BYU 14
01-24-2010, 05:28 PM
I have to laugh at the final album with a supporting final tour "over the next few years"
I do hope they come to Phoenix though, I never thought these guys got enough credit for the influence they provided for countless metal artists in the 80's while they basically basically played in obscurity for well over a decade before the release of Lovedrive. One of my favorite metal bands ever and I would put Animal Magnetism and Blackout up against any Metal albums ever.
Of course the article doesn't even acknowledge any of their early work, which was a lot better than the 90's stuff they talk about IMO. I wonder if some of the folks that write these articles have ever even heard the music they write about.
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=454040>1=28102
BERLIN (AP) -- The German rock band Scorpions is bringing down the curtain on a career spanning more than four decades.
The band, known for its early 1990s hit "Wind of Change" among others, said on its Web site Sunday that "we agree we have reached the end of the road."
It said it would end its career with a final album — "Sting In The Tail," to be released in March — and a tour that will start in Germany in May and take it across the world "over the next few years."
Guitarist Rudolf Schenker founded the band in Hannover in 1965. Singer Klaus Meine joined a few years later. Both men are 61.
I do hope they come to Phoenix though, I never thought these guys got enough credit for the influence they provided for countless metal artists in the 80's while they basically basically played in obscurity for well over a decade before the release of Lovedrive. One of my favorite metal bands ever and I would put Animal Magnetism and Blackout up against any Metal albums ever.
Of course the article doesn't even acknowledge any of their early work, which was a lot better than the 90's stuff they talk about IMO. I wonder if some of the folks that write these articles have ever even heard the music they write about.
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=454040>1=28102
BERLIN (AP) -- The German rock band Scorpions is bringing down the curtain on a career spanning more than four decades.
The band, known for its early 1990s hit "Wind of Change" among others, said on its Web site Sunday that "we agree we have reached the end of the road."
It said it would end its career with a final album — "Sting In The Tail," to be released in March — and a tour that will start in Germany in May and take it across the world "over the next few years."
Guitarist Rudolf Schenker founded the band in Hannover in 1965. Singer Klaus Meine joined a few years later. Both men are 61.