Thin Lizzy; In conversation with Brian Downey, Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson

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  • @charliecoutts3003
    @charliecoutts3003 3 місяці тому +77

    Three of most underrated musicians in hard rock history. Thin Lizzy live were untouchable, my first gig seeing a 'big band' or any band probably. I was 15 and it was Hammersmith Odeon over 45 years ago! Seen hundreds of bands since then, many who were more famous and successful but no-one could top Lizzy. The bond between the late, great Phil Lynott and the audience was on a different level to any other act. People who bore on about overdubs on "Live And Dangerous" clearly never saw the band in their mid to late '70's pomp.....f*cking untouchable!!❤

    • @grantrobinson5457
      @grantrobinson5457 3 місяці тому +2

      If that was one of the gigs with Gary Moore and Scott I might have been there too at the same age. Glorious night. I touched Gary’s foot. It did spoil me a bit for live music, though.

    • @richardpaul7294
      @richardpaul7294 3 місяці тому +3

      Couldn’t agree more. It’s a travesty that they’re not in the RRHOF.

    • @jamesbradshaw3389
      @jamesbradshaw3389 3 місяці тому +3

      Every single words you said is true, My 6 brothers and I followed Thin Lizzy from the start up to the ends and I can confirm that Thin Lizzy & Rory Gallagher were the best bands in the world of brilliant rocking music

    • @jamesgorton2146
      @jamesgorton2146 3 місяці тому +3

      Just reading what you were saying Charlie.
      It was my first gig too except that I was 11 years old, still at Primary School and my elder brother who was a Rock nut took me to see them. We went to the Birmingham Odeon in Nov '77. My life changed there and then. My jaw dropped at how good that live performance was, as you said, untouchable
      It was so nice almost 45 years later telling Brian Downey at my local theatre with his band Alive and Dangerous what an incredible night that was. He gave me a signed drum skin afterwards which I didn't ask for by the way, he just forwarded it to me. Top drummer no doubt about it.

    • @AD65
      @AD65 2 місяці тому +1

      Knockout comment

  • @spitzerhall
    @spitzerhall Місяць тому +11

    „Live and dangerous“ is one of the best Liverecordings ever on this Planet!! Got this Album for over 40 Years and I m still in Love with it!!

    • @kris2k
      @kris2k 27 днів тому

      this & ufo

  • @AllenIsaacs-r9r
    @AllenIsaacs-r9r 2 місяці тому +7

    Brian Downey My #! most underrated drummer.... Why ? He did what he as supposed to do, like Charlie Watts, Even John Bonham, He did what he is supposed to do and expected to do. Long Live Brian, "Laid it down" as we say live or in the studio! Awesome drummer because he knew the role !!!! God Bless Brian..... from Japan BTW !

  • @RandyFricke
    @RandyFricke 2 місяці тому +7

    For whatever it's worth Robo I give "The Boys" credit. I've been playing for 60 years and I still jam your stuff quite regularly. As a guitar player you and Scott were next level.

  • @flashtheoriginal
    @flashtheoriginal 3 місяці тому +33

    Scott Goreham.... what a top geezer. Mr Cool

    • @kris2k
      @kris2k 27 днів тому +1

      right Gorham?

  • @bellslinki
    @bellslinki 3 місяці тому +14

    Live and dangerous is one of my favourite albums. I saw Thin Lizzy around 1983 at Carlisle Market Hall. Great Memories.

  • @Stewartchampion
    @Stewartchampion 3 місяці тому +27

    Lizzy had some great guitarist.....but take away Brian downy wouldn't sound the same...the guy had wicked skillz ..couldn't imagine a life with out lizzy ..been there my whole life

    • @dommccaffry3802
      @dommccaffry3802 Місяць тому

      Yeah. Downey was the unsung hero of lizzy.

  • @prajnachan333
    @prajnachan333 2 місяці тому +8

    This is great to see these guys years later and hear about everything. My mate and I loved "Tin" Lizzy. Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, UFO 🛸, Montrose, Robin Trower, Humble Pie, Led Zeppelin. Etc.

  • @Southbound63
    @Southbound63 3 місяці тому +22

    They were such a great live band.

