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1.( Beleive In Love cover) . . . 2. 1990 tour t-shirt . . . 3. 1996 Across America Pure Instinct tour t-shirt . . . One of the world's most successful heavy metal bands originates in Hanover, Germany.

1. 1996 Across America Pure Instinct tour admission ticket for Toronto's July 30th, 1996 concert . . . Rudolf Schenker on how Pure Instinct was created differently from previous recordings: "That's why we did it at home. Remember when you started to play music, you went to the rehearsal studio and you played fresh, without thinking. That's the same situation: we went back to where we are mostly rehearsing, put the microphones there, the speakers, the special mic. We moved houses and the whole house was empty. The living room was kind of the arrangement room where drums were set up and two guitars and bass and something to sing with. The sleeping room was the acoustic guitar room. Every room had a different kind of atmosphere. When you're recording in Los Angeles, especially when you're doing overdubs, there's four guys sitting in a hotel room, killing their mini-bar and only one person is with the producer. So you're getting nervous, thinking, Why don't they call me?. Then they call and say, Hey guys, what's happening and you say, I have a great idea and they tell you to wait. And then we're frustrated, sitting in the hotel room, going to the Rainbow, getting drunk. In this case, what's different is because we're living very close to each other, when somebody was working and recording something and he was finished, he called and said, Hey! Rudolf, you have time? or Klaus, you have time? Come over. It was very relaxed, not the same situation."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. Pure Instinct promo picture, 1996 . . . 2. Pure Instinct promo picture, 1996 with Herman Rarebell despite the fact he didn't play on the recording or go on the tour . . . 3. You And I front cover, contains 3 songs only . . . 4. Lonesome Crow front cover . . . 5. Lonesome Crow back cover . . . Klaus Meine on how Pure Instinct was created differently from previous recordings: "But we wanted to break up the system. No clock running. There was no pressure, really. We were just making an album."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. Pure Instinct front cover, 1996 . . . 2. Pure Instinct back cover . . . 3. Pure Instinct insert back cover . . . 4. Pure Instinct behind the CD cover . . . Klaus Meine on whether Pure Instinct is from their heart and soul: "Yeah. A couple of years ago, we used to have a real ego about things. We liked to read on the back of the albums, Recorded at the Power Station in New York because it was really cool. But today, really, who cares? It's more important that there's authentic feeling on the record. We felt that by working at home, we would get this feeling and really make it 100% a typical Scorpions album. I mean, America changed so much, so what do we know? How can we reflect the American feeling? We did in the '80's because we spent so much time here. But all the bands from our generation, the American bands, they even cannot reflect what's going on here in America. It's another generation and they're doing it their own way. Which is very good. But this is our thirteenth album and we don't need to look for whatever can maybe make this a strong album. We just said, We need to look at ourselves, inside of us. That's where, maybe we'll find that inspiration that makes us special. Because we are different. We are a European band."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. 'Fly To The Rainbow' original front cover . . . 2. 'In Trance' original front cover . . . 3. 'In Trance' rereleased front cover . . . 4. 'Virgin Killer' original front cover . . . 5. ' Virgin Killer' rereleased front cover . . . Klaus Meine on how they don't change to fit the tastes of the public but instead let the public come to them: "That's right, yes. I hope the fans in America will find this out. What I'm afraid of is just that in America, program directors will say, 'You know, the '80's have passed. Scorpions, yeah, normally I would like to play them, but I'm sfraid I'd lose my job. My boss will kick my ass because I played some '80's stuff here.' This is not '80's. The Scorpions are the '90's. The Scorpions are the Scorpions. We're not competing with Alternative music. We're just doing what we're doing."

1. 'Tokyo Tapes' front cover . . . 2. 'Tokyo Tapes' back cover . . . 3. 'Tokyo Tapes' insert group shot . . . 4. 'Animal Magnetism' front cover . . . Rudolf Schenker on the bias against '80's bands': "It's not right, but MTV, for example, is responsible for these fast changes because it would never happen before. But now, MTV is very much into finding new trends and immediately reflecting them so that the people who are watching don't get bored. But after the first flash, what still stands is the music. That's what counts. That's the reason why the circle goes around and these 'classic rock' bands will be bigger than before."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. 'Taken By Force' original front cover . . . 2. 'Taken By Force' rereleased front cover . . . 3. 'Taken By Force' original insert group shot . . . Rudolf Schenker on whether Rock was ever gone: "Look at it this way. Here's a stone, a rock in the ocean. When the waves come in, they come over it and a little bit stays on the rock for a moment and then, the next wave comes. But the rock stays there. For the moment it's gone! But it's always been there."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. 'Love Drive' original front cover . . . 2. 'Love Drive' rereleased front cover . . . 3. 'Love Drive' original back cover . . . 4. 'Love Drive' rereleased back cover . . . Rudolf Schenker on what has changed in the band: "What changed? The music, the style, the whole thing becomes more complicated. (lifting his arms) It's like a tree which starts here (spreading his hands) and it grows up there. Like, it was the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and then it goes out (spreads his hands more) and you have the whole tree with different kinds of styles. You have to study it. (laughs) Goottorbatmuzic...(repeating) Goottorbatmuzic...(speaking slower) Good or bad music...No, it's just my German English."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. 'Hot & Heavy' front cover . . . 2. 'Blackout' front cover . . . 3. 'Blackout' insert group shot . . . 4. 'Love At First Sting' front cover . . . 5. 'Love At First Sting' insert group shot . . . Rudolf Schenker on where's the most unusual place he had sex: "A phone booth."

