Thin Lizzy: Classic or Dud?

Thin Lizzy was/is godhead.

There was a repress of their first album at a record store in STL a few weeks ago. I got excited cuz I never see it anywhere, but it was priced $32.99 and it was already bent up at the corners. No way am I paying that much! So I went back to the used records section and found Bad Reputation for 7.99. It's a better record and I didn't own a copy already. So I won, I guess.

It was the fisheye photo jacket, not the skinny lady's hip.

Word going around that Gary Moore has passed on.

http://www.hotpress.com/Gary%20Moore/news/Gary-Moore-1952--2011-dies-in-Spain/7492280.html

Can't get that link to load but horrible news. I was hoping this was being bumped in light of the Jailbreak deluxe edition coming out this week and Johnny The Fox coming out later this month.

RIP, Gary, if this sad news prove true.

its on the bbc now.

RIP! ;__;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12377862

RIP

Just heard about Gary Moore. Gutted.

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-TgDjcBL0

RIP :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx3yXUunEq8
Still one of my favourite guitar riffs.

Wow, very unexpected. Saw him a couple of times back in the 80s, but he was in the gated drums and weird stage costumes phase so not that good. Funnily enough Phil Lynott guested at one gig in his last ever public performance, he looked awful.

This could be the greatest album cover of all time :

http://www.rockalbumreviews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/back_on_the_streets.jpg

CTRL + RIP

Very sad news. RIP. In addition to his contributions to Lizzy, he did some great work with Colosseum II.

There was a good piece + obituary in The Times (London) today. The online version is subscription only, so I can't get to it to link.

This is an unjustly overlooked Moore record. Nice mixture of soft rock and shredding:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/G-ForceCover.jpg

P.S. maybe a mod could add something to title of this thread?

Sad news...

sad news, although i have to admit i'm not as familiar with the Thin Lizzy records Gary Moore played on. what's the best stuff he did with TL?

Black Rose.

RIP to a great guitarist

RIP

I've probably listened to no other group more than Lizzy in the past 6 months. Rock gods.

Was just thinking that the statue of Phil outside Bruxelles in Dublin looked like him in bloated late era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phil_Lynott_Statue_at_Bruxelles_Dublin.jpg
A bit like choosing to portray Elvis as he looked in the mid 70s over any other era that could be chosen, '56 or '68 much preferable.

I'm just picking up the remastered reissues.
Still not found out why the Eric Bell era ones got delayed for like 5 years or whatever.Grabbed them as soon as I got the chance when they did appear. Love that stuff.
Less familiar with the later era. Love Jailbreak now I've got it. Will gradually pick up the others over the next while.
Not sure why they skipped 2lps, are they going back to reissue them remastered? Did they just skip from the delayed reissues to the most popular lps, then intend to work on from there including those 2?

Hello:

A treasure trove of tapes stashed away by Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott will be released as a boxed set later this year.

Twenty six years after the Dublin rocker's death at the age of 36, more of his lost music will be heard by the public for the first time in June.

Shortly before he passed away in 1986, Mr Lynott gave 150 tapes to a third party for safekeeping. The cache of up to 700 songs has finally been released to record company Universal Music.

"This is an absolutely stunning find," Steve Hammonds, project manager behind the new Thin Lizzy box set, told the Irish Independent.

"In every group there's a member who lovingly collects their recordings and in Thin Lizzy that was Phil Lynott, because Lizzy was his baby and his band."

It will be the second boxed set in recent times to feature archive work by the band, following last year's 'Live At The BBC' release.

But the newly unearthed recordings stretch from Thin Lizzy's years with Decca Records, beginning in 1971, to their 'Renegade' album in 1981.

"There are out-takes, unheard versions of Thin Lizzy hits and, most exciting of all, material which was recorded but never released at the time," said Mr Hammonds.

That sounds amazing! I still need to hear the BBC box.

wow, really exciting news

thought it was really nice (if probably coincidental) that within months of Gary Moore passing away, Sade covered a Thin Lizzy song he's widely considered to have co-written:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW8HHw8kpfM

What fantastic news! They better make this a hefty release, I don't want 700 tracks whittled down to two CDs...

This made me smile:

WHEN A 70-YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER PLAYED KEYBOARDS WITH THIN LIZZY

holy shit you guys i just bought this record called "jailbreak" and it might be the like, best thing ever

yes, yes it just may be so. I'm still waiting for someone to unearth and epic 40-minute version of "Emerald".

Are you the Hero?
Are you the Madman?

fighting - jailbreak - johnny the fox - bad reputation - black rose

i honestly can't think of a better five album run in rock

Whatever happened to those unearthed Lynott demos and outtakes? I thought a box set was imminent...

thin lizzy not even being considered for the rock and roll HOF means there is no rock and roll HOF.

I was always under the assumption they were in. Arent jackson browne and billy joel in? How is Thin Lizzy not?

no room for thin lizzy or love or war, room for james taylor and RHCP.

RNRHOF is an exercise in tedium.

"Little Girl in Bloom" is such a jam. it seems lazy to compare that song to the groove of The Unforgettable Fire since both bands are Irish but "Little Girl in Bloom" invents that sound, & I'm guessing Bono et. al. knew it well

holy shit you guys i just bought this record called "jailbreak" and it might be the like, best thing ever

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:53 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh man, I so envy you just getting into this band... Look forward to tons of jaw-dropping and holy-shitting as you explore their catalog...

Been into Thin Lizzy quite a lot over the last eighteen months or so. . .

Nightlife remains my favorite.

Bad Reputation a close second.

My two favorites for a long time have been "Fighting" and "Johnny the Fox" but there's hardly an album of theirs I don't absolutely love.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7vg7i9QKr1qapqhxo1_400.jpg

That pic was on the cover of Sounds, or maybe NME from 1977 or so. So classic.

I've seen it somewhere before, but it crossed my radar again today and felt it needed to be here.

"Downtown Sundown" is a beautiful tune.

http://bravewords-public.s3.amazonaws.com/images/p17q7j5t3j1fi15061c2fj7p1qdl4.jpg

Some bumwads knocked over and seriously damaged the statue of Phil.

http://www.thejournal.ie/phil-lynott-statue-pushed-over-and-seriously-damaged-904013-May2013/

>:(

death by hanging

A+ attitude from his mom, though.

i actually had an ecstatic reaction while listening to thin lizzy today. like a religious experience. i felt the blood rush into my brain and i honestly felt like i could die happy at that moment. i even said this to maria. that i could die happy right then and there. it was a very visceral and physical thing. powerful. right there in public at the store too.

Only fitting on Phil's birthday.

wow, really, is it? i had no idea. weird.