Sting in the Tail
Occupation
- Vocals: Klaus Meine,
- Rhythm Guitar: Rudolf Schenker,
- Lead Guitar: Matthias Jabs
- Bass: Pawel Maciwoda
- Drums: James Kottak
Sting in the Tail is the seventeenth studio album by German hard rock band Scorpions is loud band also the last studio album to be. For the release of the album, the band launched their farewell tour Get Your Sting and Blackout World Tour.
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After the band at the previous studio album Humanity - Hour I songwriting with Desmond Child, the help of others had claimed, the band sat down again this time more on collaborative songwriting. With the Swedish producers Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen, the band found two fans of the music, which was reflected positively in the compositions according to Rudolf Schenker. In addition to the production duo Robert Ernlund, lead singer of "Treat", and Eric Bazilian of the Hooters also were involved in the compositions. The Swedish Andersson and Hansen were as producer for the recording of song and drum tracks responsible, which were held in separate music studio in Stockholm. The guitar recordings and the mix took place in Germany in the studio of Rudolf Schenker. Has mastered the album at Sterling Sound in New York. In Germany, the album sold 100,000 copies in the first month was honored with a gold record. In January 2011, it also received a platinum record for 200,000 now sell plates.
According to Klaus Meine was the idea of dissolving the band after the album and the accompanying tour, back to the band manager. The band gave the album a " pretty fair conclusion after 40 years of career."
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Reception
The album received mostly positive reviews in the German music press. Ulf Kubanke by the online magazine laut.de called Sting in the Tail a " very Funny [ ... ] piece of music " and " a journey into the absolute heyday of Hard Rock ". Jenny Rönnebeck from Rock Hard notes that it is the album not the " resigned leaving a frustrated band" is and that it show the Scorpions at his best. Even German -language mass media took note of the album. Picture Online headline on March 19, 2010 " Rock Dinos publish farewell CD" and described the album as "Big Bang ", the FAZ employed in the arts section of their Sunday edition with the band and the " mystery rock " and say goodbye to the world the Scorpions with the album " conservative values ".
Even the English music press took the album to mostly positive. Thom Jurek of Allmusic draws parallels to the success of the band in the late 1970s and early 1980s and concludes that both the Scorpions and their fans could be proud of this farewell album. The website Classicrockrevisted chose Sting in the Tail album of the year 2010.