Concert: Scorpions & Queensryche >> May 10, 2016, The Fabulous Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO
Rock icons, the Scorpions packed the Fabulous Fox Theater in downtown St. Louis on May 10th. Currenty on their 50th anniversary tour, the Scorpions stacked the bill with the legendary Queensryche opening the show. The 4,500 seat Fox was wall-to-wall with enthusiastic rock fans young and old.
The Scorpion’s set covered a kick-ass cross-section of older and newer material spanning the band’s half-century career. Not surprisingly, the highlights of the show that garnered the biggest audience responses, were the classic tunes from their commercial peak represented on the Animal Magnetism, Blackout, and Love at First Sting albums. These three classic records are arguably unparalleled in hard rock history. Crowd favorites such as “Make It Real,” “The Zoo,” “Blackout,” Dynamite,” “No One Like You,” and “Big City Nights” had fists pumping, and are exactly what everyone came to hear. The band brought things way down with an acoustic set of well-known, but softer Scorpions tunes in the middle of their set. Ballads such as “Always Somewhere,” “Eye of the Storm,” Send Me an Angel,” and the big hit, “Winds of Change,” used to bring out the lighters, but now bring out the cell phone lighter-apps.
It was as appropriate as it was predictable that the Scorps would come back out to perform their final two encore songs “Still Loving You,” and “Rock You Like a Hurricane” to close out the night. An exuberant guy behind me kept yelling that this was the “greatest show of his life” at the top of his lungs… and perhaps it was.
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Queensryche performed an impressive, although surprisingly short 8-song set for a band of their caliber and long history. Songs included classic tracks spanning the band’s 34 year career: “Operation Mindcrime,” “Best I Can,” “Empire,” “Jet City Woman,” “Queen of the Reich,” “Take Hold of the Flame,” and “Eyes of a Stranger.” Only one newer track from the 2015 Condition Human album, “Guardian,” made it into the set.
