Meet the Scorpions

With more than 35 years of recording and touring to their credit, the Scorpions are one of the most successful rock bands of all time and boasts of dozens of hit singles and albums over their long standing career.

This will be a historic concert for TT fans since the Scorpions, currently on a world tour in support of their latest C D Humanity Hour 1 will be performing in the Caribbean for the first time . Local fans will get a ‘‘once in a lifetime’’ opportunity to hear their live performances of their chart topping hits.

Local roots/rock band Orange Sky, who are now on tour in the US, will return to open the show

Tickets are on sale at all Ruby Tuesdays; Sound Research; Bees, Chaguanas, music.com, Just CDs, Muzic Chamber, and Music Shak.

For additional information, log on to

stareventslimited.com, the-

scorpions.com and caribbeanboxof

fice.net.

Today Newsday profiles the men

behind these powerful hits:

James Kottak

Birthday: December 26, 1962

Hometown: Los Angeles

Height: 180 cm

Weight: 72 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Blonde

Marital Status: Married to Athena

Children: Tori, Miles, Matthew

Favourite Subjects: Making Krunk

Records

Favourite Foods: Vegetable with Rice

Favourite Cars: Ford Expedition

Favourite Sports: Drumming, Exercise

Favourite Colours: Black and Blue

Favourite Books: TV Guide

Favourite Movies: So I Married An

Axe Murder

Favourite Actors: Nicolas Cage

Favourite Places: My Bed

Things you don?t like: Violence

Other Band been in: Kingdom Come,

Krunk, Wild Horses

Favourite Bands: AC/DC, Ramones,

Krunk

Pawel Maciwoda

Birth: February 20, 1967

Hometown: Cracow, Poland

Height: 175 cm

Weight: 70 kg

Eye colour: Brown

Hair colour: Black

Marital status: Single

Children: None

Favourite subjects: Buddhism, the uni-

verse and aliens

Favourite foods: Thai and Indian

Favourite cars: Lusaka and corvettes

Favourite sports: Skiing, swimming and

tennis

Favourite colours: Colours of the rainbow

Favourite books: The Hermit , by T.

Lobsang Rampa, The Flanders Panel

by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Favourite movies: Mission (w/ Robert

DeNiro), Alien 1

Favourite actors: Monica Belluci,

Benicio Del Toro, Jack Nicholson,

Johnny Deep

Favourite places: Places where you can

see stars very well!

Things you don’t like: Aggression and

wars

Other band been in: TSA and Section

31

Favourite bands: Frank Zappa, Redhot

Chili Peppers and Rush

Klaus Meine

Birthday: May 25, 1948

Hometown: Hannover, Germany

Height: 168 cm

Weight: 62 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Brown

Marital Status: Married to Gabi

Children: Christian

Favourite Foods: Italian, Asian

Favourite Cars: Mercedes 500 SL

Favourite Sports: Tennis, Soccer

Favourite Colours: Black, Red and

Blue

Favourite Books: Biographies

Favourite Subjects: Music, Politics

Favourite Movies: Rain Man, Forrest

Gump

Favourite Actors: Tom Hanks and

Dustin Hoffman

Favourite Places: Berlin, Los Angeles,

Paris, New York

Favourite Escape: Home sweet home

Things you don?t like: Intolerance

Other Band been in: Copernicus,

Mushrooms

What motivates you?: Every new

challenge, music, creative people

How do you spend your spare time?:

With my Family and my dear Friends

Charity: Nordoff Robbins, Unicef

Rudolf Schenker

Birthday: August 31, 1948

Hometown: Hannover, Germany

Height: 184 cm

Weight: 74 kg

Eye Colour: Brown

Hair Colour: Blond

Marial Status: dissolved

Children: Marcel

Favourite Subjects: India philosophy

(yoga, meditation)

Favourite Foods: Asparagus with pota

toes (in jackets) Truffle

Favourite Cars: Mercedes SEC and SL

Favourite Sports: Persistant exercises

Favourite Colours: Blue and Black

Favourite Books: Autobiography of a

Yogi & The Alchemist

Favourite Movies: Pulp Fiction and

Geschenkt ist noch zu teuer

Favourite Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce

Willis and John Travolta

Favourite Places: Paris, London, New

York, Boenos Aires

Things you don?t like: Rats

Other jobs you?ve had: Electrican,

Photographer

What motivates you ?: Music and pos

itive people

Matthias Jabs

Birthday: October 25, 1955

Hometown: Hannover, Germany

Height: 179 cm

Weight: 68 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Brown

Children: Nicolas

Favourite Foods: Italian

Favourite Cars: Mercedes, Porsche

Favourite Sports: Tennis, Soccer

Favourite Colours: Candy Apple Red,

Silver & Black

Favourite Books: The Bible, History

Books

Favourite Movies: Odyssey 2001

Favourite Actors: Jack Nicholson

Favourite Places: My Bed

Favourite Escape: My Car

Things you don?t like: Dishonesty,

sleazy people

Other Band been in: Lady, Fargo

Other Jobs you?ve had: Lots and lots

What motivates you ?: Positive

Vibrations, Creativity