Phil Lynott: "When I'm in England, I say, I'm from Ireland. When I'm in Ireland, I say, I'm from Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say, I'm from Crumlin. When I'm in Crumlin, I say, Leighlin Road. When I'm in Leighlin Road, I say... I'm a Lynott."
I am not sure about greatest Irish band but could agree with possibly greatest Irish Rock Band. I mean there are the Dubliners, the Pogues, the Cranberries so many great Irish folk, punk, and other bands but I do agree that I do not think of U2 when I think of great Irish bands.
I knew Phil in the later stages of his career. He was such a sweet guy. After his wife (Caroline Crowther) left him, taking his two girls, he was devastated. The drug pushers and hangers on swooped in to take advantage of his mental state. He was sad and lonely. He used to call me up at work, using daft names so I knew it was him!) and I would get the bus round to his house in Kew. We'd drink tea and talk til I had to go back to work. Once he came to my house in the middle of the night because he was on his own and needed someone who cared to talk to. He cuddled up and slept on my sofa, In the morning I had to go to work, so he came on the bus with me (the bus passed his house). He thought it was a hoot as all the kids going to school recognised him. He laughed all the way home. Unfortunately I had to let our friendship slide as the pushers got their hooks really into him and he was a mess. I couldn't help him and couldn't bear to see his decline. That was a very sad time. His 'lifestyle' finally got the better of him and he died far too young.
Wow.. what a great thing that you knew him... I was entranced and amazed when I saw him in concert... I almost forgot my crush on Brian May (they were opening for Queen)... what an amazing talent, and engaging performer!
…Thanks for the suggestion: My 3 favorites Thin Lizzy songs I just learned about recently are: -Little Girl in Bloom -Vagabond of the Western World -A Ride in My Thin Lizzy Mobile
Have just bought a copy of Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds on cd, the original. Was surprised to hear Phil Lynotts voice on the recording. Hadn't bothered to look up the cast, but David Essex and Phil Lynott make it Stellar.😎😎😎
I’m so surprised you didn’t know the lead singer was mixed! You use a part of their song for your intro, I thought for sure you knew the band! 🤣 They’re really fucking good ❤
Rip Phil. Loved you, man!❤ Can't believe you didn't know the band or info of your theme tune, BP.!!! That's a whole new rabbit hole to go down there.!! Big respect as always from the UK 🇬🇧 bro,and brother Dom, as always, you're a star 🌟
It was just the anniversary of Phil Lynott's death a couple days ago. RIP he was a total legend. There are some more great Thin Lizzy tunes if you fancy going deeper. I absolutely adore Dancing in the Moonlight (not to be confused with the King Harvest song of the same name) and Cowboy Song, but there are many many others.
Like the beer Guinness, he is half black half white full Irish. This might be a quote of his in response to a racist comment, or just and urban legend.
I saw a Billy Connelly travel documentary on TV several years ago where he toured Ireland. He visited Phil’s grave with his mother and told her an anecdote about her son, whom he’d been good friends with: Someone asked Phil what it was like to be black and Irish, to which he replied “like a pint of Guinness’.
This will be played at my funeral. Over the years. I've lost all my rat pack. We were closer than blood brothers. I'm the last one left. Hope to see them on the other side.
Fun fact: There was a popular household name and TV personality in the UK back in the 70's and 80's called Leslie Crowther. Phil Lynott married his daughter and they had two children. They got divorced and from what I remember he declined and became dependent on drugs RIP Phil Lynott
Long over due boys! Thin Lizzy were a special band, so much energy, a string of hits. Phil Lynott RIP, taken way too early. Rare to have a bassist frontman, my word he fulfilled that role. I've seen many bands live but always just missed these boys, my brother saw them, lucky b*stard!
My mum saw em, I was so jealous that I spread a rumour around our workplace that mum had gone in leather trousers and a boob tube (I wasn't blessed with the boobs 😂) and that she crowd surfed at a gig. Everyone believed it and I'm a rubbish liar 😂 funniest rumour I've ever spread 😂😂
From their wiki page since I couldn't remember the details of how they got their name..."The name came from a robot character in The Dandy called Tin Lizzie, which they adjusted to Thin Lizzy as a playful reference to the local Dublin accent, in which "thin" would be pronounced as "t'in"." Phil was an amazing talent. I believe he was the first black man to lead an Irish band. They were the music of my childhood. So good! 💜
I would say most Americans don't know what "the Dandy" is/was. Explaining it was the magazine that Denis the Menace was a character in is a reference my generation would know.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 But there was the English Dennis the menace, and the American Dennis the menace, who appeared in totally different comics. Weirdly enough, the two Dennises were completely independent inventions but first appeared in the same week!
