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 🥰
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.
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...
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!
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.
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 !!!
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.
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
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
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!!!
@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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😀
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
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.
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.
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.
If you sit on a high stool hoping to hold a Flying V with the bottom horn between your legs without a footstool under the left foot, then don't expect it to hold itself in a playing position. Matthias is sitting on a high rather than low stool.
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.
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.
Everyone knows that Michael Schenker also played on the album Lovedrive, not just Lonesome Crow. I guess the bad blood between the Scorpions and Michael lives on.
Thank you! You are the first in this thread so say that. Rudolf and the Scorpions are trying to rewrite history and especially Michael’s involvement in the band. Case in point, look at the original vinyl release of Lovedrive and the recently re-released version. Michael is credited on the original and not the re-release. It’s so weird, why would they do that? Michael has no influence on the Scorpions sound? Effing really. Mathias must have also forgotten that Michael leaned and taught song to his older brother Rudolf, not the other way around. I love the Scorpions but am so disappointed at their attitude.
@@Pyrographx I think everyone knows that MS was highly involved in Lovedrive. Credited or not, we all know what he wrote and added. That’s still only one album, outside their very first album, that features MS. The Scorpions have released 19 studio albums, and many more when you include live albums and greatest hits. Only two of them featured MS. The best selling album with MS in it, comes in at #9 with Lovedrive. That album sold 853,000 copies to date. The Scorpions have sold over 100 million albums! Both Crazy World and Love at First Sting have sold over 3.5 million copies each. Crazy World sold 5 times more than Lovedrive. Fact is, after Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism sales increased by 20% over it. Scorpions attempt at writing MS out of the credits of one album, is pennies compared to all the other albums and sales that they’ve earned and enjoyed. Michael has no bearing on the Scorpions success, none. Their greatest selling albums have been with Matthias Jabs, with his style and sound, not MS. So to insinuate that the Scorpions stole MS sound is insane. The Scorpions would’ve NEVER sold the amount of albums without MJ. His sound is what put them over the top. I’m not saying he’s a better guitar player, I’m saying his sound and style is better, and the album sales proves it.
@@jimedick9496 I don't think you can say stole, but they weren't influenced? Really? I forgot, Mathias played in what other bands? He was basically given a map by Michael and Rudy, What idiot couldn't connect the dots and succeed? Bottom line it is completely shitty of the Scorpions, their treatment of Michael.
@@davidrheinhardt5451 The songs were already written. The chords were already written. The music was already written and composed before Micheal came back. Matthias was already in the recording studios and had finished half the songs before he was eventually pushed out with Micheal’s returning. Half, only half had Micheal’s hand in it. They were ALREADY done except for Coast to Coast. It was said that that was all MS according to Herman Rarebell. So no, his only full influence was the first album, and a handfull on the Lovedrive album, but again, the songs were already written and composed. Also, that wasn’t the first time Matthias had recorded, and he was in a couple bands prior to joining the Scorpions. The thing is, you can hear the difference between the players. You can literally tell who’s playing what solo, just like you can tell a song done by Uli. They play the same scales, but their styles are different…. What, since MS was there first, he had an influence with the Scorpions sound during Uli’s years???? No!! I could understand what you’re saying if Micheal wrote the lyrics, composed the songs, and wrote the solos, but he didn’t. Rudolph had always composed most of the songs while Klause and Herman wrote the lyrics. MS and MJ add the spice to a song. They dress it up and add their own flare and style. Sorry, but you’re far off in right field on your take. You had be this misconception that Micheal helped write and compose all those songs on Lovedrive. His hand was in 4 songs only.
@misterreality Jabs is a solid rock player without a doubt. imo as the bands sound evolved into the 80s heavy metal sound... Jabs does that very well.
Matts right, I can't play those Vees sitting down, I have a RR Vee and its tough for me, someo can do it, not me, honestly the best for sitting down are those ones like Eart is making, the headless, and funky shape, that funky shape is so comfortable in your lap, they dont have any looks but for practice whatever sitting down, yessir
I would like to pick his 🧠 concerning which type of preamp, intermediate, and output tubes that he uses, any other internal head mods, and speaker selection?
I think scorps hit it on Lovedrive, that's when the style really came thru for me, went a little more mainstream MTV on blackout but so many good songs back thru lovedrive, in fact I think Lovedrive put scorps on the map so to say.. int eh states anyways, that's when everyone here was like "hey man, have you heard of the band scorpions and the song Lovedrive?" I like every song on that album and know every melody, lyric, guitar part, sad I know, I like it, plus I had the cassette in my truck played it all the time ..
