Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
Thin Lizzy
UK Tour '75
(RSK, 2008)
Unearthed! The prequel to Live And Dangerous!
"This is a new number... as yet untitled. We'll call it Derby Blues," says Phil Lynott, launching into a track he'd re-title a few months later as Cowboy Song. The tune itself would appear on the band's Jailbreak album in March 1976, alongside Emerald, Warriors, The Boys Are Back In Town and the title track, the core in other words of the first truly classic LP of their career. The decision to road-test the track during this sulphurous Friday night show at Derby's College Of Technology in November 1975 underlines Lizzy's move away from the blues-rock roots of their earlier albums into altogether heavier territory, led by the twin guitar brawl of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson. Renewed power ripples through this set's It's Only Money, Suicide and a rebooted version of The Rocker. What's more, unlike 1978's much-lauded Live And Dangerous, this was mixed on the night and captures Lizzy in the raw and overdub-free. While diehard Lizzy fans may already own sections of this 15-track affair on the remastered DVD version of Live And Dangerous, where it appeared as bonus material, this East Midlands epiphany deserves to be experienced in its entirety, sparkling remastered sound revealing just how powerful a live act Lynott's mob had become by 1975. As if to labour the point, yet another unearthed live recording has emerged since this one. Entitled Still Dangerous, it includes a remarkable performance from the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia in 1977 during the Bad Reputation tour, capturing Lizzy on a swaggering high. Both albums prove unequivocally that there was a defined period - between '75 and on until '79 - when few rock'n'roll bands were capable of standing toe-to-toe with Phil and his boys.
Phil Alexander
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 24/11/2009
Further Listening
Thin Lizzy - Fighting (Vertigo, 1975)
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (Vertigo, 1976)
Thin Lizzy - Still Dangerous (Thin Lizzy Productions, 2009)
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