[imgr_w=210]#images#/posts/2010/03/scorpion0.jpg[/imgr_w]The day after they recorded Taratata, the Scorpions welcomed to their hotel a horde of journalists from the music world but not exclusively, since our colleagues from Paris Match were there as well.

The scene took place in one of these 600$-a-night hotels where the rooms come with a tray of macaroons and a coffee machine, and where you can order a coffee that will cost you no less that 6,50$. Which yours truly did as a matter of principle. It was also the opportunity to witness the traditional «who’s got the biggest» contest between journalists, who spent hours discussing who was the most old school and who met the more celebrities, and trying to demonstrate that their medium is the most wide-spread in France. To be honest, I probably met a good fifty of those «first metal medium in France» that day.

When you know that this will probably be your last opportunity to ever interview the Scorpions, you try to plan everything and to talk about every possible subject. Matthias Jabs I an accessible and friendly character. After only a few minutes, he makes you feel like you’re an old friend. The man welcomes you in his room with his inevitable cap on his head, offers you coffee and macaroons (which he can’t eat anyway because he’s allergic) et laughs with you about the weird fountain you can see from the window.

This interview was a good opportunity to dissect in minute details the various references of the new album, Sting In The Tail. More particularly, you will discover an unforgettale anecdote about «Sly» and the baby-boom that «Still Loving You» led to. Matthias will obviously reflect on the band’s recent decision to put an end to their career after a last farewell tour. Since they still have over two years of touring ahead of them, and because they’re in the middle of the usual post-album honeymoon, the guitarist doesn’t seem to fully understand what’s going on.

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