So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Dave W]

The music is very similar. Or call it The Smiths.

Not saying it's bad.

I don't hear that at all. And besides, Martin Phillipps isn't a creepy, whiny weirdo like Robert Smith or worse yet, Morrissey.

[Basvarken]

I don't hear that at all.

Me neither.

REM maybe. But not quite

[Basvarken]

Speaking of The Cure:
Robert Smith can do a pretty decent Thin Lizzy

[Basvarken]

Speaking of Thin Lizzy:

Brian Downey still has that swing.
Totally enjoyed this set of Thin Lizzy's best

[Dave W]

Country hit for Marty Robbins, who wrote it, in 1956.




Also a pop hit for Johnnie Ray in 1957.

[gearHed289]

Speaking of The Cure:
Robert Smith can do a pretty decent Thin Lizzy

WOW! As a fan of both bands, I thought this was great.

[uwe]

Me neither.

REM maybe. But not quite

REM fits too. It's that riffless, largely undistorted strummy guitar music (which has a place no doubt). But where would music be without riffs? I always found it more a challenge to put a melodic lead vocal over a prominent riff than over a bunch of chords - very 70ies I know!

[uwe]

Speaking of The Cure:
Robert Smith can do a pretty decent Thin Lizzy

He does a great job!

He was a Thin Lizzy and Rory Gallagher fan as a teenager. The first gigs he saw were by them.

[uwe]

Speaking of Thin Lizzy:

Brian Downey still has that swing.
Totally enjoyed this set of Thin Lizzy's best

Did he always drum stoically behind the beat like that (at least in the opening number)?    I remember him being more ahead of the beat in a nice way.



Sorry, I have issues with behind the beat drumming, it's why Bonham's charm totally escapes me. Though it's unfortunately become de rigueur with modern drumming and often perceived as more musical. With hard rock music I tend to  find it grating.

Perhaps Brian didn't hear himself or the band well at that gig, but I find his dragging behind the beat in a number like that distracting. That doesn't mean that he has lost swing, which he has indeed always had though in my mind swing requires a drummer to be behind, on top and ahead of the beat at various times.

PS: The band plays the Lizzy stuff with more feel than I have heard some of Scott Gorham's, Gary Moore's or John Sykes' outfits do it.

[Basvarken]

I think the band had some monitor difficulties in the first two songs. They sound a bit stiff. But after that they were on fire.
They understand Thin Lizzy was not a heavy metal band. That's where most tribute acts go wrong (too much gain in the guitars and drums are often too heavy handed).
I think their "Robbo", Michael Kulbaka really captures the essence of the Live & Dangerous performance.

[uwe]

They understand Thin Lizzy was not a heavy metal band.

Indeed not. To me they were a hard-rock'ish singer/songwriter act (Lynott's lyrics/poetry were far above what you usually hear in hard or heavy rock bands) with Celtic influences - all those bagpipe melodies the two lead guitarists would play in harmony! 

Lizzy could rock hard and be exciting, but there was nothing really heavy about them, not in the way Phil idiosyncratically strummed his bass and not in Downey's sprightly played drums. They were too lively and light-footed to be heavy (not a knock, I prefer light-footedness to clumsiness).

[uwe]

Still like Rumer. Unaffected, beautiful voice and presentation. Outside of a studio and a grand production she's even better.

[westen44]

When it comes to Rumer, it should be no surprise that Richard Carpenter is a fan. 

[Dave W]

My favorite Doc Watson song

[uwe]

When it comes to Rumer, it should be no surprise that Richard Carpenter is a fan.

But Rumer eats properly - good wholesome Pakistani food.

"Rumer later discovered her biological father was the family's Pakistani cook, with whom her mother had had an affair when living in Pakistan. While her mother was dying of breast cancer in 2001, she asked Rumer to make the journey to Pakistan to search for her real father, with her mother reportedly saying "I want to leave this planet with my house in order". She discovered on arriving he had only recently died in a freak accident."

Stuff to make a movie from. Sigh, our parents weren't always as much on the straight and narrow as they claimed to be. Beware of DNA tests and the surprises they might bring.