Is it really nearly 30 years since this long-awaited “classic reunion” album was released? In hindsight it was already the beginning of the end (again), but what a glorious return to form from the “classic” line-up of Mogg, Schenker, Way, Raymond and Parker, two of whom have now sadly left us (Pete Way and Paul Raymond in 2020 and 2019…
Kasbah nightclub in Coventry, well known tacky haunt of students from both the city’s Universities, seemed an unlikely place to host a Uli Jon Roth gig but turned out to me a nice intimate setting, with surprisingly good acoustics. One of the early dates of his 50th Anniversary tour, covering material from across his career Scorpions, Electric Sun (including a…
Revisiting the awesome Scorpions live album of 1978, both the original and revisited recorded live at the Nakano Sun Plaza in Japan. The latter with Nathan James on vocals. A great live accompaniment to the Scorpions Revisited album, also by Uli Jon Roth released in 2015. Line-up mostly the usual suspects: Uli Jon Roth (guitar) Nathan James (vocals) Jamie Little…
UFO kicked off another tour last night at the Assembly in Leamington Spa (UK), and being my local venue how could I not go along? The Assembly is a wonderful little “art-deco” style venue, opened in 2008 after extensive redevelopment designed by Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen (I kid you not). As well as the front of house decor, it features one of the…
