Scorpions Rocks Shillong Like A Hurricane
- December 13th, 2007
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- By Scott
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SHILLONG: They stung and drove Shillongites wild the way no one did before. And the musical hub of the North-East rocked like a hurricane.
Scorpions on Wednesday dazzled the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here with its fiery performance as a hypnotic crowd sang and swayed with the world’s best rockers.
“Here I am, rock you like a hurricane …,” belted out Klaus Meine, star vocalist of the German heavy rock band, pumping more adrenalin into the musical artery of an already charged-up crowd.
Spicing up their show with a mouthwatering mix of ballads and hard rock music, Scorpions started off with its popular number “Always Somewhere” before sending thousands of fans into frenzy with such hits as “Rock You Like a Hurricane,” “Still Loving You,” “Holiday,” “No One Like You,” “Send Me an Angel,” “The Future Never Dies,” “Love Will Keep Us Alive,” “Wind of Change,” “Humanity,” etc.
The rockers from Germany wound up their show by honouring fans’ request for some more songs with the classic “When the Smoke is Going Down.”
Scorpions drew the biggest crowd ever to a concert by any international band in the city so far.
At least 45,000 people turned up for Wednesday’s concert, breaking the earlier record of 40,000-strong crowd during the Fire House concert in 2005.
“We love Shillong. You are amazing people,” the band members said.
The fans welcomed their beloved Scorpions with banners and placards. “The North-East needs a wind of change,” read one banner.
Though the concert ended peacefully, security personnel had a tough time in controlling a section of the audience who almost broke the barricade put up in front of the stage. “Every Shillongite rocks like a hurricane,” a jubilant Urban Affairs Minister Paul Lyngdoh said after the concert, adding half the number of State Cabinet ministers witnessed the event.
It was for the first time that people from various parts of the country, besides the North-East, enjoyed Scorpions performance.
“I enjoyed the show. It was a unique experience,” Eniwel Marwein said.
Many music lovers, who had been Scorpions fans since their childhood, said, “It was as a dream come true.”
Local bands Great Society and Akhai also performed ahead of the Scorpions.
Earlier, Higher Education Minister RG Lyngdoh introduced the band members to the audience.
Scorpions’ Shillong gig was the opening act of the India leg of the hard rock band’s ‘Humanity World Tour.’ The band will perform in Mumbai on December 14 and in Bangalore on December 16.
(Thanks Cristy)
Talk about low IQ duffers!!! Seems like your vocabulary is as limited as your intellect. Why don’t you buy yourself a dictionary and while you’re at it some cyanide to kill yourself.
The music that you call history sadly may be so, but thats off course thanks to a generation of snot faced, shit headed, frustrated kids who have no taste in music and can not appreciate true musical genius. Anyway I don’t really have much time to waste on another shitian, since I’ve already wasted more time on people like you than your sad excuse of a country merits.
i can bet about your once in a lifetime concert exprience. yes kiddo for you even jethro tull would give miss because you dwell at shillong. forget even spyro gyra – so sad. and by the way you talk about backwardness which is obviously expected from your backward civilisation. AND JUST FOR A REMINDER THE ISSUE WAS SCORPION SHOW AND NOT WHAT WE KNOW AS SOUND. WHERE FROM PICKED UP YOUR IQ KIDDO? SHAME . THE ISSUE WAS HOW SCORPION PERFORMED AT MUMBAI. SHIT MAN WHEN THE UNDER CIVILISED YOU WOULD LEARN TO RESPONSE TO THE POINT. JUNKIEE APPRECIATE THE REMARKS I WROTE AND BE PRECISE – AFTER ALL THE WAS HOW SCORPION PERFORMED AT MUMBAI AND HOW THE EVENT MANAGEMENT GOOFED UP THE SHOW. READ PROPERLY KIDDO
Sadly you are an ignorant cum stain who cant help but get his knickers twisted. Firstly I am not from Shillong, secondly I am not interested in event management, I love good music, am a musician and music critic and Scorpions were awesome in Mumbai too. I really don’t give a rat’s ass about the management. If I did IQ would probably be as low as yours. The original topic under which you posted was about the Scorpions show not about event management. Thirdly, your English still sucks and you must either be a retard or a real low IQ moron who is not just unfamiliar with English, but with Microsoft’s grammar and spell check as well. Lastly I’ve seen several amazing live acts including Maiden, Megadeth, Sepultura, Saxon, Dokken, and others both in the States and in India, and the Scorpions performance was in no way lack lusture. Judging by your remarks about Shillong I guess you live in some other part of the country or rather in a shit hole with your head stuck far up your arse.
looks like after usa wataching – your standard has dropped. wake up kiddo. point remains same concert was 3rd class due to scorpions one sided attidude and delayed stage attendence.
and worst the event management.
kiddo i think there is a brain which u obviously u lack.
i have to make u realise a simple truth that my input was related to mumbai –
shame u dont realise that also.