The Last Bass Outpost
Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: Highlander on August 20, 2014, 11:25:28 PM
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Kind of makes me feel older for a moment or two, but...
I'll raise a dram to the old b*st*rd in his honour... rip, Phil... towards the end, you didn't get it here...
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RIP Phil. :toast:
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I always like him a lot, no standing in the shadows staring at his shoes - Up front and in the audience' face.
RIP Phil - and cheers.
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That slightly mocking smile was already there ...
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/25/article-1297458-0A8FC408000005DC-190_634x430.jpg)
My favorite song of his ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uANqDCnjZeA
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I remember the first time I heard the opening chords to "Jailbreak". Summer of 1976 and I was hooked after that. It was cool buying the new records when they came out. Bad Reputation is still one of my favorites.
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I'm proud to say that Lizzy is a staple here, and my kids now love 'em, too.
"Killer on the Loose" is a repeat offender in the Jam Room.
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I remember the first time I heard the opening chords to "Jailbreak". Summer of 1976 and I was hooked after that.
That was one of the two first singles I ever bought. However, I had bought it for the Boys are Back. When I flipped it over, I was like "WHOA! What's THIS?!?!" I was still a couple of months away from actually knowing what a bass guitar was...
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You've got to grant it to The Boys Are Back In Town that it has one of the most unusual (and elaborate) chord sequences for a hard rock song ever, especially in the verse. Kind of 30ies jazzy, I'm sure he nicked it from some old standard! It stands out that way in the canon of Lizzy's work, they don't really have anything similar. Most of their other stuff is a lot less chord-happy.
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that chord sequence was impressive alright. not a tin lizzy fan.
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Phil was inspired by Bob Seger and Bruce Springsteen when he wrote Boys Are Back In Town.
And of course there are plenty of Thin Lizzy songs that are not straightforward three chord rockers.
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I was always partial to "The Cowboy Song".
His solo material was always just as good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jhh3V7t9T4
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Yeah love the Cowboy song ! RIP Phil. You'll live forever through your music.
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You've got to grant it to The Boys Are Back In Town that it has one of the most unusual (and elaborate) chord sequences for a hard rock song ever, especially in the verse. Kind of 30ies jazzy, I'm sure he nicked it from some old standard! It stands out that way in the canon of Lizzy's work, they don't really have anything similar. Most of their other stuff is a lot less chord-happy.
Yeah, definitely different. All of a sudden there's a F natural in there...
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Phil was inspired by Bob Seger and Bruce Springsteen when he wrote Boys Are Back In Town.
And of course there are plenty of Thin Lizzy songs that are not straightforward three chord rockers.
A decent hard rock song generally needs four or five different chords! Less is dumbed-down AC/DC, more is in danger of trespassing PROG territory. :mrgreen:
For a hard rock band, Thin Lizzy were relatively major chord happy, that and Phil's baritone vocals really set them apart from many others in a similar field. His vocal style has grown on me over the decades, I didn't much like it first, back in the seventies I had a penchant for high-pitched screamers such as Ian Gillan, David Byron, Dan McCafferty, Ozzy or Rob Halford, I just thought that their vocals towered more "above" the music. Thin Lizzy did not have that, but to their credit they knew how to arrange their music so that Phil's lower register singing wasn't drowned out.
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A decent hard rock song generally needs four or five different chords! Less is dumbed-down AC/DC, more is in danger of trespassing PROG territory. :mrgreen:
For a hard rock band, Thin Lizzy were relatively major chord happy, that and Phil's baritone vocals really set them apart from many others in a similar field. His vocal style has grown on me over the decades, I didn't much like it first, back in the seventies I had a penchant for high-pitched screamers such as Ian Gillan, David Byron, Dan McCafferty, Ozzy or Rob Halford, I just thought that their vocals towered more "above" the music. Thin Lizzy did not have that, but to their credit they knew how to arrange their music so that Phil's lower register singing wasn't drowned out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOXMSSEhPGo
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One of my favorite Thin Lizzy songs!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUwQ41Eobcc
Does make me wonder whether it inspired Queen's We Will Rock You. Lizzy were Queen's opening act on US tours in the mid-seventies.
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A tribute to Phil Lynott:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJnqAx5N9Y