{"id":3030,"date":"2013-06-04T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T18:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2013-06-04T12:53:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T18:53:36","slug":"former-scorpions-members-herman-rarebell-and-francis-buchholz-featured-in-new-metal-express-radio-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=3030","title":{"rendered":"Former SCORPIONS Members Herman Rarebell And Francis Buchholz Featured In New Metal Express Radio Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metal Express Radio&#8217;s UK correspondent Mick Burgess (pictured middle) recently caught up with former SCORPIONS members Herman Rarebell (drums) and Francis Buchholz (bass), who are on a European tour with MICHAEL SCHENKER. Hear them talk about the Temple Of Rock and the Lovedrive Reunion Tour with Michael Schenker and Doogie White, recording a new album, and the start of Scorpions<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravewords.com\/news\/202963\">www.bravewords.com\/news\/202963<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Francis Buchholz on Scorpions&#8217; hit single &#8216;Wind of Change:<br \/>\n&#8220;When we had recorded it, you know, the record company called me and said: &#8216;Can we change &#8216;Wind of Change&#8217;? Can we take out the whistling? It&#8217;s not rock n&#8217; roll in that for us in America, you know. Can you put in some guitar?&#8217; So I went to Klaus (Meine) and said: &#8216;Klaus listen, can we get rid of the whistling?&#8217; I didn&#8217;t like&#8230; I wasn&#8217;t so much a friend of it anyway. I was discussing it with him and he got very angry so the whistling stayed in and it became a huge hit in Europe but it didn&#8217;t get that much airplay in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"spotlight\" style=\"width: 403px;height: 302px\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/11795_10151432952247333_151811987_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metal Express Radio&#8217;s UK correspondent Mick Burgess (pictured middle) recently caught up with former SCORPIONS members Herman Rarebell (drums) and Francis Buchholz (bass), who are on a European tour with MICHAEL SCHENKER. Hear them talk about the Temple Of Rock and the Lovedrive Reunion Tour with Michael Schenker and Doogie White, recording a new album, [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}