Thin Lizzy Thunder and Lightning Tour - The Last Filmed Performance
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- Опубліковано 24 тра 2012
- Thin Lizzy was an Irish heavy rock band, formed in 1969. Thin Lizzy's most famous lineup included singer and bassist Phil Lynott, Brian Downey on drums and Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham on guitar. This film shows their last ever-filmed performance, Live in Dublin in 1983, one not to be missed! Featured tracks such as 'Baby, please don't go,' 'Rosalie' and 'Dancing in the Moonlight.'
Directed by Bob Collins
Full track list:
1) Thunder And Lightning
2) Baby Please Don't Go
3) Angel Of Death
4) Are You Ready
5) Cold Sweat
6) The Sun Goes Down
7) Emerald
8) Still In Love With You
9) Rosalie
10) Dancing In The Moonlight
11) Whiskey In The Jar
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Phil was a genius of vocals and bass. Those infections in the deepness of Sun Goes Down. What a loss to music, still can't believe it.
This lineup was phenomenal. They were on fire. All the lineups were great. I just find Sykes playing so awesome. I wish Phil could have stayed healthy. The world needs Lizzy right now.
IMO John Sykes was what Lizzy needed after their _Renegade_ album - energy.
@@FrozenHero2010 Definitely. He has ot all. He can shred with the best and he can play with great feeling. He's as good as anyone out there.
And the world needs TRUMP 😢.
MAGA😊
its amazing how Bryan was able to drum such heavy metal
That version of The Sun Goes Down is just bloody fantastic
29 years and still shedding tears for Philo. What a legacy this magical band has left us
i also am a Lizzy fan. just finished watching The Rocker, an old documentary on his life, again, and every time his mother talks about his last words to her, it breaks me. I am 4 years clean on heroin myself so I can sort of relate to Phil like that, knowing what he was going through in that addiction, I mean. very talented man who left us too soon.. i'd have to say my favorite Thin Lizzy song would have to be Waiting for an alibi.
I hear THAT!! Phil Lynott & Thin Lizzy will never be forgotten or surpassed by any other rock band EVER! 🤟😎 ✊🏻😇
@@brianintn THAT is a FANTASTIC documentary!! One of my all time favorites! 🤟😎
I'm a hard rock/blues rock music fan for several decades and always will be. I've played drums with a variety of musicians live in country, rock, blues, contemporary and traditional Christian music capabilities and creative capacities, at various points for years across a number miles and calendar dates in history. • I'm also (to paraphrase a few of my friends in A.A.), a grateful recovering alcoholic and drug addict, whose been both sober and straight without a singular relapse, for several decades. Y'all be strong, sober, vigilant. God be with you. Be blessed with courage and wisdom.
For sure REST IN PEACE 🙏
The best rocker the world have ever seen.
The GREATEST rock band of all time IMO.
Phil's voice was strong and unique, with powerful thundering bass. Could also go slow and tender on songs and keep it cool. Brian Downey, his best mate from Dublin, is probably the most underrated drummer in the world. Brian knew where to keep it laid-back and simple, like "Dancing in the Moonlight" or when to unleash like "Shalala", while never missing a beat.
Scott has so much style in his playing, melodic, driving, tasteful, and amazing stage presence. A true pro.
All the other guitarists (and Wharton on keys), Brian "Robbo" Robertson, Gary Moore, Snowy, Midge, and the phenomenal John Sykes, were ALL world-class players.
They set the bar for what a rock band can be. For those that have had the pleasure to know this group, you've witnessed where pure talent and never-ending determination can go.
The legend lives on.
Long live Thin Lizzy 🌹⚡️
Intro - 0:00
1) Thunder And Lightning - 3:15
2) Baby Please Don't Go - 8:35
3) Angel Of Death - 13:58
4) Are You Ready - 20:05
5) Cold Sweat - 22:56
6) The Sun Goes Down - 26:08
7) Emerald - 33:02
8) Still In Love With You - 37:05
9) Rosalie - 46:04
10) Dancing In The Moonlight - 49:15
11) Whiskey In The Jar - 50:54
thank you List Godz what would we do without you
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I cried when Phil passed .....RIP Phil :(:(:(:(
Great set list as it is, but I think it could have been expanded with two songs that had Huey Lewis playing harmonica on them: "Baby Drives Me Crazy" and "With Love." If so, who would have played the harmonica on these versions (since Lewis at that time was now part of his own successful band)?
