Rainbow's "Gates of Babylon" gives me a similar vibe . . .

@@TheGodsrighthandman Yes exactly what i was thinking.

@@TheGodsrighthandman I guess it's called traditional metal now ..isn't fucking great !

True ma brotha

@@TheGodsrighthandman Yes! actually it also has a stargazer feel too when Dio sings the "Where is your star? is it far?" part. I'd say this song is half Gates of Babylon half Stargazer. Uli's guitar playing is also really Blackmore influenced and of course the Hendrix vibe with the clothing and the white strat.

Right? When you know you know

Best era of scorpions too when Roth was with them. He was doing stuff few others were doing.. very technical but tasteful guitarist

Agreed

He's touring North America this year!

I must say. WOW. New to me.

@@LoveGuitar63277 He's at Ramona Mainstage (Ramona CA) tomorrow night. I'm there!

I was just thinking how he must surely have been a big influence upon Yngwi Malmsteen .

agree

now show him van halen, tommy emanuel & eric johnson :) good lad

It really is proto thrash with tons of feels abd hendrix DNA all over it.

does he even know about 80s pantera or does he think their first album is cowboys from hell?

Michael Schenker

Make him listen to Cacophony Friedman and Becker and there will be no more questions. ...

Better late than never

A lot of very incredible players cite Uli as a huge influence.

Amen Brother :-)

Absolutely excellent song. 🌞

Great song. Uli. Damn.

Never hear it and i am blown away this is awesome stuff.

I agree. There wasn't anybody else playing like this. I like how Herman is always so intense looking and Uli is so relaxed, even when he's tearing it up.

bunkyspunkmeyer I think I see a meme type thing with CC as your avatar?! Just curious, what is it?

Testament version is killer

ULRICH ERA WAS TE BEST!!!!!

And if I'm right it was James Murphy era of TestAmenT (The Gathering) not Alex Skolnick, even tho I know both of them heavily influenced by Uli

Hold my stein

Exactly, in '77!!!!

@@Jenjoshstars2012 still better than shit today

as I just commented myself - I only recently discovered their 70s stuff - and it's all amazing. Blows me away. I had no idea until recently.

Same

same. recently discovered that myself. The 70's stuff is epic and this song is the crown jewel of it all

@@charlespancamo9771 listen to Uli on "longing for fire," from Scorpions en Trance album. mind blowing solos and great song.

Van Halen I came out in 1978....so Eddie was doing it roughly same time.

@Angie Barclay You can see alot of Blackmore in Uli. His speed looks and more... It's obvious

@Angie Barclay Uli Jon Roth said in the past that Blackmore was one of his influences... so I really don't what your talking about. Everyone else can agree with me and another of example is Uli's thick custom tremolo bar on his strat that was a custom job done for him he got that from Blackmore. Blackmore would do that to his strats in the early 70's. Uli's aggressive tremolo bar use also comes from Blackmore. Everything else comes from Hendrix. Uli's biggest influence was Hendrix. He always said it. That's where the white strat and his other big headstock strats come from, His body language on stage, his playing and more. There's no doubt that his biggest influences were Hendrix and Blackmore.

@Angie Barclay see that's what I mean lol. Blackmore started doing that on his strats in late 1969 early 1970 he was the first to come up with that idea. There's a lot in common between the two. Uli also played a black fender Stratocaster which is also influenced by Blackmore and Hendrix too not to mention the Marshall stacks as well

@Angie Barclay You're right they are both disciples of Hendrix both of them got the guitars the amps the playing and more all from Hendrix. But when it comes to the classical thing Blackmore was the first to introduce that into rock music with deep purple and was also one of the earliest shredders to do fast techniques and the speed long before Uli. He was the first guy that started doing sweep picking also long long before Yngwie Malmsteen and all of the other famous guys later on in the 80s and 90s

Because the R&R Hall of Fame is a total effing joke. NWA was inducted before the Scorpions.

Because the R&R HOF is a piss stain and Scorpions are too good to be in it.

@@ThanosGod1969 also: Thin Lizzy: Not in; Ted Nugent, Not in....R&R Hall of Shame...Bravo for James Hetfield when he said at the mic on his induction "...Ted Nugent is not in the RR Hall of Fame?????

I wish people would stop hailing the HoF as some beacon of recognition. They put modern pop musicians in there, before putting real legends it. HoF is a joke, and always will be

Because they are Germans!!!🤷🏾‍♀️

Yes, here you can hear how his style of playing had a huge impact on a very Young Yngwie Malmsteen back in 1977...

One of the forgotten links of shred along with Blackmore imho. Before Eddie these two guys did a lot.

...though I bet he would hate to hear the term "OG" used to describe himself.

It was the first time I heard sweep picking and diminished arppegios.

God amongst shredders in my honest opinion

This and We'll Burn the Sky

I like "They Need a Million" off of Fly To The Rainbow about as much.

yes....he is VERY underated

I know exactly what you mean !!

The Hendrix Gene

He's such a massive talent

I concur.

Gotta disagree with you there. Up through at least the Animal Magnetism album they were still legit metal gods. With Blackout, they did produce a few radio-friendly cuts but it's hard to argue that Blackout -- with the grinding rhythm guitar of Rudolf Schenker -- is anything but a blistering metal cut. After that album I did slowly lose interest in their subsequent releases and all, they were definitely a metal-oriented pop group by then. But having been listening to the Scorpions since around the age of 13 -- I'm 60 now -- I love the band and would not begrudge them the commercial success they found in later years. Over the years the Scorpions had more guitar talent in it than any group ever had a right to. I still consider Rudolf Schenker the greatest metal rhythm guitarist who ever walked the earth, but Roth was always my favorite of the bunch. I never did understand why he left the band but they did go on to greatness with other guitarists. He and Rudolf Schenker were a great match, and this song is a great illustration as to why. Both of them are clean, precise, fast as hell, without ever a single misstep or flubbed note. And both are cool, relaxed, and make brilliant guitar work look easy. Both have always been class acts.