I saw them in Sheffield on the Blackout tour, back when the sound guys knew what they were doing, you could hear the guitar amps and there wasn’t some idiot on the mixing desk pushing all kick drum and bass like nowadays. Anyway aside from the rant, Blackout is in my opinion their best album because it had great songs and was recorded with a live feel, like AC/DC records. “Love at first Sting” went too commercial like the Def Leppard sound, too much delay and reverb. I do think they should give Michael Schenker some credit because he wrote a lot of material for Lovedrive which really kickstarted Scorpions into the mainstream.
One of my Heroes. Just a normal guy, a brilliant guitarist, famous but grounded, very polite, no arrogance, Top!
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❤
Scorpions are incredible live!
Mathias is a monster 🎸
Mathias and Slash have got to be the friendliest guitar players out there…..what a nice guy!
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 🥰
Matthias is such an handsome, talented and professional musician and, entrpreneur. He loves what he does and does it with passion.
Hilarious as well 😂❤
One of the Great guitar hero but also one of the most underrated
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.🙏🏻🎧 🎸
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.
So much respect and love for this man he’s an absolutely killer player in one of the greatest rock bands of all time!!
'Ladies and Gentlemen, My Favorite Band of All Time, The Scorpions'!❤🤘🔥🍻💪
One of my favorite guitar players 🎸
One of my favorite guitarists! Seen Scorpions at the US Festival 83 and they kicked @SS!
Truly underrated lead guitar legend.
My goodness. He’s up there with Kirk Hammett of Metallica
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..
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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.
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...
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!
Matthias is the absolute best. Just a class act and a down to earth, cool guy. Respect!🤘🏻
The Same Thrill still has one of the top 10 lead breaks of all time.
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
This was so awesome! Phenomenal guitar player and very humble.
Some of my favorite people in rock music, for their personalities and down to earth vibes are all the Scorpions guys through the 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.
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 !!!
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.
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.
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
Comes across so humble but what a great guitarist 😊
Killer player with an awesome tone !!!!
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!!!
He looks great after all these years.
My new band name came from Matias….. Fleshy Shovel….. and we all play flying Vs…..
Legend.
What a great guy too
Saw Mathias and the Scorpions in 1980, when they toured with Def Leppard and Ted Nugent.
Mathias was incredible!
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❤❤❤😊
Our dear man, live long, be healthy, we love you and your creativity❤
Thank you for the video, what a nice guy and great guitar player !
The dude is genuine ...........
Thanks for a lifetime of great music. See you in April in Vegas and hopefully by the following year at the store
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.
I've always loved Mathias Jabs!!!
Fantastic guitarist and great guy!!!
matthias is one of my influences in guitar playing
Matthias is by far the best English speaker in the Scorpions!
@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.
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!
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.
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
Excellent Matthias from outside Philly.
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!
ilove power grip picking style of matthias it brings sound strong and good accent.
Blackout got me proper and I loved them ever since
Fun chat. What a character😂
Such a great monster player.
Best guitarist in Scorpions in my opinion. So underrated.
oh easily, and probably in Germany... in my opinion too...
Michael Schenker...
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.
Great guy❤
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.
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.
Matthias soeaks Englush fluently. I had a German friend who spoke just like him.
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. 😀
Great interview, gave me an insight to him. I have listened for decades to the music, to see a relaxing interview was very nice.
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
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.
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.
I listened to Radio Luxembourg when I was living in West Germany.
Stadionu Dinamo 93? 🤘I was 16....what a sound!!!!Mathias and Andy Laroque!!!Best
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.
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.
If you sit on a high stool hoping to hold a Flying V with the bottom horn between your legs without a footstool under the left foot, then don't expect it to hold itself in a playing position. Matthias is sitting on a high rather than low stool.
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.
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.
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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
Great interview.
Very cool.
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
Super Interview, Top Humor 😊 Mir hatte speziell der Gitarrensound auf Lovedrive und Animal Magnetism gefallen, so muss echter Heavy Metal klingen.
klasse Interview..ich sah Matthias 1979 ? in Göppingen Uhlandhalle? zum ersten Mal 🙂
Legend ❤
cool dude. Like his hat too
Everyone knows that Michael Schenker also played on the album Lovedrive, not just Lonesome Crow. I guess the bad blood between the Scorpions and Michael lives on.
Thank you! You are the first in this thread so say that. Rudolf and the Scorpions are trying to rewrite history and especially Michael’s involvement in the band. Case in point, look at the original vinyl release of Lovedrive and the recently re-released version. Michael is credited on the original and not the re-release. It’s so weird, why would they do that? Michael has no influence on the Scorpions sound? Effing really. Mathias must have also forgotten that Michael leaned and taught song to his older brother Rudolf, not the other way around. I love the Scorpions but am so disappointed at their attitude.
