Check out Ritchie Faulkner of Judas Priest playing that solo in Nashville with Damon Johnson!! ua-cam.com/video/tQQdB17hiOQ/v-deo.htmlsi=ZBfUFlRG30CBKyJf
@@Courtneyshole1965 Lizzy were the first band I ever saw live in 1977 at Wolves Civc and numerous times after but I would have swapped all those gigs to see them in this boozer.
This! Song is what radio stations should be playing more of Thin Lizzy with. To show the bands range. If no one knew any better, they'd think the band had only made 2 songs ever
When you watch Phil in this video he's got the same right eye wink, I don't know whether he's got a piece watching him or is it a idiosyncrasy he's got? ua-cam.com/video/JYUq1_dNAs4/v-deo.html
@@rockerrob61 That stage wink was common among famous Irish Showband singers in 1960s & 70s. I'd bet that's where Phil picked that up from when he was learning his craft in earlier days.
2:23 Seeing/hearing John Sykes tapping solo is one my earliest memories of wanting to learn the Guitar. I remember watching this when it first aired and I couldn't understand what I was hearing when John started tapping on the fingerboard? ... I bought the single in Woolworths, Derry City in February/March 1983 and I by April I had headed off to England to work, where I bought my first Guitar (Acoustic and secondhand ) in a wee shop on Kilburn High Road for £25 and got my first Van Halen album (Woman and Children First) in the shopping centre at the Elephant & Castle .... sigh!
And have you noticed that the solo is not in sync so they might have recorded the song live in the studio before they did this tv show which a lot of bands do.But vocal is live for sure.
@@ricobowen312 Not everyone , he also never gets mentioned when people are talking about greatest guitarist's. Who have you ever heard say he was an influence on them?
You and me both as it has been pointed out in many comments, instruments weren't actually being played but just to have been in your Rock god's presence would have been more than enough for me. 🤘👍🎶
Man, I wish there had been just one more album after Thunder and Lightning with John Sykes. Thin Lizzy is so great as a metal band. It's such a shame that's the only one we got.
@Uncle Gilbert I can see it being frustrating to have it that way when the rest of their career was what we call classic rock. Maybe someone a bit less noodley would've suited the band better. I still think Lizzy was right to contribute to NWOBHM, but maybe it could've been more Motorhead and less Van Halen
Just more thin lizzy in general would of been cool. Scott was just as good and as far as this song goes john and his harmonics don't interest me though john can play, and scott never played like that.
@@grindfreakmike5754 yeah, I think it was just a given that 70's bands were aging badly by 1980. Whether that was true or not, I'm sure the record companies feared they were. There was surely some pressure to stay relevant, so picking up a hotshot like John Sykes was the solution. Nobody wanted be shown up by their newer opening band the way Sabbath was humiliated by Van Halen. Ozzy got Randy Rhoads, Dio got Vivian Campbell (which was a major downgrade for me because he's an F'ing lightweight). Today, these additions can seem disrespectful to the bands identity. And for the newcomer as well. John Sykes was used like that *twice* , once in Thin Lizzy and then in Whitesnake. His career was defined by it. Now barely anyone remembers Blue Murder. It's all about that Whitesnake album, and he was tossed away by the time it came out.
I hate FUCKING DRUGS! Cocaine and Heroin took this incredible musician (Phil Lynott) and rendered his body useless as his major organs were all destroyed and his heart finally gave out. I can only cherish his legacy these days. This is one of my favorite songs from this lineup and the Thunder and Lightning LP showcased John Sykes amazing guitar work. It would be nice to see John tour the States again.
Midge Ure told a story about a Yamaha guitar that he had when taking over for Gary. Phil wouldn't let him use it on stage....didn't look the part. LOL. (They gave him a Les Paul Jr. to use.) I wonder if that's the same guitar.???
Their greatest but most tragic period..Only 3 years later Phil would be gone. Phil was so shot out and spent by this period but he still tried to put on a good show for the fans.
