Here they go again ...

[uwe]

 "So the guys from Scorpion don't look trashy?"

Actually, - by German standards, an American eye might view things differently - they don't at all. The Scorpions look (and always looked) incredibly German middle-middle-middle-class, it was always held against them, just like the background they came from (their parents were small scale merchants), they all got nice "day job" (again mercantile) educations/apprenticeships before they were allowed to "attempt to turn pro" by their parents. By our standards, they were as trashy as the Patridge Family (and about as dangerous). Ok, let's exclude the "bassist" of the Patridge Family from the white trash exemption! 

[westen44]

I've never paid a great deal of attention to fashion.  But you don't have to look hard to see that fashions in Europe & the U.S. tend to be very different.  What might look in style in one place might look out-of-style in the other.  I tend to be basic & casual which often isn't a good idea in Europe.  But it can cause problems here, too, like the wedding I went to two weeks ago.  Anyway, someone gave me the wrong advice on what to wear. 

[4stringer77]

There's nothing trashy about those mustaches and the shirtless album cover or the one with naked young girl on it either? I guess Europeans are more different than I thought.

[uwe]

Oh, the Scorpions weren't always in good taste, no doubt, but that's a classless affliction worldwide. Moustaches were ok in the 70ies, especially the one Rudi Schenker wore, was pretty standard if a bit naff. And when Virgin Killer came out in Germany, no one thought much of it, it was a cover with a naked girl, so what. It only became an issue decades later. At the time, no one thought the Scorps had turned pedophile.

[nofi]

mustaches are for 70's porn stars, not a good look.

[uwe]

In Germany they were identified with policemen. Rudi had a "Polizistenschnurrbart". Sometimes also referred to as "Schenkelbürste" - thigh brush, I never really figured out with all my cunning linguistics what that could possibly mean.

[Dave W]

In Germany they were identified with policemen. Rudi had a "Polizistenschnurrbart". Sometimes also referred to as "Schenkelbürste" - thigh brush, I never really figured out with all my cunning linguistics what that could possibly mean.

Some women like to be tickled.

[nofi]

a womb broom.