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SCORPIONS Klaus Meine Lands On Bulgarian Building

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=126495

According to Metal Hangar 18, a building in the city of Kavarna, Bulgaria features a specially commissioned portrait of SCORPIONS singer Klaus Meine painted onto it. The artist responsible for the Meine piece is Jasen Nenkov, who has previously painted portraits of Ian Gillan (DEEP PURPLE), Ronnie James Dio (HEAVEN & HELL, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW) and Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH) on various buildings in Kavarna.The mayor of Kavarna, Tzonko Tzonev, loves rock and metal music and personally invited SCORPIONS to perform at this year’s Kaliakra Rock Fest. Around 15,000 fans reportedly attended the concert, which was held on July 2 at the city’s Kaliakra Stadium.

Updates from Scorpions members Klaus,Rudy and Matthias

Dear Fans ,
The last few months on the road just flew by -and as always, it was fantastic and exciting to play for you. But now we are back in our studio in Hannover with our swedish producers Mikael Nord and Martin Hansen, to work on our new album. We have a lot of new songs and are very much lookong forward to the creative time ahead of us. Hopefully, when this time comes to an end, we will be able to present another awesome album that rocks and finds a place in your heart. If everything goes as planned, our new album will be released to the public Spring of 2010.There’s more: This October, the world wide release of our new DVD “Amazonia -Life in the Jungle!” will be heading your way.

PS: you can find a Scorpions special spread titled “History: Scorpions” in the current issue of Metal Hammer.

PPS: Can’t wait to see our fans again on October 2, 2009 in the Grugahalle in Essen, Germany.

Until then, keep on rockin’Yours truly, Klaus

Hi ,
It is such a great feeling to be back in the studio and creating something new and genuine. As early as the first recording day with my band mates I realized, pure creativity is in the air. I am sure that our new album will surprise all our fans. We are up to something big, so let your curiosity get the best of you!

Best Rudolf

Hello ,
Now that our “Humanity World Tour” is over and we toured the world twice very successfully, it is time to record new songs, to write new songs -songs that come from the heart and relate to our fan’s emotions around the world. I am very excited about recording our new album with lots of energy and feeling. As always though, the bar is set very high, especially as I like to measure it with our albums “Blackout” and “Love at First Sting”.

Sincerely yours, Matthias

New Romanian Date November 5

Scorpions will play at Romexpo in Bucharest on Nov. 5th, 2009. The show will be named “Europe – Love will keep us alive”.

Special guests – Proconsul and Varga Miklos

http://www.last.fm/event/1191742+Concert+SCORPIONS+2009+-+%22Europe+-+Love+will+keep+us+alive%22

New Scorpions date in Switzerland

October 23 – 2009 – Scorpions wsg IVO

Basel, Switzerland – Festival Hall of the Basel Fair

http://www.avo.ch/en/index.php tickets go on sale September 2

Recent Interview with Klaus Meine on Deutsche Welle

http://www.the-scorpions.com/english/

the interview is conducted in English – 20 minutes long

Scorpions live in Colmar, France August 9

Last night’s show will be the last show of the Summer for the Scorpions. They go back into the studio next week for 7 weeks and then they have 2 shows in Germany October 1 and October 2. Check our tour section for all updated tour dates.

Here is the intro from last night’s show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLtYbuZne6o

Videos from the Scorpions July 24 Xanthi, Greece show

Intro-Coming Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOldoohHuXA&feature=related
Is There Anybody There?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmp2SkCdvfQ&feature=related
Make It Real
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLfcCycrfmM&feature=related
Blackout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FpUrPyt2Hg&feature=related
Send Me An Angel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS-ZHEaA9ow&feature=related
Holiday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnwHdigRak&feature=related
Still Loving You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJWVH53jGdg&feature=related
Wind Of Change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcdk43qVpF0&feature=related
Rock You Like A Hurricane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ6yBjAv24c&feature=related

Klaus Meine on Berlin Radio August 1

Klaus will give an interview on a radio station in Berlin on August 1. HeĀ“ll talk about the history of Scorps, how the Scorps captured the USA 30 years ago, Wind of Change: curse and blessing of a worldwide hit. Wacken and the fight to win back the German rock fans and the controversial cover of Virgin Killer. Also the obscure German version of the Sweet hit Fox On The Run.

Link to livestream….Saturday, 01th of August 2009, 5pm CET

http://www.alex-berlin.de/radio

Scorpions Live in Portugal Last Night

The Scorpions played in front of a sold out crowd of 30,000 people at a festival in Portugal last night:

Set List:
Coming Home
Loving You Sunday Morning
Is There Anybody There
The Zoo
Coast To Coast
Send Me An Angel
Holiday
321
Tease Me Please Me
Rhythm Of Love
Bad Boys Running Wild
Drum Solo James Kottak ( kottak atack)
Blackout
Big City Nights
Encore:
Still Loving You
Wind Of Change
Rock You Like A Hurricane

video courtesy of the Portuguese press:
http://jn.sapo.pt/multimedia/video.aspx?content_id=1311376

another video the Scorpions part starts at the 7 minute mark goes to 8:35 mark:
http://ww1.rtp.pt/multimedia/index.php?tvprog=1098&idpod=27633&formato=flv&pag=recentes&escolha=

Poster from the Festival:

http://www.songkick.com/festivals/13346-festival-mars-vivas-2009/id/2341966-festival-mars-vivas-2009-2009/posters/89761

Photos and article:
http://blitz.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=bz.stories/49014

Firewind Guitar player Gus S comments on playing with The Scorpions last week in Crete, Greece

We played a very special show in Greece (and the only one for the rest of the year). We played with the SCORPIONS and DOKKEN at Creta Festival which took place in the beautiful island of Crete. I’m sure all good tourists know where that is.”Not only did we use special pyro for that show, but I also ended up joining my idols, SCORPIONS, on stage and played ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’!!! This was beyond my imagination and I sure wasn’t dreaming! I thank the SCORPIONS for being so nice to us and for the once-in-a-lifetime invitation to play with them; I’ll never forget it!

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