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DURCH
DIE NACHT MIT... H.P. BAXXTER
H.S. - Heinz Strunk Intro
H.S.: I personally discovered Scooter in their very beginning when they released their hit Hyper Hyper. Scooter is kind of a phenomenon, an interesting one.
H.P.: We met recently by accident at the homebase of Kontor Records in Hamburg. We met because Heinz was creating a new theater show called Dorfpunks in which I should act in a small part. H.S.: I was hoping that H.P. will understand my strange kind of humor and luckily I wasn't wrong. So I decided to ask him to act in a small part in this theater show. H.P.: I've seen Heinz Strunk at TV Total recently and I immediately I liked him. I recognized that he seems to be a great guy. I think very positive about the show Durch Die Nacht Mit... and I got a good feeling relating to this show and I think it will be a nice evening. The show begins
H.P.: Hi Heinz, nice to see you again. H.S.: Hi, I missed you as I thought you wanted to visit one of our theater live performances in which you are part of it. H.P.: Well, I wanted to see this show but as you know many thinks will cross your plans and so I was not able to visit your show... unfortunately. (H.P. was part of a theater show. He appears on a big TV Screen but you only see him from the back whilst he is talking on a phone. After the telephone talk H.P. turns and is looking straight to the audience.)
H.S.: As you know your are part of our theater show but it does not work the way it should. As you know you appear on a screen during this show seeing you only from the back whilst you are talking on a phone. It was planned to create a surprise when you turn and peoples see that the person who talked is H.P. and every time it is a great moment when you appear on screen . Unfortunately your voice is very well known so people already know it is H.P. before you turn your face to the camera. H.S.: So, this is your place of working? H.P.: Yes, this is our studio I'll give you a tour in some minutes. Do you still love to create dance music? H.S.: No I don't do this anymore but if someone is going to ask me whether I would make some dance music for little money I would say yes. H.P.: I never wanted to make dance music, I rather wanted to die than making dance music because I grew up in northern Germany in small town and all talented guitarist finally found themselves in the dance music scene. We called this kind of music hog music / pork music and I thought that the only chance to have a job in the music business would be to sing vocals
H.S.: So in the 80's it was wave music you worked on? H.P.: Yes all kind of synth-pop like Depeche Mode and Rick was already a member of our band. H.S.: I remember making songs in the 80's was not very easy as the music had to be something special without failures and so you needed to have a music studio and at this time it was very expensive to rent a studio. You had to pay around 1000€ a day to rent a studio and this was too expensive for me but I tried my very best. H.P.: We could not afford renting a studio either so we created our own studio in Rick's basement where we figured out how to do music. When we got our first deal with the label Westside we got our own big studio for the first time. We had not to pay anything for this studio as the label Westside paid it. I remember It was very difficult to record songs. We had great demos where you could listen to the spirit of the music but recording this song in a big studio destroyed the spirit in the music as it sounded too sterile and so we decided that we have to create our music in our own studio and this is what we are still doing today. Rick is entering the room... Rick: Let us make a studio tour.
H.S.: I got a surprise for you, I took my flute with me to
make some music with you. Playing the flute was influenced by dean
Anderson. he made great flute music and when I was young I always
tried to be the exact copy of my idol and so I decided to learn
playing the flute.
How Much Is The Fish? together with live flute...
They're about to take a ride in H.P.'s jaguar E-Type...
...to get to the Mercedes, which takes them downtown... H.P.: When we started with Scooter we got a lot of critics saying we are too commercially with our music but this was kind of a good thing as our reputation was damaged now and this enabled us to make things other peoples could not think of so we where able to do the things other peoples could not do as our reputation was already damaged. H.S.: I am very impressed about the fact that the Scooter members are not very young anymore but making music for young peoples between 20 - 25. And I am not able to find the answer how you made this because you are not young anymore but you are serving very young peoples with your music. This is not common in the music business. H.P.: You are right and my answer is that this depends on the way you live. I still go to clubs few times a week, I need this. Ok, it is nice to visit friends to cook with but it bothers me a bit that you can not go with them to clubs. They always say "ahh, not today I have to work tomorrow" or they are just to lazy. I often have the feeling that I have to make party and whenever I got this feeling I go in a club.
...they arrived at the Pirate Style Shop in Hamburg where H.P. gets his outfits and body decoration from. H.P. is talking to the shop sales man he knows well... H.P.: I lost my ring! When we had our gig in New York I did put my hand to fast forward and the ring went off my finger and disappeared in the crowed. After the gig we searched the ring without success so I need a new one. When being on stage I decorate myself with tons of body decoration but when going out for dinner or something like this I am wearing a jeans and a button-down shirt.
...they went to the restaurant. H.P. drinks a coffee with a straw during the way... H.S.: I am about to marry my girlfriend. H.P.: Really? Is this your first time you get married? H.S.: Yes it is. How long are you married now? H.P.: We are married since 2 years but we know since 3 years and we are very happy at the moment. It could'nt be better. I was already married when I was younger. I was married for 5 years and we did know for 8 years.
H.S.: Do you finished your job training? H.P.: Yes, I finished my job training. But first I wanted to study law to have a reason to leave my hometown and so I went to Hannover. My parents did say that they do not accept making music only. They said that I have to learn in a common job and then I can do what I want to do. So I worked in a normal job but I do not miss this time because living for 2 years with almost no money was very bad. But when we began producing music it was the same, we had no money and lot's of free time and so I slept till 1PM or 2PM. Then I went into the studio and tried to produce music but it did not went into success and I thought to myself that I have to leave Hannover and this is why I moved to Hamburg. Since I am living in Hamburg my live went up. ...and back to the car... H.S.: When you released Hyper Hyper I got the feeling that many peoples of the techno scene did talk in a bad way about you. They said what you are doing is backstabbing of the techno music and the scene itself. Did you care about it, did it hurt to hear comments like these? H.P.: Well, in the very beginning it hurt a bit because it is not nice when you are making a music style you can identify with and finally peoples do not like you anymore due to this kind of music. I remember a lot of moments when I entered a club and peoples said to you "...what the f##k are YOU doing in here...?" But nowadays I think it was good to start as a condemned band without no support from the community. Getting all the critics was not a disadvantage for our band. H.S.: It's strange, at the moment well known German newspapers are trying so solve the secret about the Scooter phenomenon. H.P.: Yes, but we think when the time comes when all peoples got the same good opinion about Scooter we want to quit the job. When the time comes nobody is talking bad about us we will close the Scooter Chapter but I we do not have any reason to fear this because after every Tour we got minimum 3 very bad critics in the newspapers. I love to read such critics because the peoples who are writing it are getting very creative in the usage of the words that have the aim to insult us.
...which takes them to a strange club... H.P.: I've never seen a location like this since 20 years. I like it much to visit cool big city clubs where you are sitting with a bottle of vodka and a bottle of champagne, accompanied by beautiful girls in a corner and listening to house music, kind of a decadent club. H.S: Is it a problem for you to be the frontman, being in front of all the people? H.P.: Honestly this is what I ever wanted to be although in a subliminal way only but when we had no success with CTN I said now I rather want to work in the background than in the foreground, making different projects and not the same project for the entire life. Usually I am a partyboy who loves to make party and who loves to stay in the foreground. When I was a teen I styled me in a very eye-catching way with colored, long hair.
...the show finishes in a harbour where they stand and talk about the play and H.P.'s role. |
SCOOTER INTERVIEWS
English version and screenshots made by The-Flying-Dutchman, slightly edited by Big Jay, STi. |
