Thin Lizzy - The Rocker

Sunday again, it means we dive into the record box and find a classic. What is popped on the stereo right now is Thin Lizzy, a band who have visited Tune Of The Day repeatedly get again a little space.

On the record "Vagabonds of the Western World" we find todays tune, the album is the third studio album by Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1973. It was the band's last album with original guitarist Eric Bell and the first to feature the artwork of Jim Fitzpatrick.

Todays tune "The Rocker"  was also released as a single in a 2:41 edited format, the original album track stretching to 5:17, most of the extra length being taken up by an extended guitar solo by Eric Bell. There is an accompanying promo video to the song which features Gary Moore recorded during his short spell with the band during 1974.

The b-side of the single in most territories was the album track "Here I Go Again", but in Germany the non-album track "A Ride in the Lizzy Mobile" was featured. This track later appeared on the 4-CD box set Vagabonds, Kings, Warriors, Angels as "Cruising in the Lizzy Mobile".

The single failed to chart in the UK, but reached No. 11 in Ireland and spent four weeks in the chart. However, it became a live favourite and was the final track on the band's 1978 live album Live and Dangerous.

Here is a live clip, the edit version.


Thin Lizzy Live 1975


The song was remixed for the PlayStation 3 video game Gran Turismo 5: Prologue.

Raven have covered the song for their 1994 album Glow.


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Pantera - Cemetery Gates

 

Just when you've landed back home again after two weeks in Gothenburg you get snatched it up like a potato plant and thrown out on new adventures, have gone around like a migratory bird the past few days, will try to come up with a report as soon as I have time, like in september or something :) hmmm quite so long shouldn't it take , but someting will come soon, be patient.

Today I will not sink deep into something special, so today we say Happy Birthday to two birthday children, namely Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) today would have turned 63 years old and Dimebag Darrell (Pantera) would have turned 46 years old, Tune Of The Day says congratulations with a Pantera song.

Todays tune "Cemetery Gates" is a song taken from "Cowboys from Hell", the band's fifth album and second with lead singer Phil Anselmo (though the band considers it their first "true" album, officially ignoring their earlier independent releases as it was their first album with the groove metal genre). "Cemetery Gates" showcases Anselmo's vocal ability and range, concluding with screaming high notes answered by Dimebag Darrell on guitar in a trade off. The song is also Pantera's longest song ever recorded, clocking in at 7:03.



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Thin Lizzy - Are You Ready

Today is the official Thin Lizzy day! It is 25 years since Phil Lynott passed away and of course we pay tribute to this band with a truly Lizzy smoker. This is a band I actually wished that have seen Live!

Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist/vocalist Phil Lynott met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of thirteen studio albums. Thin Lizzy are best known for their songs "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town", all major international hits still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. After Lynott's death in 1986, various incarnations of the band have emerged over the years based around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes.

Todays tune "Are You Ready" is taken from the "Live and Dangerous" album, a live double LP, released in 1978. It was recorded in Philadelphia, London and Toronto in 1977, during the tours accompanying the albums Johnny the Fox and Bad Reputation.

Live and Dangerous was originally intended to be a studio album. Working with producer Tony Visconti, Thin Lizzy maintained huge success with their previous album Bad Reputation, and the group wanted to work with him again. However, Visconti had a very tight schedule, so Phil Lynott came up with the idea that they spend two weeks together compiling a live album instead.

It was also the last album to feature Brian Robertson, who went on to form Wild Horses with ex-Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain.

On this album, the band segues immediately from "Cowboy Song" into "The Boys Are Back in Town", on the line "a cowboy’s life is the life for me". This technique was revisited with the same pair of live tracks in subsequent performances, and showcased more professionally on further live albums - examples being Thin Lizzy's later concert in Sydney with Gary Moore, and also on Thin Lizzy's Greatest Hits.

The tune also features on Life (subtitled Live, and labeled Life:Live on the original vinyl LP editions) is a double live album, released in 1983. This double album was recorded during their farewell tour in 1983, principally at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, UK. Phil Lynott had felt reluctantly that it was time to disband the group after the 1983 tour and to mark the occasion, former Thin Lizzy guitarists Eric Bell (1969-73), Brian Robertson (1974-8) and Gary Moore (1974, 1977 and 1978-9) joined the band on stage at the end of these gigs to do some numbers. This was called "The All-Star Jam".

live performance of the track "are you ready" taken from the live and dangerous album.



live performance of the track "are you ready" taken from the "Life" album, this is live in Dublin, Ireland, 1983



In February 2010 Live and Dangerous was ranked number one in PlanetRock.com's The Greatest Live Album Top 40.

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