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G
erman guitar maestro Uli Jon
Roth’s 50th-anniversary tour -
where he’ll be performing selected
highlights from his entire musical career -
comes to Chicago this month. Roth’s
arrival in Chicagoland commences Friday,
April 12 at The Forge in Joliet and con-
cludes on Saturday, April 13 at the Arcada
Theater in St. Charles. The concert's two-
plus hour setlist will feature material from
Roth’s former band Scorpions and solo
material from his Electric Sun project. In
addition, Uli will be playing his
Metamorphosis Concerto based on
Vivaldi’s "Four Seasons" at a special limit-
ed admission pre-show VIP concert for
diehard fans.
“It’s quite a special tour because it’s my
50th on-stage anniversary,” Roth told IE's
Kelley Simms during a recent phone inter-
view from his adopted country, Wales. “I
had my first ever gig when I was 13 in
1968. We get to do a special program to
reflect that with all kinds of highlights
from my entire musical journey.”
The Electric Sun portion of the show,
featuring selected tracks from all three
records, will be especially exciting for Roth
and his fans because he hasn’t performed
some of these songs live in over 30 years. “I
remember playing Chicago back in ’85
with Electric Sun, and that was quite a
homecoming,” Roth reflected. “That was
our first and last show because that was
also the year when I decided to stop the
project. Electric Sun only had one
American tour, so I decided to have anoth-
er crow’s look, and we’re going to be doing
a thing called Electric Sun Reborn, basical-
ly playing my favorites that evening in the
first part of the show.”
In recent times, Roth has successfully
revisited the early music of his acclaimed
Scorpions period (1973-1978), which
resulted in the astounding Scorpions
Revisited double CD and Tokyo Tapes
Revisited DVD/Blu-Ray releases. The 50th
Anniversary set will naturally include the
best of Roth’s early Scorpions material,
including “The Sails of Charon,” “In
Trance,” “Fly to the Rainbow” and many
others.
“Originally when we started doing our
Scorpions Revisited, I looked at all that
material, and some of that was almost alien
to me because I hadn’t played it for 40-
something years,” Roth said. “Then it
came back to me, and most of it happened
on stage. It’s quite a joy to play them, and
the audience is very happy every night,
and, literally, I can say that in every coun-
try.”
Roth will be joined by two additional
guitarists, giving the band a triple threat of
lead guitarists to do justice to all the soar-
ing harmonies of the Scorpions and
Electric Sun songs.
Although Roth brilliantly played
Fender Stratocasters in his younger days
while with the Scorpions, he’s been exclu-
sively playing his unique fretboard inven-
tion called UJR Sky Guitars since 1985,
beginning with Electric Sun’s Beyond the
Astral Skies album. When asked about
these models, Roth explained that “The
most important thing initially about these
guitars was that they enabled me to play
much higher than on a conventional guitar
because I wanted more orchestral range."
He continued, "That’s where the shape
originated from - because that shape
allowed me to get access to the very high-
est frets. On Vivaldi’s Metamorphosis, I
could truly not play that on any other gui-
tar because I’m playing all these pieces in
the right key and the right octave, and the
standard guitars are just too limited in that
sense.”
After his 50th Anniversary Tour con-
cludes, Roth plans to write and record
some new material that will keep him
plenty busy in 2019.
Appearing 4/12 at The Forge, Joliet and
4/13 at The Arcada Theatre, St. Charles.