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  • 1.53 uli almost got hit with the mic stand

  • Uli Jon Roth is an especially gifted guitarist!!

  • Uli!

  • good times ...

  • "You like Alice Cooper, you like Ringo Starr, you like David Bowie and friends..."

    those guys are good, but Scorpions is the best group!

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  • @vivaimaiden & darkcheer. I believe Uli signed on with The Scorps for 5 albums .He really wanted to do his Electric Sun much earlier. Tokyo Tapes was a contractual obligation release as Uli's 5th LP

  • Scorpions trajo lo mejor a mi vida........... y nunca la voy a olvidar.

  • fuck Rock You Like A Hurricane! This song is AMAZING!!

  • I'm underage but I still love their music.

  • Is that Robert Klein?

  • It`s fun to hear how Uli matured as a musician during that period, from Fly to the rainbow to Intrance and then to the great album Virgin Killer.

  • how the f*ck did they fit Van Halen's backline into my basement?

  • Where did you find this?! Thank you for posting!!

  • Great!

  • My Lord, look at that whammy bar? It must be a foot long...LOL Seriously, though, that is an unusually long and thick whammy arm. Check out other Strats...not even close.

  • @EC66OK HE WAS BREAKING ALOT OF THE STOCK WAMMY BARS,, AND HAD FRANCIS THE BASS PLAYER BUILD A CUSTOM LONGER STROGER WAMMY IN HIS ENGINEER CLASS...... HENCE THE EPIC WAMMY BAR ON ULRICH ROTH'S WHITE STRAT

  • @yellowraven8 thats actually Jimi Hendrix's strat in this vid....he still has it suposedly alng with black beauty

  • @netrioter wrong about that.....  this white strat he bought new in the 70's,,, in regards to the black jimi strat Yes he still owns that one iv asked him in person and that is the only hendrix guitar he owns ( has offered 10million and turned it down

    regards

  • @yellowraven8 lol...the hendrix estate better not know that......they sue people at the drop of a hat.I thought his butter strat was with Uli as well...that must be lost then. and what i see as far as that stuff goes is largely propaganda.

  • Rudy !!! on t'aime !

  • i reconise the shirt from the in trance cover

  • I've never been a fan of high pitched voices,but that guy is simpli amasing.

  • this is real SCORPIONS

    Wind of change is shitttt

  • Anyone remember the old tv show,"Space 1999"?...Thought I was buying the soundtrack,got home and inside was an album called "Fly to the Rainbow".Thought I'd play it before I took it back...NEVER LOOKED BACK!...seen the Scorps 3 times after that,including 83 US Festival!..and watch who you're calling an ignorant American,restlessbreed10!...NA­TIVE AMERICAN PRIDE!

  • Great !

  • Most people in America didn't know who the Scorpions fucking were until Blackout but I did. The Best Of Scorpions with the scorpion on the girls ass was the one that got me... Every band dreams of making it big in America and who gives a shit if they were big in Europe. The Scorpions paid their dues and then collected.

  • 35 years later this song is FRESH !!!

    SCORPIONS Best Band ever !!

    If they where English or Americans everything would be different !

  • yes i love Alice Cooper, but i love the Scorps too!

  • Amazing guitar work. 

  • uli is what made this band great, when he lett, they were still good, but they wrote more medlodic simple rock, never able to capture what they had with uli, he is a genius on guitar, nice video this is to,

  • So beyond great!

  • uli is a monster player love the extra long whammy

  • Brilliant !

  • @occisMORT You're absolutely right! Rudolf himself says that in his book (Rock Your Life), everyone who doesn't believe it can read it up

  • @occisMORT You're absolutely right! Rudolf himself says that in his book (Rock Your Life), everyone who doesn't believe it can read it up

  • awesome, totally awesome, this is classic, uli is king, he influenced so many players, jake e. lee, kirk hammet, yngwie malmsteen, too bad he didn't stay with them, his solo stuff is really bizzare

  • what effect is uli using?

  • I could watch this all day. Uli Jon Roth is a SERIOUS guitar God!

  • My Favorite Scorps Albums will always be Virgin Killer and Taken By Force.

  • Uli Jon Roth!

  • Rockerlawyer, it's nice that you notice. Noone cranked it out like a young Uli. The harmonic tones he played with were unique to him.

