Saturday, August 11th 2007

„Wind Of Change“ in Manaus

Live against wood clearing

With the biggest rock concert in the history of the Amazonian jungle the German band Scorpions has contributed their share for the protection of the “green lung” of the earth. Along the lines of “Stopped the wood clearing! Without Amazonian no future!” the musicians around singer Klaus Meine enthused more than 30000 people, who came together in Manaus, on Thursday night. “The people were crazy, they never saw something like this before”, wonders Daniela Montalto from the environment protection group Greenpeace Brazil.
The concert was over only after two and a half hours at 3am. For the start of their South America tour Scorpions support with this a Greenpeace campaign for the protection of the biggest jungle area of the earth. More times the musicians stopped their show and the recording of the DVDs “Scorpions live in Manaus” to signalize the meaning of the jungle for the planet.
“We just missed a show at Amazonian to make our career quasi complete” explained the musicians, who became known worldwide with their rock ballads and riffs like no other German band, before the show. The Brazil rain forest is a symbol of the life on the planet, explains the 59 years old rock singer from Hanover. With this concert they wanted to wake up the people that also the last people realize how important ecology is.
“The time in case of rain forest protection expires”, Greenpeace warn meanwhile. Nearly 1000 endangered plants- and animal species are in the Amazonian jungle this time. 700000 square kilometer jungle area got ruined in the last 40 years – that corresponds two times the area of Germany. With this Amazonian have lost 17 percent of the original area. Researchers assume that the Amazonian rain forest will change into a steppe when more than 40 percent is ruined.

http://www.n-tv.de/837919.html

I know Japanese people use a lot of wood to make chopsticks so we are trying to use less wooden chopsticks now.
Rainforest is importand and I hope government will put more money to protect it.
Specially they need to control exhaust gas immediately.

It was so wonderful that our Scorpions held the show there to get attention from many people.

This is fantastic that Scorpions are getting a great message about how important the trees and animals are to the world. The trees are a very important part of our world and with out them we will die. Scorpions are so cool to be sharing the message with their concerts.

SCORPIONS ARE LEGENDS

Scorpions are totally cool and have big hearts and are so thoughtful and respectful for everyone and everything on the planet to do this.
SCORPIONS ARE THE BEST.

OMG the net is full of article about the show in Manaus...that´s so great. All newspaper and also Greenpeace are talking about this show.
I only will translate what Klaus have said in this interview, cause the rest of this interview is absolute the same like before...

http://www.greenpeace-magazin.de/magazin/tagesthemen/tt_list.php?p=83113&more=1

"One time at home in Germany I saw a documentary about the area with the rivers, the forest and then suddenly you see a lot of children in a boat who sing our song "Wind Of Change", this have touched me so much. Music really brings people together over borders and then I had the idea to make a show in the jungle" explain the 59 years old rock singer from Hanover.
Deep in the jungle Scorpions had a special audience: Beside rock fans of every age who showed their love to the band from far away "Alemanha" with shirts were also a lot of ladies from the "rain forest-high-society" in high heals and older guys in suits. They all were dancing also to evergreens like "Still Loving You", "Rock You Like A Hurricane" and "Send Me An Angel". Between all the songs they showed videos about the prettiness and the imminence of Amazonian in which the audience got asked to act.
A big part of the DVD proceeds Scorpions want to donate to a non governmental organisation for environment protection. "The Wind Of Change" blows for Scorpions also after 4 decades says the Brasil Newsportal G1 appreciatively. Subjects like the global warming, anxiety about the future and hope are a very important part on the new Scorpions album "Humanity Hour I". "Our message is: Doesn´t matter where you are, you can believe in changes and contribute to a more peaceful world" Meine is confident.

Wow holy moly man, I am so happy to read this interview. This makes me feel so happy and very proud to be a Scorpions fan. Scorpions you really are rocking my world and I thankyou so much for that.

So, it was during the concert between each song a video about amazonian forest?

OH Gosh!! Thank you so much for these translations!! You don't know how it made me happy, day by day, I just confirm why I'm so proud loving them!
"Our message is: Doesn´t matter where you are, you can believe in changes and contribute to a more peaceful world"
so true!

Well, you're talking about amazonia here, so there are the articles I found at the greenpeace sites


This is the article at the Greenpeace international site:

"German rock band Scorpions call for action to stop deforestation in the Amazon and fight climate change, during their concert in Manaus, Amazon, Brazil. The band is supporting the Greenpeace campaign to end the continued clearing and burning of the Amazon rainforests. The concert is part of the band's "Humanity World Tour 2007". Over the last 40 years, the Amazon has lost some 700,000 square kilometers of forests, an area twice the size of Germany."
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/photosvideos/photos/german-rock-band-scorpions-cal


And this is the article at the Greenpeace Brazil site, that I translated to english but in a hurry without a dictionary by my side, so sorry for the mistakes.
http://www.greenpeace.org/brasil/amazonia/noticias/scorpions-faz-show-na-amaz-nia (down the page and you can see some pictures)

"Manaus (AM), Brazil – German Rock Band shows, at the stage, a message from Greenpeace about the Amazonian Rainforest's importance to save the global climate

About 30 thousand people watched last thursday, 9, the concert of the German rock band Scorpions in Manaus (AM). To call the crowd's attention about the dangers of the Amazon deforestation and its consequences to the climate changes, the musician guys has showed a banner with the alert “Stop deforastation! No Amazon, no future!”. The message, produced by Greenpeace, also was showed at the “big screens” (I don’t know the right translation for “telões”) at the moment that the band has arrived at the stage.
“We know that we’re not the first ones doing this, but we came to Amazônia to show to the world the situattion of the tropical forests and we get the opportunity to learn more about the Greenpeace’s action to stop deforestation”, has said the vocalist Klaus Meine. He also make clear that the purpouse of this tour is to make people, by some way, thinking about the humanity’s way to deal with the world.
The coordinator of the Amazonia campaign, Greenpeace, Paulo Adário, gave the congratulations to the musician guys for the iniciative and for showing the message about the urgency of stopping the Amazon deforestation. “The deforestation must be stopped, the global climate and the future of the life on Earth” has said Adário.

The concert in amazonia will be recorded at the DVD Live in Manaus"

I'm really really proud!

Hi Claudia! Thanks for the welcome ^^
I'm really glad with this new album because besides being a great rock album with wonderful songs, there's the message that I also hope the people will get it Their show in Manaus was wonderful to give this message, and I can't wait for the dvd release too! I'm just wondering because I have noticed it will be released only in latin america