Product: Scorpions: Live at Wacken Open Air 2006 (2008)
Rating: 3.0
Which idiot edited this?
No arguing over the music here, it is absolutely great. However, I am sooo disappointed with the song selection on this DVD. If they had followed the concert tracklist this would have been the ultimate Scorpions document ever.This is because the concert tracklist was the result of a vote by the fans on the Wacken website before the event. The fans themselves selected the best Scorpions songs ever. Unsurprisingly, almost all songs that were chosen came from the classic 70's and 80's period. And that is precisely the reason why so many people were eagerly awaiting this DVD, to see these classic songs performed with the original artists (i.e. including Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker, Hermann Rarebell).So it is outrageous and unforgivable that several of the old classics performed that night, and that you cannot get anywhere on DVD with the original artists, (Dark Lady, He's a Woman, She's a Man, Dynamite, In Search of the Piece of Mind) were edited out!!! Instead, what they left in includes a drum solo, and some mediocre new songs that you can see on any Scorpions DVD....!This is so disappointing. The music industry has a sad history of deliberately crippling best of's and live concerts so that no "definitive" release can ever see the light, but this is one of the most blatant examples ever! (And don't tell me it is because they had some kind of technical problem that they eliminated those songs, because (a) the audio stream of the concert that you can find on the web sounds fine and (b) they claim that it is precisely because of remastering that it took them over a year to release this, so they had plenty of opportunities to remedy any problem). My advice: better wait until a proper version of this concert is released or circulated via p2p.