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Thin Lizzy - Phil Lynott

#23
Agree with all comments; also appreciated his tone on the Bad Reputation album, where he seemed to have a light flange effect on every song. Only problem with Jailbreak was the bass sound wasn't quite as present as it should have been. Bad Reputation was perfect, long live Tony Visconti.
 
#24
The first gig I went to 'under my own steam' was Thin Lizzy at the Glasgow Apollo in 1983. They were fantastic. It was the Thunder & Lightning tour/lineup, but Brian Robertson showed up as special guest, so it was the classic lineup (augmented) - at least for a few songs.

A couple of years later, I also saw his solo band, Grand Slam, at a wee club in Bannockburn, standing right in front of him for the whole gig. Best bass sound I've ever heard that night.
 
#27
Funny the things you remember but I am old enough to have watched that program on the BBC when it was first shown. If it is the same one it was shown as part of the Sight and Sound In Concert series they did in the '70s. Shown early evening well before the watershed Lynot was heard to reply to a call for Whiskey In The Jar "No it's not Whiskey in the F***in' Jar". Ooh, bad boy!
 
#31
Live and Dangerous - great album, decent sound for the time. Some really, really fine hard rock drumming as well. Definitely live, check out in Jailbreak where Phil and maybe one of the guitarists goes into the bridge too soon (while the other guitarist is playing the lead between vs. 1 and 2).

Jailbreak - great songs but one of the worst engineered records of all time. Little tiny cardboard-box drums and mushy bass you can barely hear. All guitars and vocals. I would love for some bass-friendly engineer that knows what he's doing (Bob Clearmountain or Bob Rock) to go back and digitally re-mix/re-master that record but I have the feeling the original tracks were so poorly recorded I don't know how much even they could do with them.

"Emerald" - great song. And the genesis of about 3/4 of the Iron Maiden library.
 
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#33
rappa29 said:
They just had a Thin Lizzy concert on it last weekend that I just watched last night. Not sure what year or what venue. The only reference I can make is that they played "Jailbreak" and Phil introduced following tunes as "off the new album". They played "Boys Are Back In Town" and referred to it as older tune.
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It was a show prior to the release of Thunder and Lightning. I think it was the last studio album Thin Lizzy did. Its pretty obvious they didn't get much rehearsal in, since Phil doesn't sing the lyrics exactly like the album.

Its an awesome album. A bit more metal than your typical TL album. John Sykes is killer.
 
#34
IMO, From the live tracks i have heard from Thin Lizzy, Phil did sing whenever it suited him :p its not like he sings wrong or anything, he just starts slightly before or right after in difference to the albums. The Thunder and Lightning tour was a farwell tour realy.

Though, anyone know if Phil changed to roundwounds? I saw the Sight and Sound show today, and his tone was alot more raunchier than when he used the precisions or the Ibanez..
 
#37
jaywa said:
Live and Dangerous - great album, decent sound for the time. Some really, really fine hard rock drumming as well. Definitely live, check out in Jailbreak where Phil and maybe one of the guitarists goes into the bridge too soon (while the other guitarist is playing the lead between vs. 1 and 2).

Jailbreak - great songs but one of the worst engineered records of all time. Little tiny cardboard-box drums and mushy bass you can barely hear. All guitars and vocals. I would love for some bass-friendly engineer that knows what he's doing (Bob Clearmountain or Bob Rock) to go back and digitally re-mix/re-master that record but I have the feeling the original tracks were so poorly recorded I don't know how much even they could do with them.

"Emerald" - great song. And the genesis of about 3/4 of the Iron Maiden library.
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My company produced an album that Tony Visconti did the string arrangements for a few years ago. I asked about Live and Dangerous, because if you ever watch the DVD the solo's don't match. He explained that the album was mostly recorded in Soundchecks with crowd overlapped in from concert performances. Obviously the DVD had to include visual crowd so they used different versions. Still live if you ask me, and brilliant!!!!

True though, their early albums were so bad sounding. "Dangerous" captured them on full power with IMO their best line up.
 
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