Music videos featuring Fat-Bottom Girls (Rippers, Victories, etc)

[uwe]

There's a wee bit of Norwegian in my mostly Irish and Scottish DNA. Not surprising!

Now don't get carried away, Tøm,



and back to those uneven meters!

[uwe]

Dave Kiswiney (still with a 'tache, he got rid of that soon after) miming with an early shape Ripper, though you hear Walt Monaghan (drummer Cliff Davies' buddy from Brit jazz rockers If days) play with what was likely a P Bass. Monaghan is credited on the album State of Shock, but I don't think he ever toured with the Nuge, they hired Kiswiney right after the reccording.

[doombass]

First video I've seen featuring Francis Buchholz and his Ripper:

[uwe]

Danke Doomie, lovely, been looking for a vid of it for years (there were only b&w pictures of him playing it). That is how I remember him - he looked good with it - when I first saw ze Scörps on zeir Fffirgin Killer Tour in an old school gymnasium in Darmstadt. Back then they were still the butt of jokes for declaring that they wanted to one day play US arenas. Their erstwhile producer Conny Plank (of CAN fame and also for turning down an already famous U2 when they asked him to produce them) said to them: "Das schafft ihr nie."

Uli was really something. I dug how he strapped his Strat pretty much under his chin, it gave him that "I'm the musicianly intellectual of the band!"-image he was no doubt striving for. A remarkable guitarist.

[gearHed289]

First video I've seen featuring Francis Buchholz and his Ripper:

That was great. Rudy sounding good on the backing vox. Ulrich is one of a kind. 70s Scorpions are the best Scorpions!

[uwe]

It forever mystifies me how ye Yanks could stand ze äwfül lyrics and ze bäd Tshörmenn äkzent! Thanks for being so forgiving. 

Even in Germany, ze Scörps were routinely ridiculed for their attempts at English.

[slinkp]

Scorpions were a darn good band, but yeah, those lyrics ...  Many years ago a bunch of friends sat around a bonfire discussing "what is the worst song ever?" and while a lot of the usual suspects came up, I believe there was consensus that "Winds of Change" was pretty awful, largely because of the cheesy whistling and the word salad lyrics.

(Personally I still think there are much much worse songs ... "We didn't start the fire" comes to mind)

[uwe]

For (admittedly low) Scorpions standards, Winds of Change has Nobel Prize-worthy lyrics! I actually like the song though it  had been played to death. The whistling intro came about by Klaus Meine wanting to demonstrate on his demo a melody he wanted the guitars to play - the producer decided to keep it that way when he heard it, probably having Lennon‘s Jealous Guy in mind.

[Basvarken]

A Grabber with Death From Above 1979

[gearHed289]

A Grabber with Death From Above 1979

That was pretty cool. I tend to have this irrational "problem" with two-piece bands, but this works pretty well for me. Found another one from 2005 where he's playing a white Ric with the Gibson waiting in the wings.

[Basvarken]

Lamont Johnson on a Fretless Ripper

[gearHed289]

Lamont Johnson on a Fretless Ripper

Very nice!

[uwe]

Classic Ripper alder body sound if you use one of those (in rock largely unusable) scooped positions of the chicken head switch.

[doombass]

Mike Dirnt brought out another G-3 (? I read an interview where he said the old one was totally worn out) for a Dookie-concert.

[uwe]

The Skyhooks liven things up on Australian TV - with a Ripper.