Episode 3: Scorpions the zoo year 1980 English Version

00:00:00 - Classics songs all time, Classics songs all time, Classics songs all time.

00:00:19 - I'm here again to tell you another rock story.

00:00:23 - On this occasion I am going to tell you the story of a song by a German group which was already present in Classic Rocks All Time,

00:00:31 - Scorpions and the song The Zoo, let's move on.

00:00:43 - Finding Classic Rocks All Time, the most incredible stories and anecdotes.

00:00:49 - Musicians Bruce Dickinson

00:00:51 - Want to see us?

00:00:53 - And what people want to see us?

00:00:55 - I mean, first of all, we love doing it, it's really a kind of a privilege to be 51 years old and being able to go out just still to have a voice.

00:01:14 - Let me.

00:01:15 - Well, it's spelled differently than everything, it's called orgasmatron.

00:01:19 - Rod Halford.

00:01:20 - I think are useful, just because of the fact that with what I try and do, it's important to try and...

00:01:31 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley.

00:01:33 - But piano was inconceivable. I mean, you can't just buy a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.

00:01:40 - I think I was very driven, period. It was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.

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00:02:07 - Oh, yeah, here we go!

00:02:09 - He is an anime magnetism! Yeah, baby, the show!

00:02:13 - Animal Magnetism Tour is the 7th World Concert Tour in the German hard rock and heavy metal band Skorpions, in promotion of the 1980 Animal Magnetism Album.

00:02:29 - It began on March 6, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan, and culminated on October 28 of the same year at the Hammersmith Odeon venue in London, England.

00:02:42 - With over a hundred dates in total, the tour allowed them to play for the first time in

00:02:47 - Canada.

00:02:48 - The band consisted of Klaus Mien, vocals, Rudolph Schenker, rhythm guitar and backing vocals, with I.S. Jabs, lead guitar, backing vocals and talked box on the zoo, Francis Bookholz bass and backing vocals, Herman Rarible, drums.

00:03:06 - In this song, the members of Scorpions remember.

00:03:14 - The Zoo is, I think it's the signature song for animal magnetism.

00:03:20 - It's until today a song we play at every show.

00:03:25 - It's so popular around the world and it still gets, in its original version, have a couple of different versions now gets in its original version a lot of airplay in the States until today and it is it reflects you know a young

00:03:44 - German band going to the United States and you know working the inspirations into their music. The zoo was really something where you can say there's a story behind which in its comes on different direction. One direction was a musical direction which actually I composed the song in front of the TV by watching the not a hurricane tornado alarm so and by watching a tornado alarm which the tornado came directly in front of us and then I played the riff and by when the alarm was finished not that the alarm was finished but an announcer was gone I listened what I played I played

00:04:45 - I said oh that's great

00:04:59 - So and there again what I said before there was a red line I start immediately to lock in and there was the song done so but on the other hand when I played the song in the evening we went like always to the concert in the dressing room and I went to Klaus doesn't want to say Klaus. Okay, no, in these days, we had everybody's dressing room together.

00:05:34 - Five guys in one dressing room. I said, you know, listen to this one. Oh, yeah, great. That's a fantastic one. I remember that when we were just signed to our label in New York City with

00:05:48 - Mercury Records and with our managers, Labour Cribs. One night, they said, guys, we're going to take you out we go to the zoo tonight you know and this was the inspiration for the song we didn't know where do we go to the zoo yeah let's go to the zoo and turned out it was like you know the clubs around 42nd Street and so it had a nice visual you know you saw the zoo and all those people walking by all all those this kind of strange and dangerous vibe late at night being out there and that's what I try to to express in that song and it was very much the very first strong reflection we got from playing in America. And yeah Klaus came up with the lyrics and everything fit together until to the point where I

00:06:50 - I noticed one moment, did it, did it, somehow, that's not the right beginning.

00:06:57 - And I remember in the hotel, this was in Atlanta, a Peach Tree Plaza hotel, a round hotel out of glass, and I had, I think, lunch, and there were some American guys there and they were also through girls from from meditation center and talking about something like this very inspiring so I went up there in in my apartment later and start feeling around and stuff and somehow I saw a helicopter in front of me but the same helicopter was on TV so now what's happening. I hear the TV, the announcer guy has said and here you see from up here we have the bunk robbery happening and so and there was it was unbelievable because I could see everything from I think how many floors were there there was like 40 or 60 or what I don't know how many floors but very high and you're watching the helicopter who's talking about the bunker robbery down there with what the TV is telling you in this case in the moment I was doing this there was the beginning there's a tension between the whole both things that's the directly powerful thing which I got from this banger robbery and then cool down there the dum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum-tum there

00:08:51 - It is a signature sound as well.

00:09:12 - It has that dragging groove and the darkness to a certain extent and the voicebox which makes it special.

try to express all your feelings and emotions in what was coming out in your word of creativity, you know, and that was so inspiring and the zoo had this kind of vibe and everything like the music and the talk box and this whole thing and together with the words it made like a perfect match. We eat the night, we drink the time, make our dreams come true on streets we call the zoo. It was great. It really stands for that moment in time.

00:09:58 - Dieter Dirks even went over to record something on the original 42nd Street because at the very end of the fade-out of the original version from animal magnetism there's the sound collage which was authentically recorded by the deductions in the street he flew over especially for that and even like in the very end you hear like cocaine you know some of the drug being less in the street noise yeah so he made the collage out of all those things he had recorded. This is what you did. That was pretty cool.

00:11:32 - The job is done, I come out another boring day

00:11:46 - I leave it all behind me now, so I'm gonna leave the world away

00:12:02 - I meet my girl, she's fresh to me But all we gonna do is walk around to catch the

00:12:29 - What dreams we call a zoo?

00:12:34 - We eat the night, we drink the time

00:12:39 - Make our dreams come true

00:12:43 - And hungry eyes are passing by

00:12:48 - What dreams we call a zoo?

00:12:52 - We eat the night, we drink the time

00:12:57 - Make our dreams come true

00:13:01 - The hungry eyes are passing by

00:13:06 - Our dreams we've called into

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00:13:57 - We eat the night, we drink the night, make our dreams come true

00:14:08 - And I drink a heart, I pass it by, on streets we call the zoo

00:14:17 - We eat the night, we drink the night, make our dreams come true

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