  • I guess I'm stupid for just realizing Roth basically invented modern metal guitar playing.

  • Nena has it under her axillary Hair?

    Maine and Schenker on her Heads.

    Both is no sexy at all!!!

  • Look to Klau´s t-shirt and Uli´s necklace,it´s the same that figure on In Trance´s cover,don´t you think?

  • Uli Roth was the bomb back in the day.....Excellent!

  • Is that Rudy Lenners!

  • I wonder if Klaus still has that zebra shirt that he is wearing in this video and in the photo for the "In Trance" album. If so, he should wear it during the upcoming tour.

  • Great guitar sound from ULi !!!!

  • Excelente!

    Aguante Scorpions! \m/

  • No. Electric Sun was the band Uli formed after he left the Scorps, the first album's title of the new band was Earthquake, and the art, painted by Monika Dannman for the cover was entitled "Rising Force", which Malmsteen later copped for the name of his band.

  • I have Monika's book The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix, mostly paintings of Hendrix. Her death soon after, was ruled a suicide, but Uli and others claim she was murdered.

  • This is probably my favorite Scorpions recording...much better than the original version!

  • @KurtCobain11508 I have this version on 45. I had to trade my Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies cardboard cutout for it.[It was a large coin around 2 ' in diameter]. Uli Ruled!! Most people don't even know the first 5 albums but I lived through each release. I am 54.

  • killer era for them. Uli is so great

  • tonight theres going to be a jailbreak?

    ...somewhere in the town?

    haha

  • Uli is the f'ing MAN!!!.....but is the guy in the "got milk"commercial,with the guitar full of milk......is he uli's bastard rock child?lol

  • Sorry Harvey but pound for pound Uli Jon Roth is the best of all time. You probably haven't heard enough of Uli over the years. Not that it adds to anything but for years until she died, Uli's girlfriend was none other than the former girlfriend of the late great Jimi Hendrix. To me, Hendrix was the only other guitarist up there with Uli's talent..

  • @TheXChallenger

    uli is gr8 but matthias is awesome

  • I know who Uli is and he's good even great but Steve Vai hasn't got to prove anything;reverse the roles and make Vai the forgotten one by the press and media and you would have the sme people spouting about how great Vai is and how underrated he is and how he should be here or there and should be noticed more blah blah blah it's like some people love obscurity so much they even choose cars ,songs,musicians, food etc. oddly just to be different.Uli is great;Steve Vai is the best.

  • Fantastic!

  • I like Matthias Jabs and all, but good Christ, there just is no denying the genius of Ulrich Roth. Check out his work with the Rising Forse band he formed after he left the Scorps. Truly awsome, and what an underated talent he is(and was).

  • I agree but wasn't Yngvie Malmsteen responsible for Rising Force?

  • I have this version on a 45. It's cool to listen to both versions of this song, some really different solos.

  • this song has given my chills since i was 10 a couple years after it came out! ULI!!

  • Fenomenal¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ Excelente¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

  • Why did Uli leave the band? He's great, I love his music...

  • I think he left because of musical differences...Uli started to develop a taste for more experimental music as seen on the work he did after leaving Scorpions...

  • People say Steve Vai is the master of the whammy bar...

    They probably didn´t know Uli, and songs like this one, Drifting Sun, Polar Nights, Top of the Bill

  • @rockerlawyer DARK LADY WAMMY KING

  • @rockerlawyer ...all derived from Hendrix.

  • @charvelguy  charvel, derived from a strat. Uli derived from God.

  • @alkimst13 ...Strat and Charvel creations of wood, derived from creation of God. Now that we have the evolutionary obvious out of the way. The point is Uli borrowed these techniques from Hendrix, even his moves, yet he still incorporated this into his own voice, which had of classical, middle eastern influences to be blended with rock of the day.

  • realy cool!

  • Excellent

    VERY GOOD

    Stratocaster145

  • been a fans since 84 & I bought virginkiller on tape in 1991.

    & heard Robotman frst time in 93

    it was good to discover "new" songs

    that i wasnt familiar with

  • You need to hear Tokyo Tapes. The live ass stomper released before Uli departed.