. . . interview from November 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. ' Gold Ballads' front cover . . . 2. ' Best Of Volume 1' front cover . . . 3. 'Best Of Volume 1' back cover . . . 4. 'Best Of Volume 2' front cover . . . 5. 'Hurricane Rock' front cover . . . Klaus Meine on where's the most unusual place he had sex: "The Concorde."

1. 'World Wide Live' front cover . . . 2. 'World Wide Live' back cover . . . 3. 'World Wide Live' insert group shot . . . 4. 'World Wide Live' insert crowd shot . . . Klaus Meine comments on music: "When I hear a song, I don't want to know if this is hip-hop or trash metal or whatever. For me, it's just the music. If I like a song, I like a song."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. 'Savage Amusement' front cover . . . 2. 'Savage Amusement' insert group shot . . . 3. 'Best Of Rockers 'N' Ballads' front cover . . . 4. 'Best Of Rockers 'N' Ballads' back cover . . . Klaus Meine on why Herman Rarebell left the band: "Herman decided to become the record mogul in Monte Carlo. He starts a label there, called Monaco Records, together with Prince Albert, of Monaco...Yes, it's true, yeah... (laughing hysterically) Yes, it is bizarre...but true."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. ' The Best Of The Ballads - Hot & Slow' front cover . . . 2. 'The Best Of The Ballads - Hot & Slow' back cover . . . 3. 'The Best Of The Ballads - Hot & Slow' inside of insert . . . Rudolf Schenker on why Herman Rarebell left the band: "I was talking to him and he said, 'I don't get this chance so often. I have to take the chance because after 18 years, I figure that's a great thing to do because I can always pick the hits and now I have this chance.' Of course, in Monaco, there's no tax and in a high tax country - Sweden or something - he hopes or he thinks that these people will go through his label. I don't know. I mean, that's up to him. We still said to him, 'Think over the whole thing. Maybe come with us on an American tour.' But he said, 'No, no. I think I want to do this.' So now, when we go back home [before the American tour], we have to check some Germans out. In this case, we're still friends. But he was with us anyway for a long time and we don't blame him and it's up to him. He makes the decision...and we will see."

1. 'Crazy World' front cover . . . 2. 'Crazy World' insert group shot cover . . . 3. 'Hit Between The Eyes' front cover . . . 4. ' Wind Of Change' front cover . . . Rudolf Schenker on who produced 'Pure Instinct': "Erwin Musper, our long-time engineer, who worked with us already on'Face The Heat' and 'Crazy World'. He asked us for a chance to be a producer with us together and he asked for seven days and somehow, seven days became three months... Later on, for the last songs, we worked with Keith (Keith Olsen) when Erwin was working on another project."

1. 'Face The Heat' front cover . . . 2. 'Face The Heat' back cover . . . 3. 'White Dove' front cover . . . 4. 'Deadly Sting' front cover . . . Klaus Meine on producer Erwin Musper: "And he came up with great ideas. He picked the songs. We had, like, 30 songs or something and he picked the songs he wanted to work with."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. 'Live Bites' front cover . . . 2. 'Live Bites' back cover . . . 3. 'Live Bites' insert group shot . . . 4. 'Live Bites' insert collage shot . . . Klaus Meine on why they had two producers on 'Pure Instinct': "The first idea, basically, was to work with different producers. Not to wait until there are 30 or 40 songs written and then have some genius producer come in to pick some. We wanted to say, 'Here are five songs. Let's produce three with this guy and let's produce two with this guy...' Like that. But it didn't work out that way."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. 'Live Bites' insert collage shot . . . 2. 'Live Bites' insert collage shot . . . 3. 'Captured Alive' front cover . . . Klaus Meine on the danger of a lack of cohesiveness with multiple producers: "That's a danger. A major mistake. But what happened is that with Erwin, it worked so well, we just kept working."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. 'Bad Boys At Great Western' front cover . . . 2. 'Bad Boys At Great Western' back cover . . . 3. 'We Can't Get Enough' front cover . . . 4. 'The Zoo' front cover . . . 5. 'The Zoo' back cover . . . Klaus Meine on choosing songs for a recording: "Since Rudolf and me are the main writers in the band, it's always good to have somebody coming in from the outside, saying, 'I would like to use this song and that song' and they don't know, usually, who wrote what. Otherwise, it would be, 'Take this song, take that song...' Of course! We wrote them!"

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. 'Teutonic Terror' front cover . . . 2. Klaus Meine drawing a picture for VH-1 in Germany . . . 3. Promo picture . . . 4. Scorpions Dragster T-shirt . . . 5. 16 August, 1990 in Hilversum, The Netherlands. . . 6. Mathias Jabs. . . Rudolf Schenker on choosing songs for a recording: "Also, when you use a producer, you have to give him a chance to use the songs he thinks that he can do the best job with."

. . . interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. & 2. & 3. Rudolf Schenker . . . 4. & 5. Mathias Jabs . . . 6. Klaus Meine . . . Klaus Meine on the eastern influences on 'Pure Instinct': "Yes, that's because when the album was almost completed, we went to Bali to write with Indonesian musicians. It was a songwriter workshop kind of thing. It was not to write for Scorpions, not at all. It was just a cultural exchange. And there were more than 30 songwriters from America. We were the only European guys on this event and it was a lot of fun. We wrote some great songs and when we came back, there was one song about which everybody said, 'You must record this for your album.'"

. . .interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

1. Herman Rarebell . . . Klaus Meine on the song everyone wanted on 'Pure Instinct': "'When You Came Into My Life,' which we recorded with Keith in December of last year."

. . .interview from October 1996 Metal Edge magazine

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