Scorpions
Forever and a Day
While this DVD was not named after the great Guardian song from the Fire and Love album, it is indeed a really nice retrospective look at one of the most successful metal bands ever. Internationally, they have certainly been one of the tops. This rockumentary is very lengthy and long, but it could have been longer, but it gives a really good overview of what the band was about throughout the years. It did not just leave you hanging with some rock critic’s description of what their music sounded like, either, because you hear actual snippets of the band playing live in the different eras that are covered.
Like most rock ‘n’ roll documentaries, you come away feeling drawn a little bit closer to the band, endearing the band as people. You get the feeling as if you experience some of the triumph that the band experienced. One example is Klaus Meine, the singer, having to go through a type of throat cancer which cast a real sense of impending doom and gloom and potential ending for the band. They persevered through this and he remarkably recovered to be able to sing great again and they released the Blackout album and then consequently conquered America and the rest is history. Another example is their not insignificant role in seeing a “Wind of Change” in Eastern Europe dissolving into Western Europe as one unified entity. Then there’s the first epic incarnation of the band with Uli Jon Roth, discovering their identity and then imprinting it all over the world – especially on the live stage.
Overall it is a well shot, well edited and well told story (with a killer audio soundtrack). Here is a video blog review that I posted shortly after the DVD came out. [Sony] Doug Van Pelt
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