The Scorpions are wimps
When I was in Cologne in 1997, some colleagues and I ended up staying in the same hotel as The Scorpions, of "Winds of Change" fame. We were all hoping to get a glimpse of the band, but all we saw was boxes full of their kit and speakers and roadies etc. We thought they'd be keeping themselves to themselves and we'd never see the mullet-ed German supergroup in the flesh- but we werent to be dissapointed. That evening we stayed in for dinner- and so did the Scorpions! Since they were sitting on the next table to us, I, admittedly having sampled a few German beers by then, thought it would be nice if they treated us to rendition of Winds of Change on the Baby Grand piano that was in the dining room. At first the band politely smiled when I shouted "hey Scorpions, give us a tune" but their smiles dissapeared when I started, by way of encouragement, to do the whistled first few bars of their big song. The louder I whistled, the more they frowned. Eventually, they sent a waiter over - "Ze Scorpions ask you not whistle their song." When I kept on doing the, by now annoying whistling, but which had our table in stitches, eventually the band got up off their table and trooped out, off to get room service or somewhere without pesky noise harrasment. I was proud as punch.
(breadandbutter, Sun 2 Jul 2006, 18:16, Reply)