I went: ‘The Boys Are Back in Town doesn’t sound like a commercial single to me.’ How wrong could you be?”Īnd this, the moment of greatest triumph, is where everything started to go catastrophically wrong. Until one of the record company execs had the idea of The Boys Are Back in Town. “We were asked: ‘What do you think would make a single?’” Downey recalls. They had it perfect by 1976’s Jailbreak album, and its single The Boys Are Back in Town, which finally achieved Lynott’s aim of getting a US hit, albeit by accident. It was as simple as: you pick a melody, then you pick a harmony.”
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Scott didn’t have a grasp of scales at the time.
It was something that developed instinctively, according to Gorham. “I had only been playing guitar for three years.” But together – after one failure of an album, Nightlife – they gradually worked out a way to play gorgeous, harmonised guitar lines that managed to seem languid and elegant, even when the band was pressing hard on the accelerator. “At this point, Brian was way more accomplished than I was,” Gorham accepts. But Phil was thinking about world domination, about getting to America.”
It was nothing to do with the guitar playing. “Scott – we didn’t really want him in the band. Robertson, though, has a different version of events. Gorham says Lynott decided he would never again be let down by a guitar player – which proved to be a vain hope – and decided to get two in, so there was always a spare. Until, that is, their guitarist Eric Bell drunkenly walked offstage in Belfast on the last night of 1973, in the middle of the set, never to return to the band – although the Bell years are represented on a new six-CD/one-DVD box set, Rock Legends, containing all the Lizzy UK singles, dozens of demos and a disc drawn from a couple of 1980 live shows. The pair were in bands, then in bands together, one of them finally becoming Thin Lizzy. Singer Phil Lynott rehearsing in London, 1973. "He was the only black guy in the whole school," Downey says. Their roots stretched back to Downey and Lynott's time at the Christian Brothers school in Crumlin in the 1960s. According to The PRP, the band performed the cover for the first time at John’s funeral last month, which then followed with a studio recording and a recording of the performance from the funeral.Ġ7/28 – Steelhouse Festival – Ebbw Vale, S.Lizzy had already released three albums by the time Gorham and Robertson joined, with one UK hit single – a version of Whisky in the Jar that reached No 6 in 1972. Mastodon recently released a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” in honor of their late manager Nick John. The band’s mainstream success would ensue after Saner left the band, pushing Sanders to the forefront as vocalist and bassist.
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Guitarist Scott Gorham says in the announcement of the pairing, “We are very happy to welcome Troy to the Lizzy family! We met a few years ago at Download festival and he’s a great guy and killer bass player to boot so very happy he wanted to join us for the shows this summer.” Warwick adds: “ Mastodon are a fantastic band and knowing how much of a Thin Lizzy fan Troy is, he will be an amazing addition to the fold.”īack in 2000, Sanders formed Mastodon with his bandmates and began touring the southern USA, working 40-hour weeks and committing to the band in their spare time. In 1994 the band added guitarist John Sykes then brought in singer Ricky Warwick (frontman for the Scottish band The Almighty) and guitarist Damon Johnson (formerly with Alice Cooper) into the fold. Lynott led the group throughout their recording career of twelve studio albums, writing most of the material. The founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist and lead vocalist Phil Lynott, met while still in school. The tour commemorates the 40th anniversary of Thin Lizzy’s album Black Rose and the band’s 50th anniversary of forming back in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. Being asked to join them on stage is a big deal and true honor to me. Sanders commented on the announcement, “It’s no secret that Thin Lizzy has had a big influence on Mastodon’s music. In 1976, Thin Lizzy went gold with album, “Jailbreak” and today has over 7.6 million views for their song, “Whiskey in the Jar” and “The Boys are Back in Town” with 13.3 million page views on YouTube. Thin Lizzy includes guitarist Scott Gorham, keyboardist Darren Wharton, lead vocalist Ricky Warwick, guitarist Damon Johnson and drummer, Scott Travis.
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