Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm doing a series and the series is
called What Makes This Singer Great and next up is Klaus Meine from the
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free it's awesome but I want to get back to Klaus. So what do I think of when I
think of Klaus Meine and the Scorpions, what makes him great. Well first of all
great songwriting, I mean "Still Loving You" by the way I did a version of that
I'm gonna put it in the description so you can check it out and one of my
students Sara Loera did a version of "Rock You Like A Hurricane" so I'll put
that in there as well but anyway getting back to the Scorpions
and Klaus, I think of "Still Loving You", I think of "Winds Of Change", their
massive hits, especially in Europe. "Rock You Like A Hurricane", like I just said, "No One
Like You", "Big City Nights". I mean they had a lot of "The Zoo", they had a lot of great songs
but the exchange that was interesting is Klaus could sing a ballad but he could
also could sing a really hard rock song so it's really cool to have someone that
was sensitive enough to be able to sing ballads that could own all of Europe and
most of the world and then also come back and own the world with a hard rock
sound as well. Now German band so I think of German, you know a German
influence. I think of Rudolf Schenker as a guitar player and Matthias Jabs, they work
really well as a team. Now I know I'm talking more band rather than just Klaus but that
contributes to the band. I got a chance to work with Dieter Dierks the producer
of the Scorpions early on with their early stuff and you know very, very
professional, very business driven band. So very methodically driven group from
a business standpoint. So um Klaus, his consistency. Now I know he had
surgery and whatnot but he came back swinging and so he's out there still
doing it to this day, they got some tours coming up if we can get over this weird
things like viruses, coronavirus and so forth but anyways so
as consistency live, just powerful. I love his tone. A little too nasally for me
because I'm not into that nasally you know more on the Don Doc and nasal kind
of sound but it works for him that's his schtick so he does that well and also too,
it really tough to be a German and singing you know, have German be your first
language singing in English to not detect that language. So sometimes you
know (sings) you kinda hear it a little bit in his in his approach but
that's also charming. There's a cute charming factor to that for me too so
going wow there's this guy's you know some kids from Germany you know wanted to be
rock stars and they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and
became one of the greatest rock bands of all time. So that's kind of what I think of.
So..I said, I think of them being great live and I also think of too, them being
you know being timeless withstanding the test of time and being out you know
forty some odd years or whatever, out there doing it. So let's go ahead and fire this
up, you tell me what you think and here we go.
He's tuning his guitar.
Good intonation right.
and again just like great power, you know great pitch, great intonation, great
endurance singing those songs, really high range stuff. This is a piece that's
coming up here that was done with an orchestra. I don't know a lot about the
backdrop of it, we just pulled some of this stuff off the internet that we
could get permission for publishing wise but anyway it's "Winds Of Change" and
what's cool about "Winds Of Change" and also and they did "Holiday" you know right but
they had other songs especially in Europe, I remember um hearing and by the
way I did I think I mentioned this if I didn't I did a version of "Still Loving
You", I'll put that in the description if I haven't already said that but um this
song, these songs just owned Europe. I mean you couldn't go anywhere across
Europe, any country and this song wasn't playing, especially Western Europe I
should say that and so this is certainly no exception. So this is "Winds Of Change".
And it's a song about solidarity you know what I mean, bringing everybody together,
particularly Russia.
He's got his little you know hat on, kinda.
I like that black leather tux that he's got. It's cool.
Just really cool guys too, really humble, cool guys.
I got to do a Monsters of Rock Festival way back..actually on that festival I didn't
do the festival ,I just got to go to the festival on this particular one I'm
talking about and you know met the band and stuff backstage and on the festival was
Scorpions, Ozzy, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard like all these different groups and we got to
talk to, meet him and you know stuff and and it was really cool how down-to-earth
these guys were. Some of them Ozzy was a little trippy. You know Def Leppard they
kind of stayed in there you know in there corner you know. Jake E Lee was really
cool from Ozzy so he was playing I think in the band at the time but
the Scorpions that are headlining band for the Monsters of Rock back then and
they were just really down to earth, cool guys you know it was really neat to and Bon
Jovi was really cool, very you know, very you know what's the word I'm looking for..
courteous and you know just you.. winsome and a nice nice guy so.
I'm sorry have to make one more comment. I haven't really seen this video
that closely and I'm looking at a bunch of old people no offense or older
people all sitting down what and I'm sure this was for some international
performance or something but it's not like a rock star event, it's them doing
the song with an orchestra with a bunch of probably a bunch of Germans, older
Germans sitting in a big audience somewhere, it's pretty funny.
Compared to their normal (sounds)
you know audience right.
Catchy song.
That's great. Yeah so again timeless music what..and also speaking of Rudolf
Schenker, his brother Michael Schenker from the band UFO and McAuley Schenker, one
of my all-time favorite guitar players too. So you know the apple doesn't fall
far from the tree and it runs deep in their family and in different circles of
whatnot. Uli Roth from again that UFO again, was one of my favorite guitar
players also so. Lot of great talent cruising around this time so. Anyway guys um
if I missed something and there's something else that remind you of Klause
Meine, please put it in the comment section, that would be awesome. I'd like
to hear more a rounded view and also don't forget most of this is done by request
so if you have a request of a What Makes This Singer Great and someone that you
want me to do a takedown of, to get other people to contribute to that, that'd be
really cool and check out this new video I've got coming your way.