{"id":20677,"date":"2012-06-27T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=20677"},"modified":"2013-02-05T17:30:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T22:30:40","slug":"live-scorpions-with-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2012\/live-scorpions-with-tesla\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE! | Scorpions with Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by Craig Newman<\/span><br \/>\nGuest Writer &#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>June 22, 2012 at the Staples Center at Los Angeles, CA<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/154a.jpg\" alt=\"Rudolph Schenker\" title=\"Rudolph Schenker\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/154a.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/154a-133x200.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>For four decades the Scorpions have given us quality rock music with love, relationships, party and politics in their music and lyrics with respect.  The band is currently on their two year farewell tour, <em>Get Your Sting and Blackout<\/em>, in support of their 18th studio album <em>Sting in the Tail<\/em>. Rudolph Schenker, Mathias Jabs and Klaus Meine are older but their venom is still potent. The band also features drummer James Kottak and bassist Pawel Maciwoda who are the rhythmic force driving the music. <\/p>\n<p>The show opened with \u201cSting in the Tail\u201d and \u201cMake it Real.\u201d An energized Rudolph Schenker worked the stage like a pro, running from the stage to the catwalk and back again, time has not slowed this ageless veteran. Schenker changed his guitar to his signature Flying V throughout the evening. With a 22 song set list, the crowd sang along to classic Scorpion songs like; \u201cBlackout,\u201d \u201cThe Zoo,\u201d \u201cSend Me an Angel,\u201d and \u201cLoving You Sunday Morning.\u201d The band encored with \u201cRock You Like A Hurricane,\u201d featuring Kottak performing a drum solo, along with \u201cStill Loving You\u201d and \u201cWinds of Change.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/236a.jpg\" alt=\"Scorpions\" title=\"Scorpions\" width=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/236a.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/236a-133x200.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Opening the show was California\u2019s North Bay area rockers Tesla. They energized the crowd performing \u201cCumin Atcha Live,\u201d \u201cLove Song,\u201d \u201cModern Cowboy\u201d and the \u201970s song \u201cSigns.\u201d  It is good to see they are still performing and will be on the Monsters of Rock cruise in 2013. <\/p>\n<p>Along with the \u201colder\u201d generation of fans, they are now plenty of new faces in the crowd,  made up of children of parents, relatives and friends, showing their support for these bands from the \u201870s and \u201880s. This in turn helps keep the music of these artists alive, regardless of the lack of radio airplay supporting this genre of rock n\u2019 roll and heavy metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">by Craig Newman Guest Writer &#8212; June 22, 2012 at the Staples Center at Los Angeles, CA For four decades the Scorpions have given us quality rock music with love, relationships, party and politics in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2012\/live-scorpions-with-tesla\/\" title=\"LIVE! | Scorpions with Tesla\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6816],"tags":[674,909,164,334,735,1079],"class_list":{"0":"post-20677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-arcconrvw2012","7":"tag-concert","8":"tag-klaus-meine","9":"tag-live","10":"tag-review","11":"tag-scorpions","12":"tag-tesla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}