  • @kdcyp
    @kdcyp 2 місяці тому +3

    From age 14 in the 70’s I learned guitar and spent a whole night (a school night too) learning both lead breaks in Still in Love and later played it in many clubs and pubs around the Wirral near Liverpool and today I’m still in love with the song and the band. Saw them in Manchester and they seriously rocked! Thanks guys for the great times and memories and RIP Phil.

  • @kennywaynebearhead
    @kennywaynebearhead 3 місяці тому +12

    I’ve seen dozens of interviews with the guys in Lizzy and hearing each of them speak of the band’s history and legacy is undeniably interesting. They are always in agreement about how things went down - especially musically - and they’re not bitter about it.

  • @mrshelfsong
    @mrshelfsong 2 місяці тому +6

    Kudos to the creator of this video. Very well edited

  • @chrismoyse3529
    @chrismoyse3529 2 місяці тому +6

    Saw Thin Lizzy in 77 79 80 81 83. Not many better. Superb band.
    Brian Downey is a drumming god.

  • @guymangotree2185
    @guymangotree2185 2 місяці тому +29

    I don't understand it when people call Thin Lizzy 'Underrated'_ When I grew up in the 70's & 80's Everyone I knew besides my Grandparents thought Thin Lizzy was Kick Ass, and when I started playing guitar & bass all of the guys I jammed with - Ever - Hailed Thin Lizzy as one of the All Time Greats_ In school conversations about the top Drummers.....Brian Downey was always mentioned as one of the best, and all those Guitarists.....Bell, Gorham, Robertson, White, Moore, & Sykes - Everyone ranked them high_ I guess in today's world where Rock is Dead the young people don't revere them, but if you Rocked in the 70's & 80's then you DID revere Thin Lizzy

    • @lunchenstein
      @lunchenstein 2 місяці тому +3

      Yes I get so tired of hearing how "underrated" all these million selling album artists are. Its got to be one of the most nothing comments made, particularly on music videos.

    • @plane_guy6051
      @plane_guy6051 2 місяці тому

      Yep, people on UA-cam are ALWAYS saying that so-and-so is/was so underrated when the person/band/team etc were HUGE at the time. A friend of mine actually read somewhere, and this was some music blog or something like that, and the guy said that QUEEN wasn't popular in the 1970's! HA! Queen was all over the bloody radio all the time! I think a lot of these people who say someone was underrated, probably weren't even alive back in the day, and maybe they feel like they've 'discovered' some long-lost band that nobody knew about. If so then it's pretty hilarious really.

    • @johnroberthines7811
      @johnroberthines7811 2 місяці тому +2

      Lizzy were most definitely not underated, I was lucky to see them the 70s awsome gig, Gary Moore was with them at the time. It really baffles me when I see people saying they were underated and makes me wonder if they were around at the time or are true fans or not.

    • @Ukmongoose3
      @Ukmongoose3 2 місяці тому

      All well known talented musicians are underrated, there, I said it, so no one else has to.

    • @raybruce9522
      @raybruce9522 5 днів тому

      There is always in the comments someone saying so and so band is underrated.

  • @MulletJump
    @MulletJump 3 місяці тому +7

    Remember when this Album came out me and the mates played it everyday for about two years solid absolutely the best live Album ever in my opinion , it really was a good era in music and the world ,

  • @DonaldJenkins-cz6hi
    @DonaldJenkins-cz6hi 2 місяці тому +7

    What I take from this is the evolution of a band. I've been listening to Lizzy now for more than five decades, and I'm just now understanding how advanced this band was. Until Visconti, the band always came up short in the studio, they just couldn't get the feel and sound they wanted. No doubt they were a live band, and to this day, they blow away most groups of that era.
    My favorite will always be Bad Reputation, with L & D being the greatest live LP of all time.

  • @Elicid1965
    @Elicid1965 2 місяці тому +4

    Scott Gorham is probably one of the most under rated players ever. He’s my biggest influence by far! His playing style is so smooth yet precise, plus one of the coolest looking ‘guitar hero’dudes on stage of all time. Lucky to have met him briefly before a Black Star Riders show some time back & he couldn’t have been nicer. A true legendary musician, and gentleman. Also love Robo & Brian & Thin Lizzy! Live & Dangerous is the best double live hard rock album of all time.
    Thanks to whoever produced this video & posted it.