What an amazing song and the guitar solo by John Sykes is just on another level on the original studio version, it's just unfortunate that in this live version Phil was forgetting the lyrics because at this time he was so high on drugs at the time and it's such a great shame that the drugs killed him in the end, I'm actually gutted that I never got to see ThinLizzy live because at the time of when they were going up on till Phil's death I was only a very young child, but my Dad in his prime got to see them live three times back in the 1970's and 1980's and he told me they were superb live which is why I am devastated that I never got to see them live cause at the time I was only a baby and a young child at the time, and then Phil passed away, but it never stopped me being a big fan even till this day now that I am 44 years of age, I'm just saddened that I never got to see them live before Phil passed away.
@@TheRocker04 Have you actually listened to the studio version?... clearly you haven't... Phil was on better form and wasn't getting the words in the chorus jumbled up and back to front like he was in this live version here
@@AngryVikingBiker - I actually have listened to the studio version many times and bought the original single back in the day. The point i was making was the fact that Phil didn't appear high on drugs during this performance. He seemed happy and relaxed. He may have muddled a few of the lyrics here and there but that's not an uncommon trait with vocalists. Doesn't mean he was off his head on drugs. Anyway, at the end of the day we're both fans of Phil and the wonderful music legacy he left behind.
@@TheRocker04 Some people always think musicians are on drugs because they've probably never taken any themselves and don't know the signs. I agree that Phil seemed in top form here. Great version and great footage.
The lead from Sykes is insane.
Sykes lead solo is just amazing! Rest In Peace, Philip. Their will never be another Thin Lizzy!
Seems like this may have been a major influence of Nigel Tufnel
True! I wish the band would stick along for a couple of albums more under this formation. Think Sykes added a sophisticated touch to its punch.
Check out Ritchie Faulkner of Judas Priest playing that solo in Nashville with Damon Johnson!! ua-cam.com/video/tQQdB17hiOQ/v-deo.htmlsi=ZBfUFlRG30CBKyJf
The man just wanted to please everyone... Absolutely out of his box but a genius...
Imagine you walked into your pub to that unannounced! 😲😎
Caveman I'd of absolutely shit myself
@@Courtneyshole1965 Lizzy were the first band I ever saw live in 1977 at Wolves Civc and numerous times after but I would have swapped all those gigs to see them in this boozer.
I would say. Ok
Crushing in your face. I love it
👌
Phil Lynott is the definition of rockstar. Coolest dude ever.
Til he overdosed on Heroin! Not so cool....
@@jpmccray6754 He did not overdose . His medical problems were from long term use of the drug.
@jpmccray6754 that's bollox and you know it .
Epic song...pity it ended too soon...rip Phil 🇮🇹
This! Song is what radio stations should be playing more of Thin Lizzy with. To show the bands range. If no one knew any better, they'd think the band had only made 2 songs ever
John Sykes is on another level.
And he wears white shoes so you know he's badass!
He is the man
Agreed.
Wasn't pretty young here? And this in a tiny pub, too.
Love John too. He taught me lots.
Phil knows he is cool. Just look when he winks in between and towards the end of the song.
So very true and we all wanted it to last forever but sadly the last year of his life he was far from cool. First band I ever saw live in 77.
Yep
When you watch Phil in this video he's got the same right eye wink, I don't know whether he's got a piece watching him or is it a idiosyncrasy he's got?
ua-cam.com/video/JYUq1_dNAs4/v-deo.html
@@rockerrob61 That stage wink was common among famous Irish Showband singers in 1960s & 70s. I'd bet that's where Phil picked that up from when he was learning his craft in earlier days.
Phil Lynott - Same 'presence' in a pub-like show as a stadium.
It's a television show and not just a random pub gig but yeah great performance
@@serkansen0190 Lizzy did a low-key series of Irish pub gigs in 1983. Don't know if this was actually one of them.
