I saw the Scorpions in 1982, July 31st, at the Prairie Capitol convention center in Springfield Illinois. Girls school opened and then it was Iron Maiden, great concert.
I seen them that same summer with Iron Maiden at a day on the green in Oakland along with loverboy I was surprised they were that good then foreigner (they were boring) after those 3 groups
@sonicmojo sorry I had to charge my phone but yes it was it was at the stadium the raiders played in and the 3rd song from foreigner the stadium was emptying out and Lou Graham said something I was there to see the SCORPIONS and they kicked ass as Iron Maiden did it was blackout and number of the beast tour. I was surprised at loverboy I got fired for calling in sick lol I was a busboy so not a career job tips for concerts and Humboldt weed lol but great memories with my friends and A ROCKIN GOOD TIME I still go to shows but I sit with my les paul and Rock out I retired at 57 so I still have life to live and ROCK
I saw them on the Blackout tour with Girlschool in Tucson. My whole band took off to Tucson to see them. We had a blast!! I was wearing my " Lovedrive" concert jersey. Lol. They have so many great songs. One of my favorite was In Trance. My, how time goes by. I'm 62 now but love me some Scorps. ❤
I loved the Scorpions when I was growing up! Such a great band. They kind of lost me a little bit in the 90s, but I really like their new album, Rock Believer. They're back to that amazing sound that they got in the late seventies early eighties. Great show bro as always! Keep On Keepin On. 🤘
The Scorpions were an incredible live band and as an opening act you would often hear people talking about them after the show as much as the headliner. I saw them open for Rainbow when they were touring for Blackout and they seemed in top form and Klaus' voice was fine . As a headliner I remember how the excessive risers and stage lights almost distracted from the music and I was glad when they scaled that back some but I was never disappointed . I did not care as much for the next two albums after Blackout and the Uli Jon stuff are my favorites, especially In Trance and Tokyo Tapes. Michael Schenker was also on Lovedrive and even did some shows with them for that one.
Saw this tour 2wice in SOCAL, they played at Anaheim Stadium or what we call the BIG A, they had so munch energy the crowd went freaking nuts, so nuts. the upper decks was going up and down , i was up there, i told my friends we need to get off of this, and we did, at the end i think of the 2nd song, they stopped the show for about 15 mi , and pleaded to everyone to not move the upper decks, and we all complied, they were freaking outstanding, the energy was way over the top, , and thats the scorps, ENERGY 😊😊
My first concert was Scorpions with Fastway opening. August 1984. Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, NJ. Love at First Sting tour. I have seen an amazing amount of shows since then (including Scorpions several more times), but this one still ranks as one of the best I've ever seen. Amazing live band! By the way, one singer who sounded great until the day he died was Ronnie James Dio (I saw Ronnie on just about every tour he did, solo and with Black Sabbath, starting with The Last in Line tour in 1984). I just saw Iron Maiden the other night and Bruce still sounds great, as does Rob Halford (I saw Judas Priest back in April). Klaus still sounds good based on the recent performances I've seen on You Tube (their most recent tours haven't come to my area, unfortunately). Great video! Keep 'em coming!
I saw them for the first time on the Blackout tour when I was 15 at the Toledo Sports Arena. I went to the show specifically to see Iron Maiden, I hadn't heard anything by them at that point other than The Zoo. They opened up with Blackout and I was immediately blown away. Needless to say I became a huge fan and have seen them multiple times over the years.
Thanks for this, Robert. Great vid. (And special points for getting all the name pronunciations correct). Saw the Scorps in 1984 w/ Bon Jovi opening and have seen them 20 times since. They are the best hard rock band in the world in my opinion as no other band does a better job at blending melodic phrasing with ballads and screeching rockers. This band has no peer in my opinion and it doesn't hurt that the guys are considered some of the nicest guys and the band in its current form has virtually zero disfunction.
The best concert I ever saw was the Scorpions. Love at First Sting Tour. I've saw a ton of shows too, I've just always said that from the night at the show, this was the best live act I'd ever seen. What great stories of Dokken and some Scorpions history. They're amazing, only wish I'd had seen Blackout.