  • @johnnybsteelriff
    @johnnybsteelriff 3 місяці тому +9

    Very nice down to earth guys who gave us some great music!!!

  • @batphink2655
    @batphink2655 24 дні тому +1

    Thanks much for posting this interview it is awesome since Lizzy have been my fave band since 1976 ,yes I'm old lol.
    Brian Downey is far too humble the is an fantastic drummer!

  • @paulself8698
    @paulself8698 3 місяці тому +10

    The way that the four of them (Phil, the two Brians and Scott) got together was defo 'happenstance', it was fate!

  • @GregoryWorth-m6l
    @GregoryWorth-m6l 3 місяці тому +5

    This group IMO was so so underrated as was the talent of the four musician songwriters who made up Thin Lizzy. The way you know that these men truly were a band that gelled with each other on and off the stage were in this interview they were all so complimentary of each other with no cheap shots taken at one another. The one liner in this interview that cracked me up was Scott saying "Man I'm glad I did not take up drums" lol. If there was one shortcoming in the group it seems that these three musicians did not the credit the or money they deserved for their contributions to the songs.

  • @adams7405
    @adams7405 2 місяці тому +5

    Saw them in 1977 on the 'Queen Lizzie' tour in the states and made Queen work hard to conquer those USA audiences in 1977..2 great live acts

  • @markweatherly6782
    @markweatherly6782 2 місяці тому +3

    The thing that really appealed to me about Thin Lizzy was the mix of hard driving rock, soulful bluezy ballads, and Phil Lynott’s amazing lyrics that included references to Irish mythology and cowboys in Texas. My mom is from England and my dad is from Texhoma, Oklahoma, so the music somehow suits my DNA just right.

  • @barbaraanneneale3674
    @barbaraanneneale3674 2 місяці тому +9

    Oh, please. The cowboy song is my favorite.

  • @charles-mr4oz
    @charles-mr4oz 3 місяці тому +4

    Great to hear this. Lizzy were the first band I saw . It was Oxford Apollo on the Chinatown tour so I never saw Brian Robertson but I was completely blown away. I only went because all my mates were going to gigs. I didn't know who they were. They started my love of rock music

  • @ericbrooks8573
    @ericbrooks8573 3 місяці тому +4

    Said this a million times before, if not for Lizzy(these 4 guys), I never would have picked up a guitar....still pickin'

  • @arleneyackamovich7831
    @arleneyackamovich7831 18 днів тому

    I never had the pleasure to meet philip, or downey, bell, robertson, & the rest, but, l did meet scott at the staircase lounge, very humble guy, l had 5 to many just to meet one of the member's l was on cloud 9, scott sighned 2 picture's & asked where i got them, l said wildside imports, l first started to listen to live & dangerous on 8 track / still have it l was 12 yrs old, and never looked back, wish l could have met them all, now at 53 love the b sides & rare track's a band that came out of nowhere & shot to fame, all there music is timeless / oh ya it was 2000 l met scott, keep going strong, l enjoy the interview's ❤ joe jr

  • @rolandmengedoth2191
    @rolandmengedoth2191 17 днів тому

    T Lizzy live was an enlightenment ! Unbelievable powerfull and really good. Not comparable to their studiowork.

  • @keenanX1
    @keenanX1 3 місяці тому +3

    Loaded with talent, but Brian Downey is an exceptional drummer! I love all of the outtake tapes that are on the interweb. Because his drums are usually up in the mix.

  • @hkpr-ro6ui
    @hkpr-ro6ui 3 місяці тому +7

    "We were in the asshole of somewhere in the mid-West..." 😂

  • @willieherd6754
    @willieherd6754 2 місяці тому +2

    Went to see Thin Lizzy in I think'76/77 at the Leith town hall in Edinburgh, probably the one and only time there was a concert there. There were three bands playing and I'm sure one of the other bands was Skid Row. I lived only about a mile away up Ferry Road and the good thing was you could leave the venue after each act mainly because there was a couple of pubs next door. Will never forget.