Born in 88, so I missed out on these by a long time. But my parents introduced me from a young age and I'm so thankful. Can't wait to get over to Dublin to finally see the Phil statue. Definitely on the Mount Rushmore of rock bands.
same here !
I was there that night. Only fourteen years old. Brilliant experience I will never forget
That makes you OLD now. :-)
Saw Brian Downey with band in Danmark 2 days ago and he is still going strong. 😎 Grand Drummer 🥁
What's the name of the band
@@mattiodowd3209 Brian Downey’s Alive and Dangerous.
John’s tone is undeniable. Such a monster.
Brian Robertson & Scott Gorham are the guitar players?
@@dougnichols3358 This is John Sykes here. Who went to Whitesnake.
One of the best guitarists ever.
Cold Sweat!! Running down the back of my neck!! I've had the Flu many times. Never again. May you rest in peace Phil Lynott. Your influence is still felt by many.
Killer rock band. lucky to have caught a show on a hot summer night in El Paso.Texas 77 or 78. Don't recall ... but unforgettable. For sure. Thin lizzy remains one of my favorite rock bands to this day in 2020.
I'm Irish and I agree with you we need a thin LIZZY right now
This is fabulous , not seen it before. I love the fact that 4 of them have their rock god stage costumes on and Brian Downey has a sweatshirt on as if he left work late and turned up for the gig !
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This is what happens when image is second to the love of their music.
He was such a great bassist. Perfect tempo, perfect writing, so tight with the drums, excellent in every way. And singing and playing at the same time, he was the boss.
What a live band they were. It's worth noting that the punks never had a pop at them. Even they knew what raw power was.
Saw them in 1978 with my best friend and it changed our musical life! Amazing!
gotta love Brian Downey!
playing drums made him more happy than heroin did so he quit because it
fucked up his ability to play drums at his best. Go Brian!!
one of the best rock drummers out there. less is more ;)
My Top-1 band of all times! No matter which guitarist was in the band, the band was outstanding! Period! ‘Nough said!
Got it on cassette wen it came out🤟got cd🤣👍exellent!!R.I.PHIL!!
I've always loved Randy Rhoads. I never had given anyone else a chance. But somehow came across Thin Lizzy and that song Cold Sweat. I felt like I was cheating on someone when I thought " ba-jesus.. this is Randy Rhoads type stuff
I remember in 1982 or 3 Thin Lizzy was in Dallas. I was at a local club, Mother Blues, and they showed up afterhours to play a show. It was like a normal 250 seat club with probably 400 people packed in. I got to go down and watch from the dance floor. It was so awesome. 8 feet in front of Phil Lynott. They played over two hours. I consider that experience THE hilite of my rock n roll life. Loud yet very well mixed and comfortable to listen to.
It was probably 1980.that was the last time Lizzy toured the U.S.
What are awesome moment in your life! Memories to treasure.
they came to houston after that and played at the rock saloon on richmond it was the same set up u described. saw them from the floor, could have touched the stage, black guitars black outfits,Marshall amps, smoke and lights,, must have been around 1980 but unforgettable and best show of the era.
I was lucky to see them in Sacramento California 1978. The Cars -> Thin Zizzy -> Journey -> Marshall Tucker - Thin Lizzy blew my mind
Killer 💥
Look at little John Sykes skipping backwards and forwards around the stage, until it's time for his solo. Bless him!!
. Lol So full energy and enthusiasm. It's a joy to behold. ❤️🌹
The one and only!!!
These guys laid the pavement for the rest to follow, Live and Dangerous, is one of the greatest live albums Ever,
I remember the day Phil died, I was fucking devastated what a loss.. RIP phil
You make me proud to be IRISH ☘️
Johns talents show he is able to mesh with many bands. Phil always knew how to work a crowd into a frenzy. He had total control. Superb showman.
Still in love with you. One of the greatest songs EVER!
best rock ballad ever.
There's no one better. Thunder and Lightning blew my freakin' socks off. What a band!
Hands down one of the best live albums ever
Because raw and real
All you rockers also need to check out Thin Lizzy live at the Sydney Opera House '78 if you haven't already.