I saw the Scorpions in 1988, honestly it was one of the most energetic shows I had ever seen. I love the Matthias era and Blackout is definitely a 10 out of 10 album, one of my favorites is In Trance. And just wanted to throw in I love your channel. 🤘
I was backstage via Rarebell at the ‘82 Seattle show along with Lemmy. Girl school/Iron Maiden/Scorps. The Scorps stayed at the Park Hilton and went sbout on their own and didn’t meet up until the show. Funny how they don’t get lost and can stay on schedule without phones back then 😂
All killer, no filler on this album. I played the vinyl nearly all the time for a while after it came out. It was the last of their albums I truly loved.
On April 28th, 1984 I had a service call at the Pacific Amphitheater’s Cash room, where they have a state-of-the-art alarm system. After doing my pre-maintenance call on the system, the theatre manager asked if I wanted tickets to that evening’s show. I picked up my pal Doug, put an alarm shirt on him, & drove back in the service truck. Parked upfront, we waltzed in as the Scorpions were beginning their soundcheck. They spoke German to each other, and a roadie would tell the sound-man in broken English what they wanted, sound-wise. After powering on, we started point at Jab’s smoking Marshall. Meine yelled “Schnell, Schnell!!” as the Marshall blew up elegantly. Rudolph made a very overt clapping motion at the sound-man, like it was HIS fault! 😂 Roadie: “Rudy wants his mic on”. Sound-man: “He doesn’t sing on this tune.” R: “Turn his mic on…god..damn it..” 😂😂 Then as they sound checked “No one like you”, at the beginning of the 2nd half of the intro, Jabs goes to pull the top 2 strings on his Explorer…Ping!!! Both strings jumped the bridge! 😂😂😂. By this time I’m stifling a laugh, Klaus makes eye contact with me (Doug & I were the only 2 in the joint), & he started laughing..That’s when I lost it 😂😂 Then, they went on & played a great show! Bon Jovi opened, did maybe 45 minutes… Did their hit “Runaway”… Meh…But it was a very entertaining soundcheck, and the cheapest concert I’ve ever been to!!👍👍
Thanks for bringing that up! Crazy to think what the Scorpions would have sounded like going forward if he had truly rejoined the group. We would have missed out on a lot of great MSG stuff.
Robert Plant is very noticeable by 1973. By the time of HoTH and The Song Remains the Same his high register was gone. But I love his voice on TSRTS. It added a new texture for the albums to follow.
As any casual listener to the Scorpions/UFO saga, you would know that: Michael Schenker played on several “Lovedrive” tracks, most notably “Coast to Coast” & “Another piece of Meat”…Also, Schenker was supposed to re-join the band, but after walking out on UFO, he also decided to leave the Scorpions. This is when Schenker, after having a break down, returned with “The Michael Schenker Group”…By “Blackout” Jabs was the lone lead guitarist, & able to carve his own niche in Scorpions history…
Thank you for bringing this up! It's hard to imagine how everything would have turned out had Michael truly embraced the idea of joining the band again. I love what Matthias brought to the group.
Date:,23 August 1986 Venue: Monsters Of Rock Stockholm Sweden. Råsunda Arena. Bands: Zero Nine, Def Leppard, Ozzy & Scorpions. Audience: Approx 30000. Great vibe & excitement.
I saw them in 1982 right around the beginning of September. Girlschool opened followed by Iron Maiden touring behind Number Of The Beast. LoL, poor Girlschool was pretty much booed off the stage. This was in Portland Oregon and was my first real concert, we were from a small town in southern Oregon and my mind was just about blown lol, I was fifteen.
I'm not sure which album they were touring, but I saw them at the Monsters of Rock at Sullivan Stadium Foxboro Massachusetts I believe1986? Van Halen, Scorpions, Metallica, Doken? Kings X? Scorpions were Awesome, sounded like I dropped the needle on World Wide Live Double LP. V.H. as well as the rest=great! I smoked A lot of weed that day so not 100% on the lineup! Lol😆 Great Video btw
Ironically, it just may be time for Klaus to return the favor for Don Dokken now…as Don could really use some chord repairs. Don’s voice is long gone….Dokken’s voice WAS killer in the 80s.