  • @arnebetzen2911
    @arnebetzen2911 3 місяці тому +4

    My heroes❤

  • @seabud6408
    @seabud6408 3 місяці тому +6

    Frampton comes alive was the biggest selling live album in the mid 70’s. Made in Japan by Deep Purple had already shown how good a live album could be and the spirit of Live and Dangerous was really closer to Made in Japan.
    Both great live bands and of course Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Paice tried to form a band with Phil .. Baby Face .. but it didn’t get past rehearsals. We will never know what it might have become.

    • @PedrSion
      @PedrSion 3 місяці тому

      Apparently, some of the Baby Face stuff was recorded but has never seen the light of day.

  • @alanlatimer1024
    @alanlatimer1024 2 місяці тому +2

    I swear Scott Gorham has always had great hair and is a great guitar player Rock on Scott

  • @smythharris2635
    @smythharris2635 2 місяці тому +6

    Eric Bell has a mural dedicated to him in Belfast unveiled a few weeks ago.

    • @samplecode
      @samplecode 2 місяці тому

      Brilliant didn’t know that

    • @smythharris2635
      @smythharris2635 2 місяці тому

      ​@@samplecodeAppaerntly Eric was totally unaware and they all retired to the local church hall for tea, coffee, sandwiches and cake😅

  • @TheThejatsman
    @TheThejatsman 3 місяці тому +9

    Cheers man, good watch. I played this album to death

  • @GazHogan
    @GazHogan 3 місяці тому +3

    I still have my original VINYL copy and to this day it's still one of my all time favourite albums and I still play it regularly.RIP Phil x

  • @BasVossen
    @BasVossen 3 місяці тому +4

    one of the albums that turned me into music

  • @fasthracing
    @fasthracing 2 місяці тому +2

    Superb album.

  • @Dd13200
    @Dd13200 3 місяці тому +1

    My favorite UA-cam channel by far

  • @juliafox7904
    @juliafox7904 2 місяці тому +1

    Always loved Thin Lizzy- got the single, preferred the B side Emerald it’s a great tune, then the albums - sound great to this day.

  • @prajnachan333
    @prajnachan333 2 місяці тому +1

    Its so funny to hear about Phil and Brian the drummer being left on stage at a gig. So he decided that would never happen again - two guitarists solves that!
    Then their two guitar harmonies became such a great part of their sound.

  • @jockekilenstam6959
    @jockekilenstam6959 Місяць тому

    Amazing🎉. Scott is such a funny bloke. All these musicians are heroes. Skilled like hell. ❤

  • @dommccaffry3802
    @dommccaffry3802 Місяць тому

    The robbo scott era , and the run of albums from nightlife to live and dangerous were the real magic iineup, and if that lineup would have become huge , then who knows ? I was so lucky to see them on the nightlife tour ( roundhouse) and also on the fighting and jailbreak tours. I feel fortunate to have seen them at that point. They were so great live.

  • @rc6981
    @rc6981 3 місяці тому +3

    Wow what a great band man.👍⚡

  • @TheDomRyder
    @TheDomRyder 2 місяці тому +2

    Funnily enough , I don’t really mind that they are not as big in people’s mind as AC/DC and the rest … Because I know that everyone who saw them knows how amazing they were and it’s like a big secret we share with thousands but not millions and that makes them even more special to me … might sound stupid but that’s how I feel … we know , they don’t …

  • @hatusage
    @hatusage Місяць тому

    Brian.. Your gutar part in 'Still in Love With You' is the greatest of all time.

  • @tonypridden3604
    @tonypridden3604 Місяць тому

    Great vibes from great people love ir

  • @OutRAjious
    @OutRAjious 3 місяці тому +3

    when Phil died the others should have inherited the music writing credits and royalties

  • @AndrzejFornal-b6h
    @AndrzejFornal-b6h 2 місяці тому

    W polskim radio w latach siedemdziesiątych były puszczane całe płyty: Johnny the Fox,Bad Reputation,Black Rose,Chonatown! Mam je dzisiaj wszystkie na winylu.

