60 years old and still listening to the greatest live band ever , seen them on at least a dozen times all over Ireland . Me and my friend met Phil in co Donegal and he bought us a drink 🥃
man you're lucky. ireland produced some real good music over the years. went over there a couple of yours ago, the pogues playing in every pub, really enjoyable (wish it hadn't been that expensive)
To me Thin Lizzy is the perfect "hard rock" band. It's loud, mean, and hard, but it will never be miscategorized as heavy metal. It's very hard to really rock without crossing into metal and Thin Lizzy did it perfectly
@@stevevaughn3020 I've had this discussion before Steve, particularly under a video of Climax Blues Band performing "Couldn't get it right". They played the song live twice for Top of the Pops. From Wikipedia; - "Occasionally bands played live, examples in the 1970s being The Four Seasons, the Who, John Otway, Sham 69, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Jimmy James and the Vagabonds, Heavy Metal Kids, Elton John (Song for Guy), Typically Tropical, New Order, and David Bowie (with a recently rediscovered clip of "The Jean Genie" and "'Heroes'"). In 1980, heavy metal band Iron Maiden played live on the show when they refused to mime to their single "Running Free"...."
@@Smudgie Yeh. It was quite weird, they used to make the bands record the backing track and the singer would do the vocals live. If any band members weren't card holders they'd have a resident session player do the part. Something to do with the musicians union or somesuch. I was told that bands used to surreptitiously sneak the original studio recording in to the BBC session. Prolly remembering this all sorts of wrong ! Apologies in advance !
They sometimes had a live vocal over an instrumental backing track. Paul Rodgers has said that this was definitely the case when Free performed 'All Right Now' in 1970, so I presume Phil Lynott did the same on this a few years later.
@@eoinf2004 i can't take yall seriously while i see word underrated in sweet and jethro tull comment section who sold 60 million album "roseline" is one of the most popular roc songs i'm 16 yo and i heard that songs while i wasnt evn into rock n roll but yeah i agree abt the bamd being underra tree d it's just i'm tired of seeing this word in every rock n roll comme t section
cant believe I am 51 and just discovering thin Lizzy beyond "the boys are back in town", I needed something new to discover in this age of crap music, Phil and the whole band are amazing !!!
It sickens me that when people think of an Irish rock band, they automatically contemplate u2, no, no, no, there is only one band that came out of Ireland and kicks a$$ and that's THIN LIZZY, end of story.
@@SlumminAngel oh wow, thank you, they sound real good, opinions are opinions, but I still prefer thin lizzy, that's just me, but I still appreciate you sharing that, I'm going to have to look more into Rory. This is why I enjoy RU-vid, you always learn something new.
Such an underrated song. Born at the tail end of the eighties. If I’d have been born 10 or 20 years earlier I could have appreciated thin lizzy just as much as I do now 😄
The RnRHoF is just an American corporate gimmick, full of joke bands and unthreatening artists who happen to have friends in the right places. When you consider that so many great bands from this side of the Atlantic (Thin Lizzy, Free, Jethro Tull, King Crimson) have been overlooked, it says it all. Even great American bands such as Blue Oyster Cult have been ignored; the band say that their former manager had crossed swords in the past with some of the arseholes that run the RnRHoF. Enough said!
@@portcullis5622 Well said my friend. So many great bands that have been overlooked Nazareth Is Bachman Turner overdrive April Wine REO But yet Madonna And other bubble gum acts are in there.
So good. My favorite period of a favorite band: the Night Life / Fighting years. Great clip! 'Twas bold to open Fighting with a Bob Seger cover. I have yet to learn how Roger Chapman's b/g vocal got on that track. Anyway, this clip just became my favorite version of Rosalie.
Saw them in 1978 on the Live and Dangerous Tour, in the place I was living at, at the time - Freiburg, Germany. Scott Gorham couldn't be there, he was sick. But it was a kick-ass concert none the less!
I'm in the U.S. and I remember seeing a video on the Kenny Everett Show which aired for a short while late night here in the U.S. I remember seeing Thin Lizzy doing Rosalie and this looks it could be the video. Did Kenny Everett air Top of the Pops videos?