  • Thanks but ive already have

  • I have ALL their old Records on Vinyl Up to Taken by Force. Tokyo Tapes is The BEST Live Album Ever.. just Go listen to it Loud.. and Turn off the Lights and Close your Eyes.. Try to Picture it.. BAD ASS Uli is a Guitar GOD !

  • I had never of these Scorpions songs until today being a guy who got into them because of "Rock You Like Hurricane" on MTV in the 80's I didn't realize they had a back catelouge of great songs and never having heard Uli Jon Roth's playing the Scorps sound like Ozzy's "Blizzard of Oz" bands of the early 80's 8 years before.  Thanks for the upload and I will mos definately check out their stuff.

  • YEah the Scorps stuff from the 70s is actually some of their best!

    I only knew of them from the 80s as well, but the old stuff really gets me going more!

  • If you´re into guitar playing, I assure you´ll soon be thrill with Uli´s work

  • cast away the chains solo so ahead of it time, when i herd it i was blown away

  • check out sails of charon, it is truly awe inspiring!

  • Scorpions were doing it WAY before the followers came along! scorps rule!

  • that's funny with that teeny little gong.

  • This is EXCELLENT - TOTAL Kick Butt!!!

    Reminds me of my days of listening to Triad Radio here in the "Chi"

  • Actually folks "Speedy " was Rudolf Schenker's nickname back in those early days. They called him that because he talked so fast. Read the liner notes on Box of Scorpions and get your facts straight !

  • Scorpions Hard Rock '70-'80 Forever!

  • look at that hair

  • oh, forgot to say, In Trance sleeve is a blonde woman with Uli´s guitar, you can see the tremolo quite clear

  • hey guys, you know Uli had a special tremolo bar, don´t you? he had it made in order to get where he wanted... to check what he wanted, go listen Drifting Sun. He beats the hell out of the tremolo!!! Amazing early Scorps stuff

  • that wammy bar is insane !!! this rocks

  • I am suprised that everytime Uli uses that tremelo bar, it doses not pull the neck off that Strat....

  • if you wanna see Jurgen Rossenthal on the kit,.. check the video "this is my song"

  • cool thanks for posting

  • They had a thing on German TV called "Through the night with..." showing artitst hanging out together. The last episode showed Uli Roth and Billy Corgan from Samashing Pumpkins hanging out at places of interest in Hamburg. VERY COOL! The two of them together on stage improvising some stuff is AWESOME. During the show the next day he covers "Robot Man" with Smashing Pumpkins and Uli Roth and Rudolf Schenker join him on stage. Uli is seems to be awesome as person, too.

  • Jurgen isn't the drummer in this video, it is Rudy Lenners

  • Never knew Jurgen was a leftie -

    Uli is a guitar god.

  • Among the three lead guitarists(Michael Schenker,Uli Jon Roth and Mathias Jabs),Roth is my favorite!!!

  • this kind of music is so magic , after taking by the force scorpions start earn and make money , but never repit this great music , they where original artist

  • The Scorpions never produced anything as HUGE as their Roth-era material since Uli left the band.

  • I agree....Uli , along with Meine's voice gave the band a feel that was lost after Uli left. Their best years were behind them after that..

  • great!

  • That vibrato bar is way bigger and looser than a standard Strat tremelo unit. Uli was an innovator from day one. Long live early Scorps!

  • Uli said that Francis Bucholz (bass player)designed and modded the trem unit for him so that Uli could pull off his whammy bar pyrotechnics, that's why the wang bar is so big. Being that Francis was an engineer I guess he was qualified for the job and the results speak for themselves.

  • First listened to this song when I was 16...I'm now 40 and it feels just as good....

    These guys were magic....pure magic.

  • Same for me too; although I've had the opportunity to see Uli play at least 3 times in the last 5 or 6 years and got to meet him. How many people can say that of their favorite musicians? I'm secretly kind of glad he didn't get super big-although the best guitarists know who he is and do look up to him.

  • fuckin sick!

  • yeah itsl sick the way your mom blows fag!

  • Great clip... Great Song....Thank you for sharing

  • i guess your own nickname is speedy !??

  • omg rude dude ive followed this band since 1975 and done hundreds of magazine articles about them over the years and speedy was uli jons nickname or at the ulrch roth you knucklehead!!!!

