2008-10-25  Strasbourg, France, Zenith

 

Setlist:

Hour 1
Coming Home
Bad Boys Running Wind
The Zoo
No Pain No Gain
Coast To Coast
Send Me An Angel
Holiday
Pictured Life
**
He's A Woman - She's A Man
*
Dark Lady
*
In Trance *
Fly To The Rainbow *
321
Dynamite
Kottak Attack & Band's Drum Jam
Blackout ***
Big City Nights
Still Loving You
Humanity
Wind Of Change
No One Like You
***
Rock You Like A Hurricane ****

* w/ Uli Jon Roth
** w/ Uli Jon Roth and Rudy Lenners
*** w/ Herman Rarebell
**** w/ all four of them

Line up:

Klaus Meine - vocals
Rudolf Schenker - rhythm guitars
Matthias Jabs - lead guitars
Pawel Maciwoda - bass
James Kottak - drums

Special guest:

Uli Jon Roth - lead guitars
Herman Rarebell - drums
Rudy Lenners - drums


Total time: 131 minutes

Comment:

Well I really don't know what I should have to begin...This was my next trip for a Scorpions concert after the Bratislava show in the summer of 2007. I had been really exited because the tickets had been sold out few weeks before the show and we got promise to a backstage pass again. What we got it at afternoon so we could be in the soundcheck also.
When James was beginning his drum part after the intro the arena was full what is about 11.000 people. The band was with full of energy. Maybe the highest of my all Scorpions concerts in my life. We stood in front of Rudy at the middle left of the main floor. The setlist had been changed a little bit after the UK concerts because Uli played five songs with the Scorps here. (In the UK he had been there with his own band as the supporting act before the Scorions so he just played only 1 or 2 tracks with them) After the Colmar show in 2005, Rudy Lenners was one of the special guests here. But now he played whole song by the Scorps...the Pictured Life! The Uli part was fantastic! I just missed a little bit one of the biggest classics 'We'll Burn The Sky' from the 70's years. But my other fav 'Fly To The Rainbow' recompensed me. There was a special moment of the show when I could play on Pawel's bass guitar at the end of the 'Coast To Coast'. :) The band's drum jam was more special than before because the two guests drummers also played by the band on it. Great minutes...! Later there was the only one mistake of the performance when anything should happened by Matthias' guitar so the middle of the 'Blackout' had been a totaly kaos. But the final part was perfect again. Herman returned to the stage in 'No One Like You' again and the stage had been full with musicians in the last song 'Rock You Like A Hurricane' where everybody jammed in one of the most success and popular Scorps song.
There was a really national show because so many people came from all Europe to see the reunion concert again. Klaus introduced it between two songs! I fell myself so lu(c)ky because I could be there!

Quality:

The quality is not bad. A little bit more bass than it should has to be but enough enjoyable.