For those who have not yet been stung by the mighty Scorpions’ latest concert tour, "The Best Is Yet To Come."
Although the band recently wrapped a triumphant 38-show tour of North America on Saturday (8/21) in Chicago at the (sold out in advance) Rosemont Theatre, they are now booking more US shows next summer since their overseas tour commitments had prevented them from adding more US shows this year.
The group will hit cities they did not get a chance to perform in. The Scorpions are now on a brief break and will resume their "
Get Your Sting And Blackout World Tour 2010" tour September 4 in Mexico and South America before heading back to Europe with dates confirmed through November 27 in their German homeland.
The farewell tour by the iconic band - Klaus Meine (vocals), Matthias Jabs (lead guitar), Rudolf Schenker (guitar), James Kottak (drums) and Pawel Maciwoda (bass) - is in support of their latest album Sting In The Tail (Universal Music Enterprises). It entered the US chart at #23, marking the band’s highest chart debut in over 20 years.
The Scorpions’ tour - in celebration of 40-plus years in music - has been a massive success in a soft touring economy, with the group filling many of the arenas they performed at in the United States and Canada.
In a recent interview (8/21/10) with Billboard’s Ray Waddell, lead singer Klaus Meine said, "What can I say? It’s a celebration… We feel we owe it to our fans and ourselves to keep this energy level. What we pull off every night on this tour, we want to keep it that way to the very last show. We don’t want to see ourselves rocking like a hurricane when it’s not a hurricane anymore."
Of the touring climate right now, Waddell said, "Scorpions numbers are solid in a summer where consistency is treasured."
Meine adds that it "feels great to do this final curtain thing on our own terms and not to wait until this whole thing breaks apart. To see these emotional reactions every night means a lot."
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