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Classic concert just like this one.
@@bradford_shaun_murray with Gary Moore!
But still my most beloved live is Blue Murder Three Pirates in Japan. Nobody in the world played so heavily tight as John Sykes❤❤❤
Thin Lizzy is one of the few band's I wish I was able to see in concert.
only time I ever saw them live was this gig, magic
I was lucky enough to see them live four time in Portsmouth guildhall in the 70's - Just the business!
Were, not was
If I could go back in time and see one band play a live show, Thin Lizzy would be it.
My first ever concert was Thin Lizzy and Mamas Boys at the Kings Hall, Belfast around 83/84. I remember Phil in a white jacket, with the bass glistening in the light. I was 14 and mesmerised. An amazing show.
Phill was a genius. He was born a STAR. RIP
One of the greatest bands ever! If you saw them live you would have been amazed. I saw them in a small school auditorium in Germany, priceless.
Phil had such a unique voice and presence, really wished I could have seen them live. Just an absolutely amazing band !!
I met them in Copenhagen at Plaza Hotel where I worked, I was already a young rock chick back then and has been ever since, still young at heart, and still miss you Phil❤️
...Still in Love with You......still tears in my eyes, RIP Phil Lynott
Phil lynott best bass player ever
Gary Moore And Phil Lynott R.I.P
no gary moore here
@ThumperOne and so is Phil lynott but that's not my point, Gary wasn't in thin Lizzy at that time
@ThumperOne :(
"Was part of the Family"🎵🎼🎶🎸😎👊
"I was there - Great Show 🎵🎼🎶🎸😎
I just saw and heard a tribute to Jimi Hendrix's "Red House" • featuring a great guitarist Gary Moore with his intense band before a large favorable, passionately responsive crowd • online that's quite the powerfully intense performance!! That guitarist Gary Moore is/was passionately phenomenal!!
Thin Lizzy: So underrated. Testosterone-driven, in your face guitar-based rock. Killer hooks, catchy riffs and true innovators of double-lead guitars. Even today, I can't help but wonder what Phil and Scott could've achieved had they not got caught in the grip of addiction.
Underrated? Where are you from? Lizzy were massive in the UK.
If their music was so underrated, we wouldn't be listening to it.
There must be a financial reward available for those who use the word "underrated". I see it used so many times I begin to wonder.
@@FrozenHero2010 I agree. I've even see people use the underrated comment about bands like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. It's the most meaningless comment imaginable. What does it even mean?
"Underrated"? Where do you think Iron Maiden got their twin guitar idea from?
Wishbone Ash. @@FrozenHero2010
One of the greatest band of the world , good evening .
What at top singer he is. He is sadly missed. R.I.P. Phil 😢
Brian Downey is fantastic as usual.
Thin Lizzy kicked my ass from when I was kid in the 70s 'til I was a teenager in the 80s! I will always love and respect this band. RIP Phil
Thin Lizzy were the band that shaped my life musically, so everything associated with them is very emotionally charged for me. In my life, I've had to take the occasional break from listening to their music because it is too emotionally upsetting for me. So it comes in waves. Now, I am in a phase when I CAN listen to them, and with hindsight, comparing to the bands of today etc etc, my GOD, are they in a league of their own! Thin Lizzy in my heart forever!
You only see something like this once in a lifetime if you are lucky. Thin Lizzy changed my life.
What can I say I absoluteley do agree, it really shaped my musical life to, f*cking el
i can relate to that its phil beautiful soul what a grateful lonely soul his mother was a head of her time she could have let the past not remind him he was hated and left him so many songs say his conflicting love for philomena i think she is a narcicist
This is Great !!! Thank you, YT ! Fan since '75 with Fighting.
I went to a few shows at Winterland but never saw them there or anywhere so this is amazing.
Lucky enough to see Gary Moore at Wolfgangs for Wild Frontiers.
Best memory from that was Military Man which Phil sang on for Run For Cover. RIP Phil and Gary.
Played in a little cover band in the early '80s and had a reunion in '05.
Good enough to play a couple of gigs and the set included Cowboy Song. Last time with them we played this twice. We ran out of songs. Me both solos.
Thanks, Phil.
Scott Gorham is one of the most marginally underrated rock guitar players.
I agree.
