Posted on 01/24/2010 9:15:12 PM PST by uglybiker
German band, The Scorpions hanging up their hats after 40 years of rock
Before Germany's current most successful rock band, Tokio Hotel, hit the charts—long before—there was The Scorpions. The German export was not only one of the most predominant voices of rock during the 80's and the 90's. But with the ballad Wind of Change and concerts in Russia The Sccorpions became one of the voices that sang about the wave of democracy sweeping through Eastern Europe during the late 80's and early 90's, including their native Germany, which saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.
According to The Local, The Scorpions is calling it quits after 40 years of playing music. However, their end won't be abrupt. The band will release it's next album Sting in the Tail and embark on a two to three year tour before the final end.
Bloomberg writes that the band's album is slated for release on March 19th. Rudolph Schenker from Hanover started the band in 1965. Over the course of its career, the band has release 20 albums and sold more than 100 million albums, making them Europe's most successful rock group.
That was a great video! Thanks for the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaKkFz7G6rk
“No One Like You”(1982)
One of the classic early MTV videos. The setting at Alcatraz is perfect.
One of my favorite groups.
I was just about to mention UFO and Michael Schenker ... that album was largely responsible for my hearing loss and tinnitus ... :)
I’m a big fan of UFO as well, I saw them in a little night club in Houston in the early 80’s. Seems they never got the recognition they deserved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTGTCSGj30&feature=related
And now for something completely different...Scorpions from 1972. Different time...and definitely different music.
The Scorpions rock!
Reminds me of a rumored radio show that RUSH once appeared on. As the interview is winding-up, the host asks, “Well, let’s go out with a hit. What do you suggest?”
Geddy Lee supposedly replied, “We have hits?”
Who?
I saw them with Bon Jovi at Monsters of Rock in Nuremberg in ‘86.
I’m sorry, could you speak up a bit? Can’t hear you over that dreadful ringing.
Agree completely. Great songwriting, great vocals, awesome guitar. Fantastic rock band.
About a year after that I saw them play again, this time on a smaller stage with .38 Special (another underrated band that was great in concert).
The early 1980s was a good era for this sort of rock music - not everything was Flock of Seagulls and Duran Duran, as movies from that era would suggest.
I’m on a commuter train into NYC right now. Do you think anyone would get upset if I played “Rock you like a hurricane” on my mp3 player, started moshing in the aisle and held up a lighter?
I would simply because if I have to hear that song one more bleeping time I swear my head is going to explode.
You might not want to hold up the lighter - someone might think you’re trying to smoke! ;-P
I used to work at a meat packing plant in the 80s and 90s that employed a lot of Eastern European refugees. One Ukrainian man in particular had been treated poorly by the authorities because he was a fan of “degenerate western music” i.e. he was a metal head. When the song “Winds of Change” came out he thought of it as an anthem for all the metal heads who had outlasted the Soviet empire.
The guy is now a big time conservative and his son is the front man of a relatively well known punk band.
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