What a beast of a fucking song
The Prince of Dublin🥃🍺🕶👍☘
Lynott is an Englishman,born in West Bromwich.
@@michaelgaskell7408 ua-cam.com/video/HGq3NJLJUis/v-deo.html
Born in England. Not an Englishman. He's Irish. Republic of Ireland. Very important
2:23 Seeing/hearing John Sykes tapping solo is one my earliest memories of wanting to learn the Guitar. I remember watching this when it first aired and I couldn't understand what I was hearing when John started tapping on the fingerboard? ... I bought the single in Woolworths, Derry City in February/March 1983 and I by April I had headed off to England to work, where I bought my first Guitar (Acoustic and secondhand ) in a wee shop on Kilburn High Road for £25 and got my first Van Halen album (Woman and Children First) in the shopping centre at the Elephant & Castle .... sigh!
I recorded it on my Mum and Dad’s VHS! I knew of him from Tygers and Love Potion No.9! 14!
Yours Aye!
I recorded it on my Mum and Dad’s VHS! I knew of him from Tygers and Love Potion No.9!
I got a Kay black Les Paul. I was rubbish.
Yours Aye!
Now We all see how 80's was the best times of Rock.✊😍
Man, I swear my ghost will wander every european pub to encounter Phil Lynott's spirit. Cheers to every Lizzy fan 🍻🍻
This video has always made me want to go to Ireland and hang out in a
real Irish bar! I wish I had been there!
This was a bar in Birmingham, England. 🍺
They were really good live.....turn it up !!!❤
Wow!
First time seeing this. It was the heaviest album by them. What a change it was. Great record.
What fucking great closeup footage of Sykes shredding. These guys are legends.
And have you noticed that the solo is not in sync so they might have recorded the song live in the studio
before they did this tv show which a lot of bands do.But vocal is live for sure.
@@peteyoung7665 Look closely, no guitar is plugged up.
If YOU are really RS : in my early Days i have two live Records with my guitar heroes: Live and dangerous. The other was " tokyo tapes ".
@@OLLiGoldeaux GUTEN TAG I HOPE ULI ROTH HAS MADE YOU AS DEAF AS HE MADE ME THAT NIGHT..
@@acdover ....Like Sykes isn't playing? He wrote it, played it, etc...
Frank Carson intro, tiniest playing area, freaking awesome song and band
This man was born to be a star
I only knew this as a Megadeth cover, NOW I know where the original came from!
What a great performance! Phil lighting them up!!
Phil had such charisma.
After lockdown can we all go back to having bands squeezed into the local please!!
2:45 Yes, Phil, you are the coolest rocker ever! No one else comes close.
John Sykes what a Amazing Guitarist.
Frank Carson. Used to make me laugh 'til I choked. The one and only Philip Parris Lynott. His music will never die.
This is great! BTW, this was one of Dimebag Darrell's favorite tunes.
Interesting, thanks
this has always been my fav Thin Lizzy track
Good but there's so many more.
Suicide off Live and Dangerous blows this away. and I love this song.
@@elvinposey5251 I'll have to look into later when I'm not at work
I’ll bet most of the roof tiles on the pub were loose after this! RIP Phil - Amazing front man!
This is how music used to be! What a group they were
I saw them at the appollo in manchester 4 times , they were superb ! i felt sick when phil died
Frank Carson. Brilliant
A les Paul and a Yamaha sg, things are gonna sound great!!
John sykes my guitar hero number one he also a very nice guy meet him in gothenburg
My favorite song by Thin Lizzy. Amazing guitar solo
Only the greatest live band ever could pull that off !!
RIP Phil
How does John Sykes replicate that solo on every live recording of this song. Unreal.
The girl I was dating at the time , this was "our song" ......time flies. I saw them with Robbo in '77 as an opening act . Phenomenal .
Who did they open for?
