

Because we were in Cleveland – at Cleveland Hall, right next to their hotel. I think it was KK who came up with the idea: ‘Hey, let’s go see the guys from Def Leppard’. They gave me a drink, and it was beer, and I said, ‘No, no, you have to have the right mix: whisky, beer and wine on top.’ And they said something like ‘What!?’ And I said, ‘Yes, come on’. Here is the story of this evening told by the guitarist of Scorpios : “I remember we partied with KK and Glenn from Judas Priest and for a while there were the guys from Def Leppard as well. The song Blackoutpresent on the eighth album of Scorpios Blackout (1982), finds its origin in a drunken evening spent by Rudolf Schenker with the guitarists of Judas Priest, KK Downing and Glenn Tipton. He released their albums only in countries where the Germans toured. The group gave concerts in Europe and in Japan because it had a very particular agreement with its label.

AgreementĪt its beginnings, Scorpios took care of its management and promotion itself. Are you sure you know everything about the band? To make sure, pixbear has collected 8 little-known anecdotes about Scorpios. Take it easy for the love of hard rock made in Germany. This is the basis when one is interested in Scorpions! » yell at your screen. Retrieved 22 April 2018.“At the end of the recording of their seventeenth album Sting in the Tail (2010), Scorpions announced that it would be their last album but the Germans did not keep this promise.


Martin Popoff called the album "effeminate, illogical, overblown, grasping for straws", citing only the song "One Way or Another" as "promising" and the rest a squandering of "the band's flickering talents". He added that High and Mighty "shows flashes of the group's old firepower, but is ultimately sunk by a combination of unfocused experimentation and uneven songwriting". Guarisco in his retrospective AllMusic review. "Several of the songs find the band flirting with pop elements in a way that doesn't complement their hard rocking style", said Donald A. The album was not well received, as stylistically it veered from their earlier progressive rock vein into more mainstream territory, and lacked the group's signature lengthy compositions and fantastical subject matter.
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