[Cymbaline]

You’ve been missing out!
I like their early stuff with Uli Jon Roth on guitar the best. Much more Hendrixy and bluesy than their later, mainstream hard rock stuff.

[Maverick68]

Great thread.
I’ve been a fan of Scorpions since “Blackout”.
My uncle bought me the LP as a birthday gift and it was love at first...you know.
After wearing the grooves off that brilliant hard rock album, I spent lots of money on the back catalog, discovered Michael Schenker (my favorite guitarist) and UFO, and endured the barbs of many of my hard-rock buddies for being such a diehard fan of the “Bald Boys Running Wild”.
Great career and ejnoy your rest, you deserve it.
I will certainly miss them, but have tons of material to try and fill the void.

[Maverick68]

NO doubt, the Uli stuff was great (Speedy’s Coming, In Trance, Walk In Your Park), but it was Matthias injecting new blood that really took those guys to a new level of success.

[Windflier]

You’ve been missing out!

Maybe. If I ever heard them on the radio, I probably enjoyed their songs, but they obviously didn't make a lasting impression on me.

Don't get me wrong. They're probably as good as you say they are. I've loved bands that were one hit wonders. One that comes to mind is Automatic Man, who put out their first album on Island Records back in 1976.

They had one hit, "My Pearl", that totally made me a fan. The rest of the tracks on their first album were extraordinarily good, I thought. I wore that LP out.

Much as I loved them, they fizzled and disappeared from the scene. Big loss. They could have been one of the signature bands of that era.

I'll bet not one person in a hundred who listened to rock music in that era even remembers them, even though they were terrific.

Automatic Man