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Interview with
H.P
Look at the charts and youll learn that Germany is the number one
producer of Hardcore House, U96, Marusha and the horrible Mark
Oh. And of course, SCOOTER.
- What does that stand for?
-I think that sums up the whole rave-scene. Bigger! Bigger!
- Did the success surprise you?
- Yes, it did, because it all started as a joke. We have been
remixing as The Loop for years for artists like Adeva, Toni Di
Bart and Holly Johnson. We had written an instrumental track to
play before a gig, to warm up the audience. During the track I
decided to shout Hyper, Hyper. Well, the audience went wild!
- You find the german underground-scene horrible?
- Yeah, people like Marusha and Westbam. I think its a
diversionary maneuver. They themselves have commercial success,
and by talking bad about us it seems to the outside world that
they are really the only ones who make good underground hardcore
music. You know, its always the same when a track becomes really
successful, the underground scene doesnt like it anymore.
- Are you still doing remixes or are you totally focused on
SCOOTER now?
- No, were remixing the new Marky Mark single now. It was a slow
song but were transforming it into a really hard and fast
breakbeat track!
- Why do germans score so many electronic hits?
- I think its typical german, this synthesizer- dance. Groups
like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream are our roots. German music is
always kept simple, but its very catchy!
Interview
with guys before the show in Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Why were you late for the
concert last year? Are you going to be late this time?
H.P: We were late because we had a dinner in
Rytos Hepture.
Ferris: We were very hungry. Please excuse us.
- Why did you come here again?
H.P: Last time weve been here, it was really
brilliant.
Ferris: With such a nice weather and such a nice
people it will be really brilliant.
Rick: Your crowd is wonderful. People are so
nice and open-hearted, not like in Germany.
- What can you say about your new album? [Rough & Tough
& Dangerous - Deen]
H.P: It includes all our hits and four live
versions. Also our famous remixes.
- When will you release a new album?
Rick: Itll be released in the end of this
summer, and our new single will be released in spring.
- Will it include Multimedia Bonus?
Rick: We dont need it.
H.P: Of course there are a lot of homepages
about us in Internet. See the news you can get there.
- We heard you had some problems with your luggage?
H.P: Two guitars were missing, also two
costumes. But now its OK. We have instruments but costumes...
- Is it true that you dont remember natural colour of your
hair?
H.P: Yeah, its true. I die my hair since I was
17.
Ferris: Rather long time.
- How often do you die your hair?
H.P: Once in three weeks. My mother always
said:If you wont stop dieing your hair, you will get bold!. But
there is still something left. And, believe me, they are real. My
true colour of hair is something like Ferriss. But really, I dont
remember.
- Who looks after your animals and Jaguar when youre away?
H.P: My girlfriend Cathy looks after ma animals
and my car. But when Ill return Ill look after my girlfriend!
- Last year you promised youll stay for few days, get
acquainted with your fans. Will you stay or go away after the
concert?
Rick: We have no time now. We would like to, but
we cant. We are really very sorry.
- Will you come here next year?
Rick: I cant say it right now. We like
Lithuania. Its one of the regions, where we have a success. But I
cant say it exactly. It doesnt mean no, but I still hope well be
here next year.
- How are you?
Rick: Fine, really fine. A little bit tired, but
fine. I am looking forward this concert, and I think that this
show will be wonderful.
Interview taken from 'Our Happy Hardcore CD-ROM'
What kind
of sports have you been into?
- Rick: None
- H.P: Ice-skating, soccer
- Ferris: Soccer, basketball, ski,
tennis
What was your favorite T.V.-show as a kid?
- Rick: Sesame Street
- H.P: Star Trek
- Ferris: Daktari, Sesame Street
Where do you buy your clothes?
- Rick: Insider tip: you can also
find pretty cool stufff to wear in you favorite record-store
- H.P: Clubwear-stores and a lot
during our tour in citites we play
- Ferris: Usually in clubwear &
sportswear shops
How do you spend your spare time?
- Rick: Don't have no spare time
- H.P: Movies, good food
- Ferris: Relaxing to music, going
to movies
Who are your idols?
- Rick: Vince Clark
- H.P: No one in particular
- Ferris: Pet Shop Boys
Do you drink? What's your position on drugs?
- Rick: Beer yes - drugs no
- H.P: Moderate social drinking
is o.k - drugs no
- Ferris: Drinks a beer or some
wine once
What's your favorite dish?
- Rick: Carpaccio
- H.P: Sole
"Finkenwerder" style
- Ferris: Pasta, burger
What was your favorite subject in school? And which one did
you hate?
