their bus...
One of the most sensible , likeable & downright great guitar player in today's Rock Music !!! Matthias really completes Scorpions perfectly ! Always liked his attitude , friendliness & his sober minded outlook on many subjects ! What you see is what you get ! Great guy & superb musician ! Total respect for Mr Jabs !!! Great interview !!!
Love this guy! Over the years, I’ve been to many Scorpion concerts and NEVER walked away disappointed! One of the tightest and most professional bands to this day.🙏🏻🎧 🎸
@@metalhead7181 Damn, I miss those days!!! My fingers are showing signs of arthritis, so I don’t pick up the guitar much these days. I’m good for about 15 minutes, and I put it back down. If I go much longer than that, I pay for out the next couple of days. Anyway, Lynch was one of my favorites as well. I really enjoyed Randy Rhodes, it’s too bad we lost him. He was way too young. A different genre, but SRV and Jeff Healey rank up there for me as well.
You've got the wrong address!!! Matthias is among THE MOST TECHNICAL VIRTUOUSOS AND SHREDDERS IN HEAVY MUSIC!!!He is BRIGHT,FLASHY AND UNIQUE with his individual guitar style and tone!!! You don't understand anything about guitar playing,that's why you write NONSENSE!!!
as a canadian german guitarist rudolf,michael and matthais are icons and idols for me... and my favourite guitarists (other then them) are inspired by them! James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Dave Mustaine
He is a nice guy, I won't stand on his position on the band's issues and the history behind it. I do recognize his attitude, being the absolute icon in the 80's as a blazing lead guirarist and his contribution to keep the whole band tight and together.
Oh man! I had no idea Matthias Jabs was such a funny guy. I've never seen an interview with just him in it … very good! Too, Michael Schenker - who is an amazing guitarist - recently sort of disparaged Matthias when he said that Rudolph has no talent and Klaus was the only other guy in the band who had any talent other than himself, Michael Schenker. It was nice to hear Matthias' gentlemanly response to that
There’s a Scorpions song called “We Let It Rock You Let It Roll”. You can tell how great guitarist MJ is even by just listening that song. It’s super cool. MJ is the COOL part of Scorpions. He is soloing throughout whole song. Awesome.
They came into my bar in north Texas in the early 2000s, they put us on the guest list. We go to will call get the tickets and they put us in the third row. Great live band
Day on the green, the US Festival ,all those California festivals. Every time a friend went to one I would ask them who was the best band live and they always said the Scorpions.
Great interview.. I didn’t know too much about Matthias so this was a pretty cool interview. Growing up in the 80s the Scorpions are one of my favorites.
One of the greats, Mathias, saw him , them in 93 on Dinamo...never heard till then a real loud ,western guitar sound...etc,was the guitar yellow???A lot of yellow and guitar sound!Danke!
@18.47 in I just love the expression on his face when he's remembering the feeling of when he first got the bug. Then he cleared his throat and I lost it. I can relate.
Great player and some of the best rock tones from that era. I just love the solo in I'm leaving you. Bar none one of my all time favorite solo's in a melodic rock song.
Animal Magnetism was a great album. As much as I was a Micheal Schenker fan, I think Mathias was just as good a fit into Scorpions as either Roth or M Schenker. Lovedrive doesn't sound that different than Animal Magnetism that should put the contest to rest really. Blackout knocked it out of the park. That being said, Schenker was the best guy for UFO.
A very good interview young players should see this lissen to Jabs and keep that in mind. About the old days...there are all the sudden a lot of fancy tops around but me as an young guy I was an hangaround in two shops mainly dealing with Gibson, Fender, Gretch new as old instruments of quality. Some times I helped one of them owners out as an seller and I was also offered an steady job but no I saw neither money or an future in it but hey ther was not that much of posh + top guitars! Most guitars where solid in off white and black some Sunbursts but not that many and wood finishes of cource plain wood and cherry tinted and that was about it. Two reasons, the world was in black and white and guitars where very expensive a plus top would cost a lot more! As my grandfather an musician told me about it who in hell needed an flashy guitar when the world was in black and white? He ment film and TV.