  • @richardpaul7294
    @richardpaul7294 3 місяці тому +3

    You lucky bastard!

  • @AmericasChoice
    @AmericasChoice 19 днів тому

    THE lineup

  • @alienjazzmonkey
    @alienjazzmonkey 2 місяці тому +2

    Great to hear the guys reflecting on their work. Am I alone in being unsettled by the cutaway monochrome shots of a crotch here, some hands there...?

    • @zzyy666
      @zzyy666 Місяць тому

      hahahahahahhahaha me too?? What's with the close-up???

  • @Paolo-ie7nh
    @Paolo-ie7nh 28 днів тому

    13:35 Exactly
    That’s also called respect. If you can have that kind of relationship with someone. That’s a real
    friend…..I believe.

  • @xyzpharaoh123
    @xyzpharaoh123 Місяць тому

    I saw Robbo in Dalymount in Motörhead I supported Downey in Slatts I spent an afternoon in the company of Brush Sheilds and I saw Scott and Phil in lizzy many times and don’t forget Gary Moore on Black Rose and Snowy on China Town and the two last lizzy gigs in the Olympia and Tommy Aldrich was on drums for them last two gigs Thin Lizzy were one of the greatest rock bands ever,,Eric Bell whiskey in Jaro

  • @OutRAjious
    @OutRAjious 3 місяці тому +3

    shame they should have been more equitable about the credits and royalties

  • @Easyfinger
    @Easyfinger 2 місяці тому +1

    Eric Bell left the Band in the middle of the set, Phil and Brain had to finish. Scott G: "Probably the first Drum'n' Bass thing that ever went down." Lol

  • @indoorsolutions7154
    @indoorsolutions7154 2 місяці тому

    i totally thought the guy in the grey wife beater was a SNL skit......LOL

  • @richardpaul7294
    @richardpaul7294 3 місяці тому +2

    One of few regrets I have in life was not seeing them. Johnny The Fox is probably my fav album. And Still In Love With You off of the Live & Dangerous album is one of the greatest songs ever. Period end of story

    • @paulself8698
      @paulself8698 3 місяці тому +1

      I was lucky enough to see them 5 times, Richard, including the Hammy Odeon gig when mosy of 'Live & Dangerous' was recorded - great times!

    • @BassBinBert
      @BassBinBert 2 місяці тому +1

      Me too!! One of life’s regrets not seeing Lizzy. I saw Phil with his band Grand Slam who were great and Brian with Motörhead but I would have loved to have seen Thin Lizzy.

  • @JohnWatson-u4h
    @JohnWatson-u4h Місяць тому

    seen thin lizzy in most line ups only one i never saw was with eric bell but saw mige ure snowy white brian robinson gary more absoulte fantastic rock band saw them at my local back in the day the dog on the hadley road before they went on to ott in brum

  • @tonybaker7484
    @tonybaker7484 3 місяці тому +3

    What horrendous camera work - a real insult to those talking.

    • @NicolaiAwesome
      @NicolaiAwesome 3 місяці тому

      I suspect this has been ripped off of another production and the “weird” camera work is down to either attempting to circumvent copyright and/or a ratio problem going from a much larger file format to YT.
      I’m guessing. Take it for what you will.
      Edit: spelling

  • @stevenholquin2127
    @stevenholquin2127 2 місяці тому

    The Pride of
    Glendale High School
    I Remember Reading The
    Local Newspaper and
    There was a Article on
    Scott
    The Pride of
    Glendale High School
    Joins Thin Lizzy

  • @tomandaj1
    @tomandaj1 2 місяці тому

    They never mentioned the Cowboy Song. One of their best

  • @kris2k
    @kris2k 27 днів тому

    diamonds and gold

  • @paullucas9758
    @paullucas9758 2 місяці тому

    saw lizzy live in the mid sevntys with saxson as surport in bradford .

  • @fasthracing
    @fasthracing 2 місяці тому +2

    Scott is achingly cool.

