Eye II Eye

Eye II Eye is the fourteenth studio album by the German hard rock band Scorpions, released in 1999. It is a radical departure in that Eye II Eye is much more pop-oriented than their previous work, which alienated some fans, despite the single "Mysterious" reaching number 26 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It is the first studio Scorpions album to feature James Kottak on drums and also the final Scorpions studio album to feature Ralph Rieckermann on bass guitar.

For the first (and, thus far, only) time, Scorpions released a song recorded largely in German, namely "Du bist so schmutzig" ("You are so dirty"), with few English lyrics by Kottak.

Personnel

 * Scorpions
 * Klaus Meine – lead vocals
 * Rudolf Schenker – rhythm guitars, backing vocals
 * Matthias Jabs – lead guitars, backing vocals
 * Ralph Rieckermann – bass, backing vocals
 * James Kottak – drums, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Du bist so schmutzig"


 * Additional musicians
 * Peter Wolf – keyboards and piano on "A Moment in a Million Years"
 * Michelle Wolf – backing vocals on "Skywriter" and "What U Give U Get Back"
 * Mick Jones – acoustic guitar on "10 Light Years Away"
 * Airway Allstars: Siedah Garrett, Lynn Davis, James Ingram, Phil Perry and Kevin Dorsey – backing vocals on "What U Give U Get Back"
 * Herman Rarebell – backing vocals on "Mind Like a Tree"


 * Production
 * Peter Wolf – producer, mixing of tracks 5, 6 and 14, arrangements with Scorpions
 * A.T., Christian Leitgeb, Paul Ericksen and Kenji Nakai – engineers
 * Bill Schnee – mixing
 * Chris Kimsey – mixing on track 2
 * Stephen Marcussen, Chris von Rautenkranz – mastering

Sales
The album has sold more than 25,000 units in Malaysia.