This guy is a guitar virtuoso. Very humble and soft spoken yet cranks out legendary leads album after album and year after year. Modern Scorpions is more metal driven neoclassical music. To me they are pioneers of modern metal music. They were blazing a path right along with Priest and Maiden. There are others of course but thats my too three. Maybe Boston too... Lol.
I saw you guys in Toronto and you were amazing. I stood the whole show it was 2010 with Cinderella! I was so glad to see you guys my favourite 2 guitar attack! Loved the show as you guys sounded great! Keep on Rockin Mathias!
Unfortunately i tried to see them on that tour but Klaus had to cancel for throat problems. Cinderella instead of canceling actually played for free to ticketholders. Thought that was a very classy move. They could have just took the night off.
Great interview! I don't think we'll i know I have never seen a solo interview with Mathias. I first seen ufo in 76 when vanhalen opened at the goldenwest ballroom. He handled the michael situation we😅ll. I own own a v a explorer and a modern. The modern is the easiest to play.
I've seen this interview before... you had it up a couple of years ago, didn't you? I could listen to Matthias Jabs talk all day long - very thoughtful guy with a great sense of humor. And he waded into the "tonewood" debate. 😀
I was hearing danish accent in the English. It was correct. Hello from Sweden! Our closest lovely neigbour, we did a one day tour by car to Copenhagen which is possible from Gothenburg.
I agree. Why so many questions about the Flying V to a great player who never plays a Flying V? I would liked to hear more of him talking about aspects of his own playing rather than discussing a specific instrument that he doesn’t even use.
Funny how he refers to Uli as "his friend" and then goes on to say Michael Schenker has "no influence at all" on Scorpions. Matthias is my favorite scorpions guitar player, I do prefer him to Michael Schenker. However, if you ask Michael he would severely disagree on having no influence, as Michael, according to him, Did a huge amount of guitar playing and songwriting on the love drive album, and claims his brother Rudolph screwed him out of songwriting credits and royalties.
Schenker Jr. DIDN'T WRITE any songs for Lovedrive!!!!! He participated only in the creation of guitar solos in... three songs and THAT'S ALL!!!! He attributes more to himself than he ACTUALLY did because he is a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR(just like the LIAR Rarebell !!!)Accordingly,yes,HE HAD NO INFLUENCE ON THEM!!! The sound and the formed style of the SCORPIONS are the merit of MATTHIAS AND RUDOLPH!!!
Albeit metalists like it for its look, it's a perfect symmetry shape, which makes a perfect jazz guitar. That's a reason from the few users at its debut (1957), many of them were blues/jazz players. The complex chords sound supra good.
In fact,Matthias said everything correctly!!! Lovedrive... Schenker Jr. performed only three solos there(written by him),so HE DID NOT MAKE ANY SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION!!!
Great interview with Mattias,!!! It would have been great to have seen Matthias and Stevie Ray Vaugn play together. Talk about burning down the house!!!
I wondered why Michael Shenker never got paid for live gigs when he played for the Scorpions. That is Michaels thing for his vibrato with the V on the leg standing.
Very entertaining and informative interview . I think that Mattias is overlooking Michael Schenker's contribution to the Love Drive Album. Small quiz question concerning Flying V's . How do you know which Flying V belongs to Michael from a rack of similar Guitars?
Michael's is the one with the strings not trimmed, broken multiple times, painted a dozen times, then lost forever. Genius has it's price I guess. Seriously though, Michael's my favorite. Lovedrive included. Not to take anything away from Matthias but Schenker is the master of melody. Especially the early UFO stuff. Between the walls, High Flyer, etc.
