audio is like a weird version of scorps the zoo

*promote the Scorps! Still my favorite metal band from the 80's.

Dag and I saw them live twice, in 1984 and 1985 for Love at First Sting and then World Wide Live. In 1984 for Love At First Sting, the scorps were at their peak insanity I bet, it was incredible.

While I'm all for early, vintage Scorpions fans enjoying their early stuffc, I'm a post-Lovedrive Scorp fan myself. I missed them by 2 days in San Diego when they recorded World Wide Live; still bums me out to this day.

With all that said, I can also say that I don't know that I'd ever go see them live again. I've seen them twice and they are, without a shred of doubt, the two loudest concerts I've ever been to. (One indoor stadium, one open-air) I KNOW I got some serious hearing damage from those two shows alone.

Rudolph Schenker yes. Jabbs came in way later. Man I wish I could post more than one vid here on the sift. No one ever up-votes my brilliant submissions enough to get 'em past the 10 required. Grrrr... I'd submit this one if I could:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeX3I4Jneyg&feature=related

Classic Scorps with ULI.
(Check out the first guitar solo at the beginning - OMG!)

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Did not know he was in the Scorps. I thought Rudolph Schenker and Mathias Jabbs were the original guitarists.

Best live performers I recall were Alison Krauss & Union Station, Scorps Love at First Sting, Sammy Hagar, Def Leppard, Dio.

DAG and I had the fortune of having our city in Alaska selected for both the "Love at First Sting" tour in 1984, and then the "World Wide Live" tour of 1985. I think that some of the Scorps 1985 release "World Wide Live" was recorded in Anchorage. As I recall the scorps picked their best/wildest/rockingist towns from the LAFS tour for WWL. We got to see the Scorps two Summers in a row, at the time when there was nothing cooler than the Scorps!! (I mean come on, Love at First Sting was incredible.) The thing I remember about the LAFS concert was one of our local drunk teenagers (NOT DAG ; he was in the loo ) got on stage to dance with Klause and discovered that it's DISCOURAGED to 1) be on stage and 2) put your arms around Klause while he is performing. Large employees threw him down off the stage and broke his arm in a couple places. He was driving a brand new street rod Camaro by the 2nd half of that following school year.