Tonight the Scorpions will rock us like a hurrican

[lebanon]

Will post pictures!

[lebanon]

Is someone interested in the pictures? videos are available too

[isuzutoo-eh]

I have absolutely no idea what you are on about. Lots of little insects are going to shake the earth by flying in circles? If that's the case, a couple of photos of the plague would be of curiosity value.

[sheerluck]

I'm assuming that it's the German rock/metal band that have been around since just after the Earth's crust cooled. Big in the 80s.

[loanrangie]

Or a sporting team ?
Scorpions rock concert it is then :arms: , couldnt find a rock on smiley.

[Barefoot Dave]

:spudnikboogie::TakeABow: :spudnikguitar::spudnikguitar:

[ramblingboy42]

so? did we get rocked? was there a plague? or a hurricane?

[spudboy]

Maybe he's talking about tyres?

[Disco Muppet]

Honestly you lot, even I know this one :p

Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane (PCM Version) - YouTube

[sheerluck]

Maybe so Muppet, but my favourite Scorpions track is this one:
Scorpions - Wind Of Change - YouTube

[sheerluck]

I was just reading about the Scorpions, I hadn't realised that they were around for quite as long as they have - they formed in 1965. However, they seem to be a real "Trigger's broom" kind of band, with about 30 ex-members.:D

I was living in Germany in the early-mid 80s and early 90s and they were very popular then. That "Wind of Change" song is very vivid in my mind, it was constantly on the TV with pictures of the Berlin Wall coming down.

[Disco Muppet]

However, they seem to be a real "Trigger's broom" kind of band, with about 30 ex-members.:D


More members than Spinal Tap had drummers? :D

[sheerluck]

More members than Spinal Tap had drummers? :D

:eek: Scorpions (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpions_(band)#Former_members)

Bigger than Ben Hur!

[Tote]

A bit like The Party Boys, 47 members by my count, I saw them a couple of times in the 80s with Joe Walsh on guitar, most excellent
The Party Boys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Regards,
Tote

[lebanon]

This concert was their second in Lebanon, the performance was equal to the first one they held three years ago.
Those guys are incredible, always with the same stamina and energy. (mind that they are in their mid sixties and fifties)

They arrived from their hotel in Beirut by boat to Byblos where the concert was held

http://youtu.be/1Su9s2Cci98

The songs list was:

Sting in the Tail
Make It Real
Is There Anybody There?
The Zoo
Coast to Coast
You and I
The Best Is Yet to Come
Send Me an Angel
Holiday
Raised on Rock
Tease Me Please Me
No One Like You
Hit Between the Eyes
Kottak Attack solo drum
Blackout
Big City Nights

They came back with three more songs for the encore

Still Loving You
Wind of Change
Rock You Like a Hurricane

I must mention the great performance of James Kotak in the solo drum playing Kotak attack.

I must apologies for the mediocre image quality, we got tickets for the far end tiers of seats because we had my son with us for his first ever concert, I didn't want him to get the full blast of the speakers. At age of 8, he is already a fan of the band.

At the end of the concert my son was offered the guitar plectrum used by Rudolf Schenker during the concert.

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[Pam W]

I saw the Scorpions headline Donington Monsters of Rock, UK in 1986. Best era really, with classics like Rock You Like a Hurricane, Big City Nights, Noone like You, Still Loving You, The Zoo, Holiday and Can't Live Without You.

For me it all went wrong when they did the whole hitting the pop charts thing with Wind of Change and Send Me An Angel. Went all a bit too ballady!
Noticed a huge difference when I saw them in 1991, at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, USA. Just didn't rock out the same... :( ... but maybe it was because they were playing to an American audience rather than a British one? Anyway, to cut a long story short about the Red Rocks gig - while they were there they filmed bits for the Send Me An Angel video, so although the gig was relatively crap, I guess I still have a soft spot for that particular video as it brings back memories of a fab holiday with my other half ! :)