I was initially drawn to the Explorer because I thought it looked cool. Matthias said something that made me realize how great this guitar is to play...the balance. As far as the Flying V, I don't believe that a better illustration for it's dynamic impact exists than the debut studio album cover of _Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers_
From now I will refer to all my guitars as very fleshy guitars....well at least my V's and explorers. Speaking of which I am actually off to pick up my explorer from the paint shop repainted as a Mattias Jabs sig
I love the fact that they are so united and wealthy but not showing it. Wearing ordinary clothes and owning 100s of thousands of dollars worth of vintage guitars. So humble, matthias is my main influence and would love to sit down with him once, even if just for 5 minutes, it would be insane to meet my idol❤
One of my Heroes. Just a normal guy, a brilliant guitarist, famous but grounded, very polite, no arrogance, Top!
I respect him!❤
One of the Great guitar hero but also one of the most underrated
Mathias and Slash have got to be the friendliest guitar players out there…..what a nice guy!
Matthias is such an handsome, talented and professional musician and, entrpreneur. He loves what he does and does it with passion.
Hilarious as well 😂❤
Great guy 🥰 I’m 53 years old and I’m a professional guitar player, and when I was young, about 14 years old, on the very beginning of playing guitar, the two guitar players who impressed me the most was Eddie Van Halen and Mathias, and it was for me the beginning of the big love I have for the guitar, so Mathias is very important for me in my heart for the love and passion I have for the guitar ❤️ So thank you so much Mathias for your music and your fabulous guitar playing 🥰
So much respect and love for this man he’s an absolutely killer player in one of the greatest rock bands of all time!!
What a down to earth nice guy. He was really patient with the interviewers lack of guitar knowledge. On my short list of favorite players.
One of my favorite guitarists! Seen Scorpions at the US Festival 83 and they kicked @SS!
Scorpions are incredible live!
Mathias is a monster 🎸
'Ladies and Gentlemen, My Favorite Band of All Time, The Scorpions'!❤🤘🔥🍻💪
One of my favorite guitar players 🎸
Go back to 1984. I was an 80s teenager & guitar player. When Scorpions put out the new song & video for Rock You Like A Hurricane, I have always thought it was one of the greatest guitar solos ever!!! It's a blazing solo!
i drank Bass beers with this guy for several hours in a hotel bar in 1991 He even bought me a few after I ran out of money.....one of the greatest nights of my life..This is when I learned to correctly pronounce his name.....Mateeus Yobs
Such a very underrated musician with a man's talent. Also a very humble man. Would love to sit down and talk with him one day.
I sat with him in a hotel bar in Nashville Tennessee. He was very gracious and kind, and loaned me a Marlboro ❤ and talked with me. I had followed their bus...
Truly underrated lead guitar legend.
My goodness. He’s up there with Kirk Hammett of Metallica
Little better than Hatfield @@anthonystrait1643
Matthias is the absolute best. Just a class act and a down to earth, cool guy. Respect!🤘🏻
One of the most sensible , likeable & downright great guitar player in today's Rock Music !!! Matthias really completes Scorpions perfectly ! Always liked his attitude , friendliness & his sober minded outlook on many subjects ! What you see is what you get ! Great guy & superb musician ! Total respect for Mr Jabs !!! Great interview !!!
Love this guy! Over the years, I’ve been to many Scorpion concerts and NEVER walked away disappointed! One of the tightest and most professional bands to this day.🙏🏻🎧 🎸
Hes a legend❤❤my idola in guitar playing. Scorpions is the first rock band that i heard in 80s. I still learn how to play Scorpions licks
Some of my favorite people in rock music, for their personalities and down to earth vibes are all the Scorpions guys through the years.
This was so awesome! Phenomenal guitar player and very humble.
HE is the guy, that made me get a guitar, when I was 11 yrs old.
Matthias is probably my all time favorite guitarist. I love the 🦂 Scorpions. 🤘🎸🇺🇲 I've seen them live quite a few times.
He created a great combination of classic Euro Metal and Van Halen flash!
He is my all time favorite as well. He was the reason why I picked up a guitar and learned to play.
