The Electric Sun Years Vol. I & II
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The Electric Sun Years Vol I & II is a DVD by Uli Jon Roth
Ulrich Roth
Ulrich Roth , more commonly known as Uli Jon Roth, is a Germanguitarist and one of the earliest contributors to the neo-classical metal genre. He is also the founder of Sky Academy and inventor of the Sky Guitar. He is the older brother of fellow guitarist and artist Zeno Roth.-Career:In the early...

. It was released in 2002 and features archive footage of the early years of his band Electric Sun
Electric Sun
Electric Sun was a music group formed by Uli Jon Roth after his departure from the Scorpions in 1978. They recorded three albums between 1979 and 1985....

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Track listing

Electric Sun era I
  • Amsterdam
    Amsterdam
    Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

     1979/1980
  1. Lilac
    Lilac
    Syringa is a genus of about 20–25 species of flowering woody plants in the olive family , native to woodland and scrub from southeastern Europe to eastern Asia, and widely and commonly cultivated in temperate areas elsewhere....

     1:34
  2. Electric Sun 5:12
  3. Sundown 4:06
  4. Earthquake
    Earthquake
    An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time...

     (Part II) 6:07
  5. Japanese Dream 3:22
    • Mulhouse 1982
  6. Fire Wind 5:37
  7. Virgin Killer 3:56
  8. Free Jam Encore (improvised) 4:35
  9. Mutron Jam (improvised) 2:07
  10. Red House Blues 4:03

Electric Sun Era II
  • Sweden & UK May 1983
  1. Icebreaker
    Icebreaker
    An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters. Although the term usually refers to ice-breaking ships, it may also refer to smaller vessels .For a ship to be considered an icebreaker, it requires three traits most...

     4:02
  2. What Is Love? 3:12
  3. Why? 6:02
  4. Enola Gay
    Enola Gay
    Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of the pilot, then-Colonel Paul Tibbets. On August 6, 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war...

     - Hiroshima
    Hiroshima
    is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

     Today? 11:22
  5. Angel of Peace 3:34
  6. Return 3:13
  7. Cast Away Your Chains 3:29
  8. Virgin Killer (II) 2:00
  9. Drum & Percussion Solo (Clive Bunker-Simon Fox) 7:20
  10. Electric Sun 4:23
  11. Polar Nights 12:01
  12. Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

     Paraphrase
    Paraphrase
    Paraphrase is restatement of a text or passages, using other words. The term "paraphrase" derives via the Latin "paraphrasis" from the Greek , meaning "additional manner of expression". The act of paraphrasing is also called "paraphrasis."...

     7:10
  13. Hell Cat 2:50
  14. Dark Lady 7:36
  15. Midnight Sun (Newcastle Jam) 8:46

  • Special Features:
  • The Documentary and Rehearsal -Tour Impressions- (28:03)
  • Interview in Tokyo
    Tokyo
    , ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

     2001 (19:27)
  • Photographs
  • The Website Information

Musicians

  • Uli Jon Roth: Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Ule Ritgen: Bass
    Bass (instrument)
    Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...

    , Backing Vocals
  • Sidhatta Gautama: drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    (1979-1982)
  • Clive Bunker
    Clive Bunker
    Clive William Bunker is a British rock drummer. He was the original drummer in the British band Jethro Tull....

    : Drums (1983)
  • Simon Fox: Drums, percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

     (1983)
  • David Lennox: keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    (1983)
  • Jenni Evans: Vocals (1983)
  • Dorothy Patterson: Vocals (1983)
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