  • thank you so much to waste your time for a mistake & end up with a compliment such as only ignorant americans are capable of !!

    fulfiled with this kind of post?

    give me your sources & i'll giv you mine, or find somewhere else to querel : there r plenty of smart guys like you around

  • listen eurodope i would give you my source if i could thats none of anybodys business and yes i am a strong intelligent american born musician, an independant columnist and a reporter for several great rags throughout these great states of ours i was under contract with sony music for 10 wonderful years as a session drummer ive worked with the best and ive worked flash in the pans i dont owe you nothing you foreigner so be gone please i havent time for such. and you used the word querel are you

  • cont. friigin gay?? and i dont think you spelled it right can somebody spell check for us here?? you see i dont know exactly cause ive never used the word in a sentence. oh and yes i have been called speedy for my ultra fast double bass abilities thank you very much

    conversation aborted!!!!!

  • @restlessbreed10, they called rudolf "speedy" at that time because he talks really fast.

  • who in the hell told you that???

  • wah! you're quick!

    they said it themselves in an interview

  • i want this strat of uli my dream.

  • Scorpions rocks.I have all the songs^^

  • What is not to like about this awesome song..?.It is timeless.Look at my hero Rudolph feeling the beat...go Rudy...!

  • the funny part is "Speedy" was Rudolph's nickname back at the time, & the song refers to him!

  • I agree,

    Scorpions kick ASS. The Uli days are my favorite but the stuff from the 80's rocks too. As for the alleged rock and roll hall of fame, I live in Cleveland and refuse to go until Deep Purple are inducted. They've pretty much ignored the entire genre of metal-too busy inducting Michael Jackson. How can have john Cougar Menstralcramp be in there but not the Scorpions.

    Cheers!

  • Like I said before...this song is 35 years old and still kicks the shit out of anything out there today!

  • Of course some of these bands don't want to be inducted anyway because they don't want to be identified with the Hall of Shame. They figure

    that it sort of takes away the underground image that Heavy Rock/Metal's always had, even though it manages cumulatively to outsell everything else and that, despite the mainstream media's ignoring it!

  • Did you know Deep Purple and Grand Funk aren't in either? Face it man those Rock n' Roll Hall of Shamers prefer bands whose managments kissed their asses for many, many years, and those who are P.C. Most Heavy Rock/Metal and their subgenres bands will probably have to wait until after their deaths or at least into old age like those Rockabilly guys they've inducted through the years, you hit that one on the head.

  • My Favorite Scorpions Album..Practically unknown and it's just Fantastic...

    Uli Roth was simply amazing..

  • i love scorpions , specially thys song , fly to rainbow great album 1974

  • SCORPIONS the best band of the world.

  • The

    Scorps are one of the all-time under-rated bands in rock history,and this clip shows why.Thanks for posting it,what a treasure!

  • Roh j'adore !! :)

  • 70's SCORPS ROCK!!!!

  • OMG thanks for posting this. I must have spent all of 1980 listening to the Scorpions. Never saw them on TV until they went pop metal. This is SO COOL to see!

  • Whomever is running the Rock n roll hall of fame must be biggoted against Germans. Scorpions have been eligible for 10 years now. They are still creating excellent music. Pure Instinct, Eye II Eye, Acoustica & their latest Humanity Hour 1 in my opinion are as good as their earlier creations just different. When they finally do get inducted they should have all of the players from years past on stage for a major jam fest

  • I hear you. Dude, they put MADONNA in. MADONNA? Forget that hall of fame, they are nowhere.

  • Right. Knowing other Rock n Roll Hall of Fame introductions, if Scorpions ever get in it will probably be around when they have been dead for say 10-20 years.

  • I agree lordgandor. Its sad that madonna gets into the rock and roll hall of fame. Didnt know she even did rock. The scorps are a style in thier own right. Its also a crime that thin lizzy isnt in there as well. but U2 is. its a damm shame.

  • If this song ever got airplay, I never heard it. The local radio station sometimes has a contest to let a listener be a DJ for an hour. I always wanted to play old Scorpions if I ever won, so people would finally hear what they never head but SHOULD have!!!!! But I bet they give you a list of 50 songs, and let you "pick" your songs.

