1999-04-19  Budapest, Hungary, Congress Center

 

Setlist:

White Dove
To Be No.1

Line up:

Klaus Meine - vocals
Rudolf Schenker - rhythm guitars
Matthias Jabs - lead guitars
Ralph Rieckermann - bass
James Kottak - drums

Special guest:

Gabor Presser - piano

 

Total time: 8 minutes

Comment:

This is very rare material. The band was in Budapest because he promoted their new album Eye II Eye. There was an autograph session in a local multipley center. At evening the band played as a special guest in a famous hungarian award in the Budapest Congress Center. The Gilden Giraffe Gala where the local publicists and a jury vote for the best hungarian bands of the year in different categories. Well, the Scorpions played here two acoustic songs. The first song was 'White Dove' what is a conversion of an old hungarian band Omega from the late 60's. There was a special guest on the piano...Gabor Presser. He wrote the music of the original version of it.
The second song was the 'To Be No.1' what was their new single and had been played in the hungarian TV chanels just few weeks before. My opinion is that this work is one of the worsts song of the band. I know this is a facetious and ironical song but think it's a totaly different as the Scorpions-style. Besides this acoustic version is very interesting and I like it.

Quality:

The material is excelent soundbore quality. I recorded from a hungarian TV chanel with my stereo VHS recorded. I ripped the sound and burned to disc. Perfect stuff!