CALIFORNIAAAARRRR!!!!!! THERE IS NO ONE LIKE YOUUUUUUU!!!
Heavy metal live album checklist:
Double album....check
Gatefold sleeve....check
List of tour dates...check
list of road crew....check
Inside picture of playing before ridiculously large crowd....check
Heavily weighted towards last album....check
Some tracks recorded in California...check
Features extended instrumental guitar solo....check
Extensive call and return crowd participation....check
Live pictures with loads of spandex....check
Lets Rock!!!
The double live album was a Metal institution in the eighties and if you didn't have one out you weren't really classed as a heavy weight. This was the Scorpions second one, the first being the Tokyo Tapes which featured all the songs I didn't know so I never ended up buying it. The Scorpions are to my knowledge the largest Heavy Rock band to come out of Germany and have been around in some form or other for as long as the Rolling Stones.
World Wide Live was compiled from the huge 'Love at first sting' tour and didn't have as many wishy washy ballads they were keen on peppering their albums with. In case your not familiar with the scorpions they made songs called 'Rock you like a hurricane' which featured lyrics like this:
The bitch is hungry
She needs to tell
So give her inches
And feed her well
She needs to tell
So give her inches
And feed her well
Which gave them the image of hard rockin, hard lovin ladies men. Incidentally, they looked like this:
The Scorpions would unfathomably go on to single handedly bring down the Iron Curtain with their whistle-athon hit Wind of Change in 1991. You don't believe me but its true. They even recorded a Russian version of it and it is now international law that all stock footage of the Berlin Wall being torn down to have Wind of change playing in the background. Although this is the best use I have seen for a long time in the Black Ops trailer.
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