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Legacy Recordings is proud to announce the domestic release of two essential new titles from the seminal metal band Scorpions: Comeblack, a new album of classic rock covers and fresh performances of signature repertoire recorded earlier this year, and Get Your Sting and Blackout – Live in 3D, available on Blu-ray disc, an 11-camera 3-D concert film recorded in Saarbrucken, Germany on April 15, 2011 during Scorpions current farewell tour.

Launched by guitarist Rudolf Schenker in 1965, Scorpions forged metal, rock and pop into a sound that’s come to signify an entire genre through hard rock anthems like “Rock You Like A Hurricane” and hits like “Send Me An Angel,” “Wind of Change” and “Still Loving You,” selling more than 100 million records in the process.

Last year, Scorpions announced that the group’s Get Your Sting and Blackout tour, an epic ongoing worldwide rock ‘n’ roll odyssey in support of 2010′s Sting in the Tail, would be the group’s last before retirement. The tour is slated to run through 2012 with a string of historic farewell blowouts and festival performances scheduled Europe culminating with shows at the Wacken Open Air festival (August 4, 2012) and Munich’s Olympiahalle (October 13, 2012).

Wanting to create a truly memorable concert film to do justice to power of the live show and the high energy emotional impact of the final tour, Scorpions chronicled the sold-out concert on April 15, 2011 in Saarbrucken, Germany with a state-of-the-art 3D production. Helmed by director Gerd F. Schultze (who’s worked on 3D films with Michael Jackson, Bryan Adams, Joe Cocker, Carlos Santana and German superstar Peter Maffay), Get Your Sting and Blackout – Live in 3D puts the viewer into the VIP box at the ultimate Scorpions concert. In addition to 100 minutes of pure Scorpions music, Get Your Sting and Blackout – Live in 3D includes more than half-an-hour of behind-the-scenes bonus material.

“The preview audience was absolutely euphoric and stunned by the intensity and the never-before-witnessed power and intimacy in which they were able to experience the Scorpions’ fantastic concert,” said Gerd Schultze following a theatrical screening of the film. “The people left the screening with a completely new and never-before-seen concert experience and wanted to watch it all over straight away. Part of the reason is, that we have managed to create an unbelievable 3D depth with a specially developed method, which is very pleasant to watch. Using the new camera technology, we managed to translate 3D in the cut and montage technique in a style that will meet the expectations of a first class product even in ten years time. It makes you feel like you’re sitting in the VIP lounge amidst the audience through this 11 camera 3D concert staging and its monstrous 5.1 surround and stereo sound. At the same time, The Scorpions perform their unbelievably powerful and visually un ique show with all their hits live in your living room. This is pure dynamite … fasten seat belts and take off … into the third dimension.”

“Saarbrucken was a very good choice,” wrote the band in a press statement, “our fans were simply sensational and gave us the chance to thank them for their many years of support.”

Get Your Sting and Blackout – Live in 3D – Blu-ray The Set List:
Intro
Sting In The Tail
Make It Real
Bad Boys Running Wild
The Zoo
Coast To Coast
Loving You Sunday Morning
The Best Is Yet To Come
Send Me An Angel
Holiday
Raised On Rock
Tease Me, Please Me
Dynamite
Kottak Attack
Blackout
Six String Sting
Big City Nights
Still Loving You
Wind Of Change
Rock You Like A Hurricane
When The Smoke Is Going Down

At some point during the Get Your Sting and Blackout tour (“We can’t remember the day, the month or the hour“), Scorpions, enjoying the success of Sting in the Tail and the emotional rejuvenation of the farewell tour (“Screaming fans everywhere we went!“) decided to record one last classic album. “The idea to go back to the studio was born out of pure excitement,” said the band who cut an album mixing covers of rock ‘n’ roll standards that informed and inspired the Scorpions alongside new productions and performances of the songs in the band’s core catalog that have proved the most meaningful to the members.

