Rolling Stone magazine describes the band as distinctly hard rock, "far apart from the braying mid-70s metal pack". As well as being multiracial, the band drew their early members not only from both sides of the Irish border but also from both the Catholic and Protestant communities during The Troubles. Thin Lizzy featured several guitarists throughout their history, with Downey and Lynott as the rhythm section, on the drums and bass guitar. Lynott, Thin Lizzy's de facto leader, was composer or co-composer of almost all of the band's songs, and the first black Irishman to achieve commercial success in the field of rock music. Thin Lizzy have since reunited for occasional concerts. In 2012, Gorham and Downey decided against recording new material as Thin Lizzy so a new band, Black Star Riders, was formed to tour and produce new releases, such as their debut album All Hell Breaks Loose. Gorham later continued with a new line-up including Downey. After Lynott's death in 1986, various incarnations of the band emerged over the years based initially around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes, though Sykes left the band in 2009. The singles " Whiskey in the Jar" (a traditional Irish ballad), " The Boys Are Back in Town" and " Waiting for an Alibi" were international hits. Lynott led the group throughout their recording career of twelve studio albums, writing most of the material. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist, lead vocalist and principal songwriter Phil Lynott, met while still in school. Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including blues, soul music, psychedelic rock and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes heavy metal. In the early 80's I then branched out & delved into both Gary & Snowy's solo works, of which now I believe I have everything by both guys, and love most of their solo/other works (except for Gary's blues period - of which Snowy also indulged in his "Blues Agency" albums - and of course Gary's godawful A Different Beat or his terribly overproduced adult oriented pop schmaltz mess of Dark Days in Paradise, which has some good songs that were made to sound like utter tripe IMO).Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. All I knew is that I missed the geetar team of Gorham/Robertson, and the Thin Lizzy songwriting did not seem as consistently good after that lineup stopped (due to Phil's escalating drug use perhaps). Whereas with the first side of Chinatown at least I didn't have that problem with.įunnily enough at the time of those album releases I had no idea who Gary Moore or Snowy White even were. Not something I was used to with one of my favorite bands. Found it hard to put on that LP and let whole sides play out. Gary Moore) but it only has about two songs that I REALLY love (Alibi & Black Rose), some I like, and some I totally hate (S&M). Black Rose has my favorite guitarist ever on it (Mr. That being said, at the time I thought it was an improvement over Black Rose. Something about the production style/recording, sounded (& still sounds) very raw to my ears (hard to explain). I like Chinatown but remember at the time that I felt it had a very different "sound" to what I felt was classic Lizzy (Fighting through Black Rose). Their many two guitarist bands but melody interplay simultaneously rarely (there are a few) is utilized in the manner that was the band.
I'm not saying anything negative towards Huey, what I am saying is that even if away from Lizzy or different styles of music, Phil had all bases covered easily imo.Īnd for Lizzy and their twin guitar melodies, I can think of a few bands that got "it" and used two guitarist in that style. There is more to that story and if y'all know it good on ya and you know more about the band then just their music, but in short the News was the last band Phil recorded demos with (in Sausalito if memory serves me right) and great demos they are, and every time I listen to "Sports", I can picture/imagine Phil singing those songs and it would fit in seamlessly. I know Phil and Huey Lewis were close friends (Phil even gave him a pair of his boots). He had an incredible voice and a way with writing and phrasing. I used to say way back in the day that Phil could sing the phone book (meaning the yellow pages, and that tells how long ago), or a menu and it would sound great. They are in my top faves and in the single digits of that. I already posted in this thread about liking this album and Thin Lizzy as a band.
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