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where to begin….they are retiring soon ;-(
I saw them 3 times and they always delivered with maximum output.
The first time i saw them was on the love at first sting tour -3rd row at the garden on my last day of high school ever-as a senior.
I was blown the fuck away.I didn't realize how great Mathias is until i witnessed him up close.
Homie was playing all of these insane fills and leads while jumping around like a maniac…
Klaus was jumping off the drum riser just like DLR and just as high ….they had their marshalls stacked up in what looked like custom built racks and it had built in steel bars -like monkey bars for climbing.
By the end of the show they were literally hanging off these amp racks,rudy is rolling around on the fucking stage…klaus is leaping all over the place and rarebell is laughing his ass of while still keeping a solid groove…...Just incredible!
The second time I saw them was at monster's of rock tour 1988 and they blew van halen off the stage-SPAMMY looked like canned meat after the scorps were on.
Third time was a huge arena show in Holland in the early 90s and i had shite seats but they still sounded great.
The records-
I heard all of the Uli stuff at the same time the mathias releases were current and i was engulfed in material to digest.
I can remember where i was the first time i heard polar nights live, just like i remember the first time i heard eruption.
That sound and his playing just stopped me dead in my tracks…i was like who is that?
It made a huge impact on me and was blown away and started digging back to all of their earlier albums.
Uli changed the way i viewed the guitar and its possibilities.His tone was enormous and was just ripping my young stoned suburban face right off.
His entre' to the world of music was the violent wha/modulated wang bar workout on speedy's coming,quite a debut.
It was then that i realized he influenced EVH w/ regard to wang bar antics,huge marshall tone and funky/jazzy phrasing that had swing to it as opposed to typewriter shred.
without a doubt one of my all time fave guitar players
night lights evening wind in your park catch your train polar nights drifting sun we'll burn the sky fly to the rainbow are sublime and timeless.
His solos lps especially earthquake proved he was improving and he continued to break new musical ground.[i know his voice is not the greatest]
I was lucky enough to meet him and chat a bit when he toured w/ michael schenker in 2005
He was such a humble peaceful soul.
It was one of the few times in my life that i acted like a fanboy and i got something autographed[virgin killer lp]
I could go on about uli for hours and or how amazing a guitarist/songwriter/performer rudolph schenker is.
In fact rudy deserves his own thread for writing some of the best hooks and playing the best rhythm guitar …ever.
all scorps records up until love at first sting had incredible guitar tones -and i would consider it much of the mathias material as "brown" although many would beg to differ.
your turn guys…. i just shot my scorps nut and a long winded one at that
I saw them 3 times and they always delivered with maximum output.
The first time i saw them was on the love at first sting tour -3rd row at the garden on my last day of high school ever-as a senior.
I was blown the fuck away.I didn't realize how great Mathias is until i witnessed him up close.
Homie was playing all of these insane fills and leads while jumping around like a maniac…
Klaus was jumping off the drum riser just like DLR and just as high ….they had their marshalls stacked up in what looked like custom built racks and it had built in steel bars -like monkey bars for climbing.
By the end of the show they were literally hanging off these amp racks,rudy is rolling around on the fucking stage…klaus is leaping all over the place and rarebell is laughing his ass of while still keeping a solid groove…...Just incredible!
The second time I saw them was at monster's of rock tour 1988 and they blew van halen off the stage-SPAMMY looked like canned meat after the scorps were on.
Third time was a huge arena show in Holland in the early 90s and i had shite seats but they still sounded great.
The records-
I heard all of the Uli stuff at the same time the mathias releases were current and i was engulfed in material to digest.
I can remember where i was the first time i heard polar nights live, just like i remember the first time i heard eruption.
That sound and his playing just stopped me dead in my tracks…i was like who is that?
It made a huge impact on me and was blown away and started digging back to all of their earlier albums.
Uli changed the way i viewed the guitar and its possibilities.His tone was enormous and was just ripping my young stoned suburban face right off.
His entre' to the world of music was the violent wha/modulated wang bar workout on speedy's coming,quite a debut.
It was then that i realized he influenced EVH w/ regard to wang bar antics,huge marshall tone and funky/jazzy phrasing that had swing to it as opposed to typewriter shred.
without a doubt one of my all time fave guitar players
night lights evening wind in your park catch your train polar nights drifting sun we'll burn the sky fly to the rainbow are sublime and timeless.
His solos lps especially earthquake proved he was improving and he continued to break new musical ground.[i know his voice is not the greatest]
I was lucky enough to meet him and chat a bit when he toured w/ michael schenker in 2005
He was such a humble peaceful soul.
It was one of the few times in my life that i acted like a fanboy and i got something autographed[virgin killer lp]
I could go on about uli for hours and or how amazing a guitarist/songwriter/performer rudolph schenker is.
In fact rudy deserves his own thread for writing some of the best hooks and playing the best rhythm guitar …ever.
all scorps records up until love at first sting had incredible guitar tones -and i would consider it much of the mathias material as "brown" although many would beg to differ.
your turn guys…. i just shot my scorps nut and a long winded one at that
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Doesn't have the same power as it did when it was bright and in your face with regular tuning. People don't think that makes a diff but it totally does... especially with the leads where the notes just hang flat and don't cut because of how lose the string tension is. That's just my opinion but listen to Carcass, the strings are just hanging off there and it makes lead playing not fun.