Matt Aliberti brings what???? I mean he sings amazing but not really sure what is brought.

josue ramirez it's a figure of speech. Klaus also was "amazing"

@@joshuaramirez the tight leather trousers he poured himself into....

Guitar lines are sick? I thought they were great

Seems here we have some examples of lost in translation. 😊

All of it!!!!

Try album Animal Magnetism. If you haven't heard it.

Really? Go listen to the song Blackout.

Or even, Lonesome Crow, the whole album.

he invented that way of playing the guitar , copied after from Yngwie malmsteen, Steve vai , Eddie van Halen etc.

After listening to alot of Uli as of late it's impossible tobdeny the influence he had on Yngwie. Yngwie even plays this live sonethimes!

I didn't even know playing at this speed was possible this early in the game. Yeah , this guy kicks ass!!

Yes he is a metal legend, and Scorpions have made fantastic metal to!

I can give Them the Hard Rock pass. But definetly not "heavy" metal. Tony iommi is from The same period as Them a bit earlier tho there you can talk about metal

They're fuckin IDIOT :)))

It may have been Klaus Meine's gyrating.

I have the same question who thumbs down this amazing song

Chris Davies. Just a few guys who are partying to hard and are jammin to this upside down

nineball26. Lol.bastages johnny dangerously

Dave Piercy it takes lots and lots of discipline, patience and practice to pull of the guitar solo.

This solo and lead guitar is perfection...so effortless. Most passionate solo I’ve ever heard is the 2 solos of pentagram’s 20 buck spin.

Wow nicely put your Wright effortless all most like he's born with all the skills from his mind to the guitar without even trying even playing with his eyes closed its all about the feeling I guess you can say he mastered his craft hats from years and years of practice to make it look that easy

Amen :-)

Aside from mastery, not being plugged it makes the effortless look a bit easier too.

its wild because hes actually a classical guitar player

Fucking legends...love them!!

You got that right. A powerhouse.

John's rock's

I saw them in Frankfurt, West Germany in '85.

I can't stop watching this!😲

Enter Mattias Jabs and pentatonic rock....

His guitar chops were in the mid eighties...

His playing definitely wasn't stuck in the 60s!

Why not both?! 🎉🎎🎊

+Russell Mcgurn I do hope you have listened to 'Tokyo Tapes'. The early Scorpions, doing what they would do best for their entire career, with Uli Jon leading the way. Plus, you get to listen to Klaus speak Japanese with that thick German accent. Bonus!

straight2helll I hear a combination of Hendrix and Dime. It is magnificent!

Dimebag Darrell was nothing but trash to Uli Roth.....he had no culture and an empty headed playing style.... i've never heard a solo yet to convince me otherwise... Q: Are you even aware of the technical capacity this solo exudes...??? D.D was a grade exponent of the "plentatonic" and the "Any Many Might be Major or Minor scale..... he'd never had known either which one it was...... One guy is all class and the other all crass.... you work it out....

I was not comparing the two I was simply stating that I could imagine a young guitar player being influenced by Uli John Roth,you sound like your typical cork sniffing guitar snob you must own a Paul Reed Smith I am sure.

Was a lot more influential on both Yngwie and Kirk Hammett.

In the 70's, I was in my bedroom, with rock posters clipped from Cream magazines on my walls, playing this song at half-speed on an old record player that could play 33 albums at 16 speed, trying hard to figure the solo out. Never did get it!

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Ty Tabor is another genius

Brilliant piece of music!!

i thought the same thing about axl, lol.

They don’t know and will never know. Lets teach them that there’s only one way to ROCK!!!

JAEZ indeed

Like a nice matured rum, this just gets tastier with age. I might put Taken By Force on the hifi and pour myself a drink.

fluid hand movements like Stevie Ray Vaughn

At one with the guitar. Not often seen, especially to this degree. Hardly ever looks at the fretboard.

"Makes ya wanna belly dance" hell yeah it does!( that line belongs on a t shirt) love it thanks brother!

Metal legend he is! I like the comment!

My personal favorite solo is Chicago 25 Or 6 To 4, but I can't argue with that! This IS a masterpiece of metal! The guitars, drumming, vocals, production, every piece of it is incredible!

Greene Bertrand No! About what? I'm entitled to my opinion! Did i say 1 negative thing about this song or solo?!

Greene Bertrand Oh, my bad.

Yeah. the tightness of this song is what really gets me. It’s a great solo because it’s a brilliant part of the song. Not just a shred break. I somehow have never heard Uli with Scorpians until just now...Cool song. Thanks for the upload.

You spoke with knowledge man. 👍i too agree it is one amazingly good masterpiece. You know how many times a month i hear this? 🤘🔥

R Tillermitch, yea me to. The album still looks like new also.

I tought the exactly same thing!

Despite my preference for Blackmore . . . Yeah, you got that in the right order. However, which Schenker?

@@TheGodsrighthandman Both brothers, Michael and Rudolf

Booya Pickles !

Loved the older albums!

Swedish God's blessings to you and your family are doing well and that you are able to get the money to you and your family have a good night 😴

Listen to all the LPs he appears on plus his first three solo ones if you can find them.....

I am not worthy

Yes

Keep on listening👍