Saw the Scorpions at Hammersmith last night.
They blew the fuckin' place away.
These are blokes pushing 60 years old and they were running around like little kids.AMAZING. Good to see Uli Jon Roth playing on some of their 70's stuff.....great guitarist.

Michael Schenker was support and he was pissed as a fart (no change there then!)

Not too sure about the new album though, too many ballad type songs, that's what you get when Desmond Child is the producer.

I know Testament did a cover of "Sails of Charon", any other Scorpions songs worthy of the Thrash treatment????

The Zoo is a top tune. Bruce Dickinson heavied it up a little bit a few years ago and it sounded great.
Alternatively, Thrash You Like a Hurricane?

I saw the Scorpions with Judas Priest in Birmingham a few years ago, and it was one of the best gigs of my entire bloody life! Mainly because Judas Priest were so unebleiavbly fucking bloody amaziong fhefheofh241jbe09q9)(! but also the amazingness of Scorpions as support made the experience perfect. That Sunday Morning song was great, though I remember listening to it on the CD afterwards and finding it not as great as when they played it live.

Rocking Like A Hurricane was a classic favourite when going to the rock club! What a great song.

jonny_boy34 wrote:I saw the Scorpions with Judas Priest in Birmingham a few years ago, and it was one of the best gigs of my entire bloody life! Mainly because Judas Priest were so unebleiavbly fucking bloody amaziong fhefheofh241jbe09q9)(! but also the amazingness of Scorpions as support made the experience perfect. That Sunday Morning song was great, though I remember listening to it on the CD afterwards and finding it not as great as when they played it live.

Rocking Like A Hurricane was a classic favourite when going to the rock club! What a great song.

Immortalicide and terrorizer were at that gig, and we went right to the front for the Priest too, what an awesome gig it was

as for the scorps, i have always been a fan of theirs, and both lovedrive and blackout are amazing elpees, please if you are not familiar with the band, dont judge them by that shit winds of change song which everyone knows

jonny_boy34 wrote:I saw the Scorpions with Judas Priest in Birmingham a few years ago, and it was one of the best gigs of my entire bloody life! Mainly because Judas Priest were so unebleiavbly fucking bloody amaziong fhefheofh241jbe09q9)(! but also the amazingness of Scorpions as support made the experience perfect. That Sunday Morning song was great, though I remember listening to it on the CD afterwards and finding it not as great as when they played it live.

Rocking Like A Hurricane was a classic favourite when going to the rock club! What a great song.

I was at that gig too. Saturday 19th March 2005. The Scorps are the only support band I've seen play an encore at the NEC.
Priest that night were so fucking loud that me and my mates didn't get our hearing back properly for three days, we all just had that horrible high pitched whistle. Worth it though.

Oh, and the songs are Loving You Sunday Morning and Rock You Like a Hurricane.
Tsk.

I know man, it was fucking loud! I remember it perfectly. And when Halford screamed at the end of Victim of Changes... that was the end for everyone I think. Our souls and hearing were both simultaneously destroyed. I remember seeing at least two or three other people around me cover their ears when he screamed! Bloody hell, it was one of the most amazing gigs I can ever remember.

Sorry about getting the songs titles wrong. That's not usually my style, I'm tr00.

I was at Priest+Scorpions both nights at Hammersmith, two of the best nights of metal ever!

I agree. Priest/Scorps is probably my best gig experience.

STD_Caps wrote:I agree. Priest/Scorps is probably my best gig experience.

Indeed, we shared much man love through this experience.

I was there on one of the nights, it was fantastic! Really enjoyed the Scorps, had me banging my head for sure!

This is another one of those wonderful threads where us sad old farts can brag about the past.Saw the Scorps on the "Love at first sting" tour back in 1985? ish,fantastic stuff.
Bands forming human pyramids FTW!

ribbons69 wrote:This is another one of those wonderful threads where us sad old farts can brag about the past.Saw the Scorps on the "Love at first sting" tour back in 1985? ish,fantastic stuff.
Bands forming human pyramids FTW!

Yeah, i saw the scorps in '86. The above mentioned gig was the first time i ever saw priest tho???

...I was born in 1985.

Immortalicide wrote:

ribbons69 wrote:This is another one of those wonderful threads where us sad old farts can brag about the past.Saw the Scorps on the "Love at first sting" tour back in 1985? ish,fantastic stuff.
Bands forming human pyramids FTW!

Yeah, i saw the scorps in '86. The above mentioned gig was the first time i ever saw priest tho???

Defenders of the Faith tour,1983/84 with Quiet Riot in support,Leicster De Montford hall,was my first,and bizarrely, last Priest gig! Although I did see Halford supporting Maiden on the Brave New World tour.

Saw Priest/Scorpions/Ian Gillan/and some pub band at the Tommy Vance tribute at The Albert Hall a couple of years ago.

Decent gig, not the best place to see a metal band though.