Scorpions - Sails Of Charon - Musikladen TV (16.01.1978) 

Sorry, I should have told you. Been listening to this for 37 years. Saw them in Germany back in 83. Check out all their old stuff. It is very good and different.

@@freethinkerer definatly will!

You have been under a rock man.

I never knew it either and I’ve seen the scorpions 5 times .

Well, don't lose another 30 years and go listen to stuff like Granicus - Prayer and Leaf Hound album "Growers Of Mushroom"

Indeed.

Agree

Well said

100%

you'r right.

It blows my mind that he's not in the list of the most well known players. He came along at the right time for his playing, was doing the popular thing, was in a band people know, didn't wash out of playing, I guess some people just don't want to be a big name.

VITO BRATTA (White lion) to Eddie Trunk " i could'nt live without that song"

@@frankwren8215 To be fair, music critics and average listeners sadly don't appreciate art when they hear it. And I know music is subjective but it's still bullshit

Uli Roth is a very underated guitarist!

Anyone ever see someone play it perfectly besides him?!!! There's a reason for it🤘

Yes your right, just my boomer opinion!😂

Tranquilo .???? Ésta poseído , por él mismo !!! 😂😂 Siempre perfecto !!! qué placer oírlo !!! 🎸🎶

@@alglen9208boomer?

I'm 40, huge music nerd of all genres, and that opening solo is quite possibly the best solo I've ever heard in my life. No words is correct.

@@boomer9341 yes I'm old, been around awhile. I guess that's what we are called now a days.

try also Highway Star from DP

​@@tothandras1741 well Ritchie Blackmore is a legend

Ikr

He's got that voice that matches the rest of the crew

Its phrygian

You know it!

🤟😝🤟

I listening to it all the time. It’s great.

Man, that opening solo never gets old, such a badass piece of music right there.

@@jfk19780 ?

Haha exactly, happened to me too. Saw it once on Instagram and now I can never forget it.

Seems like a lot of us fell down the same rabbit hole :D

@@ducky_lad THATS Exactly what happened to me lmao

Agreed! That's how I came to know about it a few months back. I'll do you a favor and recommend something I found last night in related videos, another great song of theirs, called "Polar Nights". I saw a video of them performing it live in 1977, and it features UJR on lead vocals as well. Very Hendrix-like.

Same with me man. It’s never too late though I guess! 😂

Same with me 😢

Same

Whoa the matrix brought me here too 😊

Uli for the win. Legendary guitar guru.

Almost as good as CC DeVille...lol

He's absolutely terrific. And he's just so calm while playing, just a smooth, cool cat.

Absolutely face melting

The solo was very much ahead of its time.

Absolutely right! I love the older songs the best but then again, Lovedrive is one of the best albums. Michael Shanker is badass!! Fly to the Rainbow album is always my favorite album ❤💋

gotta love rudolph schenker, but uli john roth was him.

@@huntsie I once saw someone wrote that Uli Roth has the “Power of the Turquoise “ Lol 🤘

My face melted discovering Uli Jon Roth era scorpions

Only Stateside. In Europe, and Japan, the Roth years are appropriately revered as they should be.

They've always been on the level...just always and still massively and unfairly underrated

Never lose that enthusiasm, my bro. Made me laugh out loud, cause I get it. Uli is letting it be known, melting faces.

Hell yeah brother

Their 5 albums before Lovedrive, when they started gaining popularity, are a bit overlooked, and mostly only cherished by us 70's hard Rockers who knew about them before they got popular. Check out "Speedy's Comin'", "Top Of the Bill", "They Need A Million", or "In Trance"..

The bends at at end of that intro solo are simply unbelievable

What color is the sky on your planet? Uli was never underrated.

He really is.

The guy was a known guitar god🤣

Hahaha underrated... omg you are talking about a guy who is mentioned as a great influence from ALL the guitar gods of the 80s (and not only)!!

well said. can't agree more.

No has escuchado He is Woman, She is a Man .. el solo está exitante.. Scorpions Live At Grugahalle Essen, DE April 26, 1975 HQ Improved Audi

We'll Burn The Sky#1 Sails#2

I completely agree 👍

Agreed 120%. That tune w/the guitar solo is just unique and different from any other songs of any band even the Scorps. A class act of/and of its own!