@@pobsdad As far as I know the American version was a spin off from the UK mag. In fact this is the first time even hearing a suggestion that they were not related in it's origin.
Ja dann muss ich wohl auch etwas schreiben. Thin Lizzy hat mich mein gesamtes Leben begleitet. Habe mich immer gefragt, Ihr habt > the boys are back in town > in der Einleitung und habt diese unfassbare gute Gruppe / Artist nicht in eurer Videoreihe / Reactions ? Bin jetzt echt gespannt was noch folgt. Grüße aus Deutschland / Germany
Had the pleasure of meeting Phil Lynott back in the 1970's in Toronto just walking on Yorkville St. He was surprised my friend and I, both 14 years old, had recognized him. Brazilian father and an Irish mother.
He's Irish. Full stop. He's green. He was actually born in Staffordshire, England. He died at age 36. His skin colour came from his dad but he's born and raised in Britain and Ireland.
This lad is from the same country as cranberries, U2, van Morrison, and loads more 😊
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Finally, my youth heroes and idols. Phil Lynott was born and raised by his Irish mother. His father was from Brithish Guyana but was not around. The band formed in Dublin early 70s. I managed to see them live in Sweden all years from 1980 and to the last show before Phils death. This was filmed in 1981.
Funny story. I grew up in the 60s/70s (female) in NJ & whenever summer rolled around, me & my girls would go to the jersey shore bars & the dudes would always play this song for US .. "the girls are back in town" Lolol fun times!! ☺️☮️💚
Phil was Irish. The band was Irish with revolving guitarists of different nationalities. My number one band as a teen. I saw them many times. "Live and Dangerous" is a superb live album. It's funny you mention colour. I had supported them for yeaqrs, then I read a review where the writer referred to Phil as black. Although I'd watched them, discussed them with mates etc.. I literally had to go and look at a picture. I'd never thought about it. And didn't after.
When reacting to thin lizzy, alway react to a live version. The songs are written for a live environment, and they just come alive that way. Thin lizzy's live and dangerous album is still ranked in most top 10 live album listings ever, over 40 years after its release. Emerald is the song to do next. Also, whisky in the jar, a rock version of a classic irish folk tune And jailbreak.
Thanks, BlackPeg! I saw TL open for Queen in 1977 (January) - my BFF and I were there for Queen, but I was totally entranced by Phil Lynott.. he was magnetic! and they were amazing.. so many people don't even know they are IRISH...(Phil.. mixed race? probably.. ) So many great songs... Cowboy song is a favorite...
I live in that town, West Bromwich, home of Robert Plant and half of Judas Priest and yes there is statue of him in the town centre, a guy from Ireland paid for it to be erected there
Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy was half-black (Mother was Irish, father was from Guyana)... Bob Marley was also half-black (Mother was Jamaican, father was British) ... There were a lot of Africans brought to South and Central America as slaves to work on plantations... they make up a lot of the populations of countries like Jamaica, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, etc.
I love Phil. The statue they erected for him in Dublin is high on my bucket list. There are a few good documentaries about his life. Basically, his mom is whiter than white and his dad is blacker than black. She took a bunch of crap for being with him and also for having a "dark" or "brown" baby in Ireland. There's a difference between being black and Irish and Black Irish. I was surprised to see that he got picked on and called the "N" word growing up. I thought that was a very American thing but apparently it existed in Ireland when young Phil was a kid. It is therorized that was part of the insecurity he had which was partly responsible for the heroin addiction that ultimately contributed to his death.
This song is about some local gangsters from here in Manchester England. My uncle was a drinking pal of one called jimmy, everyone knows who he is.. Lived in failsworth, they were neighbours. The boys were called the quality street gang. And are absolutely folklore in these parts. They were the 60s honest type gangster.. Help an old lady across the road, but you don't fuck with them, they would hold a grudge..
