SCORPIONS Guitarist Matthias Jabs

SCORPIONS Guitarist Matthias Jabs - "Maybe We’ll Stretch The Tour, Make It As Long As Possible, But Once It Is Over, It Is Over"






Radio Metal has released a new interview with SCORPIONS guitarist Matthias Jabs. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: A band like KISS, at some point, had announced a farewell tour. But today they’re still here and actually released a new album last year. Are you confident when you say that after this album and long tour, Scorpions will be gone for good? Will you resist the temptation to reform the band?

A: "I’m sure we will resist. Maybe we’ll stretch the tour, make it as long as possible, but once it is over, it is over. The “KISS effect” started ten years ago. Now you have farewell tour one, farewell tour number two, number three… We don’t want to make a joke of ourselves. We are serious."

Q: I mentioned KISS, and actually their album Sonic Boom was very well received by the critics and fans alike. Obviously it was a good thing for them and the fans that they didn’t quit after all and took the “risk” to do another album. Have you thought to yourselves: “Maybe we’re missing out on many more great records…”?

A: "At the moment, nobody knows what we we’ll do at the end of our career. It is too early to really think about it. I think within the next two or three years, when we’re on tour, things will come to us and become obvious. Maybe it will be a musical project with other people, maybe it will be something else. Everything is imaginable, but we have no concrete plans. All we have to take care of at the moment is the release of the new album and the tour. We’re going to play all around the world. We’re going to Frankfurt tomorrow to do some more promotion, next week we’ll be going to Austria for a big TV show, then we go straight to New York and Los Angeles, and right after that we’ll be playing shows in Belgium. We were playing in Moscow yesterday, and flew to Paris at 4 a.m.! This is going to take all our energy, and it’s way too early to think about the rest. I mean, do you know what you’ll be doing in three years?!"

Q: No, I don’t! A farewell tour like this one is the last image that you are going to leave to the audience; I can imagine that in order not to have any regrets, you must figure out every single detail and reference you want to make...

A: "We want to have great shows, but it’s still in development. We’ve only played two shows so far. There will be a huge production and very nice visuals. But we can’t take it everywhere. We won’t take it to Paris, for example, because the Olympia is just too small. We have giant screens and modern technology, it’s very nice. I have the feeling that the show in May won’t be our last show in Paris, so hopefully we’ll come back to a bigger place – like Bercy."

Read the complete interview at this location.

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Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, Matthias Jabs, James Kottak and Pawel Maciwoda of the Scorpions will be inducted into Hollywood’s RockWalk on Tuesday, April 6th at noon.

The Scorpions - who have sold over 100 million records worldwide - will be honored by fans with a special ceremony at Guitar Center in Hollywood.

This marks a very special occasion for the Scorpions: with the March 23rd release of their new album, Sting In The Tail (via Universal Music Enterprises) and a three-year, five-continent mammoth tour, one of the most successful rock bands in the world will be ending their career. It will be the most adventurous if not greatest project of the band: hundreds of shows, hundreds of thousands of fans, countless miles on a plane and tour bus.