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I think everyone knows that MS was highly involved in Lovedrive. Credited or not, we all know what he wrote and added. That’s still only one album, outside their very first album, that features MS. The Scorpions have released 19 studio albums, and many more when you include live albums and greatest hits. Only two of them featured MS. The best selling album with MS in it, comes in at #9 with Lovedrive. That album sold 853,000 copies to date. The Scorpions have sold over 100 million albums! Both Crazy World and Love at First Sting have sold over 3.5 million copies each. Crazy World sold 5 times more than Lovedrive. Fact is, after Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism sales increased by 20% over it.
Scorpions attempt at writing MS out of the credits of one album, is pennies compared to all the other albums and sales that they’ve earned and enjoyed.
Michael has no bearing on the Scorpions success, none. Their greatest selling albums have been with Matthias Jabs, with his style and sound, not MS.
So to insinuate that the Scorpions stole MS sound is insane. The Scorpions would’ve NEVER sold the amount of albums without MJ. His sound is what put them over the top. I’m not saying he’s a better guitar player, I’m saying his sound and style is better, and the album sales proves it.
@@jimedick9496 I don't think you can say stole, but they weren't influenced? Really? I forgot, Mathias played in what other bands? He was basically given a map by Michael and Rudy, What idiot couldn't connect the dots and succeed? Bottom line it is completely shitty of the Scorpions, their treatment of Michael.
@@davidrheinhardt5451
The songs were already written. The chords were already written. The music was already written and composed before Micheal came back. Matthias was already in the recording studios and had finished half the songs before he was eventually pushed out with Micheal’s returning. Half, only half had Micheal’s hand in it. They were ALREADY done except for Coast to Coast. It was said that that was all MS according to Herman Rarebell.
So no, his only full influence was the first album, and a handfull on the Lovedrive album, but again, the songs were already written and composed. Also, that wasn’t the first time Matthias had recorded, and he was in a couple bands prior to joining the Scorpions.
The thing is, you can hear the difference between the players. You can literally tell who’s playing what solo, just like you can tell a song done by Uli. They play the same scales, but their styles are different…. What, since MS was there first, he had an influence with the Scorpions sound during Uli’s years???? No!!
I could understand what you’re saying if Micheal wrote the lyrics, composed the songs, and wrote the solos, but he didn’t. Rudolph had always composed most of the songs while Klause and Herman wrote the lyrics. MS and MJ add the spice to a song. They dress it up and add their own flare and style.
Sorry, but you’re far off in right field on your take. You had be this misconception that Micheal helped write and compose all those songs on Lovedrive. His hand was in 4 songs only.
Very sympathetic guy.
very smart guy
The best Scorpions guitarist 😮. Sorry bout that Uli and Mike, but it's true.
Uli plays circles around jabs sorry
@@JMP1269 I prefer Mathias over Uli. I highly respect Uli. He’s great, but I love Mathias phrasing and soloing.
@misterreality Jabs is a solid rock player without a doubt. imo as the bands sound evolved into the 80s heavy metal sound... Jabs does that very well.
@@misterrealityJabs also has great stage presence.
@@JMP1269hit that crack pipe again
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Matts right, I can't play those Vees sitting down, I have a RR Vee and its tough for me, someo can do it, not me, honestly the best for sitting down are those ones like Eart is making, the headless, and funky shape, that funky shape is so comfortable in your lap, they dont have any looks but for practice whatever sitting down, yessir
I would like to pick his 🧠 concerning which type of preamp, intermediate, and output tubes that he uses, any other internal head mods, and speaker selection?
I think scorps hit it on Lovedrive, that's when the style really came thru for me, went a little more mainstream MTV on blackout but so many good songs back thru lovedrive, in fact I think Lovedrive put scorps on the map so to say.. int eh states anyways, that's when everyone here was like "hey man, have you heard of the band scorpions and the song Lovedrive?" I like every song on that album and know every melody, lyric, guitar part, sad I know, I like it, plus I had the cassette in my truck played it all the time ..
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Great guy and player. Uli is untouchable. You can see there is no great love for Michael.
I don't blame him for not having any love for Michael. Michael is constantly trashing him in interviews as well as trashing Rudolph.
By the way I love Michael. I see him every time he tours. It just sucks the relationship he has with them now or lack of relationship.
Still lovin you, Mathias. And Scorpions.❤
I saw them in Sheffield on the Blackout tour, back when the sound guys knew what they were doing, you could hear the guitar amps and there wasn’t some idiot on the mixing desk pushing all kick drum and bass like nowadays. Anyway aside from the rant, Blackout is in my opinion their best album because it had great songs and was recorded with a live feel, like AC/DC records. “Love at first Sting” went too commercial like the Def Leppard sound, too much delay and reverb.
I do think they should give Michael Schenker some credit because he wrote a lot of material for Lovedrive which really kickstarted Scorpions into the mainstream.
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the Scorps are huge in Vietnam. Just ask some locals and they will tell you all about "the Colpians"
Matthias Jabs awesome lead guitarist! Very personable, But why not interview someone who plays the V for a Flying V documentary? Just saying 😂