Klaus My' knee...I heard them say it rhymes with money, which it doesn't... Die der Deer ks...lol just looked that one up... I grew up saying Klaus Main. and Deeter Dirks... I saw scorps 1st US tour with Ted Nugent..J Geils Band..Blackfoot...Scorpions... and Def Leppard also on their 1st US Dates I Believe...around '79
Im only 2min AND 50s in but i have to say something. Don Dokken would have never worked if he had to do vocals on any scorpion's album. IMO...😮 Lovedrive is my favorite Scorpion album. Blackout is pretty damn good. China WHITE. Blackout. No one like you (until it was played so much) Dynamite. Arizona AND When the smoke is going down we're my least favorite...Love your topics. 💲👍
You imagine Don on stage standing in one spot not saying a word wearing his sunglasses while the whole band is running all over the place he he would look so stupid😅😅😅😅, that's one band he can NEVER JOIN 😊😊
I saw the Scorpions in 1982, July 31st, at the Prairie Capitol convention center in Springfield Illinois. Girls school opened and then it was Iron Maiden, great concert.
me too
I seen them that same summer with Iron Maiden at a day on the green in Oakland along with loverboy I was surprised they were that good then foreigner (they were boring) after those 3 groups
@@rayfabris2512 oh my God Foreigner going on after Iron Maiden and the Scorpions, Jesus it must have seemed like Lambs to the slaughter! 🤣🤣🤣
@sonicmojo it was lol
@sonicmojo sorry I had to charge my phone but yes it was it was at the stadium the raiders played in and the 3rd song from foreigner the stadium was emptying out and Lou Graham said something I was there to see the SCORPIONS and they kicked ass as Iron Maiden did it was blackout and number of the beast tour. I was surprised at loverboy I got fired for calling in sick lol I was a busboy so not a career job tips for concerts and Humboldt weed lol but great memories with my friends and A ROCKIN GOOD TIME I still go to shows but I sit with my les paul and Rock out I retired at 57 so I still have life to live and ROCK
I saw them on the Blackout tour with Girlschool in Tucson. My whole band took off to Tucson to see them. We had a blast!! I was wearing my " Lovedrive" concert jersey. Lol.
They have so many great songs. One of my favorite was In Trance.
My, how time goes by. I'm 62 now but love me some Scorps. ❤
I loved the Scorpions when I was growing up! Such a great band. They kind of lost me a little bit in the 90s, but I really like their new album, Rock Believer. They're back to that amazing sound that they got in the late seventies early eighties. Great show bro as always! Keep On Keepin On. 🤘
eye to eye was terrible
The Scorpions were an incredible live band and as an opening act you would often hear people talking about them after the show as much as the headliner.
I saw them open for Rainbow when they were touring for Blackout and they seemed in top form and Klaus' voice was fine .
As a headliner I remember how the excessive risers and stage lights almost distracted from the music and I was glad when they scaled that back some but I was never disappointed .
I did not care as much for the next two albums after Blackout and the Uli Jon stuff are my favorites, especially In Trance and Tokyo Tapes.
Michael Schenker was also on Lovedrive and even did some shows with them for that one.
Rockin’ with Dockken!
LOL! Exactly!
100 % on point, Blackout is a masterpiece... Jabs phenomenal, very underated
Saw this tour 2wice in SOCAL, they played at Anaheim Stadium or what we call the BIG A, they had so munch energy the crowd went freaking nuts, so nuts. the upper decks was going up and down , i was up there, i told my friends we need to get off of this, and we did, at the end i think of the 2nd song, they stopped the show for about 15 mi , and pleaded to everyone to not move the upper decks, and we all complied, they were freaking outstanding, the energy was way over the top, , and thats the scorps,
ENERGY 😊😊
My first concert was Scorpions with Fastway opening. August 1984. Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, NJ. Love at First Sting tour. I have seen an amazing amount of shows since then (including Scorpions several more times), but this one still ranks as one of the best I've ever seen. Amazing live band! By the way, one singer who sounded great until the day he died was Ronnie James Dio (I saw Ronnie on just about every tour he did, solo and with Black Sabbath, starting with The Last in Line tour in 1984). I just saw Iron Maiden the other night and Bruce still sounds great, as does Rob Halford (I saw Judas Priest back in April). Klaus still sounds good based on the recent performances I've seen on You Tube (their most recent tours haven't come to my area, unfortunately). Great video! Keep 'em coming!
