Product: Scorpions: Live at Wacken Open Air 2006 (2008)
Rating: 5.0
The lack of a distribution deal in the U.S. once again delays a Scorps release :(
A brilliant concert, beautifully filmed at the Wacken Music Festival in 2006, showcasing one of the world's truly best and enduring rock bands - SCORPIONS - "A Night to Remember / A Journey Through Time", with special guests: former guitarists - Uli Jon Roth & Michael Schenker, with an appearance by Tyson Schenker and former skin's man - Herman Rarebell.The Scorpions 26 song set sizzles - Rudy and Matthias never have sounded better, their guitar playing absolutely brilliant!!! (Check out Rudy's yoga headstand during the "Bolero" encore - the man is truly ageless and his energy, inspiring to all. The rhythm section of Pawel Maciwoda (bass) & James Kottak (drums), a high powered engine moving the songs to new heights.Klaus Meine, for this listener is one of the rock world's greatest singer/frontmen (warts and all here), a powerful presence anytime he sets foot on stage.These guys continue to amaze and thankfully appear to NOT, be slowing down, their last three records: "Unbreakable", "Scorpions - Acoustica" (Live from Portugal) & "Humanity - Hour I ", are right up there, with the best they've ever released!!!As of January 2008, this DVD continues to be held up, release-wise, by lack of a proper U.S. distribution deal.Reasons : UNKNOWN??? - bad management, or a lame record industry perhaps?! It has been released in Europe & Asia (most of the world for that matter)and is available at Amazon UK, France and Germany, but that only helps those here in the States, with Euro-Zone (Zone 2) DVD players.RECENTLY HOWEVER, it's been released in Canada and available at Amazon Canada and that edition will play in U.S. DVD players. It costs abit more, the dollar not being what is once was (We all know who to blame for that) but is a must have for all Scorps fans! I am loving my copy, with delivery time to the States being pretty fast. Enjoy this one folks, it's a keeper!Rock On!