It's still badass when I listen to it again Have a good one

The most under rated guitarist ever. I love his playing.

Although he obviously plays rock and roll, he is NOT a rock and roller. He is a musician that plays rock and roll. Probably doesn’t make sense to anyone but me.

​@@stormbringercoming8105 for me, it does!

​@@stormbringercoming8105that makes perfect sense. Well put.

he was relaxed as one could prove by watching other live footages of him playing but this is playback for some TV show.

Best comment yet...

well we can all rest easy knowing its not humanly possible to shred in such a psychotic manner without some cosmic assistance

The stone shines into his third eye and the magic ensues

That doesn't surprise me at all He just plays the guitar and I say he is the ULTIMATE guitar player! Guess I he was just little

Classic Hahaha, he must have.

Have u listened sun in my hand? another uli roth epic work

Cool little outro as well! 👍

Ii agree

Face-melting guitar action

Sweet child o mine....I know everybody has listened to it way to often and it has an High Annoying Love/Hate Factor........but that’s an Iconic Intro Lick and Nr 1 Hit. Remember when you heard it the First Time.

Great comment. I discovered Scorpions around this time via Tokyo Tapes but in those days there was no way of seeing videos like this. I saw them live for the first time in 1979 but by then Roth had left and they'd started to evolve into the slick hard rock band that brought them so much success in the 80s.

It checks all of the boxes 🤘🤘

I remember being introduced to the Scorpions in 76 and fell instantly in love, like I did w Judas, Ted Nugent, Zep.

There's about 18 years of way better hits.

That's because the radio stations only play their 80's stuff. Albeit good stuff, but tired of hearing it.

@@ericp.1508 when this was recorded we were listening to underground college radio playing the rare "lonesome crow" , we didnt hear fly to the rainbow or in trance till 1980. And this was in so Cal.

music that is mind opening doesn't fit the agenda of the fools that worship the "king" of lies and deceit

Fully admit, Rick Beato's channel brought me here today. I'm not really a fan of the Scorpions' '80s reverb-y production, but this song is dry as a bone and it ROCKS. That is one hell of an opening solo.

@@ericp.1508 Actually heard this song in an East German radio in the early 80s

ULI FKn Crhist!

It's on constant repeat for me. Obsessed with this.

I agree with you Cosmo

psuengineer84 song basically ends at 01:25 for me

The note at 1:15 is tremendous.

Agreed! Amazing and so clean as well.

Uli and Frank Marino were the guitar heroes of that period.

Yeah me too listening. 4m Bharat. 🤘

sounds very baroque. one could easily think it's a guitar version of a classical music.

It's actually a 1977 release. It snuck in there a week before Christmas, I think it was. But it was actually recorded back in June '77 and Roth had already written the song years before. In other words, he's a genius way ahead of his time and still underappreciated to this day...

Er market, have loved it ever since!!!!

Saw them in the80'swithout knowing who they were and then ran into winds of change at the su

As if he saying, I can play it in my sleep

Eddie Von Grape You're the reason I put the guitar down. Hope you're happy with yourself...

@Mark Worley I was being sarcastic...

Absolutely right, he did something arrived in 10 years from that time, shredding in the seventies, amazing

I thought the exact same thing.

Anything from Roth years is a gem tbh

Majestic is the perfect word for this

same...and a whole year later for me after you posted 😄

Same. It seems to be a running theme. We all have been missing out.

I actually did a tour and album with Michael Schenker. I feel so blessed to have been able to work with him

52 years old here too and I’ll take this banger 1000x over any of the garbage they call music these days

so good with uli roth on lead guitar...nothing they did after animal magnetism "1980" was any good just commercial crap :)

Here here...54 🤘🤘🤘

Yes!!!! Agreed 💯

DUDE RIGHT NOW HE STILL PLAYIN LIVE SHOWS BRO GO SEE HIM IGHT NOW IN YOUR TOWN!!!

Lol

the most underrated song ever for me atleast

Your comment is awesome!

Pop's for gay, real men listens to classical metal

@@pau.c_himself Scorpions would be ashamed of you. I bet there are a lot of gay men who love classic metal and a lot of "real men" who love pop shit.