  • @friguy4444
    @friguy4444 Місяць тому

    15:53 I find it VERY interesting that one member says Phil didn't WANT it to be only him writing the songs and even encouraged them to get involved with the writing of the music and lyrics. Then the other says he was "Kind of" taken for granted "I just wanted to play music and get wrecked" while also saying he didn't know that royalties were given to the writer of the songs and that they were almost all Lynott credits. Then proceeds to say he was involved in the arranging. I believe him that he did some of the arranging to a degree but there's not royalties for arranging unless you're doing a movie score or something like that from what I know. But I think one of them is talking out of a bitterness that He didn't get involved in the writing end as much so he didn't and to this day still doesn't get the same type or amount of royalties those that did are getting or got. As well the arranging is oten taken care of in the writing process for the most part. You of course change how long a piece might run like the guitar solo or the Bridge part might be better if repeated and brought from a gentle point of an octave lower then the third time around bring it to a fever pitch and an Octave higher or something like that. But it's not "Writing the song". Or Lyrics.

  • @johnhagan582
    @johnhagan582 3 місяці тому +1

    So there was a English band called Skid Row also ? Wow never knew that .

    • @smythharris2635
      @smythharris2635 2 місяці тому +2

      Yep, Gary Moore Brush Sheils, Noel Bridgeman made 2 albums, Skid and 34 Hours 1970-1971.

    • @niallbourke7963
      @niallbourke7963 2 місяці тому +2

      The Skid Row referred to were an Irish band.

  • @jameshowe7924
    @jameshowe7924 3 місяці тому +1

    Drugs and alcohol and ?? Killed them sorry to say 1 of my favorite bands 😊

  • @Irish780
    @Irish780 Місяць тому

    Phil lynott conor mcgregour both from Crumlin

  • @johnhagan582
    @johnhagan582 3 місяці тому +1

    Is that Brian Robinson (second guy) speaking on joining lizzy ? Omg he doesn't look old enough now to have been from those days .seriously he looks like he is in his 30s now .anyone else notice this ? Lad most definitely found the fountain of youth huh ?

    • @johnhagan582
      @johnhagan582 3 місяці тому

      Unless that was him in a interview years back

    • @derot01
      @derot01 Місяць тому +2

      ⁠it’s quite a fey years since this was recorded. Robby was the youngest in the band. He was only seventeen when he joined.

  • @CaptainCraigKWMRZ
    @CaptainCraigKWMRZ 3 місяці тому +1

    Great documentary!
    Learned alot.
    Your editor has a strange passion for close up crotch shots. 😕.

  • @darthslater6077
    @darthslater6077 2 місяці тому

    ERIC BELL WAS THE BERNIE LEDEN OF THIN LIZZIE THOSE GUYS ARE SIMILAR TO ME HAHAHA

  • @MrPnew1
    @MrPnew1 3 місяці тому +4

    What is with all the crutch shots???? It's a bit gay TBH

    • @TristanSmart
      @TristanSmart 3 місяці тому +1

      Now you mention it, I can't unsee it. Crotch zooms are bizarre. Haha.

    • @lonewolf1053
      @lonewolf1053 3 місяці тому +3

      Yep... pretty annoying..thank goodness the interview is good....

    • @chrisquinn9104
      @chrisquinn9104 3 місяці тому

      Bring it!

  • @sammysouth8372
    @sammysouth8372 2 місяці тому

    Underrated: the loser’s favorite word 😂😂😂😂

  • @misterghee1
    @misterghee1 2 місяці тому

    Lizzy on shrooms perfect combination

    • @misterghee1
      @misterghee1 2 місяці тому

      always sjitty when not all have equal payday greatest double guitars and rythm goingggggg

  • @dogpaw775
    @dogpaw775 3 місяці тому

    interesting but too many close ups of jewellery, crotches and bad teeth, distracting from the time line.

  • @DogDaze66
    @DogDaze66 2 місяці тому

    Gary Moore was great , he is not..

  • @JW-zs1pz
    @JW-zs1pz Місяць тому

    Thin Lizzy was awesome. Phil could sing, write and play a mean bass. The two guitar players Scott and Brian were great together. Brian Downey was a great swing drummer who was a great back bone rhythm section with Phil.
    The LiveAlbum is actually one of thd best ever made. Thin Lizzy rocks period!!