[kj] OT scorpions split

[Karen Weil]

I didn't realize that band was even still active. Never a fan.

k.w.
SoCal
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From: "Peter Moltesen" <sneakypete at uwclub.net>
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> Shame - I still love their 1970s albums

> Especially Tokyo Tapes and Taken by Force

>

> Even if some of their album cover artwork

> was a little, erm, "ill advised". I've got a copy of

> 'Virgin Killer' with the banned sleeve - not sure if

> I should dispose of it :o/

>

> Lonesome Crow was a forgotten krautrock classic too

>

> Don't know if it was a coincidence but they lost

> it when Uli Roth left IMO

>

>

>

> -----Original Message-----

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> On

> Behalf Of fatpotanga

> Sent: 26 January 2010 16:07

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

> Subject: [kj] OT scorpions split

>

> http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=454040

> Probably of little interest or relevance to anything or anyone I guess.

> Forget Winds of Change & all that bollocks but Tokyo Tapes & Animal

> Magnetism firmly remain two of my all time fave albums from my youth -

> especially the latter.

> Ha - I've just remembered that my friend & I used to shove his CB speaker

> out of his window & play air guitar to Steamrock Fever & Top of Ze Bill on

> the roof of his parents house. (Who says youth is wasted on the young?)

> What did surprise me was Klaus Mein & Rudolf the red nosed Schenker both

> being 61 & the band was formed in 1965!

> I guess it's always a little surprising when you hear that musicians 

> you've

> given little thought to for decades are old men now..

>

> i go now.

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