About bloody time😅 you should know what your "theme" is about, this is our (late 70's - 80s)swagger song. When asked what it was like to be black and Irish? "Like a pint of Guinness, Black with a white Head" This song: His mother used to run an underground drinking club called showbiz in Manchester UK and some of the regular members were the "Quality street Gang" a Manchester gangster mob. "DINOS" was a Manchester nightclub. This song references wnen some of the gang were released from a stretch in prison And going out on a payback session. 😮😅
Phil Lynott what a force of nature that man was. i met him several times when thin lizzy did gigs in Glasgow as him and the band would come into my local pub for a pre gig drink and then a post gig drinking session for you iformation Phil Lynott was black irish who hailed from ireland.
Mr Phil Lynott on bass /lead vocals has an Irish mama and a Caribbean dad. Thin Lizzy is basically from Dublin Ireland. Brian Downey drums , Scott Gorham on lead guitar and Snowy White on lead guitar, Irish guitarist Gary Moore was in the band twice
Check out The Cowboy Song from the Sydney Opera House if you want to see these guys playing to a massive outdoor crowd and see Phil's rock star mastery on full display.
Takes me right back to high school, we blasted the "Jailbreak" album every where we went. So sad we lost Phil so early. Honestly that album reminds me of hang gliding in northern Arizona, used to launch of the top off a cinder ash extinct volcano, while soaring above my buddy would turn up the stereo so I could hear it while flying above. Thanks for the memories, Lizzy rocks!
I would say that Phil Lynott was the original black heavy metal musician and singer-songwriter, but given that it was Chuck Berry who invented rock music, then metal was always a MOBO, and it was overdue for black guys to start reclaiming it like they have. Lynott was a pioneer of Metal, starting the band in the late '60s I think it was, as a folk-rock band, and building the career and the path for Irish musicians to cross over in the UK and thus the world at a time when Ireland was very much a cultural backwater, locked into traditional instruments and folk genres by Irish nationalism and government policies about fostering "Irishness", whatever that is or whatever any country's "ness" is supposed to be. Thin Lizzy was right there the whole while as rock developed into hard rock and psychedelic rock and then heavy rock and then heavy metal as such, pushing that development along from Thin Lizzy album to Thin Lizzy album, and he was the mastermind, as other band members came and went.
Hey BP, I don't know if you will see this, but I don't know a better place to post it. Steve Perry was a friend of Phil Lynott, and his song Any Way You Want It was inspired by him. They toured together a lot. Phil's death affected him deeply and added to his early burnout in the mid 80's. I thought that knowing two artists you admire were connected may interest you. He is also friends with Steve Ferrone, a mixed race Scot who was the drummer for The Average White Band, a Scottish funk band who's lead singer and guitarist, Hamish Stuart, would wear full kilts when performing. Check them out.
Summer of '76, after graduating high school and partying for a few weeks, a friend and I hitchhiked from Minnesota to Colorado Springs to party with another friend for a week, then hitchhiked back to western Minnesota. As we rolled into our small town in the back seat of the ride that brought us our last 30 miles or so, this song came on the radio and the driver cranked it up for us. Oh, yeah, we boys were back in town, it was Friday, and we had some wild stories to tell the ladies at the weekly barn dance that night! Great song and reaction, once again.
Been to Dublin to see Phil’s statue and seen Phil’s basses and his personal Jukebox at the Dublin Rock museum….its a must see if you Ever make it to Dublin!
if you're thinking of some kind of food, how about Sunday Dinner? each Sunday you could make a different dish with some appropriate music. just a thought.
This show was recorded around 1981, 6 years after the original. The guitar player on the left is Snowy White. He wasn't on the original recording. Guitarists on original were Scott Gorham( other player in the video), and Brian Robertson when he was in his late teens/ early 20s at the time. Snowy was good but Brian was better.
Phil was a mixed race rock star when such things were rare. He lived local to me & I remember as a child seeing his car when he came back from his wedding in Richmond Surrey. His music has sadly got stuck in the classic artist of the past slot when it should have been better known. He died young in 1986 from sepsis brought on by issues with drugs/drink. He deserved a better future.
Phil Lynott:
"When I'm in England, I say, I'm from Ireland.
When I'm in Ireland, I say, I'm from Dublin.
When I'm in Dublin, I say, I'm from Crumlin.
When I'm in Crumlin, I say, Leighlin Road.
When I'm in Leighlin Road, I say...
I'm a Lynott."
