Still Loving You...

It's too early for business. For a little bit of fun...

Last night, I saw my favorite band from my teenage years, the Scorpions, who played at the county fair with UFO as an opening act (No, Michael Schenker never came out, even though he played for both bands and lives here in The OC).

While I'm not a huge fan of UFO, and didn't really know any of their songs, they put on a great performance. But I've got to say, the Scorps have still got it in a big way. Now in their late 50s, these guys haven't gone the way of most washed up rock bands. Their performance last night was better than when I last saw them in 1990. They've still got a big sound, a lively show and they performed flawlessly.

They played surprisingly few new songs. There was only one song from their relatively-new Eye II Eye album, but for the rest of the show, they stuck with the classics like Rock You Like a Hurricane, No One Like You, Blackout, Bad Boys Running Wild, and Still Loving You and even threw in a few surprise "pre-classics" songs, like In Trance (1975) and He's a Woman - She's a Man (1977). For some reason, they closed out the show with the down-beat ballad, When the Smoke is Going Down. A bit of an anti-climactic ending, but overall it was an amazing concert. If you are (or were) a Scorps fan, this is a fun, must-see show.