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patrickmcgroin
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I really do like Phil Lynott's voice. He played a good part on Jeff Wayne's Musical version of War of the Worlds ( which is being done live, the tour is going on in England, if you live there, GO!).
Leroy Hoard
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Check out what I think is their last great album, Black Rose. "Waiting For An Alibi" is one of many solid songs on that cd. Too bad Phil lived and died like some of the characters in his songs.
Great Grinchy Trick
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"The boys are back in town" makes me want to jump out a window. "The Boys" sound like a bunch of douches.
zamboni
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Bumping this very old thread.
Saw these guys on Friday night, and they were awesome. Three guys are from the old days (Scott Gorham/Brian Downey/Darren Wharton), and while there is only one Phil Lynott, the new lead singer (Ricky Warwick) did a very credible job.
The twin leads between Vivian Campbell (doing double duty with Def Leppard) and Gorham were just fierce.
Love this band.
Saw these guys on Friday night, and they were awesome. Three guys are from the old days (Scott Gorham/Brian Downey/Darren Wharton), and while there is only one Phil Lynott, the new lead singer (Ricky Warwick) did a very credible job.
The twin leads between Vivian Campbell (doing double duty with Def Leppard) and Gorham were just fierce.
Love this band.
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HellToupee
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The Cowboy Song is in my all time top 10 faves
squistion
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One of my all time favorite bands and I saw them live when they were the opening act for Queen on the Bohemian Rhapshody tour. The first song they did was The Boys Are Back In Town - which would seem to a tactical error, but they has so much other good material, that they didn't lose any momentum for the rest of the set.
I think they didn't become bigger because IMO they peaked creatively before they found commercial success with Jailbreak. Check out the release before that, Fighting, which I don't think has a bad track on it. Nightlife is great too. Also the releases with their original lead guitarist (Eric Bell) are excellent too, particularly Vagabonds of the Western World (which is very Hendrix influenced) and has killer tracks on it, notably The Rocker, Little Girl In Bloom, and Gonna Creep Up On You.
I think they didn't become bigger because IMO they peaked creatively before they found commercial success with Jailbreak. Check out the release before that, Fighting, which I don't think has a bad track on it. Nightlife is great too. Also the releases with their original lead guitarist (Eric Bell) are excellent too, particularly Vagabonds of the Western World (which is very Hendrix influenced) and has killer tracks on it, notably The Rocker, Little Girl In Bloom, and Gonna Creep Up On You.
zamboni
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I think I love you.
squistion
Footballguy
Thanks
and it ranks as probably near the top of the all time live shows that I saw. Oddly, Thin Lizzy didn't get that good a response from the audience at the Santa Monica Civic. About half of the crowd was late arriving and not only didn't see the entire set, but also seemed somewhat indifferent to the band (a lot of talking around me) I am a little unclear if they even did an encore - but I think so and I believe it was The Cowboy Song (but after almost 35 years the exact details are a bit hazy).
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zamboni
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That's too bad - was '75, right? They were really under the radar before Jailbreak came out, and opening for a dynamic live act like Queen isn't can't be the easiest gig.Thanks
squistion
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Early spring '76 I think, unfortunatley I can't tie it to anything else that was going on in my life at the time to be more accurate. The Boys are Back in Town had been released and was getting a lot of airplay, but I can't remember if it had become a "hit" at that point. And hard rock had become unfashionable at that time, so no one really had heard of them before that outside of people like myself who were fans of obscure heavy metal UK bands.Sadly, the audience was there that night to see Queen (understandably) and I am sure those that arrived fashionably late and missed the opening act probably regretted it down the line.'zamboni said:That's too bad - was '75, right? They were really under the radar before Jailbreak came out, and opening for a dynamic live act like Queen isn't can't be the easiest gig.'squistion said:Thanks'zamboni said:
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timschochet
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18 posts and nobody mentions "Whiskey In the Jar"? This may be my alltime favorite song.
Time Kibitzer
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That old Irish folk song has been played an uncountable amount of times by dozens and dozens of different bands. Granted, Thin Lizzy's version is probably the best of them all, still the fact that it gets played all the time kind of hinders the impact of Thin Lizzy's version imo.
squistion
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That too and it was also from the time that Eric Bell was with the band and didn't fit with the material they did in the albums subsequent to his departure - so it was ancient history by the time most people became acquainted with the band 75/76. In fact when I saw them live it was no longer part of their set list, which was comprised of about 70% from Jailbreak, with the balance being from Nightlife and and a track from Fighting, their cover of Bob Seger's Rosalie.
PhilLynott
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Nice to see some Lizzy love. They have some great albums but they have always been a "live" band. "Live and Dangerous" is almost always voted as the greatest live album ever. It is well known that the band overdubbed much of the album but it is still a great effort.
Just to clear up a couple of things. Whiskey in the Jar put the group on the map but the band didn't like the fact that it did not show them as they really were.
The song "Dedication" is actually a song that was recorded by Phil's band Grand Slam. IIRC, Gorham and Downey were not real happy about re-recording a non-Lizzy tune for the greatest hits album.
I have Thin Lizzy's entire catalog and I won't say that every song is great but if you are looking for a band that is GROSSLY underrated on American soil, this is the place to start.
Just to clear up a couple of things. Whiskey in the Jar put the group on the map but the band didn't like the fact that it did not show them as they really were.
The song "Dedication" is actually a song that was recorded by Phil's band Grand Slam. IIRC, Gorham and Downey were not real happy about re-recording a non-Lizzy tune for the greatest hits album.
I have Thin Lizzy's entire catalog and I won't say that every song is great but if you are looking for a band that is GROSSLY underrated on American soil, this is the place to start.
Time Kibitzer
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Hipple Long Ware & Peete
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Love Thin Lizzy. Jailbreak is such a bomb ### track. Obviously Heavy Hendrix Influence here.
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zamboni
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Played both of them last week - can't say enough how good Viv Campbell and Scott Gorham sounded together.
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Nigel Tufnel
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Cowboy Song FTW.
zamboni
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zamboni
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Went to watch/listen again, but link is busted.
Another link - blistering stuff from the aforementioned Live and Dangerous.
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