- Rick: Music - Sports
- H.P: English - Math
- Ferris: Art, music - Latin, math
What was your best gig?
- Rick: Budapest/Hungary (Rave
Olympia)
- H.P: Cork/Ireland
- Ferris: Israel
What era in time would you travel to if you could?
- Rick: Into the baroque epoch
(to meet Bach)
- H.P: Into the year 3000
- Ferris: Into the 60's
What's you favorite movie?
- Rick: Blues Brothers
- H.P: Strange Days
- Ferris: Dead Poet Society
What's your favorite country to spend vacations in?
- Rick: Vacations?
- H.P: Spain
- Ferris: France
Interview
in Moscow (1997)
Which of your albums is the
most succesful?
- Every time we release a new album, we consider it to be a
progress. That's why the last album for us is the best, though
selling results will show how audience liked it.
Have you ever listened to Russian music, and what do you think
of it?
- Weve managed to listen to one of the Russian bands. It made
rather good impression.
Are you going to create something in ultra modern 'dream-house'?
- I think that 'dream-house' is a new title of music, that
exists already 3-4 years. We have something like that in trance
music, in such songs as 'Stuttgart', 'Our Happy
Hardcore'.
Which of two capitals you liked most?
- St.Petersburg made big impression because of its architecture.
Monuments here are on every step.
How Billy Idol regarded your cover version of 'Rebel
Yell'?
- We dont know if even Billy Idol realises this cover versions
existance. Myself, I wanted to know about it, but Billy is too
far... and its more than a cover version, its independent musical
work. (with note of offence said H.P)
Why SCOOTER has changed its style a little?
- If you do the same thing for a long time, it gets boring. It is
true, that as compared with the first singles: 'Move Your
Ass!' & 'Friends' - 'I'm Raving' seems to
be unusally melodious, just like 'Rebel Yell'. If SCOOTER
saves this tendention, soon violing or something like that will
appear on the stage.
Interview
for M-1 radio station (6th March 1998)
(the interview takes Tomazas and Marazas)
Tomazas: Guys, swith the
red light on, we are on the air now!
Rick: Yeah.
Ferris: Yeah, that's the red light.
Tomazas: Can you say how it was a year ago?
Ferris: One year ago it was really great, we are
looking forward to tonight & hope we'll have real fun. But...
I think everything will be good.
Rick: It will be a great party tonight, I'm
really sure.
Tomazas: You remember the party that was year
ago?
H.P: Yeah, last time it was really crowded
& the people are really nice & we had a good time.
Tomazas: OK. I heard a year ago your
conversation here, on the radio... my friend wants to say
something.
SCOOTER: Oh, hi!!!
Marazas: The most interesting thing is that I
don't speak english.
Ferris: But we can understand you. But we don't
speak your language as well.
Tomazas: We made all the things, all your
interviews this time, like it was a year ago. We asked our
listeners for a questions & most interesting we'll ask you
here, right now. And I wanna be the first who asks. I'm asking
you my personal question: what was the changes in your life, in
the life of SCOOTER threw this year?
Rick: We did a lot of new things, with our music
we increase our studio. It was really important for us to
increase the sound we like to produce in the studio.
Ferris: And with our first german tour - our real
test threw the concert. All it was the first time for Germany.
Normally we play often on festivals, but we have tried out a show
in 1,5 hour & part of this show we'll present also here.
Tomazas: And what about personal lives? Somebody
got married, children or anything?
H.P: Yeah, Rick got married last year, and we
were parting the whole night.
Rick: The party wasn't bad.
Tomazas: And it was exhausting at the second
day?
H.P: Of course.
Ferris: Like always.
Tomazas: H.P, what does it mean: the letters
H&P. Is it Hans-Peter?
H.P: Exactly, it's an old fashioned german
name.
Tomazas: OK. The first question from listeners:
when are you planning to release a new album?
H.P: We are just working on it & first of
all we'll release a new single in spring and I think late summer
we'll come out with the next album.
Tomazas: Where was the last show of your tour?
H.P: Last show? It was last week in
St.Petersburg.
Tomazas: You got a party after the show?
Rick: Really great party.
Tomazas: Have you tried russian vodka?
H.P: Yeah. Of course, too much.
Tomazas: OK. The next questions from the
listeners: is the lead singer married?
H.P: No,no,no. I'm still not married.
Tomazas: More than two years you are together?
H.P: Yeah, that's true.
Tomazas: I heard.
