Scorpions and Whitesnake were my inicial hard rock top bands, so their influênce in the musical knowledge and taste was top important and made a personal preferênce by this type of groups more solid and consistent. It is hard to talk about such a big group, since the 70's, 80's and the 90´s (i saw them live in 1994 at Cascais, with Duff from Guns and Roses making the first part), with a strong retourn in this last decade. But the most important thing in the last years (at least for me) was when Mike Dee (ex Motorhead) enter to the drum pack. True that the band have made a lot of "good bye" tours, but they always came back, so their image was a small conection with that particular type of Tour. In the final years of the last century was one of the best live hard rock bands in the world, and a best sellers group with fine records and a high criative mojo. Their influênce in bands and in the industry was inquestionable, but how is today? The problem is that industry is different from what was in the 80's or 90´s, and we see with bands like the Who that made regular tours and the last album of originals was in 2006, after the 1982 "Its hard Reason?" It's more lucrative to do another Tour than a new album. But Scorpions made also albuns, and probably are one of the 70's band that made more new ones in the last years. The negative (besides to much good bye tours), is the war between the Shenker brothers, about money, music rights and also from former bass guitar player Francis Buchholz who when the ex manager was fired, also give up from the band (today he play with Uriah Heep, and i guess he still does). They came again to Portugal, and was another blast with the Altice Arena full. To bad i was not in the mode to see them again. Maybe next time.
Scorpions - Rock you like a Hurricane
Scorpions - Wings of Change
Scorpions - Still Loving you
Scorpions - Big City Nights
Scorpions - In Trance
Scorpions - Living for Tomorrow
Scorpions - Always Somewere
Scorpions - Is There Anybody There
Scorpions - We'll Burn the Sky
Scorpions - Under the Sun
Scorpions . Sails of Charon
