![]() I didn’t want to lose what the Strat had – the sound, the feel, the flair. I thought, “Why shouldn’t I try to come up with something that enables me to do what I want?” And that’s how it started. I suddenly started to question the whole thing. But then he said, “Look, I can build you any guitar you like.” I’ll never forget that moment, because something happened in my mind. He said, “No problem” and I used those extra frets on the Electric Sun albums. So, I found Andreas Demetriou, a very good guitar builder in Brighton, England, and asked him to put two extra frets on the Strat. So I had to really bend the string to reach Eb. Even in the early Scorpions, if you listen closely to In Trance you’ll hear a couple spots where I play the top Eb, which on the Strat was hard because it had 21 frets, so its highest note was technically a C# for us, it was a C because we were tuned a semi-tone down. ![]() The first was I wanted to play higher in the range. But there were things I didn’t like, and in time I wanted to go places the Strat couldn’t. ![]() That guitar did it all for me, and I loved it the Strat is a perfect instrument in its own way just like the Les Paul is perfect in its own way. The idea came to me at the end of 1982 for the simple reason that I had played Strats for years – mainly the white one I still own that I used on four Scorpions albums and three Electric Sun albums.
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