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    Thin Lizzy (Official Thread)

    Lynott was once asked "Out of all the musicians you have worked with over the years which one was the most difficult to work with?"..Lynott replied "Robbo"...Robbo was a very fiery temperamental git but that was what made him and what brought us his sound...When Robbo joined Motorhead, Lemmy had...
  2. BluesRocker

    Thin Lizzy (Official Thread)

    Lizzy in Philadelphia, USA in 1977 with their classic track 'Opium Trail'...to me,this track is what Lizzy were all about, Superb!..the classic line-up of Lynott, Downey, Gorham, Robertson...Robbo really shines on this live cut and Downey's drumming throughout is just class. They were a truly...
  3. BluesRocker

    Thin Lizzy (Official Thread)

    Some more classic Robbo live in Tokyo, with Wild Horses when they were in Japan in 1980..Not the greatest quality recording, but nevertheless jump to 1 min 50 secs to hear that very distinctive Robbo sound.
  4. BluesRocker

    Thin Lizzy (Official Thread)

    https://www.instagram.com/tl9388/p/CqXQsqfOZ_A/ Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd with Phil Lynott in Atlanta, USA in 1980.
  5. BluesRocker

    Thin Lizzy (Official Thread)

    That classic wailing 'Robbo' guitar..can never tire of listening to him...and Downey's drums here are absolutely top notch.
  6. BluesRocker

    Thin Lizzy (Official Thread)

    https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/drummer-neil-peart-of-canadian-progressive-rock-band-rush-news-photo/735248879 great pic of Neil Peart ( Rush ) and Robbo backstage at a Rush gig in London in 1978...The following year Robbo had departed the Lizzy ranks and formed his own band...
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    Thin Lizzy (Official Thread)

    Rare pic of Rory Gallagher joining Thin Lizzy on stage for the encores in Cologne, Germany in 1979. L to R...Gary Moore, Rory, Phil Lynott, Scott Gorham. NB..i think Gary Moore wore that same shirt all through that Black Rose Tour..lol...quite distinctive it was, sky blue with the big black...
  8. BluesRocker

    Thin Lizzy-Live And Dangerous (1978) Vs Ufo-Strangers in The Night

    Lizzy by an absolute country mile...Mogg was a great frontman but Lynott was streets ahead of him, so charismatic, so visual, the tall lean black Irishman with the afro, the wicked grin, his gypsy earring, decked out in his studs n leathers and that mirrored scratch plate on his bass shining off...
  9. BluesRocker

    Best/Favorite 4 album run by a rock band ?

    THIN LIZZY Fighting Jailbreak Johnny the Fox Bad Reputation Brilliant 4 album run with the classic line-up of Lynott, Downey, Gorham, Robertson.
  10. BluesRocker

    Happy St.Patricks Day ~2025...

    i'm a couple of days late posting this, lol..but a very fitting song for St Patricks Day...a beautiful little song from Thin Lizzy with their tune 'Eire.'
  11. BluesRocker

    Thin Lizzy (Official Thread)

    a good cover version...Phil would be proud.
  12. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    Best gig i have ever been to was Rory Gallagher at Liverpool University 1981..He was awesome...he was doing a tour of the UK playing all the universities in all the major British cities..it was dubbed his 'University Challenge Tour.'..There was nobody like Rory, he was special.
  13. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    Nice one., i saw Gary Moore at Manchester Apollo in September 1985 and Phil Lynott came out for the encores, 3 months later and Phil was dead...Also saw Gary Moore in 1982 at Royal Court Liverpool when he had Ian Paice on drums on the 'Corridors of Power' tour..good gig that was but it was...
  14. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    On the night of the 1981 Renegade tour in Liverpool the support act were a Northern Irish band 'Sweet Savage' with a very youthful Vivian Campbell on guitar..Sweet Savage had emerged out of that NWOBHM ( New Wave of British Heavy Metal. )
  15. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    i was lucky enough to have seen Lizzy 5 times but unfortunately i never saw the classic line up when Robbo was in the band, it was just a tad before my time...i would loved to have seen them with Robbo....i saw Lizzy 4 times in Liverpool and the Reading Festival appearance...first time i saw...
  16. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    yes, its side 4 of the Life Live album which is the night that all the old guitarists show up.
  17. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    Thin Lizzy - Emerald...recorded at Reading Festival '83...Superb, Gorham and Sykes trading blows and then John rips into a spellbinding solo....This pic is the cover of the CD i have of Lizzys performance at Reading, but why they chose to have a pic of Lizzy with Snowy baffled me.
  18. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    https://www.depop.com/products/rckrrolr-vintage-reading-rock-1983-festival/ this pic is the original 1983 Reading Rock Festival T-shirt..On the front of the shirt is Ian Gillan in an arm wrestling contest with Phil Lynott...Black Sabbath headlined on the Saturday night ( Gillan was Sabbath's...
  19. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    https://erockphotos.photoshelter.com/image/I0000NSFqEiBo0Sk This pic of John is with Lizzy when they headlined the Reading Rock Festival in August 1983..it was Lizzy's last ever UK show before they disbanded.
  20. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    yes, the Reading show is fantastic,,shame that it was never filmed, as far as i know it wasn't,,but a CD was released....Also on that farewell tour in 1983 Lizzy did 4 nights on the bounce at London's Hammersmith Odeon and one of those 4 nights was when all the former Lizzy guitarists performed...
  21. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat...This clip with John in the band was taken from a late night UK TV show back in 1983...He had fire in those fingers...RIP John.
  22. BluesRocker

    Thin Lizzy (Official Thread)

    Saddened to hear the news that former Lizzy guitarist John Sykes has died...RIP John.
  23. BluesRocker

    RIP John Sykes

    Saddened to hear this news..I saw him twice with Thin Lizzy on their farewell Thunder and Lighting tour in 1983 in UK in Liverpool and later that year when Lizzy headlined the Reading Rock Festival which was Lizzy's last ever UK performance before they called it a day...John and Phil Lynott...
  24. BluesRocker

    Rory Gallagher statue in Belfast

    a short clip of Rory sliding on with those 'Bullfrog Blues' in Germany in 1982.
  25. BluesRocker

    Rory Gallagher statue in Belfast

    https://donegalpublicart.ie/dpa_rorygall.html The much better statue of him in his hometown of Ballyshannon.

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