The result, Comeblack, is, according to the band, “an encore for our die-hard fans, to thank them for all the support for so many years. At the same time, this is a tribute to legendary bands from the sixties, like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, who have inspired us to follow our dreams. We hope you like it as much as we do… Rock on and … Comeblack.”

Scorpions – Comeblack – tracklisting
Rhythm of Love
No One Like You
The Zoo
Rock You Like A Hurricane
Blackout
Wind of Change
Tainted Love (Gloria Jones/Marc Almond)
Children of the Revolution (T. Rex)
Across the Universe (The Beatles)
Tin Soldier (Small Faces)
All Day and All of the Night (The Kinks)
Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones)





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The SCORPIONS announced this year that they will leave it all on the stage after 40+ years of entertaining fans worldwide. The band is currently out on their Get Your Sting And Blackout farewell world tour and will hit the states Friday, June 18th to kick off the North American leg in Holmdel, NJ.
The German rockers will be bring their heavy, full-on, electrically charged energy to major cities across the US including Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver and many more as they celebrate the success of their latest and final album Sting In The Tail. Special guests on the tour will include VINCE NEIL, CINDERELLA, GREAT WHITE, DOKKEN, RATT, TESLA supporting along the way. The full tour itinerary is below.
Thus far the Scorpions have taken the Get Your Sting And Blackout farewell world tour to Germany, Switzerland and France and received rave reviews.
Claus Meine continues to thank their loyal fans and invite them out to the biggest party of the year: “We are so incredibly happy about the fantastic feedback we have been receiving from around the world on Sting In The Tail. We can’t wait to see our fans soon!”

Tour dates:
June (with Cinderella)
18 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
19 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
22 – Wantagh, NY – Jones Beach Theater
June (with Vince Neil)
23 – Gilford, NH – Meadowbrook Amphitheatre
June (with Cinderella)
25 – Quebec City, QC – Pavillion de la Juenesse
26 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
27 – Toronto, ON – Molson Amphitheatre
30 – Columbus, OH – LC Outdoor Amphitheatre
July (with Cinderalla)
1 – Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
2 – Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest
5 – Pittsburgh, PA – Amphitheatre at Station Square
July (with Great White)
6 – Cleveland, OH – Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre
July (with Cinderella)
8 – Sarnia, ON – Sarnia Bayfest Festival
July (with Ratt)
10 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
11 – Memphis, TN – Mud Island
14 – Atlanta, GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
16 – Miami, FL – Bayfront Park Amphitheatre
17 – Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheatre
19 – New Orleans, LA – Mahalia Jackson Theatre
21 – Grand Prairie, TX – Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
23 – San Antonio, TX – AT&T Center
July (with Cinderella)
24 – Oklahoma City, OK – Oklahoma City Zoo Amphitheatre
July (with Tesla)
26 – Albuquerque, NM – The Pavilion
27 – Phoenix, AZ – Dodge Theater
July (with Cinderella)
29 – Ontario, CA – Citizen’s Business Bank Arena
31 – Los Angeles, CA – Nokia Theatre
August (with Cinderella)
1 – San Francisco, CA – Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord
3 – Las Vegas, NV – Thomas & Mack Center
August (with Ratt)
4 – Sacramento, CA – Raley Field
August (with Dokken)
6 – Roseburg, OR – Douglas County Fairgrounds
7 – Ridgefield, WA – Amphitheatre at Clark County
August (support TBA)
9 – Calgary, AB – Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
10 – Edmonton, AB – Shaw Conference Center
13 – Sturgis, SD – Buffalo Chip Campground
14 – Billings, MT – Montana Fair
August (with Tesla, Jackyl)
16 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA Amphitheatre
August (with Cinderella)
17 – Denver, CO – 1st Bank Center
August (with Dokken)
20 – Moline, IL – I Wireless Center
August (with MSG)
21 – Chicago, IL – The Rosemont

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