Uli Jon Roth to issue album of 19 reworked tracks from his days with the German band

Uli Jon Roth is to release an album featuring reworked versions of 19 Scorpions tracks.

The German guitarist issues Scorpions Revisited on March 10 via UDR and he describes the project as "an intense journey into the past" which "really managed to bring the songs back to life with a vengeance."

It features tracks originally recorded during Roth's spell with the band in the 1970s.

Roth says: "The material for this double CD was recorded last year in the same hall in Hanover that we used for the Scorpions rehearsals between 1973 and 1978.

"Together with an amazing bunch of very talented young musicians, I revisited my personal favourites from the early Scorpions period. It was an emotional few days and I am very pleased with the results in more ways than one.

"The idea was to stay truthful to the original spirit of the music, while also putting a new slant on it whenever it felt like the right thing to do. I feel we really succeeded in this and I'm very excited about this project."

Roth was joined in the studio by singer Nathan James, drummer Jamie Little, bass player Ule Ritgen, guitarists Niklas Turmann and David Klosinski and keyboard player Corvin Bahn.

The current Scorpions lineup last year went back on plans to call it a day, saying their supposed 'final tour' was too much fun to consider quitting. They'll co-headline this summer's TeamRock-sponsored Ramblin' Man Fair which takes place on the weekend of July 25-26 in Kent.

SCORPIONS REVISITED TRACKLIST

CD1

The Sails Of Charon
Longing For Fire
Crying Days
Virgin Killer
In Trance
Sun In My Hand
Yellow Raven
Polar Nights
Dark Lady

CD2

Catch Your Train
Evening Wind
All Night Long
We'll Burn In The Sky
Pictured Life
Hell Cat
Life's Like A River
Drifting Sun
Rainbow Dream Prelude
Fly To The Rainbow

YASCA

What I've heard from this is pretty damn good, and he can still play with the very best of them.

Cool, I'll have to check it out. I have a cd of him, UFO & Jack Bruce playing together (in paces, also some separate) that's quite good.

He was just here in Seattle. I didn't go, but a photographer I know shot the show.

Looks interesting. I love the "Virgin Killer" album. I look forward to hearing this.

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I think this is my first "DR4". Damn, this thing is LOUD! A couple of the songs are "DR2", which is very close to a sine wave.

This is a sine wave, so I think you've got something else in mind.

Um............... white noise?

What do you think about the actual music and playing?

It's so loud I haven't been able to sit through enough to have an opinion. I like some of his older stuff.