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The Scorpions are one of the most successful rock bands ever. This year marks their unbelievable 50th stage anniversary. During a tour that had started as their Farewell tour they decided that they want to just keep on rocking. Deutsche Welle’s new documentary ‘Forever and a Day’ traces the band’s unique history. Last Saturday saw the world premiere of the film in Berlin.

Live Video Full concert- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhLWe0CU1EQ

Scorpions Setlist: 1 Hour 38 minutes
Sting in the Tail
Make It Real
Is There Anybody There?
The Zoo
Coast to Coast
Loving You Sunday Morning
The Best Is Yet to Come
Send Me an Angel
Holiday
Raised on Rock
Tease Me Please Me
Hit Between the Eyes
Drum Solo
(Johan Franzon & PiTTi Hecht)
Blackout
Six String Sting
Big City Nights
Encore:
Still Loving You
Wind of Change
Rock You Like a Hurricane
Encore 2:
When the Smoke Is Going Down

Note: Johan Franzon is filling in for James Kottak on drums

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/scorpions-guitarist-rudolf-schenker-speaks-to-zed-entertainment-italy-video/

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/scorpions-holiday-unplugged-performance-clip/

SCORPIONS fans worldwide can click here to check out the exclusive worldwide premiere of the brand new live performance video for “Holiday” on USAToday.com. The never-before-seen (or heard) video is taken from the beautifully orchestrated stripped-down concerts that became the SCORPIONS’ forthcoming CD/DVD and Blu-ray release, “MTV Unplugged”, but does not appear on any configuration of the releases.

Due in North America on January 21, 2014 via Sony International, material for SCORPIONS’ “MTV Unplugged” is taken from the band’s first-ever “MTV Unplugged” show and features new acoustic versions of best-loved classic hits, as well as five brand new songs. “MTV Unplugged” will be available in two formats — a standard CD and a deluxe version featuring CD + DVD. “MTV Unplugged” will be released in 50 countries, a testament to the German band’s iconic status worldwide.

Recorded and filmed just a few months ago on September 11 and September 12 of last year, “MTV Unplugged” was culled from two dynamic acoustic sets at the Lycabettus Theatre in Athens, Greece. The spectacular open-air theatre, situated 300 meters above the city, was an impressive backdrop for the first-ever open-air show in the history of “MTV Unplugged” (the theatre also shares a birth year with the SCORPIONS themselves, having been built in 1965, the same year the SCORPIONS formed). Of the choice to film/record “MTV Unplugged” at the Lycabettus Theatre, SCORPIONS’ singer/guitarist Klaus Meine commented, “We have fabulous fans all over the world, but the Greeks are absolute die-hards fans.”

SCORPIONS is Klaus Meine (vocals/guitar), Rudolf Schenker (guitars/vocals), Matthias Jabs (guitars), Pawel Maciwoda (bass) and James Kottak (drums); additional musical support on “MTV Unplugged” includes contributions from Swedish musicians and producers Mikael Nord Andersson (guitars, mandolin, lap steel, vocals) and Martin Hansen (guitars, harmonica, vocals). The duo is also responsible for the arrangements on “MTV Unplugged”.

Finally!!!! The Scorpions will be on the Music channel Palladia next Saturday night January 11th at 9pm and midnight to premiere their upcoming release “MTV unplugged” concert from Athens , Greece. The official release in North America will be Tuesday January 21st.

Palladia website link – http://www.palladia.tv/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm8hhqJD2TU

Hard Rock History was made on Wednesday November 13th in Helsinki,Finland at the SOLD OUT Hartwell Areena. For the first time in the Scorpions and Accept long legendary history the two biggest German Rock bands of all time played on the same stage. Below i have included set lists and live videos from both bands.

Scorpions Set list – 1 hour 45 minutes
Sting in the Tail
Make It Real
Is There Anybody There?
The Zoo
Coast to Coast
Loving You Sunday Morning
The Best Is Yet to Come
Send Me an Angel
Holiday
Raised on Rock
Tease Me Please Me
Hit Between the Eyes
Kottak Attack
Blackout
Six String Sting
Big City Nights
Encore:
Still Loving You
Wind of Change
Rock You Like a Hurricane

Accept Set List – 1 hour
Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Stalingrad
Restless and Wild
Breaker
Princess of the Dawn
Bulletproof
Pandemic
Metal Heart
Teutonic Terror
Balls to the Wall

Scorpions Live Videos

Sting in the Tail – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VUVg-woZLI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUtSqIT3zkzqkucZn6j4S6BA
Make it Real – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftRTJZb-bUk
Is there anybody there?-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgnGEmt8Zf0
The Zoo- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2JJg_nO5SI
Coast to Coast – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTWeXahovYQ
Tease Me Please Me/Hit Between the Eyes- http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ozsSlS9JyE
Six String Sting/Big City Nights- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5YbD0fcB-U&feature=c4-overview&list=UUsPQUNgSJVZtnaAjMUJzwqA
Raised on Rock- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6739kgI8XEc
Blackout- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPadlS5MmPw
Send Me An Angel- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SJefWvrLZg
Still Loving You- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9gDq4eUhdA
Wind of Change- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UZeZsIqXqE&feature=c4-overview&list=UUtSqIT3zkzqkucZn6j4S6BA
Rock You Like a Hurricane- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4BezphY6uE
Kottak Attack- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdwQJ1g-VQo

Accept Live Videos
Stalingrad- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clfKf2_8Oec 
Pandemic- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7OwRLjUz3c&feature=c4-overview&list=UUsPQUNgSJVZtnaAjMUJzwqA
Princess Of The Dawn- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJOvWT0E_XY
Balls to the Wall- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W6R1gvmUzI
Message from Wolf Hoffman- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OBcK2AhHhw

Live photos of Accept – https://www.facebook.com/mpesso/media_set?set=a.10151708448260881.1073741846.706510880&type=1

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-scorpions-drummer-bassist-interviewed-by-u-k-s-ber-r-ck-video/

Über Röck conducted an interview with former SCORPIONS and current MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP members Herman Rarebell (drums) and Francis Buchholz (bass) on July 28 at the Steelhouse Festival at Hafod-y-Dafal Farm, Ebbw Vale, Wales, United Kingdom. You can now watch the chat below. Schenker’s “Temple Of Rock – Lovedrive Reunion Tour 2013” dates feature him being backed by Rarebell and Buchholz, along with singer Doogie White and keyboardist Wayne Findlay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmWLbtmheoQ

The bands homepage- http://intrancescorpions.tripod.com/

The bands facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/intrance.the.tribute.to.scorpions

A Promo video of this legendary Canadian Tribute band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8__KTu7To1g&feature=youtu.be

message from Paul Gagne: Plays Rudy Schenker part in the band

The production details: It was filmed during a show we did last summer. A TV crew happened to be there to film images that were shown to the audience on giant screens each side of the stage and to most of the the crowd standing behind the F.O.H./Lights shelter. After the show, they gave us a DVD of what was filmed, but without sound on it. However, we recorded the audio with our Tascam X-48, 48-track digital recorder, so we could do something with that.

We were lucky to get those images because we never had the money to rent cameras and hire a video team to shoot a show in the last 18 years. A friend of ours made us the shortest video containing the maximum of “Scorpions” potential and the results are pretty good. That’s very short, but imagine 90-120 minutes of it.

Steeve, our drummer, who’s a studio engineer in real life, edited, mixed, processed and enhanced the multitrack sound recording we had with Digital Performer, and “mated” that with the video. It was a fucking job to do since we had no timecode to sync the audio with video.