Matthias Jabs
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Matthias Jabs (born 25 October 1956 in Hanover, Germany) is a German guitarist and songwriter. He is a member of the hard rock band, Scorpions. Before joining the Scorpions, Matthias had played for the bands Lady and Fargo.
Matthias joined the Scorpions after Ulrich Roth left in 1978. The first album recorded by Matthias with the Scorpions was Lovedrive. Matthias's playing contributed significantly to their signature sound.
During the 80's he had a 1963-64 black strat called his 'trouble guitar' which had a floyd rose trem and a Bill Lawrence L90 pick up,it featured on many tracks that needed a trem including Blackout. A copy of this guitar with a black Gibson humbucker is seen on the 'Make a difference foundation' video filmed in russia with other guests Ozzy Osbourne and Gorky Park.
Matthias favors Gibson Explorer guitars and designed a model for them, called the Explorer 90 (due to the body being 90% the size of a regular Explorer), in the late 1980s. He also has a signature Fender Stratocaster dubbed "Jabocaster". In the latter years, Matthias and the rest of the Scorpions have been playing the German Dommenget brand of guitars, with all their signature models now made by them. Matthias is notable for his playing of a talk box in some songs (such as "The Zoo" on Animal Magnetism and "To Be No. 1" on Eye II Eye).
Matthias has also been known to replace the Marshall amplification logo on his amplifier cabinets with his own name in the same font style as the Marshall logo. Besides Marshall, Matthias uses Wizard cabinets.
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