Uli Jon Roth & Electric Sun - Earthquake

[baba23763]

Now i have no doubts, that Uli's guitar abilities destroy Slash's entirely.

[CloudsBeyond]

Wish Uli had recorded more in Beyond Astral Skies era, he ran into money troubles after that lot of bills for things he never even knew. Recent albums are very mediocre, & the sound of new Sky 7 string guitar is bloody awful - thin like an electric saw sound. His sound on 'Astral' with Start and Sky1 is best he has ever sounded!

[Sk8Nature]

3:06

Make me had an Orgasm

[AndreJeanHenri]

this man is just unbelievibe ! uli is a god, like blackmore !

[leon42654]

incroyable !!!

[yellowraven8]

KING !!

[MrYalicohen]

GIANT!

[bartab420]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Malmsteen knows very well where he found his inspiration, and so do we ! Uli was very fond of and was playing classical music from his earliest days ( pre Dawn Road ). Malmsteen has befriended Uli and loves to have his picture taken with him. On another note(couldn't resist that one) Lets give further credit where credit is due. Blackmore learned his classical side from JON LORD ! Ritchie only played 12 bar untill Jon taught him !!!!!!!!!!!

[MISSIONTOMARZ233]

If you dislike this this video you are an idiot



[Gillanfan89]

He is coming to my country in august and i'm off to see him !

[metallica5252]

Jeff Loomis stole that lick at 5:19 it's in all of his solos

[yourunclehank1]

Uli is so good because he's really Chuck Norris

Or is Chuck Uli?

Notice that you never see both of them in

the same room at the same time?

[yellowraven8]

LONG LIVE ULI JON ROTH !!!

[maitrekenshin93]

bassist dude is completely gone in his cocaine trip lol! insane performance from all players

[mrsbin]

@maitrekenshin93 LMAO

[magipausinifan]

V I R T U O S O

[algor123]

This is so overrated

[chillichomper]

Good part starts at 4:42! The rest is just wanking around

[MrYalicohen]

AMAZING GUITAR PLAYER! WHAT A FEEL, TECHNIQUE & PROFFESIONALITY!

ULI IS NO. 1

[eurorocker79]

One of the amazing guitarists of all time and an absolute genius!!

Uli!!

[1001davidc]

I thought this was live but check his hand at 1:10. He misses a strum but you hear the strike. And then of course the harmony dubs. Just got into this guy by reseaching early ACCEPT which led to early SCORPIONS and ,mother f..ker, there's this guy with crazy good tone and unbelievable phrasing and I've been online for two days just digging this. Of course I've heard of him. And I like the strat better, too. Its got a raw tone that the fancy guitar just can't match.

[Coolnameification]

@1001davidc

I agree with you there. There's something i just don't like about the sky guitar, sometimes.

[5150mick]

I've only recently discovered uli's various solo stuff , me being an old scorpions fan from way back when , this is amazing ! I want to get everything he's done . .but where do I start ?

[wgueits]

OMG, what is that bass player doing!! He's ripping it up!!!

[JimmieCrackCreamCorn]

Love his whammy bar skillz!

[nutricide]

Thinking the same thing with bass player. I play bass and my hand would cramp up bad playing a repeater like that, Especially on a friggan Thunderbird. But Uli rocks. Love the old Scorps stuff he did.

[secretstash5]

This not something I'd expect from someone who was in the Scorpions. This is actually good.

[nutricide]

@secretstash5 His work with the Scorps was awesome. Check out the Taken By Force album.

[spocksjohnson]

What an amazing voice. num sez cool

[rallyivan1234]

Clive Edwards on the Drums

[jimihumhumnukuapua]

this is great solo

[metalseed9]

Is this from a dvd or what?

[spocksjohnson]

I got this on vinyl when it came out. Followed him with The Scorps, but this album - this song in particular - herald Roth's brilliance. His trilogy of solo albums have a valued place in my collection.

Thanks for the vid!!!

[joeytv1962]

Awesome video. Ialways wanted to see Uli Roth.Thanks

[RockHistoryTube]

Great song!

Please visit my

ROCK HISTORY CHANNEL! ;)

[AASStormcrow]

malmsteen copied the aged white guitar with the aged white pickups!!!!!

[Rocker8822]

lol thats one of the 3 standard colors strats came in back in the 70s... thats like saying someone that bought a black car, copied his neighbour who had a black car, when the model he bought only came in black.

[ploermel56490]

I saw them in concert, it was in 1982 or something like that... It was a good concert : Instrumental parts was very good, but Uli's vocal parts was pretty poor (at my opinion)

[musicomments]

This song may be my favorite Uli one to date!- and this was the titletrack to his first "post-Scorpions" album in 1979. Most of it is "trippy" with a Hendrix vibe, then escalates into a neo-classical crescendo!....Blackmore, M. Schenker, Uli, Rhoads were all doing "neo-classical" before Malmsteen was signed!

[cornytoad]

Man he just blew me away hardcore,this is my first time seein this,Amazing!!!!

[maneh84]

sick bassist.

[HyperfastMalmsteen]

people say malmsteen had inspiration from Uli jon roths playing..well yes and no..for people who think malmsteen ripped him off gotta re-check the facts..say this song came out 1979..well malmsteen is born 1963...and he has a album called genesis those tracks are made when he was 14-15..so it was a little way before 1979..it was 77-78..and you can hear how good malmsteen was playing already.he had a different version of rising force solo..and his playing with the scales and so on..it all there.

[spawnofwheezedog]

Well, don't forget Uli's time with the Scorpions, 74-78.