@@jimedick9496 yeah I know what you mean, He and George Lynch, got me into playing guitar as well, back in the mid eighties..
@@metalhead7181
Damn, I miss those days!!! My fingers are showing signs of arthritis, so I don’t pick up the guitar much these days. I’m good for about 15 minutes, and I put it back down. If I go much longer than that, I pay for out the next couple of days.
Anyway, Lynch was one of my favorites as well. I really enjoyed Randy Rhodes, it’s too bad we lost him. He was way too young.
A different genre, but SRV and Jeff Healey rank up there for me as well.
Have you heard of Michael schenker 😂
Comes across so humble but what a great guitarist 😊
Huge fan of Matthias' work, not flashy, not shreddy, but the most heartfelt playing in rock music
You've got the wrong address!!! Matthias is among THE MOST TECHNICAL VIRTUOUSOS AND SHREDDERS IN HEAVY MUSIC!!!He is BRIGHT,FLASHY AND UNIQUE with his individual guitar style and tone!!! You don't understand anything about guitar playing,that's why you write NONSENSE!!!
@@АлександрМакаров-г9з Okay, I'll try to get the right address next time XD!!!
Matthias is by far the best English speaker in the Scorpions!
Matthias may be underrated by the general public. When it comes to other musicians hes a god
A GOOD MAN!!! Always Loved THE Rhythm...I'm "OLD" like Matthias 😅😂 🇺🇸, JUST 10 yrs. Younger! A TOTAL GENTLEMAN-Mind, Heart, Soul!!! ❤💖🎶🎶🎵🎵
Much admiration for Matthias Jabs. I could only hope for a smidgen of his talent.
Killer player with an awesome tone !!!!
*_Great interview! Mathias is one of my favorites! He's very underrated too!_* 🤘
Mathias is a nice guy,He is very humble during the interview ,I liked all the guitars showed at his back ,I loved u all Scorpion Fotever❤❤❤😊
as a canadian german guitarist rudolf,michael and matthais are icons and idols for me... and my favourite guitarists (other then them) are inspired by them! James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Dave Mustaine
Dude's a class act. He never does the "look at me" BS, just fills the songs with tasty fills and solos.
He looks great after all these years.
He is a nice guy, I won't stand on his position on the band's issues and the history behind it. I do recognize his attitude, being the absolute icon in the 80's as a blazing lead guirarist and his contribution to keep the whole band tight and together.
Our dear man, live long, be healthy, we love you and your creativity❤
Legend.
What a great guy too
Thank you for the video, what a nice guy and great guitar player !
I've always loved Mathias Jabs!!!
Fantastic guitarist and great guy!!!
The Same Thrill still has one of the top 10 lead breaks of all time.
man his solos are some of the most memorable in rock history. This guy is just awesome.
Oh man! I had no idea Matthias Jabs was such a funny guy. I've never seen an interview with just him in it … very good!
Too, Michael Schenker - who is an amazing guitarist - recently sort of disparaged Matthias when he said that Rudolph has no talent and Klaus was the only other guy in the band who had any talent other than himself, Michael Schenker. It was nice to hear Matthias' gentlemanly response to that
He is a true class act and completed the Scorpions, and elevated them to a level that no egomaniac could've ever done.
Michael taught matthias the songs on lovedrive
Saw Mathias and the Scorpions in 1980, when they toured with Def Leppard and Ted Nugent.
Mathias was incredible!
There’s a Scorpions song called “We Let It Rock You Let It Roll”. You can tell how great guitarist MJ is even by just listening that song. It’s super cool. MJ is the COOL part of Scorpions. He is soloing throughout whole song. Awesome.
Excellent Matthias from outside Philly.
They came into my bar in north Texas in the early 2000s, they put us on the guest list. We go to will call get the tickets and they put us in the third row. Great live band
Seems like a down to earth dude. I grew up on the Mighty Scorpions. No one like you was the first Scorpions song I ever heard.
