Herman Rarebell & Friends - What About Love? (2025)

Posted By: delpotro

Date: Oct. 12, 2025

Welcome to a journey back to the future! Herman Rarebell & Friends take you back to the eighties and together we return to our time with the greatest music of this powerful decade. Herman has chosen twelve songs to re-record with good friends and great musicians. As a tribute to the greatest hits of a time that was a golden age for him personally. Former Black Sabbath bassist Bob Daisley can be heard on this album; Dan Huff, who can be heard as a studio musician on some of the greatest albums in pop history, is there, as well as Howard Leese from the legendary US rockers Heart and singer Michael Voss (Casanova, Mad Max, Michael Schenker, among others). What an ensemble, what a pleasure.Herman says of this time: "I don't think more powerful music has ever been created before or since. It was the golden age for me, I enjoyed it. We traveled the world with the Scorpions, we met people from all cultures. It was one big rush. Anything was possible at any time. With this album, I don't just want to bring back memories of the great hits of the eighties. It's not just about the melodies and rhythms that I miss today. Above all, it's about the feeling that these songs convey. The love, the courage, the optimism that is in them. I think a lot of that has been lost. The groove in "Here I go again", the larger-than-life chorus of "I Love Rock'n'Roll" and the unshakeable power of "Rock You Like A Hurricane". The love and longing of "I want to know what Love is". It's no wonder that these songs have held a place in people's hearts for four decades. For me, the power, the special spirit of the eighties is in every chord of these songs, every hit on the bass drum. Every take we recorded for this album was pure pleasure. Friends who play great music. We hope you feel what we've put into these new recordings: Love, power, optimism! For me, this is the power of the eighties! Those who were there will remember. And anyone who missed it deserves to relive it, at least in this way.With this in mind: Here I am - Rock you like a Hurricane!"The album was produced by Herman Rarebell and Michael Voss at Kidwood Studios in Münstertal, Black Forest.

Herman Rarebell (ex-Scorpions) - Drums
Michael Voss (Bonfire, Mad Max) - Vocals, Guitars
Van De Forst - Vocals, Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards
Dann Huff (Giant, White Heart) - Lead Guitars
Howard Leese (Bad Company) - Lead Guitars
Bob Daisley (ex-Ozzy Osbourne, ex-Uriah Heep) - Bass
Neil Carter (ex-UFO, ex-Gary Moore) - Keyboards

Tracklist:
01. In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins)
02. I Want to Know What Love Is (Foreigner)
03. Love is a Battlefield (Pat Benatar)
04. What About Love (Heart)
05. Every Breath You Take (The Police)
06. Sweet Child of Mine (Guns ‘N Roses)
07. Here I Go Again (Whitesnake)
08. Addicted to Love (Robert Palmer)
09. Passion Rules the Game (Scorpions)
10. Rock You Like a Hurricane (Scorpions)
11. These Dreams (Heart)
12. I Love Rock’ n Roll (Joan Jett)

EAC

Exact Audio Copy V1.6 from 23. October 2020

EAC extraction logfile from 7. October 2025, 15:50

Herman Rarebell / What About Love?

Used drive : ASUS DRW-24D5MT Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "Date=%year%" -T "Genre=%genre%" %source%

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 4:29.38 | 0 | 20212
2 | 4:29.38 | 3:42.23 | 20213 | 36885
3 | 8:11.61 | 4:38.37 | 36886 | 57772
4 | 12:50.23 | 3:50.44 | 57773 | 75066
5 | 16:40.67 | 3:34.09 | 75067 | 91125
6 | 20:15.01 | 3:20.39 | 91126 | 106164
7 | 23:35.40 | 4:45.20 | 106165 | 127559
8 | 28:20.60 | 3:57.03 | 127560 | 145337
9 | 32:17.63 | 3:55.73 | 145338 | 163035
10 | 36:13.61 | 4:14.32 | 163036 | 182117
11 | 40:28.18 | 3:42.61 | 182118 | 198828
12 | 44:11.04 | 3:00.04 | 198829 | 212332

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename A:\breaker\Herman Rarebell\Herman Rarebell - What About Love.wav

Peak level 98.8 %
Extraction speed 7.2 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 2DC0D3DF
Copy CRC 2DC0D3DF
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [E273ABA3] (AR v2)
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [7C4FA26F] (AR v2)
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [6B75BE86] (AR v2)
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [7FE6F38C] (AR v2)
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [C03522B2] (AR v2)
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [D8A3511C] (AR v2)
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [5233A35A] (AR v2)
Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [A84104A3] (AR v2)
Track 9 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [CCAD9ED6] (AR v2)
Track 10 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [618DF51D] (AR v2)
Track 11 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [5FE94194] (AR v2)
Track 12 accurately ripped (confidence 1) [1AADC782] (AR v2)

All tracks accurately ripped

End of status report

–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6

[CTDB TOCID: 1ivVRZMnMUPoe4FwQvdZ9EH2JMw-] found
Submit result: 1ivVRZMnMUPoe4FwQvdZ9EH2JMw- has been confirmed
Track | CTDB Status
1 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
2 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
3 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
4 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
5 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
6 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
7 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
8 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
9 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
10 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
11 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
12 | (3/3) Accurately ripped

==== Log checksum 6F7A051AC702D156F5FB7F3E0FA79032D18E378DE0298DC63E72FBE3702A4245 ====

Thanks to the Original ripper !