[maneh84]

And who the hell cares about speed guitar nowadays?

[msawbe]

@maneh84 That kinda guitar playing doesn't get the kind of respect it did 20 or 30 years ago. Sad' but true.

A DJ spinning records or playing downloads of somebody else's re-mixed music gets a lot more.

Also sad' but true.

[jasamheadquake]

@HyperfastMalmsteen I agree with that, but would you please reconsider your "facts"? Uli's albums were coming out from 1974, and Yngwie was only 11 then.. so please, Malmsteen is pure Blackmore-like in appearance, and pure Uli-like in playing...

[WarriorSoul1977]

richie blackmore? ha ha ha ha

[Modes9]

I love the coda...it's so dramatic and over-the-top!

[aleister62]

Master!

[darthghidorah85]

Man I miss his Strat!!

[amerdalors]

Fantastic

[XxAstroX]

wow

[argentina2221]

uli is a good guitarrist have blues and clasical music influences too

[corm1000]

Roth and hendrix both dated the same woman for those who do not know.

[codehendrix]

how so? who? monika... i would think

[TheElectricHeat]

Can't believe the bassist can keep up that bassline for so long. I bet he has arthritis in his fret hand now

[mortensen1961]

@TheElectricHeat Especially with a Thunderbird. . . .

[highintel]

My Favorite too! This guy plays strait from the soul...He knows himself... his true self... and you can hear it... It's like life force waves coming from his amp!! Amazing!!

[birtchfeld1]

Malmsteen is far more aggressivein his tone, touch, and approach to the instrument - kind of like someone that can only appreciate a Ferrari for it's speed. Roth (in my opinion) approaches the instrument from a maestro position - he wills the sound from the instrument as opposed to forcing it. The melding of a Hendrix boundary-less feel with extreme disciplined neo-classical approach - truly a master of the instrument.

[acdcfreak4life]

yer arpeggios and triads and dimished stuff..i agree. classical stuff has to be eventually repeated. its the most amazing though

[konoli]

Now it dawned on me where Yngwie got his licks from.

[acdcfreak4life]

nah yngwie got inspired, even to the way he acts, by ritchie blackmore..he took his style, sped it up and shit on it.

[konoli]

Ok, I don't dispute Ritchie as his inspiration, but I'm not talking about musical or stage style here. I'm talking about exact same phrases that can be heard in Yngwie's playing

[eddiemperor]

Very True.

[guitarmoon1]

Yngwie shit on all of us. I have seen them all live except hendrix. satch vai eddie uli etc yngwie when he first left steeler and went on his own. He was unreal I think uli jon roth ritchie blackmore and hendrix were big influences on him he even gives special thanks to uli on one of his albums.Uli is bad ass in concert try to see him if you already havent

[waith13]

look at the bassist go! dayum!!!

[acdcfreak4life]

its frekin crazy..

[BurnElectric]

Infinitely trippy...lost myself in this song for half an hour once, and i was actually tripping

[musicomments]

You can definitely say this is Uli's trademark song, and perhaps my all-time favorite of his--most of the song is a "trippy" Hendrix/Blackmore vibe, but then the crescendo at the end obviously made a huge impact on Yngwie. Earthquake by Uli was recorded in 1979, a few years before Yngwie appeared on the scene...

[Abstraaktikon]

Wow I love this...

Uli is definately a PROPHET of music and art!

[msanthrope]

love this!!!

[kyopsis]

Uli is a genius!!! and he was amazing with Scorpions!

[efoula19]

and he still is amazing..;))

[kyopsis]

Of course!

[Almuric7]

Thanks so much for posting, my fave. Uli Jon Roth track...

Wow...

[Iameddie]

Whos the bassist this is great

[valnik89]

I'm suspecting it to be(or to have been) Ule W. Ritgen.

[jasamheadquake]

@valnik89 It is Ule, one of Uli's longest-standing friends. Uli's asked him to play the bass cause he could't find a good bassist that would suit his needs - well, the result turned out to be great, cause Ule is definitely one of the best bassists I've ever heard. Drums were played by Clive Edwards on Earthquake, Sidhatta Gautama on Fire Wind (this is Sidhatta in this vid cause Edwards left immediately after the recording) and Clive Bunker on ...Astral Skies.

[thed00dman]

crazy instrumentation...obvious with uli on guitar, but that bass is great too

[gorgonslave]

I love the shit out of this !!! Hes playin in NYC next month im there!!

[EngelNr666]

lucky bastard :)

i'm jealous

[noiseruption]

man that was awesome! what yr. was this footage?

[ChrisUK5150]

1979 bro.....amazing pioneering stuff egh.... he's a nice guy too, I met him twice back in the 80s, both times he was really relaxed and cool and just chatted about stuff and signed our records, no rock-star ego shit.... top bloke!!

[pythonflying]

I remember smokin' weed to this with black lights on as a teenager in the summer of '81 Good times... come to think of it, that's what I do now too, heh.

[stratdem]

fantastic guitarist

[kyopsis]

one of best uli's song...

[Defector5]

What a gem this is. He's been in my top ten for over 25 years! ULI ROCKS!

[pistache7]

I think he's my favorite guitarist of all time, too!Thank you for this video!

[blahman178]

awesome..

[shobyms]

whut an earthquake with his never ending classic leads....uli uli uli....

[schenker4]

This is just awesome I love the kick stand tremolo arm. Should be required listening for all up and coming guitarist.

[AXEFLYERFV]

Thank you for sharing this classic clip,Uli is in my list of top players!