scalpy Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 Love the bit in his recent rig rundown for premier guitar where he almost knocks over the interviewer demonstrating the volume he plays at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 [quote name='bassintheface' timestamp='1468010521' post='3088118'] At short notice (last sun eve 'URGENT Facebook message' ) I got asked to attend and judge in a high school 'battle of the bands' by my mate who is head of music at a local school. The other judges were the singer and the drummer from my function band, plus another good friend (head of music at another school) plus none other Uli Jon Roth (of The Scorpions). We were asked to play a short set at the end of the show as judges, plus Uli Jon wanted to play a song too! Cue Monday eve and I find myself rehearsing 'all along the watchtower' with my drum buddy, keys player / teacher mate and Uli Jon Roth! An experience in itself! He had the famous 'sky' guitar with him (all 30 odd frets, scalloped, some whole tone) and some other crazy gear. It was like being in my own personal 'Spinal Tap' and I could type hundreds of words about it (like how he asked my mate to double up on a fast Cm arpeggio thing he was playing at lightening speed, which my buddy picked up super quick and got the best compliment from Uli - "when I played this with Steve Vai last year, he didn't pick this up as fast as you"). My mate you see used to play keys for Echo and the bunneymen, the lightning seeds and others when he was a session player!! Uli is a really nice guy and an amazing guitar player and musician, plus LOVES Hendrix! Get to Tuesday and we arrive at the venue having sourced a Marshall 4x12 for Uli (his gear was in transit from Spain to Denmark or something), do a quick sound check and are good to go. Show goes well and the kids are great, then we play a set, then the song with Uli - fair play, he was brilliant but also very complimentary to us all. He's now asked if he can guest with us in the new psychedelic blues band we've formed at a festival in Aug and do some shows with us going forward, plus we've swapped numbers and emails as he Said he liked my playing and asked if I'd be interested in playing bass with his band when he next tours! He has warned me though that he likes to play LOUD! This is the man who EVH, Vai, Satriani, Malmsteen and many more cite as a major influence! Music. Bloody hell. [/quote] wow!!!! amazing I quoted the whole thing because I loved reading it so much! I'm envious, but I can still feel lots of warm fuzzies even if it's not happening to me :-p I've never been closed to the man. I only saw him live once, a few years ago, with Glenn Hughes and someone else (Michael Schenker dropped from the bill due to 'personal issues')... Uli was incredible, and he does come across as a really cool guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuNkShUi Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 That's a wicked story! Congrats on the offer of playing with him again in the future, you obviously did something right!! Nice one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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