SCORPIONS Back In The Studio

SCORPIONS Back In The Studio



On May 25th, legendary SCORPIONS frontman Klaus Meine celebrated his
65th birthday. "Thank you so much for all your wonderful birthday mails,
messages, presents and videos that reached me from all over the world,"
says the singer in a new post on Facebook. "It really touched my heart
in a big way. I 'd like to say “thank you” to each and every one of you
for your love and support over so many years. We are in the studio right
now, but it won't be long before we hit the road again. I’m looking
forward to seeing all of you some where out there. Rock on."





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."


The album is expected later this year.