Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes [LP] Outdoor Solar Outlet Spirit in Black

Spirit in Black

emerging at night to slash open cacti and drink the fermented sap within

ever-ready backbeat form something greater than their parts

guitarist and researcher of musical arcana who hasn't let his increasingly technical expertise and idiomatic mastery compromise the clarity of his vision

2002) and on split records with Vinterriket ('Schnee I'

Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes [LP] Outdoor Solar Outlet Spirit in BlackWhile The Scorpions were still slowly trudging their way up in Europe, they were already a recognised force in Japan, and "Virgin Killer" was the first album to be gilded in the land of the rising sun. So it was high time for the first trip to the Far East. Four months after the release of TAKEN BY FORCE, the group arrived in Tokyo in 1978. Four concerts were scheduled, one each in Osaka and Nagoya and two in Tokyo's Nakano Sun Plaza. These two shows