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  • Posts: 614
    even flow? wrote:
    Bell had a big time breakdown. Couldn't face the crowd or his abuse problems all in one go. So he kind of faded away. Or got taken away. ;) A great fourth side to an album is on Live/Life when all the old axe players come out and do their thing for a specific song. Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it.

    it is to my eternal disappointment that i was offered a ticket for that show at the hammersmith odeon... and i couldn't go.

    nevermind, i thought. lizzy will be back together in a few years and i can see them then. unfortunately it was never to be and lizzy are the one of the few bands who are no longer going who i regret not seeing live.

    i just can't bring myself to go and see the version of lizzy touring now. it great that those songs are still being played (and its nice that john sykes plays as a tribute to phil lynott as sykes was well shafted at the time) but without phil it just wouldn't seem right to me.
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    Arctangent wrote:
    it is to my eternal disappointment that i was offered a ticket for that show at the hammersmith odeon... and i couldn't go.

    nevermind, i thought. lizzy will be back together in a few years and i can see them then. unfortunately it was never to be and lizzy are the one of the few bands who are no longer going who i regret not seeing live.

    i just can't bring myself to go and see the version of lizzy touring now. it great that those songs are still being played (and its nice that john sykes plays as a tribute to phil lynott as sykes was well shafted at the time) but without phil it just wouldn't seem right to me.

    Obviously nowhere near the same but you get Scott Gorham & John Sykes and it's nearest thing you can get so I think I'll be going again, more like a tribute band with one or two of the original members, worth supporting though... :o
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  • Posts: 614
    UKDave wrote:
    Obviously nowhere near the same but you get Scott Gorham & John Sykes and it's nearest thing you can get so I think I'll be going again, more like a tribute band with one or two of the original members, worth supporting though... :o

    don't get me wrong, i don't think its wrong of them or that they shouldn't be doing it. i know sykes says on stage that it is a tribute to phil lynott, which is nice. i know someone who say them supporting deep purple and said they were fantastic. so good luck to them. thin lizzy's music is music that is worth hearing, even after all these years.
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,680
    I can't tell you how many times I've read good stuff about Thin Lizzy yet somehow never managed to find time to dig into their catalog.  And then the other day I came across this excellent documentary on the band (in a thrift store for two bucks!):



    I'll definitely be getting into there stuff more now!

    A couple of classic numbers:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGZqDzb__bw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC6Cgb8nHwk


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  • Posts: 16,881
    Great thread!

    Jailbreak was an unreal album. My buddies and I listened to it endlessly.

    Jailbreak and Boys are the classic tunes... but Romeo and the Lonely Girl and Running Back are songs I love.
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  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,680
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Great thread!

    Jailbreak was an unreal album. My buddies and I listened to it endlessly.

    Jailbreak and Boys are the classic tunes... but Romeo and the Lonely Girl and Running Back are songs I love.
    Oh man, for sure- Jailbreak is killer through and through!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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    I've heard their story is interesting but I don't know it.

    that said, I can't get enthused about TL.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Posts: 3,852
    edited October 2017
    I dig some Thin Lizzy..... Good stuff... Cowboy Song

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzwN-SHV5rA
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  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,680
    Attaway77 said:
    I dig some Thin Lizzy..... Good stuff... Cowboy Song

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzwN-SHV5rA
    Great song!

    Speaking of Cowboy Song, anybody read this yet?  Just came out earlier this year.  I have to get my hands on a copy soon!



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    -Roberto Benigni

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    even flow? said:
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    Mike came out with the opening band (the name escapes me) in Thunder Bay and they did Cowboy Song which I really dug. When I read that PJ did Boys are back....I almost cried. That would have been cool to hear.

    I agree fada that Sun Goes Down may just be one of the best songs ever written. And I know that says a lot.
    I listened to Sun Goes Down and it's not my taste at all...

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