Scorpions Bid You Auf Wiedersehen at Bayfront Park Amphitheater This Friday

It may surprise those who haven't kept up with the hard rock legends of yesteryear, but Scorpions never actually went away. In fact, with their current "Get Your Sting and Blackout" World Tour, they're just now getting around to retiring. And they're doing so in appropriately bombastic fashion, with worldwide...

By Arielle Castillo

July 12, 2010

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It may surprise those who haven't kept up with the hard rock legends of yesteryear, but Scorpions never actually went away. In fact, with their current "Get Your Sting and Blackout" World Tour, they're just now getting around to retiring. And they're doing so in appropriately bombastic fashion, with worldwide dates expected to stretch on into 2013.

The German metal-crossover kings are still, perhaps, best known for their inescapable '80s hits -- who can attend a sports event without hearing "Rock You Like a Hurricane," or, oh, any dive bar without the wailing love paean "No One Like You?" Still, with a good three-quarters of its classic lineup intact, Scorpions have continued to release new albums, at the rate of one every three years or so, throughout the '90s and '00s. The latest, Sting in the Tail, was released this last March, so expect plenty of selections from that disc along with the fist-pumping classics.

Support comes from Ratt, the best hard rock act named after a rodent.

Scorpions. With Ratt. 8 p.m. Friday, July 16. Bayfront Park Amphitheater, 301 N. Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Tickets cost $35 to $68.50; livenation.com

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