The
famous band SCORPIONS was founded by Rudolf Schenker in 1964 but
It wasn't yet known.
Rudolf Schenker was the lead vocalist
and rhythm guitarist, Karl-Heinz Vollmer the lead guitarist, Wolfgang
Dziony the drummer, and Achin Kirchoff the bass player... The
Lead guitarist and the drummer has left the band, and the first album Lonesome
Crow (1972) was recorded with Klaus Meine on Vocals, Michael
Schenker - who is the brother of Rudolf - on lead guitars, and
Lothar Heimberg on bass.
On
the second album Fly To Rainbow (1974) Lothar Heimberg was
replaced by Francis Buchholz -that has served the band for a long
time - and Michael Schenker was replaced by Ulrich Roth. By
that time, there was some changes in the band, two drummers came respectively:
Jurgen Rosenthal and Rudy Lenners, and the scorps have released
two albums: In Trance (1975) and Virgin Killer (1976).
The
fifth album Taken By Force (1977) was recoded again with another
drummer Herman Rarebell, But Ulrich Roth Left the band because he
has found out that it wasn't the way he wanted to go, and he was replaced
by Mathhias Jabs and the band has recorded another studio album
Lovedrive (1979). Nothing has changed in the band lineup then. The
Scorpions became step by step the best Western Band in the world. Especially
On Blackout (1982), and Love At First Sting(1984), that has
doubled blackout with it's famous song "Still Loving You".
After Love
at First Sting, the Scorpions had released three albums: World Wide
Live (1985), Savage Amusement (1988),
and Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads (1989).
In 1990, A very important MASTERPIECE vas released: A new album by the
Scorpions: Called Crazy World (1990), and the most famous song by
the Scorpions was included in this album, It was Called "Wind Of Change".
In 1992 after the Crazy World Tour, The Bass Player Francis Buccholz
has sadly decided to leave the band after serving it for 20 years. Nobody
knows the reson for that, but he was immediatly replaced by another great
bass player Ralph Rieckermann, who has recorded with the band as
the first album for him: Face The Heat (1993), that was a very heavy
one, and unexpected style for the Scorpions.
In
1995, The Band has released out a new live album Live Bites (1995),
but again, Herman Rarebell has sadly left the band just after that
album was released. Herman Rarebell, a very important drummer that
has served the band for 18 years, became a solo musician and he called
himself "Herman Ze German". In 1996, The Band have released another
new album Pure Instinct (1996) with a new drummer Curt Cress,
and they have also included another instuments in this album like Percussion
played by Pitti Hecht, and keyboard played by Luke Herzog
and Koen van Bael. Crurt Cress has also left the band after
this album and was replaced by James Kottak the current drummer
And now, in the end of this millennium, The Scorpions has released
another masterpiece album Eye To Eye (1999), That has sold in the
first month of its apparition more than 35000 CD, and it was in all the
countries one of the most selling albums, and one of the best albums in
the charts. For example, it was No.7 in my country "Lebanon" , No.2 in
"Malysia", No.1 in the International RIM Charts... In This album,
the scorps have introduced new instuments like Piano and Keyboard played
by Peter Wolf the producer of the album, Sitar Guitar played by
Rudolf Schenker, and Voice Box and Mandolin played by Matthias Jabs.
Thet have also called famous stars to sing and play with them some tracks,
like for example, on track 8, Michelle Wolf sings Backing Vocals.
On track 4, Mick Jones plays Acoustic Guitars. On track 7, Siedah
Garrett, Michelle Wolf, Lynn Davis, James Ingram, Phil Perry and Kevin
Dorsey on Backing Vocals and On track 5, Herman Rarebell sings
some backing vocals.