He was that good - as a German you always had a bit of a chip on your shoulder because we didn't really have guitar heroes, but Uli Roth was someone you could justly be proud of. Around that time, I even rated him more highly than Michael Schenker, who good as he was didn't quite have the improvisational abandon (to be fair: Michael was his own man and didn't have "HENDRIX!" written all over him like Uli did!).
I saw the Scorps later on the Love Drive Tour again on one of the few legs of that tour where Michael actually showed up and was not AWOL
; at that time their live set was still populated by Uli Roth-era songs and Michael's discomfort playing that stuff was palpable. Sure enough, he didn't even finish the tour.
Also one of the few documented performances with Rudy Lenners on drums, their Belgian drummer which they had to let go because he had a heart defect that would have kept him from touring as hard as the Scorpions always did. Not a technical drummer like his predecessor Jürgen Rosenthal (who joined German Progsters
Eloy after his military service forced him out of the Scorpions and found fame and fortune there), his style always reminded me a bit of Mick Tucker of Sweet.
Speaking of ... When the Sorpions were almost broke in 1975, the future of the band endangered, they resorted to recording two Sweet tracks (
Fox On The Run and
Action) under the alias moniker
The Hunters, so they could reap 50% of the royalties via the (inane) German lyrics. They were also the opening act for Sweet around that time (and for Kiss' first German gigs in 1976 as well) - getting along well with both bands. Manfred Mann's Earth Band was another international act they opened for - MMEB were hugely popular in Germany back then -, with Uli even getting an offer from Manfred Mann to join his band - he did not do "another Michael" though and declined although flattered.
It's a piece of their history they tried to keep valiantly under the lid when they finally made it!
The Hunters' one and only single never saw a - digital or other - re-release in almost 50 years.