Scorpions

Scorpions are a heavy metal, hard rock German band. Anyone that is a fan of good hard rock and metal music should know the thrillic Scorpions. Some of their most famous songs are “Rock You Like a Hurricane”, “No One Like You”, “Wind of Change”, “Still Loving You”, “Send Me an Angel”, and many other. Scorpions are from Hanover, Germany and they started in 1969. The band has sold over 75 million albums worldwide and they were in place 46 at VH1’s Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.

Now, the incredible band concludes of: Klaus Meine, is the lead vocals and rhythm guitar since 1970 until now. Matthias Jabs is the lead and rhythm guitarist of the band since 1978. Rudolf Schenker is also the rhythm and lead guitarist and backing vocals, he was the one that actually started the group in 1965 and then everyone joined in! Pawel Maciwoda is playing the bass and backing vocals since 2003. James Kottak is playing the drums, percussion and backing vocals since 1996. Many guitarists came and went, others left to go to other bands, others had health problems, but Meine and Schenker are the ones that didn’t change and Meine’s voice, for me, is what makes Scorpions so incredible. I must say that Scorpion’s album covers were not so appropriate and some stores refused to sell some of their albums. I find them quite daring especially if you recall that were the ‘80s. And there are some very daring video clips that shocked me( I didn’t except something like that from the ‘70s-‘80s, really if it was now days I wouldn’t even notice, but it’s some long time ago and things were different back then!).

The video that I choose is “The Wind of Change”. This song was written for the Cold war, the wall that divided Germany. Every time I listen to this song it gives me the chills. It makes me feel the pain and how strong those people had felt when the wall was built and separated the country. Many people were killed during that time and I must say that this video is quite touching. Scorpions had many successful songs that were top hits at the time, and I must admit that Meine’s voice is magnificent, dreaming. His voice is amazing and I just can’t put it in words the way it makes me feel. Every time I am sad or really angry I turn the volume to the full and I just listen to Scorpions and they send me to heaven! “Always Somewhere”, “Holiday”, “You and I”, “Still Loving You” are some of my favorite songs, but there are so many that I can’t write them all down. Scorpions totally rocked the ‘70s and ‘80s and until now they do concerts around the world and if I have the chance I wouldn’t miss it for the world to attend to one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Eyao-2KWo&feature=channel ( Unfortunately there are no codes for this video :S)