  • "Speedy's Coming. You live in his heart."

    A classic rocker that gets no airplay today. Thanks for posting. 5 stars.

  • If this song ever got airplay, I never heard it. The local radio station sometimes has a contest to let a listener be a DJ for an hour. I always wanted to play old Scorpions if I ever won, so people would finally hear what they never head but SHOULD have!!!!! But I bet they give you a list of 50 songs, and let you "pick" your songs.

  • this fucking rocks!!!!!

  • Fucking gooooddddd! Scorpions ROCKS! That's some very nice odl school suff. Thank for that video.

  • It looks and sounds like Uli, Klaus, and the other guys!

  • The Scorpions ROCK OLD SCHOOL HARD ROCK.

  • Just Priceless! Thanx...Haha...notice that industrial strength wang bar Uli's got going there..:)

  • uli fucking rocks go you fucking german i hope you live forever

  • Most people who call themselves rock fans don't even realize that Scorpions have been cutting albums since the early 70s. How sad.

  • Sure. I had the luck of getting to know their music starting from their early days, in a compilation called "Hot & Heavy", that spanned only their 1974-1977 period. Trivia: the producer of their first album was Conny Plank, the same producer of the first 4 KRAFTWERK albums, including their first hit "Autobahn". There must be something in the german water to explain these great german bands...

  • oldschool scorps yes.

  • I ask me. Is Uli Roth the best lead guitar player ever ?

  • There are only two of them and they are both germans...Uli Roth and Michael Schenker.

  • Speedy's coming....GET OUT OF THE WEEEEEE!!!

  • Check Uli Roth's extra-thick vibrato bar. Not stock equipment. Bad-ass fucking guitar player, Ulrich Roth is . . .

  • Speeedy's Comin' ... you live in his hhhhouse!!!!1

  • you live in his HEART

  • turkeyman 32 :O! your my idol!

  • I agree scorps turned prep after blackout.would love to see a dark lady vid with uli and klaus duetting.Uli never got the recognition he deserved but he doesnt care he just loves to play music and believes everyone should admire each others talents. Matthias is great but Uli is ultimate.

  • Matthias came on time for the progression of the group (financially speaking) & was perfect for the U.S. radio marketing they wouldn't have reached with Uli - still there is now a big amount of recognition for Uli's unforgetable work with scorps, & the group became so much aware of it, that they ended up with playing more and more songs from this period (at the jealousy of Matthias : i saw both playing together, & it was so obvious!)

  • Klaus has the best voice even now at 60

  • Great song. Id also like to see Catch your train if it was out there

  • as far as i know, there was no video recording of it at this time...but they did play it live & unplugged 20/25 years after (in Lisboa / Lisbonne), it was filmed & set on the market as was the whole concert - they also performed in europe (at least france & germany) with Uli also around 2005, but the only videos are from the audience (pirate ones)

  • love this song!!

    klaus meine!! best vocalist to ever have lived!!!! =)

    too bad the poor guys voice got jacked right before blackout, and now its not sounding to great. not to mention he gained quite a bit of weight.

    but still, you gotta love 'em!!!!

  • sorry ahole, for i didn't check all comments including yours since i post the vid...

    i fact, i had to tell you K.Meine did lost is voice BEFORE blackout (hence the name of the album, & the title itself talking about his bad experience)

  • Uli Jon kicks some major ass!!! I love the whammy bar leads. Rock on Uli!!!!

  • Man, how cool is THIS?! Uli is god, period, and the Scorpions were bad ass back in the day.... but really took a dive after 'Blackout.'

  • sorry Nicolas, my son, i guess i am signed on as you! haha! Love, Mom

  • i fricken love youtube...i havent heard this s*it for soooo long!!! i am loving you so much for putting this up!!! thank you!! going to look for sun in my hand now...hopefully it's here somewhere! thanks again!

  • This is the shit! They lost me after 'World Wide Live', I just couldn't get into 'Savage Amusement' or anything after.

  • i agree with that 100%, absolutely !!

    but maybe is it just a matter of generation...?

  • He was, he will ever be the best voice!!!36 years later!!!!

  • that was really cool for their time, and the vocalist's voice is awesome!!

  • yes indeed, (klaus meine) he was the best of his time - congratulations you noticed it!