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Scorpions June 22- Jones Beach Theater set list/videos

June 25th, 2010
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Here is the set list – 90 minutes(10,000 people)
1. Sting In The Tail
2. Make It Real
3. Bad Boys Running Wild
4. The Zoo
5. Coast To Coast
6. Loving You Sunday Morning
7. The Best Is Yet To Come
8. Send Me An Angel
9. Wind Of Change
10. Raised on Rock
11. Tease Me Please Me
12. Dynamite
13. Kottak Attack
14. Blackout
15. Six String Sting
16. Big City Nights
Encore:
17. No One Like You
18. Rock You Like A Hurricane

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Scorpions Set list/Videos from the M3 festival

June 21st, 2010
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Set List – 90 minutes (15,000 people)
Sting In The Tail
Make It Real
Bad Boys Running Wild
The Zoo
Coast To Coast
Another Piece Of Meat ( with Vince Neil )
The Best Is Yet To Come
Holiday
Wind Of Change
Raised On Rock
Tease Me Please Me
Kottak Attack
Blackout
Six String Sting
Big City Nights
ENCORE
Rock You Like A Hurricane

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Klaus has the Flu and last night’s opening night Set List

June 19th, 2010
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Klaus is suffering from the flu and it affected last night’s set list and his performance. For everyone that is showing up tonight at the M3 festival. It’s now our turn to help Klaus out. Bring your vocal chords tonight. Just in case this is the last performance in our area let’s send the Scorpions out in style.

We hope you feel better Klaus!!!!!

Last Night’s New Jersey Set List: (9,000 people)
Sting in the Tail
Make it Real
Bad Boys Running Wild
The Zoo
Coast to Coast
Wind Of Change
Best is yet to come
Send me an Angel
Holiday
Dynamite
Raised on Rock
Tease Me Please Me
Kottack Attack
Blackout
Guitar Solo
Big City Nights
Encore
Rock You Like a Hurricane

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Rudy Schenker discuss career highlights

June 19th, 2010
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Deb Rao of Hardrock Haven recently conducted an interview with SCORPIONS guitarist Rudolf Schenker. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=141810

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Scorpions World Music Award appearance TONIGHT!!

June 17th, 2010
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The Scorpions will be performing on the World Music Award show tonight. Please check your TV listings for channels and time. I do know that COX Cable will be showing it on UPN 8pm to 10pm tonight.

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

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Scorpions new single going for Radio Adds

June 9th, 2010
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German hard rock veterans SCORPIONS have chosen the title track of their new album, “Sting In The Tail”, to be the CD’s next single. The song, which goes for radio adds on June 21, is all about attitude. Lead singer Klaus Meine wails “I’m driving out of town, just follow my heart/I think I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star/The girls would go mad, I’d give ’em all I can give/If I had a cheap guitar and one dirty riff.”

SCORPIONS are currently out on their “Get Your Sting And Blackout” farewell world tour and will hit the states Friday, June 18 to kick off the North American leg in Holmdel, New Jersey. The German rockers will be bring their heavy, full-on, electrically charged energy to major cities across the U.S., including Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver and many more as they celebrate the success of their latest and final album. Special guests on the tour will include VINCE NEIL, CINDERELLA, GREAT WHITE, DOKKEN, RATT and TESLA supporting along the way.

New Three Part audio Interview with Matthias Jabs

June 3rd, 2010
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Matthias and the guys in the band are certainly very busy with their farewell tour, and we certainly felt honored that Matthias took the time out of his busy schedule to talk to us about the tour, the new album, and some of his “post” retirement plans.

If you’ve ever seen or heard an interview with Matthias, you already know he’s one of the nicest guys in rock and roll, and one of the truly great all time lead guitar players. Ladies and Gentlemen, Matthias Jabs:

http://www.mamasfallenangels.com/forum/topics/mfa-interview-with-matthias

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Rudolf and his Twin Brother

June 3rd, 2010
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Paul sent us this article which appeared in the June 2, 2010 edition of Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. He summarized it this way:

Scorpions tribute band IN TRANCE guitarist Paul Gagné was featured in Hannover’s leading newspaper along with a review of the Scorpions concert at the TUI Arena in Hannover which took place June 1st. Rudolf Schenker suggested the journalist do an article about his “twin brother born from another mother” from Québec City, Canada. Among the subjects discussed are Paul’s relation with Hannover, Scorpions, and his band IN TRANCE.