@@jasonboggs2835 are you kidding? Gorham is a monster. Sykes is great too, but his style is very different for Thin Lizzy's sound. But is still great.
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lol, no shit@@jasonboggs2835
@@jasonboggs2835 he certainly isnt gary moore either
@@jasonboggs2835 Show some respect dude. Scott Gorham had been there from the Nightlife album when Phil decided he needed two guitarists and Scott was the one who forged the twin duel guitar sound with Brian Robertson that made Thin Lizzy so different from all the other wannabees. His guitar work on Lizzy albums is huge. Listen to him on Emerald from the album Jailbreak - if you even go back that far - his lead lines matched Robbo perfectly.
Or listen to his melodic solo on Still In Live With You from Live And Dangerous. Its timeless.
He played all the guitars on Bad Reputation accept for 3 tracks after Robbo was ousted from the band.
Gary Moore said that working with Scott on the Black Rose album reminded Gary of what it meant to play with real genuine feel. Quite a compliment coming from Gary Moore. I can't image Gary would have had time for John Sykes because he sounds like so many other shredders. Think of Scott's solo in Waiting For an Alibi. He mirrors Gary Moore's solo perfectly, not just in the harmonies but even in vibrato and feel. Not easy.
He was an integral part of Lizzy trademark sound. He and Robbo's solos never detracted from the song. They just supported it brilliantly. It was never about them. It was about them contributing something that would add to the music and feel and subject matter of the track.
John Sykes in comparison was just a shredder. He was a one trick pony whose signature was some stupid pinched high note affair that he threw into just about every solo he ever did. That was his trademark. Impressive eh?
He served a purpose as Thunder and Lightning was Lizzy's heavy metal album. The reason Lizzy chose that form of rock for their last album was because Phil and Scott were deep in the grip of heroin addiction and Phil had lost all creativity as a result as a writer. He just didn't care anymore. And when there is nothing left in the tank, heavy metal is so easy to do. In creative terms its as bad an album as it gets. Phil was dead not long after and Scott barely escaped with his own life.
Looking back, few Lizzy fans even rate Thunder and Lightning and rightly so. Instead, if asked, the vast majority will tell you that Lizzy's glory days was when Robbo and Scott were in the band, followed by Gary Moore. John Sykes barely gets a mention. So when it comes to casting a shadow Jason, John Sykes was always in Scott's shadow, only Scott would be far too modest and too nice a guy to say so.
so happy and proud to say i saw thin lizzy four times on this tour we will never see their like again phil lynott the greatest rocker of all time i always wondered why this greatest band of all time were never inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame thanks for the memories the music lives on
Because Rolling Stone Magazine socks. They have say over who gets in, and have for quite some time. It's not even the RnRHOF anymore, with some of the rappers and others they have admitted in the last 10 or 15 years. It's a shame, there are many acts that still deserve to be in there(ROCK), and Thin Lizzy is definitely one. When there 1st LP came out, my friend brought it and some 'Lumbo' over and he put it on without showing me the name of the band. After I was 'sold' on the band(2 tracks)he showed me and said he didn't want me to be 'prejudicial' on the name of the band. I laughed and blew lumbo smoke in his face. Rocked with Lizzy ever since.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
I was lucky enough to be in that audience :) Irelands best rock band without a doubt!
hess686 DUUUUUUUDE WHAAAAAAAAT
Must have been absolutely incredible
Yeah was there too great night.
Yeah I was at the cork show in city hall if memory serves was a few days before.
The Boomtown Rats edge them out.
Visited his grave a week ago, brought me to tears. What a great man he was.
Arno Burtner Did you see his statue?
Arno Burtner many tears man 😢
Regards from Brasil
A band from Slovakia named Tublatanka, that I used to manage visited Phil´s grave and talked to Phil´s mother by the ocassion of Euroviision in Dublin 1994
@@MrJohnnyDistortion Ofcourse, at Harry / Grafton Street. At his former favourite hangout
@@arnoburtner380
I saw TH open for Queen in back to back shows in Boston.
SO thankful I was raised on Thin Lizzy and proud the band is IRISH!
Well......Robbo was Scottish and Scott USA. Roots were obviously Irish and much of Philips lyrics were obviously influenced by Irish history, however they were a brilliant Rock band back in the day. This however was not their best era. Not keen on Sykes (although he's a great player.... just didn't fit) and did they really need keys?
