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Ulrich (Uli Jon) Roth, a German virtuoso guitarist, started out in the
early 70's with his band Dawn
Road which also had Rudolf Schenker, Klaus Meine, and Francis Buchholz.
Schenker and Meine convinced Roth and Buchholz to reform the band
Scorpions again [Note: Scorpions had broken up shortly after Michael
Schenker, Rudolf's younger brother, left Scorpions to join the band UFO].
Ulrich Roth went on to be the lead guitarist for Scorpions from 1973 to
1978. He recorded four studio albums and one live album with Scorpions.
By the time of the fourth album, Taken By
Force, he started to have
conflicting ideas where the band should go. He left the band in 1978 to
form his own band Electric Sun. Electric
Sun
went to make three albums,
Earthquake(1979),
Firewind(1981), and Beyond the Astral Skies(1984).
While the first two albums were similar to his work he had done with
Scorpions, the third album began to show his love for classical music by
combining the soaring sounds of his Sky guitar and classical music. After
that album he pretty much disappeared from the musical world for the next
10 years until he released Prologue to
the Symphonic Legends in
1996. The only significant appearances he made between those two albums
was the Spirit of Jimi Hendrix concert in 1991 and the Symphonic Rock for
Europe concert in 1993 which features many of the songs which would later
appear on Prolgoue. In May and June of 1998 he played with
Michael
Schenker (another former Scorpions guitarist) and Joe Satriani on the
European leg of the G3 tour. In 2000 he
released his double album Transcendental Sky
Guitar, a mixture of live, concert, and studio pieces. During the
following year he toured Japan and Europe.
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