Finally I am loosing all the respect I once felt for this band since I was a young boy…is hard and sad and I would feel even worse if I would have attended the show we are talking about. Some months ago I opened a topic about the feeling that something was going wrong since 2011 autum. Instead of finding new reasons to once again respect them as I used to, all I found in front of me were strange decisions, that seemed to put me more and more far from the scorpions.
Probably you will know this website
http://www.radiometal.com http://www.radiometal.com/article/nancy ... fans,72198well here we have a …more than complete review of Nancy show, it is a long article, I suggest you use a translator, I will put you just the most important points of the article. Emilie translated it for me a few minutes ago, and now I have translated it to English so there might be some gramatical errors of mine.
Maybe this post will be deleted or I will be banned, I hope not but well, here it is:
The Journalist had a press pass with access to backstage, the band arrived at 18pm, and some of them in a bad status… he tried to interview Rudolf and he was quite drunk, but when Pawel and James arrived Rudolf seemed as fresh as a rose if you compared him to the other 2, so a big part of the band was in bad shape and everyone could notice specially the James performance. It seems they had a big party after the show in Belgium. He says he had never seen a band in that status going to a show.
Later he says about the band’s message on this website, the James message is ok, but that the scorpions message is… a surprise after what happened there…
First the company "music for ever" booked the show many months ago, so he phoned the company yesterday, the company said that the idea of reunion show was talked with the band, as they have a long relation because they are the company who brought them to france for the first times in the old days so they agreeded orally to do a renunion there. So also the former scorpions agreeded to do a reunion show there.
So why didn’t Michael come why one song with Uli? Why no Herman or Rudi?
First Michael Schenker’s manager and organization of the festival received an e mail from the scorpions team the 24th of May wich said that the scorpions did not want to play with Michael, neither with Uli, Herman and nobody… with no explanation, they just didn’t wanted…
The journalist gives his opinion that the reason could be the Michael Schenker tour with francis… so that’s the reason why Michael did not go to Nancy.
In the very last moment they agreeded to play with Uli but just one song. Herman was there (as we know for a promise to play the sails of charon) and also Rudi Lenners, but the band did not want to play with them, so they stayed in the backstage.
The journalist says that this must have been a sad situation for Michael specially, after all they are brothers. He also says that Rudolf in meetings with crazyscorps said that the nancy show will be something spectacular and that if Rudolf wanted it he could have make peace between all of them, and that the band could have said all the changes with much more time, because they told the changes to the festival with very littler time, an shameless attitude of a professional band. Because all of them, band, management etc etc knew that the meening of the nancy show was the reunion and people would go there specially for that.
The journalist was backstage also in the Geneva’s show in Switzerland (4th November 2011), and there the band members told him about a reunion show in Nancy.
He says that we can see the intention of the band of washing their hands in the message of the website here (we were not aware of the show…)
Michael’s final decition to not to go to Nancy was done a few hours before the festival (it seems he was hoping for a change until the last minute)
The journalist asked music forever why they did not cancel the show if there was not going to be a reunion, and the advertisements were a lie. And the company answer was that for respect to the fans who went there to see other bands and the scorpions they did not cancel. (They are not saints neither)
The promoters of music for ever had to adapt to the last minute’s high demands of the scorpions.
The scorpions, surprising everyone, forced Uli Jon Roth to play after the scorpions when half of the people would have left the place… it seems because they wanted to go back as soon as possible to Germany.
He says we must admire Uli because even with all the problems he had, he did a fantastic show. Backstage Uli was in a very very strange mood and he was more than surprised to play one single song with the scorpions.
Uli said it was that it was sad he could not play more songs, because it could have saved a little James and Pawel’s performance, because they were too drunk to play properly..
The journalist conclusion is that a lot was expected for nancy on the rocks, it was supposed to be a big moment, thanks to the scorpiosn managers and promoters it was not.
Many disappointed fans have decided to do boycott to the shows in France in November.
I will always listen to their music but as I said my respect for them is now more or less completely gone. I am considering seriously not going to the Munich's show, but after all I have my reasons for going but not precisely the happiness I used to feel of going to a show, but things would have to change a lot before I decide to buy another ticket.