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27 сен 2024 :	ACCEPT's MARK TORNILLO Says His Statement That U.S. Is 'Not Metal Territory Anymore' Was 'Just A Passing Comment'
17 сен 2024 :	TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS Celebrates 57th Birthday By Joining ACCEPT For 'Balls To The Wall' Performance In New York City
11 сен 2024 :	ACCEPT's WOLF HOFFMANN On 'The True Meaning Of Happiness'
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3 сен 2024 :	Watch: ACCEPT Kicks Off North American Tour With KK'S PRIEST At Whisky A Go Go
31 авг 2024 :	ACCEPT's MARK TORNILLO Clarifies His Comment That U.S. Is 'Not Metal Territory Anymore': 'I Didn't Mean It In A Derogatory Way'
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6 авг 2024 :	ACCEPT's WOLF HOFFMANN Says UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER And PETER BALTES Are 'Welcome' To Take Part In 50th-Anniversary Tour
4 авг 2024 :	Watch: TIM 'RIPPER' OWENS Joins ACCEPT For 'Balls To The Wall' Performance At WACKEN OPEN AIR
22 июл 2024 :	ACCEPT Joined By JUDAS PRIEST’s ANDY SNEAP For “Balls To The Walls” In Athens; Video
14 июл 2024 :	ACCEPT's WOLF HOFFMANN: 'The Experience Of A Live Show Has As Much Value As, Or Maybe Even More Value Than, It Ever Did'
2 июл 2024 :	ACCEPT To Celebrate 50th Anniversary With Tour And Album Of Re-Recorded Classics
23 июн 2024 :	ACCEPT's WOLF HOFFMANN Describes His Experience As A German Immigrant Living In America
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25 янв 2021

WOLF HOFFMANN Reflects On 'Rivalry' Between ACCEPT And SCORPIONS: 'They Never Talked About Us' Or 'Acknowledged Us'

During an appearance on MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn's "No Fuckin' Regrets With Robb Flynn" podcast, ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann was asked if there was ever a rivalry between his band and legendary German hard rockers SCORPIONS, especially in the early 1980s when both ACCEPT and SCORPIONS were still on the rise. He responded (see video below): "The SCORPIONS were already up. When we got started, the SCORPIONS were already big. They had already released 'Tokyo Tapes' and then it was 'Lovedrive', and they were huge in our minds. They were touring America, and they were always way ahead of us. So we always looked at them as our goal or our hero — maybe one day we could be half as good as they are. And they never mentioned us, oddly enough, and they never talked about us, they never acknowledged us in a way, or so it felt. And we always felt it a little odd that they almost were a little afraid of our competition. It almost felt like they maybe wanted to be the only German successful band, and they resented the fact that we were even recording at the same studio with the same producer. We always had this idea that they were thinking, like, 'Who's this other band? Who do they think they are?' They wanna be the only ones… I don't know. This might be total speculating on my part, but it felt a little bit, like, why are they so…? They don't have to be afraid of us. We're doing something completely [different]. And they are huge. Why are they afraid of this little other German band in their footsteps?"

Asked if he ever got a chance to meet the SCORPIONS and question them personally about the perceived animosity between the two bands, Wolf said: "I tried to at one point, because eventually we played one show with them, and this is only recently — I'd say four or five years ago. We played one show with them. And I never got a clear answer out of them, because they are always very friendly on the surface and they're great guys, and I like them, but there's never any deep conversations like that. They always stick to themselves, and they never hang around and open up and have a beer or two. They're always a little bit distant, and they're the stars, and they're in their own little world. I have probably the best connection to [guitarist] Matthias Jabs, and, of course, I admire [guitarist] Rudolf [Schenker] — he's my hero; he's amazing. But they never come down to our level — or so it seems. [Laughs]"

He continued: "The cool thing is now we're all a little bit older and we can chuckle about it and have a good laugh about this stuff. They probably might open up a little bit more — if we ever had a little bit of a sitdown or whatever, they might tell me a little more of the truth. But they always kept their distance, and they never spilled the beans. They never were the talking kind. I don't know why. It's always been that way."

