Scorpions - The Sails Of Charon

[ElectronicsMaster543]

uli Jon Roth is an insane guitarist

[rafaboanova]

First picture, second guy from left to right… Is that Graham Chapman?

[rickyon]

No, it's the drummer Herman Rarebell

[dreamtheaterfan360]

Thumbs up if you got here by searching the song on youtube

[GusMysterio]

Like If Gran Turismo 5 Send You Here

[PoserExposer]

Great sounding version of a great cut..thanks for posting this!

[rickyon]

You're welcome!

[ZapMxl]

in some spots song reminds me the song paralyzer (finger eleven)

hail Scorpions

fathers of Hard Rock \m/

[wm94zxy]

@ZapMxl Sure, considering the release dates....

[stlsportsfan05]

Just checked out Testament doing a cover of this song and forgot ALL ABOUT the Scorps doing this tune. Love Testament but the Scorpions just crushed it. 2 great bands, 2 diff styles, sounds...but The Scorpions rule this song!!!

[wynhons]

I got here from Metallica. thanks Kirk

[skiny998]

@wynhons Same =P

[sunmoonfire67]

Fantastic group.. need for them to do a Tour and bring them back .. Awesome guitar player Uli.. Gotta love them .. ahead of their time that's for sure.. SwB

[Oxandroid]

this song give us some idea how could it be if Meine was the frontman of Black Sabbath insted Ozzy.

[MrZechlin]

Klaus Meine reminds me of RJ Dio... Just wondering if I'm the only one...?

[paulrka]

HOW THE HELL DID SCORPION GET FROM AWESOME MUSIC LIKE THIS AND "NO ONE LIKE YOU" TO SUCH WHINY AND LAME SONG LIKE WINDS OF CHANGE..........what a disappointment.

[rickyon]

Variety is the spice of life!

[doankey]

@paulrka Neither of those songs are lame. They're both some of the best heart-wrenchers ever. You really aren't a fan of the Scorpions if you don't appreciate all of their work.

[paulrka]

@doankey man I have been listening to them since I was 15, and that is 30 years ago. A true fan will be able to both appreciate and criticize the works of the artist - only then will the artist grow. And yes, Winds of Change is still a lame song that, at best, deserves only to be heard in Karaoke bars. Way below their standards of In Trance, Always Somewhere, Holiday or When the Smoke is Going Down for Ballads. Tell me I am wrong - I dare you..

[doankey]

@paulrka That's a much more mature response than caps-locking your text haha. I understand that criticizing any form of media is necessary to have it progress, I just don't think that Winds of Change is absolutely terrible, but we all have our opinion. I wouldn't say it's below their standards, its just a different way they made that song.

[EyeRing100]

@paulrka dissapointment is the last word you should use. This band has been brilliant throughout the years

[paulrka]

@EyeRing100 Ya brilliant until Winds of Change........what a disappointment for a group of talented guys.

[EyeRing100]

@paulrka Those are fighting words.

[paulrka]

@EyeRing100 Nah, just my opinion. Of course you are entitled to yours and though we may not agree on certain things, we will agree that Scorpions was great group.

[shelley9000]

@paulrka Ha haaahaa I totally agree!!!

[Jonz66]

I knew Scorpions and few tunes from them, but I never heard of this awesome song before GT5, sadly :(

[DarkHellBlaze23]

GT5 had this and i loved it so much i decided to look it up and my conclusion is SCORPIONS ROCKS!!

[walkintotheeye]

One of the best songs ever written and recorded. Play this for anyone who likes rock or metal even a little bit and they will almost surely love it, you can't not! Scorps with Uli was like no one else.

[theanatolia1]

Love the song.greeting from İstanbuuuul

[musicomaniac62]

Oh my god, the first riff !!!!

[trexx63]

My smokin' hot girlfriend could belly dance up storm to this one. Glory days, indeed!

[1983slash]

Klaus best voice ever 

[IwillbeWaiting]

awesome song

[TheAntihero6212]

GRAN TURISMO 5!!!!!!!!