@@warrrenegghead Plus Phil was born in England, West Brom, then raised in Ireland.
Yeah so is U2. The best Irish seem to want to kill themselves. RIP Phil and Rory.
And the Irish rise to stand with Palestine.✊🏾
Yours is a mighty nation.
Glory to JEHOVAH!!!
Bow down and worship the KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS!!!❤❤❤
Philo huffin and puffin through the verses of Thunder .. I don't care .. it sounds amazing .. Phil had a full life crammed into his 36 years .. gone too young .. but lived at least nine lives! God Bless you Phil. You're much loved in Ireland. What a mix, two Dubliners, an American dude and one of the coolest and influential English rock Guitarists ever.
One of the most UNDER RATED bands ever!!!
Never underated just over worked
a bunch of people know and love thin lizzy i love thin lizzy
it's not underrated, it's just not for everyone, best rockn'roll band in the world, influenced lots of other bands
Great rock n roll band.
Phil Lynott was one of a kind. Awesome lyricist and songwriter/musician.
That has to be the most haunting rendition of 'The Sun Goes Down' ever captured. Such a beautiful song - RIP Philo. 💔🙏
His vocals are off during this show. He must have been drinking or something.
Fucking AWESOME band! Phil was an absolute icon and genius all rolled up into one!! I love Lizzy and love ALL of their albums!!! ROCK ON!!!
Scott Gorham is without doubt an underrated innovative guitar player. Went to the Thin Lizzy audition with a Les Paul copy. What does that tell you. Very modest guy
It's not Gorman it's SYKES
@@zombiekiller98765432 It not Gorman, it's Gorham. 10/10 for not knowing who's in the lineup.
@@stupidlogic2987 Hey Stupid. Which fits you well. I’m so sorry for the spelling error.
I forgot more about music than you will ever know.
Thank God this video exists. Showing TL at their greatest. Regretfully I never got to see them live. What a powerhouse!
Thin Lizzy ... Merci d'avoir bercé mes années d'adolescent, aujourd'hui à 60 ans j'ai toujours autant de plaisir au premier accords c'est le frisson garanti .
Oui Alain.. toujours le même frisson qui monte .!
All the kids today NEED to listen to Thin Lizzy. This is Rock N Roll at it's most finest and furious.
Dr. Earl W. Brown Kids are easily brainwashed and now prefer the sounds of a cat tapping scratching the keys on a piano while some irrelevant black guy yells "mothufucka" and "nigga" out of key 80 times in a 3 minute stanza.
Phil looks tired here, Scott Gorham looks energized by the presence of Sykes. Brian Downey and Wharton are technically awesome. Awesome awesome favorite band . Thank you Phil and the boys for the wonderful memories. Hello from the Philippines
Scott opened up obout on drugs ... management kept them on. Scott cool golfe.r and good on you son
Phil would never really recover from his drug habit... he may have kicked his habit by the time of his death on January 4, 1986, which was likely because of the side effects the drugs he took had on him.
My favourite Lizzy line up is the 70's one. About 79.
Fkn amazing band
The Sun Goes Down just a beautiful track
,,,,yes, it was Phillip's sun going down.Prophetic and heartbreaking .He will never be alone, nor the band.Loved and adored by millions of fans all over the world...Forever in our hearts.
Hammer Song😍😍😍😍
...and sad.....
Stunning and just shows how great they are, I remember when I first heard it, it was the last thing I expected to hear from Lizzy
Find it very difficult to listen to it. Gets me every time
Thin Lizzy is just pure and simply one of the greatest and most underrated influential Rock and Roll bands ever. They were so cool and bad - ass I still think of them as a current band because I continue to listen and enjoy their music. Now other bands like Metallica have sung their praises and it`s so cool to see other musicians sing Thin Lizzy songs and say how much they have been influenced by them. Rock on Lizzy Rock on R.I.P. Phil Lynott Glenn Augustyn
Well said.. 🤘💜🤘
its not underrated..what planet are you on?
@@BoxerEngineSounds You said it’s not underrated. What is “it’s”? The band? Phil? Do you mean he’s or they’re or what? What planet are you on?
Thin Lizzy has aged like fine wine. And their music becomes more important as time goes on. The epitome of rock. Thin Lizzy is king.