I was there. THE Metal lands.
Love blackout! Was my first scorpians album . Klaus is doing great these days , his voice is still sounding good .
I saw them for the first time on the Blackout tour when I was 15 at the Toledo Sports Arena. I went to the show specifically to see Iron Maiden, I hadn't heard anything by them at that point other than The Zoo. They opened up with Blackout and I was immediately blown away. Needless to say I became a huge fan and have seen them multiple times over the years.
Thanks for this, Robert. Great vid. (And special points for getting all the name pronunciations correct). Saw the Scorps in 1984 w/ Bon Jovi opening and have seen them 20 times since. They are the best hard rock band in the world in my opinion as no other band does a better job at blending melodic phrasing with ballads and screeching rockers. This band has no peer in my opinion and it doesn't hurt that the guys are considered some of the nicest guys and the band in its current form has virtually zero disfunction.
The best concert I ever saw was the Scorpions. Love at First Sting Tour. I've saw a ton of shows too, I've just always said that from the night at the show, this was the best live act I'd ever seen. What great stories of Dokken and some Scorpions history. They're amazing, only wish I'd had seen Blackout.
I saw the Scorpions in 1988, honestly it was one of the most energetic shows I had ever seen. I love the Matthias era and Blackout is definitely a 10 out of 10 album, one of my favorites is In Trance. And just wanted to throw in I love your channel. 🤘
I was backstage via Rarebell at the ‘82 Seattle show along with Lemmy. Girl school/Iron Maiden/Scorps. The Scorps stayed at the Park Hilton and went sbout on their own and didn’t meet up until the show. Funny how they don’t get lost and can stay on schedule without phones back then 😂
'China White' is the best song on this, IMO. It's just....heavy!
Saw them in 1983 at the US festival! Best band at the show that day!
Blackout rules !!!!!🤟🤟🤟🤟
Thanks for making this vid
All killer, no filler on this album. I played the vinyl nearly all the time for a while after it came out. It was the last of their albums I truly loved.
I saw the Scorpions on this tour in Reno, Nv
Didn’t even know about his voice issues, it was a great show…
Blackout, Lovedrive, and Animal Magnetism were by far their best albums.
Same. Good choices..
On April 28th, 1984 I had a service call at the Pacific Amphitheater’s Cash room, where they have a state-of-the-art alarm system. After doing my pre-maintenance call on the system, the theatre manager asked if I wanted tickets to that evening’s show. I picked up my pal Doug, put an alarm shirt on him, & drove back in the service truck. Parked upfront, we waltzed in as the Scorpions were beginning their soundcheck. They spoke German to each other, and a roadie would tell the sound-man in broken English what they wanted, sound-wise. After powering on, we started point at Jab’s smoking Marshall. Meine yelled “Schnell, Schnell!!” as the Marshall blew up elegantly. Rudolph made a very overt clapping motion at the sound-man, like it was HIS fault! 😂 Roadie: “Rudy wants his mic on”. Sound-man: “He doesn’t sing on this tune.” R: “Turn his mic on…god..damn it..” 😂😂 Then as they sound checked “No one like you”, at the beginning of the 2nd half of the intro, Jabs goes to pull the top 2 strings on his Explorer…Ping!!! Both strings jumped the bridge! 😂😂😂. By this time I’m stifling a laugh, Klaus makes eye contact with me (Doug & I were the only 2 in the joint), & he started laughing..That’s when I lost it 😂😂 Then, they went on & played a great show! Bon Jovi opened, did maybe 45 minutes… Did their hit “Runaway”… Meh…But it was a very entertaining soundcheck, and the cheapest concert I’ve ever been to!!👍👍
Michael also played on Lovedrive
Great album.