​@@pau.c_himself so what about men who listen to rap/hip hop ? Are they doomed to destruction as well ? Lol

@@pau.c_himself do you know that Rob Halford of Judas Priest is gay?

日本でもロックは死にかけている、あにめとゲームの中でかすかに生きている。 この頃のスコーピオンズは最高や！👍

Oh yeah.....Uli is like.....I got this!

Hahajajjaajaaaa! He had that Billy Squire marching stomp thing, or rather Billy may have seen this for inspo. Jk, rockin' out with disco boots has been around since boots went on feet.

Hell yes

Thats actually pretty accurate lmao

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Timeless.

Exactly the same for me!!!!

I'm 62, where ya been.

The Scorpions were founded by Rudolf Schenker in the mid 60s. Check out fly to the rainbow with a 15 year old Michael Schenker playing lead guitar for his older brothers Scorpions.

and Rush for that matter

Indeed, it is unbelievable.

I never noticed how similar he is to Dio before, or vice versa is you prefer.

Alienart only his hair silly..klaus has no equal! Not to take anything from dio..mhes a legend in his own right..but klaus and the scorps..so many great songs

The man is on fire....

you are right!!!! .......but the guitar part of Uli is from another world.

Oh my ... Glad you are better now. ❤

dont get on charons boat

Here's to your improvement, fellow music lover.

Well said. I agree

For the love of all thats good...all their 80s stuff was wonderful....and NOONE compared to them live...stop doing what was always done...undermining and underrated their music...

@@fiercerahh Why? Roth himself said the direction they took was boring and that's why he went his own way. The band died when he left as far as I'm concerned.

I couldn't agree more. "Lonesome Crow" alone is a masterpiece. I only care about pre-80s Scrorps...and they were at their peak then.

@@brianh2787 Yea that was them at the perfect middle ground between late 60's/early 70's psychedelia and their later hard psych rock style. I went through all the albums of the Roth era and the only one that contained no skippable tracks was Lonesome Crow. At most I like half of any other album. That being said, there is at least one track that Lonesome can't touch and that is the Sails of Charon. Possibly the best rock solo I've ever heard.

That riff is stuck in my head for forever

exactly.. me too.. i will never get over it. more than mindblowing .. the only one who iis on that solo nowadays is no other than Ritchie Falcon Faulkner of Judas Priest !! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🐾

Me too. So wonderful.

Totally agree

​@@esmeraldakhan I saw Priest on the Firepower tour and Faulkner blew me away. He killed it

Or an all day marathon...I can do that lol

Three times this am 😂

check out IVE GOT TO BE FREE on the same album

Norman Reedus posted this video on his Instagram page a few years ago which is when I first heard this song...Absolutely bad ass...instantly became my new favorite Scorpions song. It doesn't get played enough IMO, not even on satellite radio....

Found this last night. I've listened to it about every 5 minutes, for the last 24 hours. And when I'm not listening to it, my grooving like the drummer in this video, still feeling it. I feel like I was just born.

Everybody who plays an instrument, with a feelable control, is easy able to close the eyes during playing after practising the same song enough...

Coincido las grandes obras del sacerdote de los 70 cómo lo son sad wings of Destiny, sin after sin, Stained class, killing machine y el vivo unleashed in the eat son opacadas por las obras de los 80 y 90 cómo screaming for vengeance, defenders of the faith y painkiller. Lo mismo paso con scorpions sus grandes discos de los 70 cómo in trance, virgin killer, Taken by forcé , lovedrive y el vivo Tokio tapes fueron opacados por los de los 80 cómo animal magnetism, blackout, love at firs Sting , el world wide live y crazy world del 90

A master piece never tire of listening to to it.

unfortunately that's how it is and I completely agree with you.

@@abdelabdellatif7100 Me too. A number of bands had a "comeback" or became big in the 80s (Scorpions, Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, even Def Leopard) when they had older stuff that was way better.

@@Christian-vq8rd Maidens first album came out in 1980 and they also peaked in the 80s but yeah I generally agree on this as well

Depends where... In Europe they were quiet the show.

If it took you this long to discover the 70s era of the Scorpions them you might not truly appreciate great music until at least you finally did discover this era and other great music like the 70s era of Judas Priest

You have been robbed but at least you are here now.

It’s so satisfying to find it this late like that last fry in the McDonald’s bag.

