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Uli Jon Roth says his Sky Guitar’s active pickup system was so powerful it blew up his amps

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“They sent me two 5150 amps. They sounded great for about 10 seconds, then they were fried!” Uli John Roth on his amp-destroying Sky guitar

Throughout his time in the Scorpions, Uli Jon Roth was a Stratocaster loyalist. His devotion to the model led to his wildly innovative Sky Guitar, which has come to define every other era of his ...
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Uli Jon Roth’s struggle to contain his brainchild, the Sky guitar – and why he never played Jimi Hendrix’s black Strat

In the 1970s Uli Jon Roth was a Strat-slinger with the Scorpions who loved to modify his guitar to sound like a violin. By the early 1980s he wanted more. “Coming from the violin, a lot of the ...
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“The guitar is like a spaceship, like a Formula 1 car”: Uli Jon Roth says his Sky Guitar’s “Mega-Wing” active pickup system had so much output that it blew up his ...

When it comes to guitar players and their ideal electric guitar pickup, frankly, some like it hot. Some need the juice, the output to hit the front end of their guitar amp hard, to make it suffer. But ...