H.P: Oh, you know everything!
Tomazas: Next question: when SCOOTER is going to
split?
Ferris: Next weekend! We thought about the weekend
after that, but we've decided to do it next weekend!
Rick: I think we'll work together as long as
we'll have fun together.
Tomazas: How do you imagine yourselves like a
band, or like a splited band after 20 years?
H.P: Oh, after 20 years, it's quite a long
time. I don't know, really, nobody could say that.
Tomazas: I think Baxxter's haircut will be the
same like now?
H.P: If it will be some hair left, I think so.
Tomazas: Do you comunicate with DJ Bobo?
H.P: Not really, we met him sometimes, during
and after show parties. You meet so many people from music &
the whole dance scene. He was quite nice guy, but musically we
have not so many things together.
Tomazas: Please, Baxxter, name european pop star
which you like a person most?
H.P: Oh, my god!
Tomazas: Yes, yes, of course.
H.P: Pop star I like the most...? Elvis!
Tomazas: And when you met him?
H.P: Not in this life.
Tomazas: Would you agree to become a donor for
the sperm bank? The listeners ask.
H.P: What do they ask?
Tomazas: They ask would you agree to become the
donor for a sperm bank?
H.P: I think, if I'm a part of a new life, I
want to take a part of it and I can imagine this.
Tomazas: Yeah, I think our female listeners are
interested in it.
Ferris: Well, we can talk about it.
Tomazas: Threw the show?
H.P: After the show!
Ferris: We need some offers, some concret offers.
Tomazas: We heard you gonna have a party after
the show?
Ferris: Actually we always have a party after the
show. I think tonight we'll have a party in the club, I don't
know the name.
Tomazas: INDIGO.
Ferris: OK. Now we know, otherwise we won't find
it. So, we have a party in INDIGO.
Tomazas: Are you going to participate in the
Mayday festival?
H.P: Maybe we'll be there as a guests. But we
are not performing there.
Tomazas: Why?
H.P: We never did. Because... I don't know.
Nobody invited us.
[Ferris began playing with Marazas' hat]
Tomazas: Ferris, don't touch this hat, put it
down on the table!
[this hat has a little bells on it]
Ferris: It sounds like christmas.
Tomazas: This hat belongs to my friend and my
friend is a very aggresive local pop star.
Ferris: I'm really afraid of him, he looks very
angry now. But I'll continue.
Tomazas: Hey, guys, do you gonna play 'Fire'
tonight?
H.P: I think so.
Tomazas: Do you remember, you started show with
'Fire' last year?
H.P: Exactly.
Tomazas: And I'm gonna tell you the biggest
Lithuanian fans' secret: 'Fire' is the most wanted song.
Ferris: So, we'll have to play it ten times.
Tomazas: I think it will be enough. I remember
the interview you made here a year ago. H.P was the only who was
talking, and nobody was listening. Ferris & Rick, you were
here, guys?
Ferris: Not sure.
Tomazas: Why, H.P, you are so silent today?
H.P: Maybe I'm a little bit tired, because I
had to get up very early this morning. And I don't like getting
up so early, 5 o'clock in the morning.
Tomazas: OK. Last two questions: Did you bring
the girls that were on the scene last year?
H.P: Yeah, I think so.
Tomazas: Guys, last question: What was the day
today? You woke up? Took a plane...
H.P: Yeah, and...
Ferris: It was the middle of the night when we
woke up. We didn't have any breakfast. We had to take a plane.
H.P: So, now we are really hungry.
Ferris: We had some awful dinner on the plane,
then we arrived here. Yeah, that's our typical day.
Tomazas: You came to Lithuania, and what you
did?
Ferris: Soundcheck.
Tomazas: Soundcheck is already done?
H.P: Yeah. Everything is perfect. Well, we'll
gonna have some lunch. After that - relaxing, some more
interviews & then - stage. Yeah!
Tomazas: OK. See you on the stage.
H.P: Everybody should come tonight, enjoying
the show. Yeah!
Tomazas: Thank you very much.
SCOOTER: Good night. See ya!