Paul Gagné hat eine Lieblingsstadt, ganz klar. Der Familienvater und Gitarrist einer Rockband aus Quebec-City in Kanada ist erklärter Hannover-Fan. Obwohl er die Stadt noch nie in seinem Leben besucht hat, auch in Deutschland war er noch nie. Doch Gagné weiß, dass die Band, die er am meisten verehrt, aus der Landeshauptstadt kommt – und das reicht ihm völlig, um Sätze zu sagen wie: „Hannover ist für mich der Mittelpunkt des Universums.“ Der Kanadier ist aber nicht nur seit 1982 ein riesiger Scorpions-Anhänger, sondern zugleich Kopf und wohl auch Seele einer Band, die selbst sein möchte wie die Scorpions: In Trance heißt die Truppe, die sich aufs Nachspielen von Songs der hannoverschen Hardrocker spezialisiert hat und im Juli 2006 sogar schon mit den verehrten Vorbildern in Quebec-City aufgetreten ist.

Seit 1995 gibt es die Gruppe. Die Vorgängerband, die auch schon Scorpions-Stücke gecovert hatte, trug das Bekenntnis Gagnés zu der geliebten, unbekannten Stadt sogar im Namen: „Hannoveraner“ nannte sich die von 1986 bis 1993 bestehende Truppe. Doch letztlich, das muss auch ein Hannover-Fan zugeben, klingt In Trance ja doch etwas cooler. Dafür hat Gagné, der auch als Gitarrenbauer aktiv ist, aber ein dickes Logo von Hannover 96 auf seiner „German Guitar“ platziert, die in den Farben Schwarz, Rot und Gold lackiert ist. Auch eine Anekdote fällt ihm noch ein. Schon in den frühen siebziger Jahren, als er noch ein Baby war, hätten seine Eltern in sein Kinderzimmer ein Poster mit einer Lufthansa-Boeing 737 gehängt, erzählt Gagné. Und später habe er auch lesen können, was an dem Gebäude im Hintergrund des Posters stand: „Flughafen Hannover“.

„Als dann 1982 die Scorpions in mein Leben kamen, und ich entdeckte, dass sie aus genau dieser Stadt sind …“, sagt Gagné. Ja, da muss er das alles wohl für eine Fügung des Hardrockgottes über den Wolken des hannoverschen Flughafens gehalten haben. Und 2006 dann das gemeinsame Konzert! Trotz technischer Probleme sei das eine großartige Sache gewesen, erinnert sich der Kanadier. „Wir spielten mit ganzem Herzen.“ Bei diesem Auftritt hat man sich angefreundet: In Trance spielten als Überraschung auch im August 2007 beim 59. Geburtstag von Scorpions-Gitarrist Rudolf Schenker, als der in Quebec feierte.

„Ich habe Rudolf noch nie so glücklich gesehen“, sagt Gagné. Und wenn Rudolf jetzt mal in Quebec anruft, begrüßt er seinen Freund Paul mit den Worten: „Hallo, mein Zwillingsbruder mit einer anderen Mutter!“ Getroffen hatte Gagné seine Idole aber schon 1988 das erste Mal. Da signierten ihm Schenker und der zweite Scorpions-Gitarrist Matthias Jabs immerhin schon eine Gitarre – und zwar genau die mit dem 96-Logo.

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Article from the Homecoming Hannover show for the Scorpions

June 2nd, 2010
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Scorpions homecoming show in Hannover, Germany June 1, 2010
12,000 Fans celebrate the greatest ambassadors our city, to rock with the title song from their eponymous album. The last home game of the Scorps. After more than 40 years, the giants of rock farewell tour are: whole two and a half years around the world. More than 200 concerts in nearly 40 countries, millions of viewers. Motto: “Get Your Sting And Blackout”.

Klaus Meine, Rudolf Schenker and Matthias Jabs on the gas as if they had just started. Precise as a Swiss watch sit riffs. Light as a feather flies Schenker with his guitar on stage. It sits in my Klaus incomparable voice. Scorpions sound. Yeah. Rock instead of talking.

Brief Introduction: “This is the famous home game! Nice to be back firing. “Then the hits. “Bad Boys Running Wild”.

Great! “Send Me an Angel” and “Holiday” as an acoustic set. Klaus Meine very close to the audience, holding the mike in the fan crowd! Break – “Raised on Rock” and “The Good Die Young”. Time and again, film clips on the screens, fireworks, flames, Mega-Light Show. Klaus Meine throwing drumsticks into the fan masses. The hall seething.

The absolute hammer is the flying Drumriser. James Kottak takes off with his drum solos. Suddenly jumps out the band – “Blackout”. Rudolf Schenker rocks with his head bandaged, as on the record cover.

“Big City Nights” to the furious finale. Encore! “Still Loving You,” “Wind of Change” – pure goose bumps!

Finally, the absolute fireworks Cracker: “Rock You Like a Hurricane”, the hall trembles under the anthem of the Scorpions. The band bows. Cheering frenzy, the sting is deep in Hannover.

http://www.bild.de/BILD/regional/hannover/leute/2010/06/02/scorpions/hannover-feiert-abschied-seiner-rock-helden.html

http://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Musik/Scorpions-rocken-in-der-TUI-Arena