BBC4 Legends: Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation

[RESSE]

Excellent, followed by Iron Maiden: Flight 666.

[Kinky]

Nice find.

Especially as in exactly 24 hours from now they'll have just walked onto the stage at the Hammy Odeon; and I'll be in the audience

[RESSE]

Kinky said:

Nice find.

Especially as in exactly 24 hours from now they'll have just walked onto the stage at the Hammy Odeon; and I'll be in the audience

I am not worthy!

Have a truly excellent time mate.

[mrmaggit]

Good programme, I thought, and 666 wasn't bad either!

Especially liked the "you're crap, and you know you are" routine when the stewardesses were doing the pre-flights.

[derestrictor]

'Young' Robbo.

Oh, dear.

Still, 10/10 to Messrs. Downey and Gorham for flying the flag for credible, dignified, rock aristos.

Much as it pains me to endorse anything Sir Bob blurts out, he was spot on re Philip The Lynott; like Bon Scott six years before, possessed of so great an aura it was impossible not to be hypnotised and you can't help wondering what might have been.

You can't really fault Maiden's integrity but I gave up in 1986 - Brucie's great but like Johnson's AC/DC - it's heavy rock/metal by McDs.

Afaic, Asgard's Pantheon of Frontmen consists of the following holy trinity: Lynott, Scott and of course, RJD. All RIP.

[jet_noise]

Dear All,

I saw both of these too, excellent fare. - Mrs Noise at work leaving do so I was feet up on the sofa eating a Chinese from the carton, supping beer from the bottle and nodding head to the toons.

Living the dream

I recall seeing Thin Lizzy twice in the '70s, at Reading and later Bath University. Lynott had a mirror-scratch-plated bass which reflected the follow spot onto the audience, that was a pretty special effect back then!
Also Robbo's Wild Horses who weren't up to much,

regards,
Jet

[mr brightside]

As I mentioned on the other thread, Lizzy passed me by and I never really 'dug' it.
However being a fan of Sir Ricky Warwick i thought i ought to have a gander and I can't believe I didn't twig earlier.
The doc last night tied it all up for me and Lynott had a real star quality.

Warwick i think is playing this really well, he is a real fan and realises he is in a very lucky position. You know he will give 100% all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjU5aKI1OTY

off to i tunes now.

Edited by mr brightside on Saturday 22 January 13:09

[tubbystu]

jet_noise said:

I recall seeing Thin Lizzy twice in the '70s, at Reading and later Bath University.
Lynott had a mirror-scratch-plated bass which reflected the follow spot onto the audience, that was a pretty special effect back then!

Limehouse Lizzy still do this effect.

If you never saw Lynott's original band they are a great copy/tribute. It is the nearest I have seen to a tribute band being the perfect replica.

tour dates here

[Project C]

jet_noise said:

I recall seeing Thin Lizzy twice in the '70s, at Reading and later Bath University. Lynott had a mirror-scratch-plated bass which reflected the follow spot onto the audience, that was a pretty special effect back then!
Also Robbo's Wild Horses who weren't up to much,

regards,
Jet

I recall an interview Phil did and he said that a girlfriend had left him and he wanted her to come back. When she went she left her budgie and so he put the birds mirror on his bass to show her he wanted to get back together?! Anyway he found that he could use it to reflect the stage lights at girls in the audience and picked them up that way so gave up on the ex.

"Have any of the girls here got some Irish in them - Do any of you want some more?"

[derestrictor]

Limehouse Lizzy! Dear Lord...

Having long since abandonned quoffage of the putrid Chien Geordique, I do recall a relapse one night in the early-mid 90s and very much under the aforementioned influence, experiencing that which I had not since the 'Chinatown' tour in the days when Maggie was just a-limbering up...

It all got terribly, Vim Fuego...

[tubbystu]

derestrictor said:

Limehouse Lizzy! Dear Lord...

Having long since abandonned quoffage of the putrid Chien Geordique....

Therein lies the problem perhaps

I never suggested you should be sober to watch them

[Fastra]

derestrictor said:

Limehouse Lizzy! Dear Lord...

Having long since abandonned quoffage of the putrid Chien Geordique, I do recall a relapse one night in the early-mid 90s and very much under the aforementioned influence, experiencing that which I had not since the 'Chinatown' tour in the days when Maggie was just a-limbering up...

It all got terribly, Vim Fuego...

... or Ajax, or whatever your name is!

[derestrictor]

"It took Jimmy Page two years to write Stairway to Heaven; I learnt it in a fortnight."

Something along those lines...

[Fastra]

Nearly.

"Jimmy Page was 24 when he wrote Stairway To Heaven. I could play it when I was 12, I think that says quite a lot really"

... probably my most quoted line whilst at school 30 odd years ago.

Edited by Fastra on Sunday 23 January 20:12