@@tearitloosetearitloose4670 Queen
Please God, build me a time machine!
What a great gig. In the local pub. Super Group on a few square feet.
A what a party there thin lizzy with sykes!!! This a jewel 💎 an emerald 🤑👍🏻😀
Sykesy totally revitalized this band!!!! Wow!!!
@Eric mcgivern It's a shame he only did 1LP with them.
One of the most hard rocking clips, EVER!!!
From Lizzys best album
I just wish I was in the pub at the time, but alas I was born too young.
...and how refreshing to watch guys who are actually playing - NOT lip-syncing!
First time I ever heard this one. Lizzy kicked ass on that song!
The best Thin Lizzy ever!
One of the greatest guitar riffs ever. You can also really hear Darrens keyboards... :) Great song, I also want Thin Lizzy playing on my local pub...
he def can play.
Favorite Thin Lizzy song , John Sykes is one of the most underrated guitarists of all times IMO!!
Hé s back!!
Really???? Every guitar player or fan of the guitar knows John Sykes!!
@@ricobowen312 Not everyone , he also never gets mentioned when people are talking about greatest guitarist's. Who have you ever heard say he was an influence on them?
@@mikeg.9238 ok Mike, I guess your right…shit!
@@ricobowen312 Hey at least we know how badass he is✌🤘
Phil you were so cool.
SYKES and PHILL awesome duo
John Sykes is fucking awesome!
Great pubs, and greater pub bands.
Up front and personal in a pub. Would have loved to been there.
You and me both as it has been pointed out in many comments, instruments weren't actually being played but just to have been in your Rock god's presence would have been more than enough for me. 🤘👍🎶
The most incredible band on the most underrated most over the top TV program ever!!! We need more TV like this, good ol' CT on OTT.
Couldn't agree more. 👍
Do you remember the bloke that drank a yard of ale live then did an elephant impression?
@@rockerrob61 I don't recall that unfortunately, but I do remember there were a lot of bare breasts which always put a smile on Chris Tarant's face.
Aye thought it was OTT - i remember watching it after the pub.
Lemmy had a lot of time for Lynott...that's good enough for me.. R.I.P. Phil and Lemmy.
Man, I wish there had been just one more album after Thunder and Lightning with John Sykes. Thin Lizzy is so great as a metal band. It's such a shame that's the only one we got.
@Uncle Gilbert I can see it being frustrating to have it that way when the rest of their career was what we call classic rock. Maybe someone a bit less noodley would've suited the band better. I still think Lizzy was right to contribute to NWOBHM, but maybe it could've been more Motorhead and less Van Halen
Just more thin lizzy in general would of been cool. Scott was just as good and as far as this song goes john and his harmonics don't interest me though john can play, and scott never played like that.
@@grindfreakmike5754 yeah, I think it was just a given that 70's bands were aging badly by 1980. Whether that was true or not, I'm sure the record companies feared they were. There was surely some pressure to stay relevant, so picking up a hotshot like John Sykes was the solution. Nobody wanted be shown up by their newer opening band the way Sabbath was humiliated by Van Halen. Ozzy got Randy Rhoads, Dio got Vivian Campbell (which was a major downgrade for me because he's an F'ing lightweight). Today, these additions can seem disrespectful to the bands identity. And for the newcomer as well. John Sykes was used like that *twice* , once in Thin Lizzy and then in Whitesnake. His career was defined by it. Now barely anyone remembers Blue Murder. It's all about that Whitesnake album, and he was tossed away by the time it came out.
Thank you for sharing simply amazing still ❤️
What a great upload ! A treasure for all Thin Lizzy fans in the world.
01:49. I watched 1000 times.
Doesn't get much better than that 🤘
METAL & 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
One of my favorite bands, Thin Lizzy rocks !!