@@Renegade8652 Completely agree Phil had a massive soul. At least double sized than the usual b2
They'll never be another Thin Lizzy !
Very true Andrew! We hope you enjoyed the video! Please feel free to subscribe to the channel to enjoy more amazing performances like this Lizzy performance. We also have a great Phil Lynott music documentary on his life and career that's a fascinating watch and worth checking out! :)
+Andrew Bullock There will never be another Thin Lizzy! either
+Andrew Bullock Indeed, my friend...
+RuudJH So he got the ! in the wrong place, you grammar dicksnot.
***** Lol!
Never be another Phil Lynott. Robbo is a Legend.
Best band in there kind of rock ever!!!! Like Led Zep, Deep Purple, Motörhead, Metallica....and so on....I love them all but Phil was a special one!!!
The RENEGADE album is one of the best rock albums ever. Every track is solid.
Brian Downey is the cornerstone of this great band.
saw Thin Lizzy many times and one of my favourite bands.Brian Downey is one of the most underrated drummers around
Phenomenal performance. Love the Thunder & Lightning album, remember hearing it the first time and the second guitar solo, after the keyboard just batters you in the face - still hits hard. Sykes, an absolute beast of a player
Glad to see them in Reading 83!! That definitely changed my way of living rock n Roll!!
It's so great to hear a live version of Angel Of Death.
Imagine having Scott and John in your band ...:..... sky is the limit 💥
A proud rockin' Irishman.
I must have seen them at least 17 times absolutely awesome, the best live rock band ever.
R.I.P. in Phil
Outstanding! Wish I had the chance to view this back then.... 🔥🔥🔥
Fortunate to see Thin Lizzy 3 times in the early 80s including the last tour. PL was my rock hero as young lad. Still love their music some 40 years later.
Wow that singer = FANTASTIC...WHAT A VOICE.. STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU = POWERFUL
Live and dangerous, one of the best live albums ever. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Amazing band, Emerald is one of my favourite songs, Brioan Downey is my fovourite drummer and in my opinion very underrated drummer of those times. R.I.P Phil
Fish2409 Emerald is a very powerfull song!!!
Amazing solo 👍
Emerald..one of my favs too
yes.!! Brian downer is so great drummer.! beautiful game ..!!
Manly and ballsy rock in every way--no band could touch them live. The LATE-GREAT Phil Lynott was the last of the sweaty and honest and true and fist-in-your-face real-deal rock stars. Thank you so much, onemediamusic, for publishing this epic moment in time, from what I consider the last of the great rock bands, the MIGHTY Thin Lizzy.
I was listening to a kind of a "Rockumentary" of Thin Lizzy and found out this gig here at the youtube! No words to describe it ! Pay internet for things such like this !!!!!!!!!!!!
John Sykes looks so happy, skipping up and down. I love watching him
Loud Music, Fast Guitars and Phil Lynott. It doesn't get better than this!!!
Thin Lizzy will never die
Die Band wir niemals sterben sie lebt in unseren Gedanken
Lots of people had that thought in the years after Phil died at the start of 1986. These days, the only Irish member in the band is Ricky Warwick, since drummer Brian Downey, the other co-founding member of Thin Lizzy, quit the lineup in 2016 since he was not interested in becoming part of Black Star Riders.
What’s your point though? Cause obviously TL is still alive regardless of who’s in the band or where they were born
Their Music won't fade away in my lifetime. 🎶 🎵 🎸 🥁 🎤 🎹 🎸 🎸 🎶 🎵.
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saw them on this tour at de montfort hall leicester. wouldn't have thought it would be the last time. when Phil died it was 5 years before i could listen to Lizzy again, his death really cut me up even though i never met him. great band.
one of the reasons why i play bass, thanks for being a great teacher, Phil Lynott, R.I.P. \m/
Thunder and Lightning, Piece of Mind, Screaming of Vengeance. Those 3 albums will i take with me to my grave!
Just amazing to read all these comments. Lizzy and Philip will live forever even in the memories of those who never met him!
I'm one of the lucky ones who was close to this great man who was so ahead of his time. Mentioned him to Chuck D of Public Enemy when we met two weeks ago and he loved Philip and Lizzy. We all did.
