I think we had in total thirty, or forty songs, but in the end we picked those 24-25-26 songs. so, this way over the time of six months we built up the whole show. And then he came back with eight or nine songs, they came to Germany played them to us, we listened to the arrangements and we liked, or we didn’t like it, and we changed it. We made a list of songs that we discussed it with our producers, and our Swedish friends, Martin Hansen, and Mikael Nord Andersson, and Matthias (Jabbs) went up to Stockholm and they picked together songs out of the list we recommended. Songs with different arrangements, and some new songs. If it was for us we wouldn’t even have played them! Later on, our label of course insisted that 'Still Loving You', 'Wind Of Change', '(Rock You Like A) Hurricane', all those songs were going to be part of that show, but our intention was to hopefully put out a whole new show up on stage with songs we never performed live. Q: What were the criteria you chose the songs you played with?Ī: "When this MTV offer came in, since we made Acoustica in 2001, we didn’t want to repeat ourselves, we wanted to come up with a whole new set of music, and our intention was not to rely on the big hits, the big classics. Greece's recently conducted an interview with singer Klaus Meine in the wake of the release. The release is due out in Canada via Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc. SCORPIONS' new offering, MTV Unplugged, is out now in Europe on 2CD, DVD, Blu-ray and in various other digital and physical configurations.