This final album featured ex- Jethro Tull drummer Clive Bunker, on drums and timpani. Roth formed his own band named Electric Sun-releasing three albums: Earthquake (1979) dedicated to the spirit of Jimi Hendrix, Fire Wind (1981), dedicated to Anwar Sadat and featured a song called 'Enola Gay (Hiroshima Today?)' about the atomic bombing of Japan by a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber of that name, and his third and final Electric Sun album Beyond the Astral Skies (1985), dedicated both to Martin Luther King Jr. Scorpions released four studio albums during his tenure as lead guitarist, main songwriter and occasional lead singer between 19. When guitarist Michael Schenker left the Scorpions to join UFO in 1973, the two remaining Scorpions members Rudolf Schenker and Klaus Meine joined the four members of Dawn Road, but decided to use the name Scorpions rather than the less-well-known Dawn Road. Roth formed a band called Dawn Road in the early 1970s. He is the older brother of fellow guitarist and artist Zeno Roth (1956–2018).Ĭareer Dawn Road and Scorpions

He is also the founder of Sky Academy and designer of the Sky Guitar.

Uli Jon Roth (born Ulrich Roth 18 December 1954) is a German guitarist who became famous for his work with the hard rock band Scorpions and is one of the earliest contributors to the neoclassical metal genre.