The Greatest Irish band ever ( yeah bono that's right), RIP Philo the last high king of Ireland
I am not sure about greatest Irish band but could agree with possibly greatest Irish Rock Band. I mean there are the Dubliners, the Pogues, the Cranberries so many great Irish folk, punk, and other bands but I do agree that I do not think of U2 when I think of great Irish bands.
@@tfodthogtmfof7644 Horselips as well. I never see anyone mentioning them.
I got over U2 long ago.
@@fionamb83 horselips were a different class, so good and underrated
Wolf tones after thin lizzy
I knew Phil in the later stages of his career. He was such a sweet guy. After his wife (Caroline Crowther) left him, taking his two girls, he was devastated. The drug pushers and hangers on swooped in to take advantage of his mental state. He was sad and lonely. He used to call me up at work, using daft names so I knew it was him!) and I would get the bus round to his house in Kew. We'd drink tea and talk til I had to go back to work. Once he came to my house in the middle of the night because he was on his own and needed someone who cared to talk to. He cuddled up and slept on my sofa, In the morning I had to go to work, so he came on the bus with me (the bus passed his house). He thought it was a hoot as all the kids going to school recognised him. He laughed all the way home. Unfortunately I had to let our friendship slide as the pushers got their hooks really into him and he was a mess. I couldn't help him and couldn't bear to see his decline. That was a very sad time. His 'lifestyle' finally got the better of him and he died far too young.
Wow this is incredible. He seems like a such an awesome guy but his soul was broken.
Wow.. what a great thing that you knew him... I was entranced and amazed when I saw him in concert... I almost forgot my crush on Brian May (they were opening for Queen)... what an amazing talent, and engaging performer!
Proud😂Black/Irish😂with vocals of an angel😢gone way too soon. RIP Phil.❤
Phil Lynott.. the mudda fuxin coolest Irish man that has ever lived, beyond doubt.
I leave a flower at his statue every time I am in Dublin!
Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Out in the fields
I love that song!
…Thanks for the suggestion:
My 3 favorites Thin Lizzy songs I just learned about recently are:
-Little Girl in Bloom
-Vagabond of the Western World
-A Ride in My Thin Lizzy Mobile
Also Parisian Walkways
Have just bought a copy of Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds on cd, the original. Was surprised to hear Phil Lynotts voice on the recording. Hadn't bothered to look up the cast, but David Essex and Phil Lynott make it Stellar.😎😎😎
A Must: Living Color - Cult of Personality
A surprise and hard-core history lesson
Great suggestion!
I’m so surprised you didn’t know the lead singer was mixed! You use a part of their song for your intro, I thought for sure you knew the band! 🤣 They’re really fucking good ❤
Yeah he's mixed with heart And soul .
@@turkeeg7644 in the exact perfect amounts too! Their classics are timeless ♥️
Rip Phil. Loved you, man!❤
Can't believe you didn't know the band or info of your theme tune, BP.!!!
That's a whole new rabbit hole to go down there.!!
Big respect as always from the UK 🇬🇧 bro,and brother Dom, as always, you're a star 🌟
PHYL'S LEVELS OF TALENT AND HOTNESS... OFF THE CHARTS! ALONG WITH SCOTT'S!!!!
It was just the anniversary of Phil Lynott's death a couple days ago. RIP he was a total legend. There are some more great Thin Lizzy tunes if you fancy going deeper. I absolutely adore Dancing in the Moonlight (not to be confused with the King Harvest song of the same name) and Cowboy Song, but there are many many others.
Cowboy Song is my favorite!!❤
Like the beer Guinness, he is half black half white full Irish.
This might be a quote of his in response to a racist comment, or just and urban legend.
I saw a Billy Connelly travel documentary on TV several years ago where he toured Ireland. He visited Phil’s grave with his mother and told her an anecdote about her son, whom he’d been good friends with: Someone asked Phil what it was like to be black and Irish, to which he replied “like a pint of Guinness’.
He to a interviewer who call him british: "Irish! Republic of Ireland!"
This will be played at my funeral. Over the years. I've lost all my rat pack. We were closer than blood brothers. I'm the last one left. Hope to see them on the other side.
Fun fact: There was a popular household name and TV personality in the UK back in the 70's and 80's called Leslie Crowther. Phil Lynott married his daughter and they had two children. They got divorced and from what I remember he declined and became dependent on drugs
RIP Phil Lynott
I saw Thin Lizzy at my first rock concert in Houston in 1977. I was 16 y/o. They opened for Queen!
