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Thin Lizzy: LET IT ROCK!

krtek a houby said:
Different era. Most would squirm, reading it now but it's like reading ancient hierglyphics... fascinating and you appreciate the artistry but wow.

There were some great interviews with Hot Press back in the day but the wankers are charging 20 euros to access the archives :mad:
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Ah Hot Press - my friend knew the editor and let U2 kip on her floor (they were being interviewed about 1982) and Bono ate all her biscuits- but Adam Clayton did get her royally stoned.
 
I picked this up in Sainsbury's the other week for 3 quid!

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And it's pretty much the perfect Lizzy starter kit, even if it's only got the radio edit of WITJ.

It also got me thinking: were Thin Lizzy Ireland's Beatles? I think they're that important, in the Irish context at least.

Here's Chinatown (not on the above):

 
Voley said:
It's a belter isn't it? Did they do anything else like that or was it a one-off? I only know them from the obvious Chinatown/Killer On The Loose sort of stuff.
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I have (cd s) Jailbreak and Live and Dangerous that get played every now and then. Had to resist ordering up Nightlife after listening to this today.
 
Oh yeah that's got the same sort of feel Chilli.s ta. If someone had told me that Thin Lizzy had a couple of funky-ish tunes, my instant reaction would've been 'Avoid. I've heard Led Zep try reggae.' But both of those are great.

Is that Gary Moore on guitar then? I might have to revise my opinion of him. I always thought he was a right wanker.
 
Voley said:
Oh yeah that's got the same sort of feel Chilli.s ta. If someone had told me that Thin Lizzy had a couple of funky-ish tunes, my instant reaction would've been 'Avoid. I've heard Led Zep try reggae.' But both of those are great.

Is that Gary Moore on guitar then? I might have to revise my opinion of him. I always thought he was a right wanker.
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No, it was still the Brian Robertson, Scott Gorham line up - the classic line up really. Both great players.
 
Voley said:
Oh yeah that's got the same sort of feel Chilli.s ta. If someone had told me that Thin Lizzy had a couple of funky-ish tunes, my instant reaction would've been 'Avoid. I've heard Led Zep try reggae.' But both of those are great.
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From the wiki page on the album:

"'Johnny the Fox meets Jimmy the Weed' was really the only song that Lizzy did in a funk style…" noted Scott Gorham. "Phil Lynott was a huge fan of The O'Jays and their song 'For the Love of Money'. At every soundcheck, he'd be playing that funky riff… Once we'd found that riff, we just went for it. The whole thing really took off when Brian Downey sat down and put his personal funk take on it with the drums… And these characters – Johnny the Fox and Jimmy the Weed – they were real people. They were from the Manchester area, where Phil's mom had her hotel… They were part of a gang of cultured thieves… They weren't drug dealers, like it says in the lyrics for the song… But they were pretty heavy guys, yet they were real funny, so you couldn't help but like them."
 
Ta clandestino. I really like the guitar break at the end of Showdown. Reminds me of one of those laidback ones Hendrix did that crop up on those odds and ends compilations. I'm glad it's not Gary Moore. :D
 
Voley said:
Ta clandestino. I really like the guitar break at the end of Showdown. Reminds me of one of those laidback ones Hendrix did that crop up on those odds and ends compilations. I'm glad it's not Gary Moore. :D
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Ah, Showdown was demo-ed with Gary Moore - but don't think they used that version for the LP.
 
editor said:
Was there ever a better live rock band?

Killer on the Loose, Dancing in the Moonlight, Rosalie, Cowgirl's Song, Don't Believe a Word, Jailbreak and the best summer gang song ever, The Boys are Back In Town.

Thin Lizzy! I salute you!
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Replies to 2004... great band live, but not those songs! With the exception of Jailbreak they are exactly the ones I'd skip on the cd.
On the other hand, Emerald, Fools Gold, Massacre, Roisin Dubh and if you want something poppy, Do Anything You Wanna Do.
 
clandestino said:
From the wiki page on the album:

"'Johnny the Fox meets Jimmy the Weed' was really the only song that Lizzy did in a funk style…" noted Scott Gorham. "Phil Lynott was a huge fan of The O'Jays and their song 'For the Love of Money'. At every soundcheck, he'd be playing that funky riff… Once we'd found that riff, we just went for it. The whole thing really took off when Brian Downey sat down and put his personal funk take on it with the drums… And these characters – Johnny the Fox and Jimmy the Weed – they were real people. They were from the Manchester area, where Phil's mom had her hotel… They were part of a gang of cultured thieves… They weren't drug dealers, like it says in the lyrics for the song… But they were pretty heavy guys, yet they were real funny, so you couldn't help but like them."
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They were in a gang called Quality Street. The hotel was actually the The Whalley Range pub. Geres Jimmy the Weed with a gold disc of the record
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Theres a lot of mythology about the Quality Street Gang but members were still powerful enough in the 90s (with Paul Massey and the Noonans) to try and broker a ceasefire between the rival Moss Side gangs.
 
Live And Dangerous ticked all those boxes. Every important song Lizzy had written up to its recording was there (discounting, as Phil Lynott did, the folksy early recordings), so it was a greatest hits; it captured the band in full flight in a way they hadn’t really managed in the studio; it was easily marketable, right down to the startling cover image, which had been intended for the back until a last-minute switch; and it dealt with Lizzy’s ever-present inconsistency in sterling style. Maybe UFO, a similarly patchy and underachieving studio band, were paying attention, because the following year they released Strangers In The Night, another double live record that also elevated a slightly marginal group to the front rank by means of ruthless concentration on their strengths.
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The Quietus | Features | Anniversary | Thin Lizzy: Live And Dangerous 40 Years On
 
Didn't Lizzy have a side project called Funky Junction that brought out and album in the early 70's?

Think it was covers but can't remember, will have to look it up.

Edit: it was some bizarre deep purple covers album featuring the then 3 members of Lizzy from 1973, never heard it but sounds intriguing! :thumbs:
 
Rosemary Jest said:
Didn't Lizzy have a side project called Funky Junction that brought out and album in the early 70's?

Think it was covers but can't remember, will have to look it up.

Edit: it was some bizarre deep purple covers album featuring the then 3 members of Lizzy from 1973, never heard it but sounds intriguing! :thumbs:
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Fuck, I owned that album! One of the first I ever bought, largely because it was cheap, about 50p iirc.
 
Rosemary Jest said:
Was it any good? Gonna have a listen tomorrow if it's on youtube or spotify.
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Yep, it's on youtube:

I vaguely remember getting a similar album, Hendrix tribute perhaps, same label maybe. They sound like you might expect, very able musicians doing covers, but with very limited studio time/polish. Whole think rehearsed and recorded in 1 day according to wiki.

I think I was pretty impressed when I bought it as a 12 year old - and then my mates started taking the piss because it wasn't the original artists. I probably got rid of it. The idiocy/insecurity of youth. :(
 
Wait... what?!!

A collection of almost 700 unreleased songs by 1970s rockers Thin Lizzy has recently been unearthed.

The songs were on 150 tapes which were given by the band’s former frontman Phil Lynott to a friend before he passed away at the age of 36 in 1986.

As well as previously unreleased songs, the tapes also contain alternative versions of classic Thin Lizzy tracks. The songs span the band’s formation in 1971 until the release of ‘Renegade’ in 1981.

Scott Gorham and Brian Downey of Thin Lizzy will be choosing which songs will appear on the eventual release and will also make a decision on the artwork.

Read more at 700 unreleased Thin Lizzy songs discovered - NME
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