Scorpions - Forever and a Day

It goes without saying, that the Scorpions are one of the greatest Hard Rock/Heavy Metal bands of all time.  It is hard to believe that the band has been around 50 years and that they can still rock as hard as they did back in the day.  As many of you know, a few years back, the Scorp's decided to call it a day.  Their original intention, was to go out one last time, and tour the world.  I believe the tour was supposed to last about 18 months, and then they would call it a day.  Fortunately, for the fans, the band had so much fun on their final tour, that they decided to keep going.

Forever and a Day is a documentary, that focuses heavily on the final tour, but not as much on the history of the band.  Don't get me wrong, they do touch on the early years of the band, as well as their progression, but the meat and potatoes of this film, is documenting the final tour.  I would assume, that the original idea was to film the final tour, but after they had a change of heart, then they decided to release this as a documentary.  This is this reviewer's opinion.

The film was released in Germany and recently made it State side.  The majority of the dialog is in German, so as you can imagine, much of the film is subtitled.  There are a few cameos in the film, from their peers, like Paul Stanley (Kiss) and Don Dokken, which was cool.  The disappointing thing for me, was that there wasn't enough focus on the history of the band.  The film really didn't touch too much on previous members, or their departures.  I think that would have made the film more interesting.  All in all this was a good documentary.

Bottom Line:  A well done documentary, on one of the greatest bands of our time.  A documentary of the band's last tour, before they changed their minds.

-Ragman is wondering is the Scorpion will ever play Houston again.  Why do they keep skipping Texas?  I want answers.