ULI JON ROTH Says It's 'Very Natural' For Younger Musicians To Learn More Quickly Than Prior Generations

In a recent interview with LA Weekly, legendary guitarist Uli Jon Roth was asked about the fact that a lot of young musicians today are are able to attain an accelerated rate of learning by watching YouTube videos or using digital apps, which is different from how people of his generation learned.

"It's a very, very natural thing that the younger generations always learn much quicker than generations before," he responded. "It's like the hundredth-monkey syndrome [referring to the hundredth monkey effect, a studied phenomenon in which a new behavior or idea is claimed to spread rapidly by unexplained means from one group to all related groups once a critical number of members of one group exhibit the new behavior or acknowledge the new idea]."

He continued: "I believe that once a person has attained a certain level or ability in any field, it kind of seems to go into the stream of consciousness of the whole planet, of all of mankind, because we're all connected. It's then easier for others to pick it up and to actually do the same — maybe not with the same level of excitement, because it's always more special when it happens for the first time, but they can replicate it and then take it to yet another level. This process is normal. It's been going on since the dawn of time."

Roth added: "There are certain pitfalls, particularly now, because the kids are almost inundated, overwhelmed with these things like YouTube. There is a lot of spoon-feeding going on, and that doesn't really help a personal level of creativity, and it may be a bit of a hindrance. It may lead to a superficial kind of learning without really a deep understanding. But then again, that totally depends on the individual. You may have a really young talent who bypasses all that and doesn't get affected negatively by it and just benefits from all that's out there."

UDR will release Roth's brand new double album of 19 re-invented SCORPIONS tracks, titled "Scorpions Revisited", on March 10. Pre-orders are available now via iTunes. When you pre-order, you get the song "Catch Your Train" as an instant grat track.

"Scorpions Revisited" is a double-disc CD recorded in Hanover, Germany which sees the maestro re-harness all the collective power and poise of those original SCORPIONS classics, and re-imagine them as he feels today. No one in their right mind would dare call these mere re-recordings, as it's clear that Uli Jon Roth reinvents these songs from the soul up.

The band which performed with Roth for these historic shows was Nathan James (vocals),Jamie Little (drums),Ule W. Ritgen (bass),Niklas Turmann (guitar, vocals),Corvin Bahn (keyboards, vocals) and David Klosinski (guitar).