Interview in the Czech radio Bonton - 4th. November 1997
Scooter always seemed to me to be the trance settle, if you understand, what I mean. You have your own sound, that is really distinguishable and you have never changed it to a suit of the musical trends of the season, but in spite of that your singles were a hit. Where do you get your musical ideas? |
Ferris: First of all. Thank you very much for these words. |
H.P.: It's my opinion. |
Ferris: Well, I think we really have changed it little bit, but I think it's important to do that. I think we have to envelop in that way, but we get our inspirations from many special situations, from parties, from concerts, the atmosphere there and that is still very important for us. |
You must have noticed, that most European dance bands used this summer the sound probably invented by Sash. I mean this pizzicato sound. You don't use it at all. Or, do you? |
H.P.: We tried to use it on our second album Our Happy Hardcore, but we didn't find the right keyboard, so that's just only one album track and on the very new single now No Fate, there is this sound, but that's not important, it's just... |
Rick: It's just a part of the sound, not the main sound. |
Ferris: We've been fascinated by the sound, which was created by Faithless' Insomnia and that was the sound, that we wanted to reach, but that's really difficult and that's one of the reasons, why we didn't do that and there was too much this sound in the last year, so we said no, we won't be the 150th ones using that sound. |
When you started, you were a typical rave band. I think, that now your music is little bit harder and we like it. Will you continue this trend? |
Rick: I think our music was ever a kind of party music and we tried to keep this feeling alive in every time and in every way. We always tried sometimes to hard sound like Fire or to be little bit melancholic like on our latest new single No Fat. But we always tried to keep this party. |
H.P.: There is a rock element sometimes, that's what we had on stage. The situation on stage was really like the rock band, we have drums and the real power and even we have a ballet. It should really sound we're not tough to poppy or sentimental, but it's always rough. |
I remember, that one time you told me your favourite singer was Billy Idol... (H.P.'s laughing) |
Ferris: Nothing in a way has to develop, because you can't start really as a perfect life, I think you have to learn a lot and our experiences on the stage brought us very much and also for the working in a studio. |
Can you tell me, who inspired you the most or which of the uptodate bands now attracted your attention most? |
H.P.: Nothing special, because this changes everytime, everyone got favourite tracks, it changes every week, so you can't say, there is one band or one project, it's the whole thing and many different experiences and songs. |
Ferris: Even from different directions in the whole music thing. For example I love the new The Verve album and this is not really techno music. They adapted some sounds from techno thing, I think that's the secret at the moment, that everyone in a way works together and everyone adepts sounds from others. |
H.P.: But I think The Verve would hate us (laugh) - definitely. They hate all techno stars. |
Special interview for POPEXPRES (January 1998)
You have done four albums in three years, if we don't count the last one, which is the album of your the best. You can't complain of shortage of inspiration... |
Rick: We're rather very proper fast. Everytime, when the ideas put together, we closed the door of our studio, recorded the album and had a tour. And then it was going on and on. |
Which of your songs do you like the most? |
Ferris: What do you think? That's obvious, that Hyper Hyper. You know we have broken through right with this single and it can't miss on our each gig. But we like also our new single No Fate... |
Do you have some music idols? (*my note: the reporters maybe don't have a lot of ideas of questions - so they ask still the same. - Poor boys!) |
H.P.: There can't be spoken about the idols. In short, we like the music of our German colleagues, different DJ's. We like a good music and it doesn't depend on who does it, but mainly it must be to good hearing. |
How do you usually spent your leisure time? |
H.P.: Our leisure time we try to spent with our family and friends of a part and sometimes we give us a pleasure of holiday. But a few time we must have also for ourselves and for our hobbies. In my case it's for example traveling. When we are on a tour in foreign countries and cities, we visit some historical sights and churches. |
Ferris: For example, when we were in America, we rented a car and we were riding along the whole country. And when it's a little bit possible, we sport of course, cause we must keep us in condition. |
Do you believe in God? |
H.P.: Yes, I believe, but it isn't a thing of religion, just like I would go into the church and pray. I don't believe in something concrete. I know that something between Heaven and Earth exists, but I can't explain it. |
Ferris: I have the same opinion as H.P. I also don't pray, although I believe in "something", but it's got with religion nothing to do. |
What resolution did you give to yourselves? |
H.P.: At first we told to ourselves to not end up as Scooter. I wish health of course, but I'm not the type, who has the specific resolutions and make the future-plans. I rather let me be surprised. |
Ferris: I wish the situation in Europe were better and stayed politic stable. I would like the states to be not looked in itself to be able to cooperate with the general Europe. It's a concern of all people and each of us should try to contribute some way. Anyway, we do it for ourselves, don't we? |
following (for fans maybe interesting) questions I chose from many magazines
I heard you've said, you would like to play live as much as possible. How are you succeeded in it? Is it worth in techno at all? |
Rick: The whole show can't be played live, of course. There exist different supporting recording systems, so it's definitly like we wont - half and half. Some of the songs can be played live completely, for example "Break It Up", but the another ones sometimes can't. |
H.P.: In a way we play live all the time. We don't use any playback, play the instruments etc... Nothing are props. |
Rick: Everything is live and under the control of sound engineers. |
How would you describe your audience? |
Rick: The old, the young... It's very diverse. |
Ferris: Of course, that it depends on where we play. But all in all, we're glad that people don't take us as a mode-fad of the teenagers. The old ones go to see us too, so that says something yet. |
Your last really album "Age Of Love" is quite hard. What does your parents say to the music like that? |
Ferris: I think they respect what we're doing. They're not objective, cause they still see us as their children, so they're pleased with everything, that we're also pleased with. |
H.P.: The parents are our the biggest fans. |
STORY OF SCOOTER
I've got one message for the next decade...