I hate FUCKING DRUGS! Cocaine and Heroin took this incredible musician (Phil Lynott) and rendered his body useless as his major organs were all destroyed and his heart finally gave out. I can only cherish his legacy these days. This is one of my favorite songs from this lineup and the Thunder and Lightning LP showcased John Sykes amazing guitar work. It would be nice to see John tour the States again.
A true Irish superstar.
Oh Shit we booked Thin Lizzy!
Awesome video. Sykes ripping on a Les Paul Custom and Scott Gorham playing rhythm on an Ibanez. Love it!
Amazing style John & Phil
I'd spend a whole month's wages to have seen this in person.
Me too!
Genius stuff!!!
R.I.P Phil Lynott
1983 year of my birth 😮
Can you imagine being there live what a rock and roll band ffs
Fantastic. Scott playing a Yammie SG here and nearly takes the head off that poor punter with the headstock :)) .
Midge Ure told a story about a Yamaha guitar that he had when taking over for Gary. Phil wouldn't let him use it on stage....didn't look the part. LOL. (They gave him a Les Paul Jr. to use.) I wonder if that's the same guitar.???
@@Rehtakul66 yeah me too man! Lol!
best lizzy song.
That was awesome enjoy the 80s
This kicks ass!
Whooooo what a piece of rock!!!
カッコ良い
ジョンは最高のギタリストだ！
Brilliant band
quel plaisir de voir Thin Lizzy..une pensée pour philip Lynott
This is fantastic. We had nothing like this in the States. Great t.v.
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL in the 70s? But yeah, I really wish more live footage had been shot of bands in the US
Where was this song whole my life!
What a treat for that pub.
They just got their heads blown off 🙂
Great
That's some serious fuzz tone
Great line up great band.
wish i could of been there to see them in person back then og line up. so good
My birthday present (13 years) was c-cassette of rock where was this and it was the best rock in that collection!!!
Best band I ever saw
Zajebioza !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These guys can hang out and wail on my living room anytime
Played this many times
Amazing!
It got in the Top 30 in the UK Charts in 1983 and should of been of Top of The Pops :(
Their greatest but most tragic period..Only 3 years later Phil would be gone. Phil was so shot out and spent by this period but he still tried to put on a good show for the fans.
What an amazing song and the guitar solo by John Sykes is just on another level on the original studio version, it's just unfortunate that in this live version Phil was forgetting the lyrics because at this time he was so high on drugs at the time and it's such a great shame that the drugs killed him in the end, I'm actually gutted that I never got to see ThinLizzy live because at the time of when they were going up on till Phil's death I was only a very young child, but my Dad in his prime got to see them live three times back in the 1970's and 1980's and he told me they were superb live which is why I am devastated that I never got to see them live cause at the time I was only a baby and a young child at the time, and then Phil passed away, but it never stopped me being a big fan even till this day now that I am 44 years of age, I'm just saddened that I never got to see them live before Phil passed away.
Have you actually watched the video? Phil is on top form, smiling, winking at the camera and sings the lyrics pretty much as they should be.
@@TheRocker04 Have you actually listened to the studio version?... clearly you haven't... Phil was on better form and wasn't getting the words in the chorus jumbled up and back to front like he was in this live version here
@@AngryVikingBiker - I actually have listened to the studio version many times and bought the original single back in the day. The point i was making was the fact that Phil didn't appear high on drugs during this performance. He seemed happy and relaxed. He may have muddled a few of the lyrics here and there but that's not an uncommon trait with vocalists. Doesn't mean he was off his head on drugs. Anyway, at the end of the day we're both fans of Phil and the wonderful music legacy he left behind.
@@TheRocker04 Some people always think musicians are on drugs because they've probably never taken any themselves and don't know the signs. I agree that Phil seemed in top form here. Great version and great footage.
Yea he keeps saying cold stone 😂
just amazing
Thunder and lightning .... a game changing album
What a tune 😎
Absolutely awesome
A slice in time.
Rest easy, Philo.