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This German group was formed by Uli Jon Roth (guitar, vocals) after he still left the Scorpions in 1978. Initially he was helped by Ule Ritgens on bass and Clive Edwards on drums. The group was quickly agreed upon by the mind label and released Earthquake in 1979. It had …

Though he doesn’t get nearly just as much credit as Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore, Uli Jon Roth helped lay the groundwork for neo-classical metallic along with his lead guitar work with German hard rock and roll icons the Scorpions through the ’70s. Roth’s playing owed a clear personal debt to …