Mee too. That song started me on the path of being a Scorp fiend. In 1982 they carpet bombed the radio air waves with No one like you.
ilove power grip picking style of matthias it brings sound strong and good accent.
Thanks for a lifetime of great music. See you in April in Vegas and hopefully by the following year at the store
Day on the green, the US Festival ,all those California festivals. Every time a friend went to one I would ask them who was the best band live and they always said the Scorpions.
Great interview.. I didn’t know too much about Matthias so this was a pretty cool interview. Growing up in the 80s the Scorpions are one of my favorites.
What a fantastic guy!
One of the greats, Mathias, saw him , them in 93 on Dinamo...never heard till then a real loud ,western guitar sound...etc,was the guitar yellow???A lot of yellow and guitar sound!Danke!
Enjoyed watching this video a lot!
Great player and class act. God Bless
The dude is genuine ...........
7.52 “What happens on the road, stays at the road”: immediately directors cut 🙂
Such a great monster player.
Great guy❤
Mon dieu qu'il est beau!
Il aura 70ans l'année prochaine en octobre, je sais, il n'y a pas de justice!!!!😂❤
Maude
@18.47 in I just love the expression on his face when he's remembering the feeling of when he first got the bug. Then he cleared his throat and I lost it. I can relate.
This is a beautiful interview. Thank you.
Great player and some of the best rock tones from that era. I just love the solo in I'm leaving you. Bar none one of my all time favorite solo's in a melodic rock song.
Same here. I listen to that song on a loop. So good. That super high flurry of notes in the intro is from another world.
Animal Magnetism was a great album. As much as I was a Micheal Schenker fan, I think Mathias was just as good a fit into Scorpions as either Roth or M Schenker. Lovedrive doesn't sound that different than Animal Magnetism that should put the contest to rest really. Blackout knocked it out of the park. That being said, Schenker was the best guy for UFO.
Mattias.... Please come in my dreamssss. Pleaseeeee. . .
My new band name came from Matias….. Fleshy Shovel….. and we all play flying Vs…..
Top notch! Special talent!
Blackout got me proper and I loved them ever since
A very good interview young players should see this lissen to Jabs and keep that in mind.
About the old days...there are all the sudden a lot of fancy tops around but me as an young guy I was an hangaround in two shops mainly dealing with Gibson, Fender, Gretch new as old instruments of quality. Some times I helped one of them owners out as an seller and I was also offered an steady job but no I saw neither money or an future in it but hey ther was not that much of posh + top guitars! Most guitars where solid in off white and black some Sunbursts but not that many and wood finishes of cource plain wood and cherry tinted and that was about it.
Two reasons, the world was in black and white and guitars where very expensive a plus top would cost a lot more!
As my grandfather an musician told me about it who in hell needed an flashy guitar when the world was in black and white?
He ment film and TV.
This guy is a guitar virtuoso. Very humble and soft spoken yet cranks out legendary leads album after album and year after year. Modern Scorpions is more metal driven neoclassical music. To me they are pioneers of modern metal music. They were blazing a path right along with Priest and Maiden. There are others of course but thats my too three. Maybe Boston too... Lol.
I listened to Radio Luxembourg when I was living in West Germany.
I saw you guys in Toronto and you were amazing. I stood the whole show it was 2010 with Cinderella! I was so glad to see you guys my favourite 2 guitar attack! Loved the show as you guys sounded great! Keep on Rockin Mathias!
Unfortunately i tried to see them on that tour but Klaus had to cancel for throat problems. Cinderella instead of canceling actually played for free to ticketholders. Thought that was a very classy move. They could have just took the night off.
matthias is one of my influences in guitar playing
If it's not far off from the Gothenburg-Linz route I really want to visit this store.
Great interview! I don't think we'll i know I have never seen a solo interview with Mathias. I first seen ufo in 76 when vanhalen opened at the goldenwest ballroom. He handled the michael situation we😅ll. I own own a v a explorer and a modern. The modern is the easiest to play.
