A TROUBLED Band With AMAZING Guitarists....Thin Lizzy "The Boys Are Back In Town" 

Incredible drummer. Would be a buzz to play with him!

Yes that's the key to their success. Eventually you realise it's often the drummer that brought a lot of classic rock music to life. Giving it some "swing", and taken the whole band away from mathematically timed 1234. This inspires the musicians around them. A few other notable examples of this kind of huge influence, and sadly underrated contribution, were Ian Paice and certainly Bill Ward.

Downey KILLS it on Bad Reputation!🤘

That bar fight story ticks me off. What a wanker.

@@louiebee6745- He kills it on so many Lizzy songs! Massacre, Sitamoia, Emerald, Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed, Johnny, Opium Trail… basically everything he ever played on! Downey’s drumming was so crucial to Thin Lizzy, he should’ve had co-writing credit on everything, IMO. I still marvel watching videos at the way he looks so casual as he’s just crushing it, giving a clinic on technique, feel and timing. I think he’s one of the greatest rock drummers ever and his fills can absolutely make a song!

Phil and every member of Thin Lizzy...are fucking LEGENDARY.

Bell was the guitarist for the first 3 albums. 'Whiskey' was a non-album single.

Those first few "Bell" albums have some real gems. I love the long version of the Rocker with the solo, Or Vagabond of the Western World

@@stiofan1 his solo on "the hero and the madman" is a top 10 solo for me

Just saw Eric Bell play a couple months ago at a Phil Lynott tribute in Dublin (with Brian Downey). A fantastic experience. Eric is getting pretty old and had to be guided through the crowd onto the stage, but he lit the place up with his playing. Go check hm out while you still can!

Eric's solo on The Rocker is EPIC!!🤘🤘

Black Rose was IMO their greatest record...no shade to Robbo, but Gary Moore really killed it on that record...and he pushed Gorham to be better. I didn't know that the lead/solo in Waiting for An Alibi was actually Scott playing! Of course both the guys harmonized on the back half of it. But listening to some of the lead playing on the title track...transcendent!

The same way with Rory, he is still regarded in Europe. I heard a version of Phil and Rory playing “Philby”. Rory and Phil would try to drink each other under the table. Lol.

Agreed - best combo, although Tim missed the amazing Snowy White in his list of Lizzy guitarists, who is also one of my all time favourite players :)

Moore is my fave guitarist of all time, and yeah... Robbo/Gorham is the combo

I saw them first in Rochdale in 1975 then London 1978 magical

I was always a fan of the Snowy White/Scott Gorham era, too.

'Still in love with you' was played by Gary Moore, on the album 'Nightlife'. It also had guest vocals from Frankie Miller....

Thanks so much for the comment, I am discovering so much good music from them!

Loved Emerald

'Border Line' is one of my favorites.

They were just not in north america

@@jonholland6067 Phil is dead for over 35 years, so it's not TL. ButI get it. The music is great. But Gorham should not have called it TL. It's Black Star Riders now isn't it?

The BBC session? They’re both great but I think you’re right, although it’s very very very close

The same is true for many of their live versions, Still in Love with you is the best example of the live version surpassing the studio. imo.

Also Man, a bluesy progressive band from Wales

"Underrated" is overrated.

They were one of my 3 favourite bands back in the day. I saw them 5 times from 1977-83👀 I hope Tim plays Emerald.

Lizzy is one of the coolest bands ever, of any era, but it’s hard to see them as underrated when Phil Lynott died in 1986, yet here we all are, expressing our love and respect for the music they made forty to fifty years ago!

Absolutely. I thought they were just way huge at the time. Loved the twin guitar harmonies!!!!

Gary Moore played on the studio version of Still In Love With You. I agree, though, that the live version is better. Brian Robertson copied Moore's solo almost note for note but it sounds very soulful.

@@Q247247 I really like Scott Gorham's solo on the live version, but for me Gary Moore's second solo on the studio version is incredible, probably the best solo on an album that is crammed full of great solos.

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Totally agree - John Sykes guitar on that song is astounding

Scott played the solo on The Sun Goes Down.

Wild One is to me one of the best rock songs since the music began. Definitely in my top 50.

“The Sun Goes Down” is a brilliant, amazing tune. But it hits so deep, it’s almost painful to listen to, as if Phil subconsciously knew his own fate.

The “Johnny the Fox” album was really good,too.

Definitely support the shout out for EB. It may be the case that Whiskey in the Jar is not so well known in the US but here in the UK it stands shoulder to shoulder with The Boys Are Back In Town. Now I really must go and learn the rest of the solo!!

I so agree.

don't forget Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore though.....

So is "Life". I still listen to it all the time.

My favorite Lizzy record

I’m with you. I love that album. “Borderline” is still such an amazing song. You can feel the heartache in it.

Absolutely. His descending runs and trademark fast licks on Chinatowns "Killer On The Loose" and "Don't Play Around" should literally be patented. Natural minor going into what Paul Gilbert calls the "Ace Frehley" scale ending always with a bluesy finish. And that vibrato.. Speedy player, but slow it down, and he is absolutely swinging. No one told him he was really a jazz musician. Only white guy I can think of outside of John Hall who could play rhythm guitar with Nile Rodgers or Prince. You can be deaf and just feel his soul and sense of rhythm just watching him play. There may be more technical guitarists, but, musically, insofar as groove, melody, and soul, Scott make all others look like boring clinicians.

That would be tim?

And you know man, no one but Lizzy and Phil was going to do a song like that!

The drum and bass groove on Bad Reputation is killer tight - funky as fuck!

That's a deadly track

Thin Lizzy without him is just not the same band (obviously, it’s not Lizzy without Phil, either, but that’s a given). It was really bad when Tommy Aldridge was on drums, in my opinion. He’s a great drummer, but not for Thin Lizzy. Way overkill.

Yep Midge "your" I stand corrected! thank you for the comment