You’re not alone

Taken by force eo álbum

Phat Meow There was an interview with Jimi Hendrix where he said, "There is a cat over in Germany who's doing crazy things with a strat. He's going to be something soon. His name is Roth I think. I only met him once." Uli was pretty young then.

Ricky Spanish, Wow that's pretty mindblowing! There did you find that interview at?

Joshua Ibarra I think it was a metal masters documentary on palladia. Palladia was taken over by mtv2 and I'm not sure if they still play it. Everybody, ozzy, megadeth, and many others were crediting dio as a metal inspiration and dio only wanted to give credit to sails of charon and mostly uli.

for example, kirk hammet sucks, but has way more recognition, so i am with you on that one.

He isn't the underrated one. It is Rudolf Schenker.. He and Malcolm Young must be the greatest Rhythm guitarists ever lived... Listen to that tight rhythm...All the recognition goes to Michael, but I think Rudolf is criminally underrated...

I’m gonna reply to myself because there’s so much to say! I’ve watched/listened so many times… I love how here are five manly German guys, all in heels. I love how Herman Rarebell’s default is saying “F*ck! F*ck!” I love how Francis Buchholz always plays at the bridge of the bass with his mouth wide open. I love how Rudolph Schenker keeps impeccable time but is always dancing around, just about to fall. I love how Klaus Mein sounds! Small but mighty, he’s got the moves and always knows what to do with his hands. And Uli. So smooth, as if turquoise jewelry and bishop sleeves give him mystical powers. This is the best thing ever. This is neoclassical metal six years before Malmsteen. Suck it Yngwie!

I've already watched it 5 times today

@@abbietalavera6068 Don't be mean.Yngwie loves Uli.

@@abbietalavera6068 I love this comment! Take care you two!

But it's the 5th mode of harmonic minor I believe...Close to Phrygian yes, but the natural 7th puts it in harm minor. and since the rhythm is in Bminor, the only logical scale is 5th mode of harm minor...

It's based on the song Caravan by Duke Ellington.

Klaus’ Shoes + his dance moves + herman’s facial expressions + uli’s moustache

Or Klaus dance moves

Still the groove. That shit's eternal.

Tie.

Its a package deal

Its Playback

Justin any proof of that?

Vocals 100% like studio

Not that he doesn't play flawlessly onstage, but they're just miming to the studio recording in this performance.

@Jesus Of Malibu"Justin any proof of that?" The fact that sound is in stereo and doesn't sound like it was recorded through crappy TV-studio mics, which are not meant for recording music, is a dead give away.

Rudy's not bad too.

matt rtr . i love this song. scorps.

Friggin' banana hands!

Hell yeah he is. SMOKEN... 👊😎✌🎸🎼

He makes it look effortless

His fingers effortlessly float lol...breaks the laws of physics heehee

Muy bueno, has escuchado esta misma canción pero el cover de Testament? Hazlo

It's a perfect video and a perfect song.

I love Rudy and Klaus's platform shoes! So 70's!

I had to double check. Even the facial expressions...uncanny

one or two years apart but scorpions made it famous first.

Pretty sure Dio was in Rainbow

Yeah, until vocal dropped.

UUUH, No

Schenker has been playing the v since the start

Uli is in fucking trance or something

@Brandon Hofmann He must be because he makes it look so damn easy! Easy for him, impossible for me. I can’t shred like that.

Hahahah Eric!! This happened to me last night! I bet we saw the same vid on insta! It was just the beginning solo section. I had it playing on loop with an open jaw. Came straight to RU-vid to watch the full thing and I've been looping it on here too!

This happened to me too!! 😂😂😂

i had an old friend ask me "you know that riff from sails of charon?" i was like no lemme see, now i dont play guitar anymore.

yes , yes.

and that's just the rhythm guitarist, hoppin' & boppin'!

Except maybe Ritchie Blackmore.

Amen :-)

Tony iommi looks fucking badass playing tho

did you get it on guitar?

@@deletadoparasempre Maybe he did, but I'd bet not. I'm also giving this a shot. But I know in my head that I am not a guitar virtuoso by any stretch so I'm not planning on EVER sounding like that....

First minute and a half is otherworldly

Cuz lots of people didn't like the scorps...irritated me beyond belief lol.