[secutorclaudius]

@TheAntihero6212 really? now i must have that game! uli made my head EXPLODE!

[mellorocx7]

Does anyone else hear Bach's Brandenburg Concerto 3 in here?

[Krow83]

Klaus sounds like Dio here :)

RIP Dio and happy retirement, Scorps!

[theanatolia1]

@Krow83 I do agree with u!

[TheBESTSERIESTV]

scorpionssssssssssssssssssssss­ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss­sss

[Psychedelicrock99]

taken by force is my favourite scorpions album

[charliemac64]

The funny thing about all the arguing is that it is pointless. Music is too subjective to dismiss anything you may not like. You don't have to listen to it.

Listen to what you like, let others listen to what they like, and everybody will be groovin' and everything will be excellent.

Party on, Garth.

[rickyon]

Agreed! Party on Wayne and if you have to spew, spew into this!

[Megarumaks]

@charliemac64

BROTHERS UNITED BY EVIL TO EXTINGUISH THE FUCKING WORLD!

[charliemac64]

@Megarumaks Uh...OK. Good luck with that, whatever it is supposed to mean.

[SPPoncho88]

@charliemac64 Party on, Wayne

[nenhum681]

Justice - Canon

[AlternativeBT]

just know this song a week ago, can't get enough!

[RockCleric420]

Throw them all into the pit!! guitar battle to the death!!

[paulrka]

@RockCleric420 And Blackmore will be the last man standing.

[SparkDrew]

Kickass group

[larawora]

hail to germany art (but not to the art of hitler fuck hitler) but hail to after ww2 germany

[NailsForDinner]

Uli Roth's a fucking monster musician....

[XDoomriderX]

and everyone forgets MALMSTEEN!!! who also covered this song :P

[MrTURBOJOHN]

@XDoomriderX who cares about those who covered, This is the original masterpiece

[XDoomriderX]

@MrTURBOJOHN that wasn't the point, the point was that malmsteen should be mentioned together with those other guitar players ;)

[mollysangelique]

niet,leuk,ik,weet,nu,niet,hoe,­jy,denkt,zo,leer,ik,je,minder,­kennen,dan,heeft,geen,zin,meer­,

[saintrochbob]

Dont bother arguing...Uli is a great guitarist. Debating who's best achieves nothing. did dat sound!

[saintrochbob]

Uli Roth was off chart...Scorps couldnt get proper American backing...Ted took em on tour after Uli left...

[Wehategod]

Friggin Epic !!!!

[basslovak]

Kirk Hammett's solo from Nimes bring me here :)

[davh11]

129000 views everyone!

[a01543z]

my favourite scorpion album!!!!!!!!!!!uli jon roth era.....

[KiLLxDoZeR]

@sniparify why not eventually the number 666 pops up........i hope your joking lol

[faethon3]

Charon listens to this song while passing the souls to Hades.....

[SleepingGiant613]

the opening solo is so cool and sounds way ahead of its time

[LiverpoolGreece4ever]

666 LIKES!!!!!

CHARON IS A SCORPIONS FAN!

[ScorpionsEynar]

yeahh 666 i am the demon hahahahaha

[allentruitt100]

Im stuck in a portal of time that I wish I could live in forever. This is the music of the gods!

[Bigboss1432Lol]

I swear to god if I was in a band with Uli and he left I'd probably kill myself. He's crazy on the guitar.

[jebemborerom]

one of the best songs i have ever heard

[srabonaziz]

damn what happened to music in this generation



[MrVeesworld]

We can all agree that these guys were the originators of the shredding style guitar.

[voyager71390]

@sniparify if you're looking for 666 i'm sure you will find it anyware

[WillThePlank]

I literally jumped up and shouted YES at the top of my voice when this song came on when I was playing GT5 :P

[Tronchante]

Justin Biebers dick is long as the disliking bar.

[THRASHFKINFILLETS]

Mid late70's Scorpions and Judas Priest was a true H.M. statement.

