Scorpions / Geoff Tate

On June 11th I went with my Padre to see the almighty Scorpions on their "The Final Sting" farewell tour... but I also saw them in 2010 on their "Get Your Sting & Blackout" farewell tour. I'm pretty positive that I'll see them again one day, I don't think it will be a long retirement.

It started around 8 with Geoff Tate of Queensrÿche. It was suppose to be the entire band, but apparently the other members up and started a new band, leaving Geoff behind. The new band is called Rising West and is fronted by the singer of Crimson Glory. But here's what I don't understand: the band Rising West only does covers songs from the first 5 Queensrÿche albums... why not just stay with Geoff and say, "Hey man, I wanna play more old stuff"? Anyways, Geoff did something pretty cool. He did an acoustic Queensrÿche set with his solo band. It was very bluesy and much slower paced, but his voice was amazing. That's all that really matters. I would pay big bucks to hear Geoff Tate sing even acapella, so acoustic was fine by me.

Around 9 Scorpions came out on stage. Their set was interesting, it was extremely different from their 2010 set, which is cool. They are such great musicians, they are one of my favorite bands. I just hope they make at LEAST one more amazing album, because (as I've posted before) I don't feel like "Sting In The Tail" was a good farewell album. It took a couple of songs for Klaus Meine's vocals to get warmed up to the range we all love, and for a man who is 64 at the time of this concert he is still an amazing Metal vocalist. They played for about 1.5 hours and did a 3 song encore. The only two things I didn't enjoy about the concert were that they didn't play long enough and they weren't loud enough!

So Scorpions, please enjoy a few years off, but at least one more album and tour before you get too old. That would be much appreciated, sincerely The Metal Missionary.