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Topic: Scorpions are ending their career
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schroeder
VoivodFan
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posted January 24, 2010 12:20
    
I've never been a huge fan, but did enjoy them back in the day (pre-thrash years. Their early and mid early material was great at the time. Blackout, Animal Magnetism, etc. Once they had their first huge hit, "Rock You Like a Hurricane", like most bands, they seemed to try to be more radio friendly... sometimes it worked, sometimes it sucked shit. Love at First Sting was the last release I purchased from them (although I still might have my free copy of World Wide Live on vinyl. I actually got to meet some of the guys at a Concrete Marketing party back in the late 80's at the Baltimore Trade Tower. Cool guys. I had them sign my Blackout cd and chatted with them for a while. Maybe it's just a way to sell more tickets. If people think they won't get a chance to see them again, they'll go to their "final tour"... KISS does this kinda thing every 5 years or less... Anyway, here's the short story. BERLIN – The German rock band Scorpions is bringing down the curtain on a career spanning more than four decades.
The band, known for its early 1990s hit "Wind of Change" among others, said on its Web site Sunday that "we agree we have reached the end of the road."
It said it would end its career with a final album — "Sting In The Tail," to be released in March — and a tour that will start in Germany in May and take it across the world "over the next few years."
Guitarist Rudolf Schenker founded the band in Hannover in 1965. Singer Klaus Meine joined a few years later. Both men are 61 -------------------- yawn
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ShredTilDead
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posted January 24, 2010 21:39
This sucks...not because I really listen to these guys anymore, but because of the excellent memories.My friends and I went to see Ratt and the Scorps in '85...but first, we sat in the car with a case of Budweiser, getting drunker and drunker, throwing empties out the sunroof as they got slurped down, and peeing out the side window. Then, totally sloshed, staggering in to see the concert. I remember some people throwing punches around up front, and Ratt's lead singer shouting "HEY, no fighting at a Ratt gig!". Then the main event - Scorpions! And that was the best live performance I'd ever seen, by any band. Later on, of course, I'd go to lots more concerts, with arguably better musicianship, etc...but that one concert stands out in my mind as a helluva good time, at a really fun part of my life. I salute you, Scorpions - and thanks for the memories.  -------------------- My head explodes, my ears ring, I can't remember just where I've been.
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Mind Running Slow
VoivodFan
Member # 331
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posted January 26, 2010 23:34
I loved the Scorps, even before the first drive or the first sting."Sails of Charon" still rules!!!!
NOW......
GET OUT-TA ZEE VAY!!! 
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