SCORPIONS FLY TO THE RAINBOW & IN TRANCE Double Vinyl 12" LP Record Hard Rock EX
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SCORPIONS - FLY TO THE RAINBOW & IN TRANCE Double Vinyl LP
CONDITION:
Import purchased new in the 1980s. Reissue double record set. Records are flat, no skips, no warping, clean, in excellent listenable condition. Cover on both sides is very good to excellent, colors bright, edges sharp, straight, clean, no shelf wear or bumped corners. I played it only a few times as it was located in my "tier two" storage crates.
NOTES FROM THE SELLER
As a young collector I took good care of my records, wiping them with a dust cloth both before and after each playing, handling the records only on the edges and keeping my fingers off the record playing surface, storing the records vertically and keeping the records in their paper sleeves inserted inside the album cover as to "seal out the dust".
DESCRIPTION
Fly to the Rainbow was released in 1974 as a self-produced second album that's long been deleted in the States. Over the previous year, the troubled band had gone as far as breaking up, following the rather disappointing performance of the debut project ‘Lonesome Crow’ and the crippling departure of lead guitarist Michael Schenker — who’d been whisked away by UFO.
For Michael’s older brother Rudolf and fellow Scorpions frontman Klaus Meine, a new lineup featured bassist Francis Buchholz, drummer Jurgen Rosenthal and another six-string wizard named Uli Jon Roth.
This album’s blistering opening number, ‘Speedy’s Coming,’ truly epitomized the focused hard rock that would soon become a Scorpions trademark, and while ‘Fly People Fly’ previewed their future knack for power ballads, much of the remaining material harked back to increasingly dated, late ‘60s aesthetics.
Both ‘They Need a Million’ and ‘Drifting Sun’ were largely fueled by Roth’s obsession with the Jimi Hendrix Experience and also stowed away synthesizers from the band’s brief, early days flirtation with krautrock.
Even the album’s impressive, near-ten-minute title track indulged in some serious art rock with Spanish guitars, and Roth’s stoned space-shaman narration, etc. but these were ultimately compensated for by its irresistible melodic themes.
All in all, ‘Fly to the Rainbow’ was clearly a perfectly respectable and occasionally very impressive bridge album for a band that had so recently found itself on the verge of total oblivion. It got the Scorpions back on their feet, moving in the right direction, and quickly paid huge dividends when the following year’s career-defining ‘In Trance’ helped set the template that would come to define Germany’s biggest hard-rock export. Currently a used copy on vinyl of Fly to the Rainbow sells on Amazon for over $170!!!
Side 1
Speedy’s Coming
They Need a Million
Drifting Sun
Fly People Fly
Side 2
This Is My Song
Far Away
Fly to the Rainbow
The Scorpions' third release, In Trance, displays further development of their familiar high-energy music. With the eyebrow-lifting "Dark Lady" as the opening track, the album immediately captures the listener's attention and keeps it all the way until the end. The interesting title track is clearly the best song of the album, but singles such as the fast-paced "Robot Man" and the hard-rocking "Top of the Bill" also stand out as highlights. Excellent singing and powerful music make this the best Scorpions recording working with Uli Jon Roth.
Dark Lady
In Trance
Life's Like A River
Top Of The Bill
Living And Dying
Robot Man
Evening Wind
Sun In My Hand
Longing For Fire
Night Lights
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