[THRASHFKINFILLETS]

Love the verse.

[TheScorps3]

this is what confidence and talent looks and sounds like SCORPIONS FOREVER

[Tronchante]

GT5 gave me the name of this awesome song... SCORPIONS ROCKS!!

[MrTURBOJOHN]

@Tronchante So?

Do I name the person who introduced me to scorpions on every scorpions video I see?



[PatPatrick01]

The most out of nowhere, so to speak song ever admitted into a Gran Turismo game EVAH!!!!!! I certainly didn't expect this. I expected Chuck Doud (The Music Director of GT5) to put a '80s Scorpions song into GT5, if at all, so the fact that Sony was able to get the last great song that Uli Jon Roth wrote for the band is a stunning admission.

BTW, Young Klaus Maine looks an awful lot like the late, great Ronnie James Dio, as I can see by these photos. Thumbs up if you agree.

[milospavlovic007]

@sniparify Dude, don't go around youtube tripping people out! :)

[maxrieser]

kirk hammet brought me here

[iPodLocK3R]

DAMN I CAN SEE WHY MARTY FRIEDMAN LOOKED UP TO ULI JON ROTH

[SZ19891993]

@iPodLocK3R well actually marty friedman could have taken some inspiration from uli jon roth,especially when it comes to oriental scales on guitar...

[BALKISDREAMER]

virtuosité au service de l'inspiration, pas l'inverse... that's why he's still the best.

[secutorclaudius]

yoww, i couldn't remember the name of this song to save my life. just awesome! i had a homemade scorpions studded denim jacket, i grew up in romania where u couldn't get any foreign shit like that back then. pretty underappreciated in the usa though.

[nightshadewolfsbane]

Scorpions are soooo underated as is Uli's awsome guitar skills! Their earlier years with Uli were the best in my book! I bet retiring is hard for them. Many thanks for years of the best music ever! Long live all the Scorpions!

[imbroken80]

Three persons not related to reality. Still counting...

[333trifecta]

Have to agree Uli redefined the Guitar in this track, listen to it cranked with some serious Headphones, mind blowing! Some good ole 420 doesn't hurt either. Mathias was GREAT and obviously a no Brainer for the Scorps, but I saw Uli years later with Electric Sun, and Uli was amazing but bad decision leaving the Band.

[djmm1397]

@MrTURBOJOHN ahem eddie van halen haha we all got opinions. damn im waiting for van halen's new album.

[rickyon]

I think not!

[rickyon]

You're welcome.

[DazzmanCalgary]

Watch for HURRICANE a Scorpions Tribute band hitting Western Canada very soon!!!

[sand451]

who the FUCK did not like it???

Three people are supposed ti die a horrible and violent way....

Wanted Dead or Sodomised....

[modread666]

wasnt the last album they released with Uli "Tokyo Tapes"? I listened to that thing so many times I had to buy it a second time as it was worn out......the scorps kick major ass and always did.......I always liked Matthias Jabs playing more but Uli is incredible and what he was doing at the time he was doing it is awesome

[MrTURBOJOHN]

at 3:05 that pic should be

A scorpion: Currently terrorizing my house

The scorpions: Currently terrorizing my neighbours house, and rocking me like hurricane

[MrTURBOJOHN]

Only Scorpions can pull off a solo in the beggining of the song

[bondmaus007]

KLAUS MEINE... ONE OF THE GREATEST FOREVER !!! <3

SCORPIONS WIN!

[kleban10]

That guy in the black's facing the wrong direction

[gre1990]

Uli is the man!!

then they got pretty mainstream...which is not necesarily bad...but cmon! this was raelly good, they should have kept doing stuff like this.

[swiftfox260]

What the heck is GT5? All I know is I've been rocking out to this song since I got my dad's tapes when he died in 1993.

[9erMatthew]

@swiftfox260 GT5 stands for the video game, "Gran Turismo 5"

Sails of Charon is one of the songs on the game's setlist. I wasn't brought here by that game, but by a friend who wanted to show an old badass on the guitar. I only found out about the setlist shortly after reading some comments and then doing some research.

