Greeno said:
Damn!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, everyone can stop bragging about who they've seen live back in the day...... Hawk wins hands down!!!! That is amazing, Hawk! I would guess that you are in an elite group there. How many shows did they play, maybe 100, since they we're black listed in England. Then the tour of America's deep south only to get to San Fran and break up... "you ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
Where did you see them?
I saw them in Eindhoven, my old home town
here in the Netherlands. Eindhoven is also the home of the famous Dynamo Open Air festival. The place were I saw them was
De Effenaar
Do you know that when they were playing in Texas Johnny Rotten told the audience that all cowboy's were a bunch of faggots? Then the Sex Pistold had to leave in a hurry...
I'll tell you something else...
It was the night of the 16th of february 1979. I was standing inline at the Effenaar to see a Scorpions concert. They just released "Lovedrive" and replaced their long time guitarplayer Uli Roth with [what I though] was an inferior replacement; Matthias Jabs. My favorite guitarplayers in those days were Michael Schenker, Alex Lifeson and Uli Roth.
Just before me in the line I heard a few guy's talking and getting very excited. "It's Schenker I tell you" one guy told his friend. "Naa I don't believe you" said the other guy. "Really, I am telling you, there are TWO flying V's on stage NOT one." My heart started racing. What the hell!!??
I knew that Micheal Schenker had left UFO a few weeks before. Could it be that..???
It was...
For this tour he had joined up with the band of his brother. That night I saw Scorpions perform with Michael Schenker on lead guitar. The crowd went wild. They chanted: Schenker, Schenker, Schenker, whenever they could get above the music. It was a magic gig, and I remember distinctly they played "Lipstick traces" from the first UFO album.
This is still my favorite concert memory. I am a bit amazed that I still remember it so well.
The night after The Effenaar in Eindhoven they played at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. After the Paradiso gig Micheal Shenker disapeared into nowhere [pulling a Schenker on them.
] Scorpions had get Jabs upto date fast so that they could continue their tour.
So, now it's time for granddad to take his nap...
Sebastian is an awesome frontman, forgot him. And yep Edguy are awesome, if ya get a chance to see them then do so. I'm certainly not a power metal fan but man these guys ROCKED. And tight as hell too! I saw 2 shows, one of them was an intimate show with dinner at a medieval castle outside of a country town!
to you, my man.
