Bands I really Loved: Thin Lizzy
Thin Lizzy originally formed in late 1969 , Brian Downey on Drums, Phil Lynott Bass Guitar, Lead Vocals and Most of the Songwriting. 2 Albums without any Hits , Eric Bell on Guitar . Phil was very laid back on stage. ( not a good thing for the Vocalist)
Toward the end of '72 they got a break when thy went on tour opening for Slade, however after their first Performance, Slade's Manager told Phil, that if he did not show more stage presence they would be off the tour!
Happy to say he changed overnight, Early '73 , they had their first top ten hit with Whiskey in the Jar. A traditional Irish song.
Eric Bell Departed and was replaced by Gary Moore and was, in turn, replaced with Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham,
the start of that Magical Dual Lead Guitar Sound that Lizzy did better than anyone else!
Thin Lizzy in '76 released the Jailbreak album that caused things to really take off for them!
They did several World Tours with quite a few Successful Albums, Many Personnel Changes, Drugs, started to take its toll.
Unfortunately Phil became another Heroin addict ( seedy looking characters hanging around back stage)
Just listen and watch the variety on these masterpieces of a Musicians art!
In the early eighties all these matters came to a head and Lizzy Split.
Phil collaborated with his Friend Gary Moore on another Album , My Son Wayne bought me the album that Christmas, I have featured a live performance from it hereafter.
Phil died from Drug Related causes on the 4th of January 1986 , he was 35 years old!
There is a statue of him in Harry Street in Dublin.
I have added a link from my own Rockstar Series posted for me by@gavvet when I first got onto Steemit.
Why this is here is because Keith Burell , a really superb SA Guitarist , ( mentioned in this post)when he qualified as a Dentist.
His Dad bought him a ticket to the UK , where he was in the Front row of a Lizzy Concert!
Exact words " Alan, here they were in the middle of a complicated Harmony Guitar Solo, Scott walks over to Brian, Told him a joke in his ear,. Brian starts laughing. They did not miss a note!"
Keith said he, for a moment there, felt like throwing his Les Paul away.
https://steemit.com/all/@gavvet/chronicles-of-alan-so-you-want-to-be-a-rockstar-part-4
Not only Nice to watch and listen to the vids, but also the written info is Very good! So far we unfortunately read to many times that good stars did past away to early... but probably they lived their live to the fullest. Thanks again for the Nice blog!
Great music to wake me up!
Man love this rock band, great voices and guitare. Out in the fields is epic!
Glad you liked it, Thanks.
a sad ending to a promising career - I really hate drugs
Me too, I had so many friends go downhill from it.
Nice video song
wonderfull music! you are also doing a great job giving info with it!
Still Gold and Glorious musicians.. 🎼
I'm a very big fan of Thin Lizzy
Thank you for sharing my dear friend @awgbibb..
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Thank You, My friend.
i appriciate him to make a exellent band and his sounds all videos with musics are for appriciate and also old i gold always
Thank you.
wow great videos and songs with his band his perforamnce is really great
Thanks.
It is a very good song whose intelligent lyrics are
characteristic of Thin Lizzy and also of Iron Maiden, whose style has been largely influenced by Thin Lizzy and similar bands of 1970s.
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Thanks for this. Are you from SA? Following you.