Product Details

• Actors: Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, Herman Rarebell
• Format: Color, DVD, Import, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sony Bmg Europe
• DVD Release Date: February 12, 2008
• Run Time: 139 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00102FELM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,502 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #14 in Music > World Music > Europe > Continental Europe > Germany

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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Five star performance, 3-star production, March 2, 2008

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Ryan Seek "trans-siberian_outcast" (Maricopa, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scorpions: Live at Wacken Open Air 2006 (DVD)

Well, after months of hearing about it, my most anticipated DVD of 2008 finally arrived and I have mixed feelings. From a performance standpoint, this is an AWESOME show featuring guest appearances by ex-Scorps Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth, and Herman Rarebell. The addition of these great musicians for a one-night reunion is a blessing for those of us who listened to the Scorpions long before Rock You Like a Hurricane took the mainstream rock world by storm in the early 80s. All musicians are at the top of their game, and enjoying themselves on this special night.

Unfortunately, as is often the case with DVDS these days, this suffers from the dreaded MTV-video style editing throughout, causing even non-epileptics to go into seizures after awhile. Special guest guitarists Roth and Schenker deserve more camera time during their brief appearances, but their amazing solos were caught only momentarily in the unyeilding flashing of images.

Camera shots changing every second is fine for a 4 minute video, but it gets really annoying on a concert that stretches over two hours. Someone needs to string these video editors up by the gonads and let them hang for a week on CNN Updates to get the point across. It virtually ruins my ability to just sit and watch the concert all the way through (unless I'm really drunk or multi-tasking).

I also have some issues with the audio. On my 5.1 computer system speakers, the volume is very low and I have to max out all controls to get it to sound anywhere near a rock concert. Also, the bass end is lost in the mix and I had to really boost up both my EQ and subwoofer to get some PUNCH out of this show. When I did that, the bass guitar was just a rumbly drone.

In contrast, on my television's old-school tower speakers with a modern subwoofer, the over-all volume level is fine (probably because of the amplifier), but again the bass guitar is distorted when I tune the subwoofer to kick me with the drums. A legendary concert of this magnitude deserves a better mix in my opinion.

I do have to give the audio engineers credit on the 5.1 surround mix though, it is a fantastic use of the technology. Really cool stereo/front-rear effects, and they are featured throughout. Hearing it on my tv's stereo system just doesn't do it justice compared to the surround.

With the video/audio flaws setting this DVD at 3 stars, the nearly perfect musical performance brings it up to a solid 4 STARS and is still worthy of purchase for any long-time Scorpions fan. My recommendation: BUY IT!

It's probably the best Scorpions concert you'll ever get to see in your living room.

49 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A dream concert!, December 6, 2007

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C. Ruiz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scorpions: Live at Wacken Open Air 2006 (DVD)

This is it! long wait finally ending!, this is a reunion dream show, 26 tracks! all eras covered here! awesome track list:

1.Coming Home
2.Bad Boys Running Wild
3.The Zoo
4.Loving You Sunday Morning
5.Make It Real
6.Pictured Life
7.Speedy's Coming
8.We'll Burn The Sky
9.Love 'em or Leave 'em
10.Don't Believe Her
11.Tease Me Please Me
12.Coast To Coast
13.Holiday
14.Love1drive
15.Another Piece Of Meat
16.Kottak Attack
17.Blackout
18.No One Like You
19.Six String Sting
20.Big City Nights
21.Can't Get Enough
22.Still Loving You
23.In Trance
24.Bolero
25.Ready To Sting (Appearance of the Scorpion)
26.Rock You Like A Hurricane

Read what the band has to say about this magic night at wacken (2006)

SCORPIONS:
Wacken 2006 -- this was a very special concert for us, exciting and challenging and
-- most important of all -- a family reunion.
We wanted our fans to participate, so in summer 2006 we put a set of 50 songs on our homepage for the community to vote. Many of the songs chosen we had on our setlist anyway, but there were also many surprises.
Together with Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth and Herman Rarebell this show at Wacken gave us a great platform to journey through time -- 35 years of SCORPIONS history!
"A Night to remember" it was indeed, a night to remember with an audience of 60.000 die hard metal fans who celebrated with us that the SCORPIONS got the sting and rock you like a Hurricane!
Thanks to everybody... Enjoy the Show!
Musicians on Stage:
Klaus Meine (vocals)
Rudolf Schenker (guitars, backing vocals)
Matthias Jabs (guitars, backing vocals)
James Kottak (drums, backing vocals)
Pawel Maciwoda (bass, backing vocals)
Special Guests:
Uli Jon Roth (guitar) on tracks 6,7,8 and 22,23, 24
Michael Schenker (guitar) on tracks 12,13,14,15 and 22,23, 24
Herman Rarebell (drums) on tracks 17,18 and 24
Tyson Schenker (guitar) on track 24

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Which idiot edited this?, March 19, 2008

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PB000001 (Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scorpions: Live at Wacken Open Air 2006 (DVD)

No arguing over the music here, it is absolutely great. However, I am sooo disappointed with the song selection on this DVD. If they had followed the concert tracklist this would have been the ultimate Scorpions document ever.

This is because the concert tracklist was the result of a vote by the fans on the Wacken website before the event. The fans themselves selected the best Scorpions songs ever. Unsurprisingly, almost all songs that were chosen came from the classic 70's and 80's period. And that is precisely the reason why so many people were eagerly awaiting this DVD, to see these classic songs performed with the original artists.

So it is outrageous and unforgivable that several of the old classics performed that night, and that you cannot get anywhere on DVD with the original artists, (Dark Lady, He's a Woman, She's a Man, Dynamite, In Search of the Piece of Mind) were edited out!!! Instead, what they left in includes a drum solo, and some mediocre new songs that you can see on any Scorpions DVD....!

This is so disappointing. The music industry has a sad history of deliberately crippling best of's and live concerts so that no "definitive" release can ever see the light, but this is one of the most blatant examples ever! (And don't tell me it is because they had some kind of technical problem that they eliminated those songs, because (a) the audio stream of the concert that you can find on the web sounds fine and (b) they claim that it is precisely because of remastering that it took them over a year to release this, so they had plenty of opportunities to remedy any problem). My advice: better wait until a proper version of this concert is released or circulated via p2p.