Wolf Hoffmann

I mean, I listen to those songs, and it makes me want to listen to the originals.

And I think it's so many albums that are like this that are tribute albums, basically, without any original members of the band, which this obviously has Wolf Hoffmann and, uh, Mark Tornillo on a lot of different tracks.

But unless it's, like, a really, like, good cover where it really catches me from out of nowhere-

Mm-hmm

Four years later, the German metal band Accept began Metal Heart by quoting Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March.

Then guitarist Wolf Hoffmann saved Beethoven for the solo.

[rock music] There's our little piano tune on electric guitar, surrounded by drums and distortion.

Hoffman says he had played Für Elise for years, first on acoustic guitar and then on electric, before the band found a place for it.