(Move Your Ass - March 1995)
What will be remembered in fifty years time when thinking about
the nineties? What will stand the test of time as being cool and
influential compared to all Titanics, Michael Schumachers and
Love Parades? One band will always spring to mind - Scooter. With
5 platinum and 18 gold records in the last four years this trio
from Hamburg not only ranks between the most successful European
chartbands but has sold more records than any other band of the
dance/techno genre - ever! But apart from the impressive
sales-figure of six million units, their most outstanding
achievement is their endurance. While other shortlived dance
projects failed to deliver a decent album or at least a
reasonable follow-up-single after an initial charttopper, H.P.
Baxxter, Rick Jordan und Ferris Bueller succeeded throughout the
years in producing one top-5-hit after the other and keeping a
steady fanbase of 250.000.
Together with manager and co-producer Jens Thele the threesome
released four longplayers, before the massive single-collection
Rough And Tough And Dangerous put an appropriate end to the first
Scooter-chapter in January 1998.
Its the first page of the second chapter!
(How Much Is The Fish?, June 1998)
Its the summer of 98 - and its a new beginning for Scooter.
Ferris has left the band to pursue a solo-career. He has been
replaced by Axel Coon, the highly competent and motivated studio
assistant of the band. The 23-year-old DJ has already been
involved in the recordings to the first single (How Much Is The
Fish?) to be taken from the forthcoming album No Time To Chill.
There is an overall feeling of awakening within the band. The fun
is back, grins Rick. And even H.P. has been infected with the
overall enthusiasm. A brand new era in the history of Scooter has
begun, he declares euphorically. An atmosphere that has a
positive influence on the whole production of the new longplayer:
old and fruitless routines have been abandoned to be replaced by
a healthy simplicity (Rick). This creative process of renewal for
a band like Scooter (who released an incredible thirteen singles
and four albums in the last four years) is vital. Composition,
production, mixing, mastering - the boys do it all themselves.
There is no spilt between the actual music makers and the
performing act as practiced by nearly all current dance projects.
Between their time-consuming studio-duties, H.P., Rick und Axel
have to take time out to do photo- and video shootings,
interviews, cover design and perform their cult gigs all around
Europe. And its especially the high quality of their full-speed
live concerts that set them apart from the rest. Its no surprise
they play venues with the capacity of up to 40.000.
Artist: H.P. Baxxter
Age: 32 (born 16th of march 1966)
The charismatic frontman is a legend in its own right. From
telephone salesman in a record company to their platinum-selling
top act within one and a half years - that is indeed the dream
career of anyone in the music business. Within the band he is the
one to set the pace - while Rick and Axel puzzle endlessly over
their synths-LED-displays, its H.P. who already ponders about new
concepts and reminds his collegues of the deadlines.
But obviously its his legendary shout-style that makes him the
cult-figure of the scene. Its not the meaning of the words Im
interested in, he stresses, the phonetics of the lyrics have to
support the rhythm. A technique, that the 32-year-old has
practiced to perfection: on stage, its his usually energetic
cheers that drives the crowd into a frenzy.
Artist: Rick Jordan
Age: 30 (born 1st of January 1968)
The biography of the 30-year-old has been intensively intertwined
with H.P.s from the early eighties on. While living in Hanover,
they both played in a modestly successful new wave pop band
called Celebrate The Nun. After the group split up, they lost
contact for about one and a half years. To everybodys surprise
they met again under totally different circumstances: Following a
job in a record company in Hamburg, H.P. got excellent contacts
to A&Rs, Rick (who already received a classical training on
the piano) visited a school of sound engineering and built his
own studio in Hanover. Best conditions for a new joint project
called Scooter. Four years and six million sold units later, Rick
is very happy with their performance: This band is my dream come
true.
