Barry Sparks

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Barry Sparks (born June 20, 1968 in Lucasville (Ohio) ) is an American musician.

Life

Barry Sparks started playing the guitar when he was ten years old. In 1989, Sparks moved from Tucson to Los Angeles , where he met Yngwie Malmsteen ; With him he went on tour for the album The Seventh Sign in 1994 and played electric bass for his albums I Can't Wait and Magnum Opus . At the beginning of 1996 he joined the Michael Schenker Group and recorded four albums between 1995 and 2000. Around 1998 he played with the pop singer Billie Myers and from 1999 to 2001 he performed again with the Michael Schenker Group. Sparks worked with UFO on the UK Tour The Visitor and You Are Here Tour. He joined the band Dokken in 2001 and toured with a roster of veteran rockers including Whitesnake , Scorpions and most recently Ted Nugent .

Discography

Yngwie Malmsteen

  • I Can't Wait (1994)
  • Magnum Opus (1995)

Vinnie Moore

  • Live! (2000)

Michael Schenker Group

  • The Unforgiven World Tour (2000)

Dokken

  • Long Way Home (2002)
  • Hell To Pay (2004)
  • Lightning Strikes Again (2008)
  • Greatest Hits (2010)

Scorpions

  • Unbreakable (on tracks 2 & 4) (2004)

Ted Nugent

  • Sweden Rocks (2006)
  • Love Grenade (2007)

B'z

  • Various projects

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sitstrings.com (English), accessed November 14, 2012
Scorpions
Rudolf Schenker  • Klaus Meine  • Matthias Jabs  • Mikkey Dee  • Pawel Maciwoda
Johan Franzon (live) • Herman Rarebell  • Francis Buchholz  • Achim Kirschning  • Uli Jon Roth  • Michael Schenker  • Ralph Rieckermann  • Rudy Lenners  • Jürgen Rosenthal  • Wolfgang Dziony  • Lothar Heimberg  • Karl-Heinz Vollmer • Joe Wyman • Ken Taylor  • Curt Cress  • Barry Sparks  • Ingo Powitzer • James Kottak


Studio albums

Lonesome Crow  (1972) • Fly to the Rainbow  (1974) • In Trance  (1975) • Virgin Killer  (1976) • Taken by Force  (1977) • Lovedrive  (1979) • Animal Magnetism  (1980) • Blackout  (1982) • Love at First Sting  (1984) • Savage Amusement  (1988) • Crazy World  (1990) • Face the Heat  (1993) • Pure Instinct  (1996) • Eye II Eye  (1999) • Moment of Glory  (2000) • Unbreakable  (2004) • Humanity - Hour I  (2007) • Sting in the Tail  (2010) • Comeblack  (2011) • Return to Forever  (2015)

Live albums

Tokyo Tapes  (1978) • World Wide Live  (1985) • Live Bites  (1995) • Acoustica  (2001) • Live 2011 - Get Your Sting and Blackout  (2011) • MTV Unplugged - in Athens  (2013)

Compilation albums

Best of Vol. 1  (1979) • Hot & Heavy  (1982) • Best of Vol. 2  (1984) • Gold Ballads (1988) • Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads  (1989) • Still Loving You  (1992) • Deadly Sting  (1995) • Deadly Sting - The Mercury Years (1997) • Best  (1999) • Millenium Edition (2001) • Bad for Good - The Very Best of (2002) • The Platinum Collection (2005) • Deadliest Stings (2008) • Icon (2010) • Icon 2 (2010) • Still in Trance (2012) • Born To Touch Your Feelings (Best of Rock Ballads) (2017)

Video albums

First Sting (1985) • World Wide Live (1985) • To Russia with Love and Other Savage Amusements (1988) • Crazy World Tour Live (1991) • Moment of Glory - Live (2000) • Acoustica (2001) • A Savage Crazy World (2002) • Unbreakable World Tour 2004 - One Night in Vienna (2005) • Live at Wacken Open Air 2006: A Night to Remember - A Journey Through Time  (2007) • Amazonia - Live in the Jungle (2009) • Scorpions Live in 3D (Blu-Ray 3D) (2011) • MTV Unplugged - in Athens  (2013) • Forever and a Day (2015) • Forever and a Day: Live in Munich (2016)

Singles

Is There Anybody There? • Lovedrive • Make It Real • The Zoo  • Blackout • No One Like You • Still Loving You • Can't Live Without You • Rock You Like a Hurricane  • Big City Nights • Rhythm of Love • Passion Rules the Game • Don't Believe Her • Wind of Change  • Send Me an Angel • Alien Nation • Under the Same Sun • White Dove • Does Anyone Know • When You Came Into My Life • Where the River Flows • To Be No. 1 • Moment of Glory • You Are the Champion • Humanity • Raised on Rock • The Good Die Young • Still Loving You - Je t'aime encore (feat. Amandine Bourgeios) • Dancing with the Moolight / Where the River Flows • We Built This House • Eye of the Storm • Going out with a bang

personal data
SURNAME Sparks, Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucasville (Ohio)