ACCEPT's new album, "Too Mean To Die", will be released on January 29 via Nuclear Blast. The LP will be the group's first without bassist Peter Baltes, who exited ACCEPT in November 2018. He has since been replaced by Martin Motnik. ACCEPT's lineup has also been expanded with the addition of a third guitarist, Philip Shouse, who originally filled in for Uwe Lulis during 2019's "Symphonic Terror" tour, before being asked to join the band permanently.

"Too Mean To Die" was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee with British producer Andy Sneap (JUDAS PRIEST, MEGADETH), who has been responsible for the studio sound of ACCEPT since 2010.

ACCEPT's last album, 2017's "The Rise Of Chaos", marked the band's first release with Lulis and drummer Christopher Williams, replacing Herman Frank and Stefan Schwarzmann, respectively.

WOLF HOFFMANN Reflects On 'Rivalry' Between ACCEPT And SCORPIONS: 'They Never Talked About Us' Or 'Acknowledged Us'

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26 янв 2021

зубатый_колобок

да будет срач. или не будет?

26 янв 2021

Санчез

какой смысл срача, когда группы разных жанров, разного направления и разных годов и бла бла бла

26 янв 2021

olly71

ух какие высокомерные эти скорпионы даже не бухнут ни с кем за кулисами ))))))))

26 янв 2021

Rutger

Забавные циферки.
Штатовские Billboard 200:
2014 - Ассерт - Blind Rage - 35 место, 2 недели.
2015 - Scorpions - Return To Forever - 65 место, 1 неделя.

Конечно, нет смысла сравнивать продаваемость поп-рока (ну ладно, поп-хард-рока)) и хэви.
Но и прибедняться тоже не стоит.

26 янв 2021

Alex Chernyatinsky

Пора Вольфу присвоить пожизненное звание Адекват Рока. Всегда приятно читать его рассуждения.

26 янв 2021

Kiskenbassker

@Забавные циферки.@

Самые забавные циферки можно найти на сайте RIAA в разделе Gold & Platinum.

У Scorpions все студийники 1980-1990 годов становились платиновыми. Из них 1984 и 1990 год - трижды и дважды соответственно. Плюс сборник и концентник этого периода тоже получили платину. Ну и еще есть золотой "Lovedrive" и сингл "Wind of Change".
У Accept единственный золотой диск - "Balls To The Wall".

Accept именно потому начали работать с Дитером Дирксом и писать песни типа "Midnignt Mover" и "Screaming For A Love-Bite", что хотели попасть в нишу "поп-хард-рока" и иметь такие же циферки продаж в США. А Скорпы никакой не поп-рок даже в 80-х, просто они на балладах хорошо выезжали.

26 янв 2021

Exceptional

>>>Пора Вольфу присвоить пожизненное звание Адекват Рока

ХЗ. Про Scorpions как раз рассуждения из разряда "сам себе придумал".

26 янв 2021

assassin

Scorpions великие дипломаты! И дело не в магии величия, а в интеллекте. Клаус вообще гений, помню как он нашего Познера укатал в интервью. А чего Вольф хотел? Сейчас гавкает, а ведь всегда мечтал, чтобы его погладили и за ушком почесали. В принципе, прямым текстом и сказал об этом.

28 янв 2021

Rutger

>>>У Scorpions все студийники 1980-1990 годов становились платиновыми. Из них 1984 и 1990 год - трижды и дважды соответственно.

90й год закончился 30 лет назад. Скорпов же до сих пор принято считать коммерческим боингом, а всех остальных немцев - бумажными самолетиками. Как видно из тех забавных циферок, которые я привел, мягко выражаясь, это не совсем и не всегда так.

Вольф здесь, думаю, иронично юродствует, типа "мы вот такие маленькие и бедные". Подозреваю, что Ассерт, начиная с реуниона 2010 года, зарабатывает больше, чем когда-либо. Даже несмотря на то, что физ.носители стали почти экзотикой.