[swiftfox260]

@9erMatthew Thanks man! I really hate abbreviations sometimes. :D

[LOVELED1]

qué  riff tan hijueputamente bueno!!

[hajimesaitou91]

Seriously, giutar sounds like 2004-2011, not 70s

[XRedxEyedxWandererX]

@hajimesaitou91 Ima slap you in the face son!

[Krow83]

@hajimesaitou91

I wouldn't say the 2000's by any stretch. Perhaps 90's and mid-late 80's. Distortion became popular with Priest, Maiden and especially the thrash movement.

[stephluvslayne]

This is by far my favorite Scorps song. I am a huge Yngwie Malmsteen fan, but not doing flips over his cover,(overall that is),he shreds,Uli shreds, and I do like the Testament cover,they deff beef it up,but this is the original,and still the best!!

[57ong]

ULI to Scorpion...is like Keith to Rolling Stones...David to Pink Floyd...to name a few...without them its surely make a different!

[phailez]

@57ong I would say Syd to Pink Floyd more than David.

[57ong]

@57ong ...correction, Syd to Pink Floyd...

[DemonDik]

Christ that's such clean right hand technique! I cant believe the Scorpions decided Roth was to "eccentric" for what they wanted to do... Bad idea in my book.

[MrDingDong2]

no one playd guitar like that in 1977

[rickyon]

There were a handful but not many!

[cromespoons]

@rickyon Ritchie Blackmore, Jimmy Page, Brian May, Frank Zappa, Janick Gers, Vernom Reid, Van Halen...

[rickyon]

Some of these guys you mention are good but not in Uli's league.

[MrTURBOJOHN]

@rickyon Jimi Hendrix, Tony Iomi, Jimi Page, Uli John Roth, Frank Zappa

From that time, nothing kicks more ass

[oberfour1]

@MrTURBOJOHN Don`t forget Ritchie Blackmore!

[MrTURBOJOHN]

@oberfour1 Deep PURPLE FTW

[oberfour1]

@MrTURBOJOHN One more time! Don`t forget The Who FTW

[MrTURBOJOHN]

@oberfour1 If we are going to mention all the rock gods then we are going to have some problems xD

[9erMatthew]

@rickyon lol Not Ritchie, Jimmy, Brian, Frank, Janick, Vernom. EVH was playing at that caliber though, maybe even a higher one.

[GrizCC]

@cromespoons

Vernon Reid in 1977. . ?

[poprocks62]

@cromespoons u missed Michael Schenker, Rik Emmett, & Frank Marino :D

[Georgios00]

@cromespoons Ritchie who? Jimmy who? Brian who? Frank Who? Janick Who? Vernom Who? Van Halen Who? There is only one Guitarist alive, his name is Uli Jon Roth,

[MrTURBOJOHN]

@Georgios00 Ritchie BlackMore from Deep Purple, is A great guitarist get over it. Jimmy Page is still one of the greatest guitarrists of all time, Frank Zappa is another great guitarrist

BTW, Tony Iomi is alive, Step out, nothing alive beats Tony Iomi

[carsieplg]

@Georgios00 shut the fuck up uli couldnt clean jimmy pages boots great guitarist but he has done nothing compared with all the whos you mentioned

[DonnieYen91]

@Georgios00 you show so much disrespect for the other guitar players

[themi90]

@Georgios00 The problem with metal heads is they think fast and good are interchangeable. Speed is an important ability for any great guitarist, but its not the ultimate. Page,Clapton,Hendrix,Blackmore­. Those guys are on another level as artists than Roth is. He is good but hes not great.

[die9go4]

@themi90 not all i like metal i love it but thatdoesnt mean that i think that speed its the mos important hability

[innuendomaker]

@Georgios00 I beg to differ. Any "top X guitarists of all time" list would harshly disagree with you.