He played on “Coast to Coast” & “Another piece of Meat”, he was incredible….
Thanks for bringing that up! Crazy to think what the Scorpions would have sounded like going forward if he had truly rejoined the group. We would have missed out on a lot of great MSG stuff.
Robert Plant is very noticeable by 1973. By the time of HoTH and The Song Remains the Same his high register was gone. But I love his voice on TSRTS. It added a new texture for the albums to follow.
As any casual listener to the Scorpions/UFO saga, you would know that: Michael Schenker played on several “Lovedrive” tracks, most notably “Coast to Coast” & “Another piece of Meat”…Also, Schenker was supposed to re-join the band, but after walking out on UFO, he also decided to leave the Scorpions. This is when Schenker, after having a break down, returned with “The Michael Schenker Group”…By “Blackout” Jabs was the lone lead guitarist, & able to carve his own niche in Scorpions history…
Thank you for bringing this up! It's hard to imagine how everything would have turned out had Michael truly embraced the idea of joining the band again. I love what Matthias brought to the group.
Date:,23 August 1986
Venue: Monsters Of Rock Stockholm Sweden. Råsunda Arena.
Bands: Zero Nine, Def Leppard, Ozzy & Scorpions.
Audience: Approx 30000.
Great vibe & excitement.
I didn’t see them until Sting. They were very good.
I saw them in 1982 right around the beginning of September. Girlschool opened followed by Iron Maiden touring behind Number Of The Beast. LoL, poor Girlschool was pretty much booed off the stage. This was in Portland Oregon and was my first real concert, we were from a small town in southern Oregon and my mind was just about blown lol, I was fifteen.
in Oakland?
I'm not sure which album they were touring, but I saw them at the Monsters of Rock at Sullivan Stadium Foxboro Massachusetts I believe1986? Van Halen, Scorpions, Metallica, Doken? Kings X? Scorpions were Awesome, sounded like I dropped the needle on World Wide Live Double LP. V.H. as well as the rest=great! I smoked A lot of weed that day so not 100% on the lineup! Lol😆 Great Video btw
$10 tickets. I paid $12.50 to see Scorpions play the Cow Palace in San Francisco for the Blackout tour.
Ironically, it just may be time for Klaus to return the favor for Don Dokken now…as Don could really use some chord repairs. Don’s voice is long gone….Dokken’s voice WAS killer in the 80s.
I seen this tour. The scorpions were touring with Rainbow.
winger,great white,bon jovi and Iron Maiden all opened for the SCORPIONS
also saw Sammy Hagar, April Wine and Scorpions for $5.00 in the early 80s
English and French are the most widespread languages worldwide.
Klaus My' knee...I heard them say it rhymes with money, which it doesn't...
Die der Deer ks...lol just looked that one up... I grew up saying Klaus Main. and Deeter Dirks...
I saw scorps 1st US tour with Ted Nugent..J Geils Band..Blackfoot...Scorpions...
and Def Leppard also on their 1st US Dates I Believe...around '79
Im only 2min AND 50s in but i have to say something. Don Dokken would have never worked if he had to do vocals on any scorpion's album. IMO...😮 Lovedrive is my favorite Scorpion album. Blackout is pretty damn good. China WHITE. Blackout. No one like you (until it was played so much) Dynamite. Arizona AND When the smoke is going down we're my least favorite...Love your topics. 💲👍
You imagine Don on stage standing in one spot not saying a word wearing his sunglasses while the whole band is running all over the place he he would look so stupid😅😅😅😅, that's one band he can NEVER JOIN 😊😊
Their last good album. Although I personally prefer Animal Magnetism. 70s and early 80s was great. Went downhill after 1982.
No. Still loving you has one of the best endings to a song I've ever heard
Love to see you cover some Ted Nugent albums
Count on it!
0:00 This video is for me🥲