The heavy metal legends the Scorpions have decided once again that the tour they have billed for the last 3 years as being the farewell tour, is not going to be the farewell tour after all.

Frontman Klaus Meine said in an interview that the band ‘were having too much fun’ and wanted to continue. He stated below:

“When you start a three-year farewell tour, you know you’ve got a long time ahead of you, but that long period went by much faster than we imagined. The closer we got to the goal — Munich in December 2012 — the stronger the feeling was that we hadn’t come to the end at all. There were so many images in our minds and so many emotions in our hearts. Everything we experienced between 2010 and 2012, the 200 concerts — it was all so powerful. You stand on stage, look down and see so many fans — including the younger generation, who are really getting into it and saying: ‘Guys, this is so cool. We’re seeing you for the first time. When will you be back?’ It’s so motivating and inspiring to play for three generations. We’re all having too much fun to put down the guitars.”

It is fantastic that the Scorpions have decided to continue, however I remember seeing the Scorpions farewell show at Wacken 2006, and then another in 2012. It seems unfair to the fans to keep billing farewell shows and putting them out of pocket for tickets only to announce at the end of the show / tour that they are going to continue. But anyway…new Scorpions music to come maybe?