I've seen this interview before... you had it up a couple of years ago, didn't you? I could listen to Matthias Jabs talk all day long - very thoughtful guy with a great sense of humor. And he waded into the "tonewood" debate. 😀
I was hearing danish accent in the English. It was correct. Hello from Sweden! Our closest lovely neigbour, we did a one day tour by car to Copenhagen which is possible from Gothenburg.
I agree. Why so many questions about the Flying V to a great player who never plays a Flying V? I would liked to hear more of him talking about aspects of his own playing rather than discussing a specific instrument that he doesn’t even use.
No kidding. You know Matthias was getting annoyed by it.
Very cool.
I bought my copy of Blackout in Germany in February of 83. I also bought an early release of Virgin Killer with original cover art.
Great interview.
cool dude. Like his hat too
klasse Interview..ich sah Matthias 1979 ? in Göppingen Uhlandhalle? zum ersten Mal 🙂
Matthias soeaks Englush fluently. I had a German friend who spoke just like him.
His shop in Germany had my hammer standard guitar for sale a few years ago a four digit one love his music I’m from the states
Stadionu Dinamo 93? 🤘I was 16....what a sound!!!!Mathias and Andy Laroque!!!Best
My Hero❤
Funny how he refers to Uli as "his friend" and then goes on to say Michael Schenker has "no influence at all" on Scorpions.
Matthias is my favorite scorpions guitar player, I do prefer him to Michael Schenker. However, if you ask Michael he would severely disagree on having no influence, as Michael, according to him, Did a huge amount of guitar playing and songwriting on the love drive album, and claims his brother Rudolph screwed him out of songwriting credits and royalties.
Schenker Jr. DIDN'T WRITE any songs for Lovedrive!!!!! He participated only in the creation of guitar solos in... three songs and THAT'S ALL!!!! He attributes more to himself than he ACTUALLY did because he is a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR(just like the LIAR Rarebell !!!)Accordingly,yes,HE HAD NO INFLUENCE ON THEM!!! The sound and the formed style of the SCORPIONS are the merit of MATTHIAS AND RUDOLPH!!!
And by the way,he HONESTLY RECEIVED his due fee,and he was FULLY paid for his modest services!!!
Albeit metalists like it for its look, it's a perfect symmetry shape, which makes a perfect jazz guitar. That's a reason from the few users at its debut (1957), many of them were blues/jazz players. The complex chords sound supra good.
"And Michael...he played on Lonesome Crow..." (Ouch!)
In fact,Matthias said everything correctly!!! Lovedrive... Schenker Jr. performed only three solos there(written by him),so HE DID NOT MAKE ANY SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION!!!
very smart guy
Great interview with Mattias,!!! It would have been great to have seen Matthias and Stevie Ray Vaugn play together. Talk about burning down the house!!!
I wondered why Michael Shenker never got paid for live gigs when he played for the Scorpions. That is Michaels thing for his vibrato with the V on the leg standing.
Very entertaining and informative interview . I think that Mattias is overlooking Michael Schenker's contribution to the Love Drive Album. Small quiz question concerning Flying V's . How do you know which Flying V belongs to Michael from a rack of similar Guitars?
Michael's is the one with the strings not trimmed, broken multiple times, painted a dozen times, then lost forever. Genius has it's price I guess. Seriously though, Michael's my favorite. Lovedrive included. Not to take anything away from Matthias but Schenker is the master of melody. Especially the early UFO stuff. Between the walls, High Flyer, etc.
You nailed it. Very well done . Cheers!@@FCustomMachine
I was initially drawn to the Explorer because I thought it looked cool. Matthias said something that made me realize how great this guitar is to play...the balance. As far as the Flying V, I don't believe that a better illustration for it's dynamic impact exists than the debut studio album cover of _Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers_
Fun chat. What a character😂
lol matthias this guy's awesome
From now I will refer to all my guitars as very fleshy guitars....well at least my V's and explorers. Speaking of which I am actually off to pick up my explorer from the paint shop repainted as a Mattias Jabs sig