ULI JON ROTH To Release 'Tokyo Tapes Revisited - Live In Japan' In December

One of rock n’ roll’s most venerated guitar gods, Uli Jon Roth will release a very special live performance from the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo, Japan on December 16, 2016 via UDR Music. Titled “Tokyo Tapes Revisited – Live In Japan”, the performance is a celebration of Roth‘s classic work with the SCORPIONS, and was recorded on February 20, 2015 at the same venue as the band’s classic 1978 live album “Tokyo Tapes”.

Roth was a founding member of the SCORPIONS in 1973 before leaving to pursue a solo career in 1978 with his own ELECTRIC SUN. As the recognized creative heartbeat of the SCORPIONS, Roth achieved worldwide fame for his unique guitar and songwriting talents, in turn causing him to influence a plethora of modern guitar giants such as Kirk Hammett of METALLICA, Billy Corgan of SMASHING PUMPKINS and Steve Vai.

Watch a “Tokyo Tapes Revisited – Live In Japan” clip of Roth and his band performing “Virgin Killer” below.

“Tokyo Tapes Revisited – Live In Japan” will be released in four different formats:

1 – Video and audio recording of Roth’s Tokyo concert in a Blu-ray digipak containing one Blu-ray video disc and two audio CDs.

2 – The same as Product 1 only in a DVD digipak.

3 – A digital audio copy of the Tokyo concert.

4 – A super-deluxe boxset, limited to 800 copies. It will be a proper, lid-off shell box containing four heavyweight vinyl LPs of Roth‘s 2015 “Scorpions Revisited” release which has never been released on vinyl. There will also be an 80-page, gatefold, hardcover 12-inch book which will house 8 discs — one Blu-ray concert main-feature, one bonus BluRay disc (which will contain the original footage from the first Japanese SCORPIONS tour 1978, shot personally by Roth on his Super 8 camera), two audio CDs of the main Tokyo concert and four bonus audio CDs of Roth‘s Osaka and Nagoya dates on the same Japanese tour. The set will also include an Uli Jon Roth replica guitar key ring, a t-shirt, and a signed certificate of authenticity, numbered and signed by Roth himself.

Pre-orders for “Tokyo Tapes Revisited – Live In Japan” CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray versions are available via Amazon, and digital is available via iTunes with “Virgin Killer” instant grat.

As a member of the SCORPIONS from 1973 through 1978, Uli Jon Roth helped pioneer the neo-classical style that has influenced countless guitarists to this day. His extraordinary playing can be heard on four classic SCORPIONS records, “Fly To The Rainbow” (1974), “In Trance” (1975), “Virgin Killer” (1976) and “Taken By Force”. This lineup also recorded what many still consider to be one of the greatest live albums ever recorded, “Tokyo Tapes”.

“At first I didn’t realize the impact it had on the rock music scene,” Roth told JamMagazine.com about the live album. “When I left the band in 1978, I disconnected myself from the past and was only interested in my new band, ELECTRIC SUN. I didn’t follow the success of ‘Tokyo Tapes’. Over time, I began to realize that musicians and fans kept referring to that album like it was something extra special. Gradually I understood why. Now I actually see the recording in a different light than what I thought back then.”

Released in March 2015, “Scorpions Revisited” was a double-disc CD recorded in Hanover, Germany which saw the maestro re-harness all the collective power and poise of those original SCORPIONS classics, and re-imagine them as he feels today.

The band which performed with Roth for these shows was Nathan James (vocals), Jamie Little (drums), Ule W. Ritgen (bass), Niklas Turmann (guitar, vocals), Corvin Bahn (keyboards, vocals) and David Klosinski (guitar).