Lizzy have been my favourite band since I heard Jailbreak back in the 70s. I've been overdosing on them ever since. My favourite album cover of all time? (by any band may I add) - CHINATOWN. However, I think there was a slight error because the back of the cover should have been the front. That Chinese dragon face is breathtakingly magnificent. It explodes in a frenzy of danger, energy, mystique, drama and beautiful menace. A true masterpiece, Mr Fitzpatrick. I tip my hat to you.
JIM FITZPATRICK I saw TL open for Queen back 2 back shows in Boston, '77 or '78. Amazing performance. Both shows.
Check out this show back in the day Cleveland Ohio World Series Of Rock, my first Festival. July 28, 1979.
Aerosmith
Ted Nugent
Journey
Thin Lizzy
AC/DC
Scorpions
Hi Jim. Thanks for the artwork on Lizzy's albums. Ill never forget as a kid, pouring over the cover of Remembering Part Two. Fond memories. Like you said once in a documentary, Phil had a morose dark side to him. Seems you were right. Thanks again.
Jim first of all your art is killer! Thin Lizzy is and will always be the best band from Ireland!! ✊
thank you for this. was too young to see them. and I don't think they ever came to my part of the planet. Black Rose was my first introduction, then Live and Dangerous. I was hooked.
These guys are in a league of their own!!!
Great classic 🤘
My god this is great...Sykes is a BEAST!!!!!!
Yes he is ! :)
Absolutely
Been watching rock concerts on UA-cam and this is ultimately the best. What an experience. Thin Lizzy will never be surpassed. Long live Phil Lynott. From Winston in SA.
Thank you for posting this
Thunder and Lightning might be my favorite Lizzy album. At least up in the top 2-3 or something. Love that heavy edge to the songs and i think the keyboard adds something different on a song like "The Sun goes Down" which remains my favorite Thin Lizzy track. There is a kind of magic within that song that I haven't heard from Phil before. Epic stuff
Thanks for this. I was only 14 when Phil died, by which time I'd accumulated a modest collection of Lizzy & Lynott LPs, inc. Tunder 'n' Loitnin. My fave Lizzy is the mellow melodic funky soulful stuff, but they sho' nuff could rock out n'all! Fabulous band! I'm a drummer, and I'll always love Downey, a formative inspiration. Shame I never got to see Lizzy or Lynott play in person...
You're welcome Sebastian - glad you enjoyed the video and the amazing & legendary band! Must have brought back some great memories from your childhood too. Please feel free to subscribe to enjoy more great videos like this - including live performances many of which you may have been unable to see live but are available here to watch! We also have a great Phil Lynott documentary feature that is a fantastic watch! Thanks :)
Nobody rocked like Thin Lizzy, RIP Phil & Gary
Saw them Sept. 3 1983 for the Thunder and Lightning tour.... I feel very lucky to have done so.
Downey sure had his style and he's rarely talked about in drum circles but he was rock steady, but his fills, accents, were always tasteful and fit the song. He was kind of a "swing" drummer in a way given their music - I wonder how much of that HE influenced by his style and how much was just the songwriters.Great drummer
I agree, Downey is a beast and his role in rock history under-discussed!
Jay Bing a fucking way underrated drummer!
one of the best to me
i always feel like a jr. brian downey
by far the most underrated rock drummer..he had it all. technique..style...chops! when asked who my top drummers are. brian downey is in the top 2. just heard he retired. sad
and i saw him rocking a Rogers set..
ice18 live and dangerous he's incredible. I really believe he was their secret weapon. Phill talents were obvious, the harmony guitar thing was an accident, but the drummer really made them special and put them at another level.
downey for me is the best, marvellous rythm and groove, nobody plays as him
Amazing band. One of the very best bands to make that transition from the 70's into the 80's. I had heard "Boys" a million times on the radio, but it wasn't until I heard "The Cowboy Song" that everything about this band's greatness took shape and made me a fan.
Thank you from Japan, Tokyo
So many great comments below! Glad to see so many positive and insightful comments. I Saw Thin Lizzy many times and I don’t remember any bad shows. Thought they were spectacular live. Its sad that if you mention them today everyone says “Oh yeah, The Boys Are Back in Town” and thats it. They were so much more than that. “The Sun Goes Down” is one of my all time favorite songs. Phil is sorely missed and remembered very fondly!