[Georgios00]

@innuendomaker Any "top X guitarists of all time" list has always Slash on one of the first 3 places, those lists are for people who only search for posers or overrated guitarists.

[LiverpoolGreece4ever]

@Georgios00 Slash is a very good guitarist and very succesful!

He is sure one of the best !

[skok58]

@cromespoons Great list and I'll add Allan Holdsworth, John McLaughlin, Al Dimeola and Michael Schenker.

[Miakoun17686]

@cromespoons

I agree, but you forgot Jimmy Hendrix and Joe Satriani

[MrTURBOJOHN]

@cromespoons Jimi Hendrix and Motherfucking Toni Iommi

[gremlinjr]

@MrDingDong2--- THIN LIZZY was quite awesome.... and UFO WAS CRANKIN' ... If you don't know of these .. yer missin' out.. :) .... I LOVE THE SCORPS!!!!! one of my favorites!!!

[seblar9315]

@MrDingDong2 Nope, but Eruption came out one year later ;)

[Krow83]

@MrDingDong2

You're right. Glenn Tipton played better than that before 1977.

[aswesee]

@MrDingDong2 Ritchie blackmore? alot of rainbow form this era sounds very similar and phryigian-y

[eurorocker79]

@eurorocker79

You're right, I am wrong... I was a little loaded on shochu and in full on "Uli fan" mode haha.

However, I love both albums! Steamrock Fever!!

(I was not wrong about Electric Sun I think)

Cheers!

[mightytreasure]

--- Love Klaus but after hearing Mark Boals sing this on Yngwie Malmsteen's Inspiration album, i cant ever say the original is better, Mark hits it out of the park and lands it on the moon.

[MrTURBOJOHN]

Rofl, I never knew this was in GT5

I still have this LP, too bad my LP player broke

[Booth285]

GT5 DIDN'T bring me here, I already knew how awesome the Scorpions are.

[Darkdead95]

@Booth285

What the hell is GT5

[aswesee]

@Booth285 this is on guitar hero 5 -.-?

[christalmann]

Why does the opening solo remind me of Wake Up Dead by Megadeth?

[metaldudeupnorth]

@christalmann hahaha hell i hear it to

[kjaxin1]

@christalmann I think it would be the other way around. 

[VegaRocksTheRoses]

awesome.

[0sifarsifar]

looooveee uli

[winDday212007]

a matti!!

[sinbysin666]

God I wish the band stayed like this. They really sold out after Blackout.

[kodi7chip]

Can anybody tell me what effects are being used from 3:57 to the end of the song. Is it just a reverb?

[rickyon]

Just a guess but it sounds like an old tape echo, like a Maestro Echoplex.

[donut9897]

@kodi7chip i think its a phaser

[MrAureliusR]

@kodi7chip it's a modulating delay

[EddieVH666]

Wow great guitar playing. Taken by force is probably one of if not the best scorps record

[HighMindedLunacy]

Always.....epic

[ThaInvisibleKid]

orgasmic

[gumballthechewy]

@joeknee4767

Simple? I have a Marshall DSL50watt on one 1960A slant cab and the only pedal I use is the one to switch from the amps own clean channel to the distortion one, now that's simple. :)

[gumballthechewy]

@gumballthechewy

Well it's mainly because I can't multitask very well, so the less is better for me. It's not like I have anything against people who use a lot of effects, whatever makes you happy is how you play I always say. Well actual I don't always say that, in fact that's the only time I've ever said that, but it's the truth, right?

[magipausinifan]

Uli Jon Roth is a genius... an underrated guitarist!

[bunnyrocks69]

i always liked this one, great addition to spice up my 70's playlist on my channel

[michaelsturtridge26]

There is one person who disliked this video, they amuse me. This song is Epic.

[catkong7]

uli was ahead of his time fantastic guitar player

[MsNikkibud]

I had no idea untill I found this tape of my parents when was 15 and I was blwn away way better then their 80 stuff

[Georgios00]

They Shaped Metal, one of the very first heavy metal bands