Artist: Axel Coon
Age: 23 (born: 23rd of march 1975)
When Rick Jordan asked his studio-assistant about joining the
most successful dance-techno-act of all time in the Kontor Club
in Hamburg in the early hours of another sweaty Saturday night,
he didnt have to think twice. The young DJ had already stepped in
for an injured Rick during a concert on new years eve and enjoyed
it. Amongst all the PR-duties, Axels job is of a
technically/musically kind. As a Progressive-House-DJ of many
years he makes the influence of the latest club sounds audible on
the new songs. The 23-year-old was first noticed by
Scooter-manager Jens Thele, who met Axel in a club in Hamburg as
he made the first public preview of a song he had recorded in his
bedroom.
The Scooter story starts in 1994, when the single "Vallиe
De Larmes" was released. But it was first when the second
single called "Hyper Hyper" came, they became a HUGE
band.
But the full Scooter story doesn't start there.
It was in 1986 Rick J. Jordan, H.P. Baxxter and a woman called
Britt Maxime started the band "Celebrate The Nun". They
released three albums, and some singles. But the high point came
when they broked into the top 5 of the American Billboard
Dance-charts.
But in 1993 H.P. Baxxter and Rick J. Jordan joined up with H.P.'s
cousin Ferris Bueller and Jens Thele. They started a remix-team
called "The Loop!". They made remixes for Tag Team,
Toni DiBart, Prince Ital Joe & Marky Mark, Adeva, Holly
Johnson, RuPaul and others.
But then, in late 1993. They started thinking about an own
project. They named themself after the bumper car, what the
Germans call SCOOTER! The groop members are H.P., Ferris and
Rick. And Jens Thele is a co-producer, and the manager.
As said, their first single was "Vallиe De Larmes".
And the second "Hyper Hyper", sold over 700 000 copies
in Germany alone. The next single was "Move Your Ass!",
and now they became more and more sucsessfull. "Move Your
Ass!" was also a big hit. And the only huge MTV-hit by
Scooter.
Then the first Scooter album came. "...And The Beat Goes
On!". It didn't include "Vallиe De Larmes". But
it included "Hyper Hyper" and "Move Your
Ass!". "...And The Beat Goes On!" included also
the two next singles. "Friends" and "Endless
Summer".
"Back In The U.K." was released in late 1995. And now
we were waiting for the new album to come, "Our Happy
Hardcore". This CD didn't only include music, but a CD-ROM
part too. Where you could find a demo-version of the game
"Manic Karts" by Virgin. The CD-ROM also included
biography, discography, pictures, videos and more...
Also on this album were "Rebel Yell". The Billy Idol
hit from 1983 in a Scooter version.
In September 1996, the second cover-version came. "I'm
Raving". Written by Marc Cohn, and originally called
"Walking In Memphis". A month later, their third album
camed. "Wicked!". The next single from that album, was
"Break It Up". And it was their first ballad. It was
written by Nosie Katzman. This album included also a CD-ROM part.
With the "I'm Raving" video.
Then in April 1997, "Fire" came. It was also a HUGE
hit. It was #1 in Finland for 6 weeks, and was in the top 20
chart for 21 weeks. The next single called "The Age Of
Love" did also reach the #1 spot in Finland. Now for 3
weeks. The song included the Terminator 2 theme. Then the fourth
album came "Age Of Love".
In december '97 they released another cover-version. "No
Fate" written by Steffen Britzke (B-Zet), Mathias Hoffman
(A.C. Boutsen) And Renи Swain. Not one of the biggest hits, but
reached the #2 spot in Finland. And in January the next year they
released a greatest hits album. Including all the singles, the
best remixes and B-Sides, and the highlights of "The Age Of
Love Tour". A double CD which was called "Rough And
Tough And Dangerous - The Singles 94/98".
In March '98 a shocking news came for many fans. Ferris left
Scooter after four years. And now we were introduced to another
Scooter-member, 23 years old Axel Coon. And the first
Scooter-single with Axel was "How Much Is The Fish?".
And then their next album came, "No Time To Chill". It
became a massive success, and I believe it's the first
Scooter-album that have made it into the #1 spot on a official
hitlist (Finland). And the album entered the charts in Germany as
#4! And I think it will be the best-selling Scooter-album ever.
(Maybe it already is...)
So Scooter are with no doubt one of the worlds most selling techno / dance groops. Every single Scooter release is a hit. Almost every single have beend in the Germany top-5. And the adventure seems to continue...