SCORPIONS Announce North American Farewell Tour Dates
February 29, 2012, 12 years ago
German hard rock legends the SCORPIONS have announced a string of North American "farewell" dates on their Get Your Sting And Blackout tour. More dates will be announced soon along with a very special guest that's rumoured to be the MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP which will see an encore jam with Michael Schenker and Herman Rarebell, both former members who are touring as MSG now.
Confirmed dates are:
June
8 - Reno, NV - Reno Events Center9 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheater
11 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
12 - Denver, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
14 - Albuquerque, NM - Hard Rock Pavilion
15 - Phoenix, AZ - Comerica Theatre
17 - Tucson, AZ - Anselmo Valencia Amphitheater
20 - San Diego, CA - Valley View Center Arena
22 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
23 - Las Vegas, NV - Thomas & Mack Center
27 - Grand Prairie, TX - Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
29 - Chicago, IL - Charter One Pavilion
30 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
July
2 - Toronto, ON - Molson Canadian Amphitheater3 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre
6 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
7 - Wantagh, NY - Jones Beach Theater
11 - Philadelphia, PA - Mann Center for Performing Arts
12 - Washington D.C. - Merriweather Post Pavilion
About the band's commitment to retirement, guitarist Rudolf Schenker told BraveWords.com earlier this: "We told the fans, when we started the world tour, and we told the media, that this will be the last tour and the last studio album. And we will stick to it. Comeblack is a side-project. It’s something that we did, but there are no new songs on it. We have our library; in our warehouse, we have tons of bonus material. Remember from the vinyl days, there were only nine songs on an album, and we always recorded around 14, to find out of the 14 or 15, which songs we wanted to put on the album. So we have a lot of songs, and what we want to do, especially after we finish, we want to give the fans a box or something, maybe with bonus tracks from the Scorpions, and maybe another film on DVD or Blu-ray, with a live concert of The Scorpions, which will be happening the end of 2012, the beginning of 2013.”
Read the entire interview here.
