Noisecreep spoke with founding guitarist Rudolf Schenker and asked him about the upcoming farewell tour, the possibility of an album with his brother Michael, and what other non-Scorpions projects he had coming our way in the future.

You are kicking off your 2010 tour with eight shows in Germany this May. What can we expect in terms of set lists? Will it change nightly?

The big hits will be there nightly. You have to play that stuff because Scorpions fans demand it, and we love it. We’ll also be playing some rarities from the catalog. The new album has so many perfect songs for the stage. But look, we understand that we can’t throw in nine to 10 new tracks in the set list, because it would get rather boring for some people. I think we’re just going to play three to four of the new songs every night and rotate them. That will all depend on the country we’re playing and reactions.

Will Herman Rarebell, your brother Michael or any other of your ex-members be joining you for these last shows?

We played with Herman, my brother, and Uli Jon Roth at Wacken Open Air a few years ago. It was released as a DVD. It was an amazing night! I’m not sure what the plans are for anything like that on this tour, but we had a great time in that performance. It hasn’t been released in the States yet.

What other projects are you working on for the future?

I wrote a book called ‘Rock Your Life’ which is out now in German. It’s about my life and the Scorpions. We did everything wrong and still got it right [laughter]. You see so many bands trying to do what they’ve been told the right thing is, but I don’t believe in that. You really need to do things your own way. We came from Germany and people didn’t think a band from there could do this kind of music. And we’ve proven them wrong. The book is about that. I hope to get it out in other languages soon.

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German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS will release their new album, “Sting In The Tail”, in Europe on March 19. The CD was recorded at a studio in Hannover, Germany with Swedish producers Mikael “Nord” AnderssonMartin Hansen (the team behind THE RASMUS’ “Dead Letters” CD).

SCORPIONS recently extended their record deal with Ariola, which is part of the international media conglomerate Sony BMG Mus ic Entertainment.

In a December 2009 interview with the Polish web site Plejada, SCORPIONS guitarist Rudolf Schenker stated about the band’s forthcoming CD, “After ‘Humanity – Hour 1′, which was more in the concept-album [vein], talking about the problems in the world, we said, ‘OK, we talked about all these things which [were] happening and now we don’t wanna talk again about problems, now we wanna party. We’re going back to the roots of the band.

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Vocalist Klaus Meine of German hard rock legends SCORPIONS has issued the following update:

“Dear fans, the last few months on the road just flew by — and as always, it was fantastic and exciting to play for you. But now we are back in our studio in Hannover with our Swedish producers Mikael ‘Nord’ [Andersson] and Martin Hansen [the team behind THE RASMUS' "Dead Letters" CD] to work on our new album. We have a lot of new songs and are very much looking forward to the creative time ahead of us. Hopefully, when this time comes to an end, we will be able to present another awesome album that rocks and finds a place in your heart. If everything goes as planned, our new album will be released to the public spring of 2010.

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