Back again with another concert, Scorpions this time. In Thessaloniki (not Athens now), Greece, we went to see Scorpions, and, as expected, they rocked. The pictures and videos will be included in the torrent with the Dio/Twisted Sister/Anthrax/Katatonia/Whatever concert pictures. The theatre was packed with people of all ages, and there were more hot chicks than you’d think, with far less nerds than you’d think, which is a good thing. There were even people with their kids there, and that is not a good example to set for your kids, you damn stoners.

This is their playlist:

  1. New Generation
  2. Love ‘em or Leave ‘em
  3. Bad Boys
  4. The Zoo
  5. Make It Real
  6. We’ll Burn the Sky
  7. Deep and Dark
  8. Coast to Coast
  9. Holiday (long version)
  10. In Trance
  11. Wind of Change
  12. Noone Like You
  13. Loving You Sunday
  14. Tease Me Please Me
  15. Kottak Attack
  16. Black Out
  17. He’s a Woman
  18. Hit Between the Eyes
  19. Big City Nights
  1. Coming Home
  2. Still Loving You
  3. Hurricane
  1. Smoke Is Going Down

The lines are the songs of the two encores. New Generation, Love ‘em or Leave ‘em and Deep and Dark were from the new CD, Unbreakable, and they were quite good. They started out with heavy songs and played the ballads later on, so everyone was pumped up from the start. Klaus Meine was quite vocal, being the vocalist and all (ha. ha. ha.). He was running up and down the stage and throwing drumsticks most of the time, when he was not singing, but he wasn’t throwing them far enough so those of us who were more than a mile away had no chance of catching one, sadly.

The highlights included Kottak Attack, the drum solo by James Kottak, during which he broke a beer bottle with his head and continued playing. The beer bottle was unavailable for comment, but Kottak said “This was the best drum solo I have ever done.” or something like that. He didn’t say it to me, so I’m just guessing.

I didn’t know the first few songs, so I just nodded along until they got to the known stuff. Also, I took a picture of the setlist before the concert started and I knew all the songs beforehand, so I shouted each song’s name before they sang it as if I was requesting it. I bet the people in front of me thought that the Scorpions were my bitches, playing every song I asked or something. I especially liked the part where Holiday started, but Klaus stopped before the chorus and wouldn’t sing it before making us sing some silly stuff. We played along and then he went “Longing for the sun!”, at which point we all went crazy and started jumping up and down and shitting our pants.

They left before the first encore, but we were shouting at them to come back because we had seen the setlist and knew there were more songs and they couldn’t play that trick on us so they should come back and sing Coming Home now. Bitches.

This is the end of this review, the rest of it was quite uneventful. All you can do now is wait for the videos and pictures, which, incidentally, are much better than the Dio ones, because I discovered the magic that is ISO 400. That’ll be in August. Until then, keep checking up on the site.