I'm so green! Would've LOVED to have seen all the great bands!
Long over due boys! Thin Lizzy were a special band, so much energy, a string of hits. Phil Lynott RIP, taken way too early. Rare to have a bassist frontman, my word he fulfilled that role. I've seen many bands live but always just missed these boys, my brother saw them, lucky b*stard!
My mum saw em, I was so jealous that I spread a rumour around our workplace that mum had gone in leather trousers and a boob tube (I wasn't blessed with the boobs 😂) and that she crowd surfed at a gig. Everyone believed it and I'm a rubbish liar 😂 funniest rumour I've ever spread 😂😂
@@nancymoore9952 Brilliant! I've seen Limehouse Lizzy a couple of times, one of the best tribute bands out there.
@@patcow9999 🥰 gotta love the tribute bands 😃 🥰
From their wiki page since I couldn't remember the details of how they got their name..."The name came from a robot character in The Dandy called Tin Lizzie, which they adjusted to Thin Lizzy as a playful reference to the local Dublin accent, in which "thin" would be pronounced as "t'in"."
Phil was an amazing talent. I believe he was the first black man to lead an Irish band. They were the music of my childhood. So good! 💜
I would say most Americans don't know what "the Dandy" is/was. Explaining it was the magazine that Denis the Menace was a character in is a reference my generation would know.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 But there was the English Dennis the menace, and the American Dennis the menace, who appeared in totally different comics. Weirdly enough, the two Dennises were completely independent inventions but first appeared in the same week!
@@pobsdad As far as I know the American version was a spin off from the UK mag. In fact this is the first time even hearing a suggestion that they were not related in it's origin.
But, the term “Tin Lizzie” used in the comics is a play on words originally used as a nickname for old automobiles.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 something I read somewhere. Never had any reason to check it out for accuracy.
Ja dann muss ich wohl auch etwas schreiben. Thin Lizzy hat mich mein gesamtes Leben begleitet. Habe mich immer gefragt, Ihr habt > the boys are back in town > in der Einleitung und habt diese unfassbare gute Gruppe / Artist nicht in eurer Videoreihe / Reactions ? Bin jetzt echt gespannt was noch folgt. Grüße aus Deutschland / Germany
This footage was from a concert in Germany in 1981. More here, with 'Cowboy Song': ua-cam.com/video/l_luDGhz-Mk/v-deo.htmlsi=cGjx076YtTeL6zbV
Phil compared himself to a pint of Guinness - tall, black, and Irish
His surname is pronounced "Lie not"
I thought that was Trevor M... er, not Irish 😝
that is NOT how his name is pronounced, these lads here pronounced it right.
Legend passed away 38 years ago on 4th January 🙁
I don't know exactly when this concert was, but the blond guitarist, Snowy White, was only a member from 1980 to 1982.
Had the pleasure of meeting Phil Lynott back in the 1970's in Toronto just walking on Yorkville St.
He was surprised my friend and I, both 14 years old, had recognized him.
Brazilian father and an Irish mother.
Was Huey Lewis in Thin Lizzy?
Under the name "Bluesy Huey Lewis", Lewis played harmonica on Thin Lizzy's 1978 landmark album Live and Dangerous.
Their version of " Wisky in the jar" is also remarkeble...like your comments verry nice.
He's Irish. Full stop. He's green. He was actually born in Staffordshire, England. He died at age 36. His skin colour came from his dad but he's born and raised in Britain and Ireland.
The creole come from that area. But African was his father’s true origin..he was like a pint of Guinness
This lad is from the same country as cranberries, U2, van Morrison, and loads more 😊
Finally, my youth heroes and idols. Phil Lynott was born and raised by his Irish mother. His father was from Brithish Guyana but was not around. The band formed in Dublin early 70s. I managed to see them live in Sweden all years from 1980 and to the last show before Phils death.
This was filmed in 1981.
Great Irish band❤
Phil's father was from British Guyana in the Caribbean,
Funny story. I grew up in the 60s/70s (female) in NJ & whenever summer rolled around, me & my girls would go to the jersey shore bars & the dudes would always play this song for US .. "the girls are back in town" Lolol fun times!! ☺️☮️💚
Whiskey in a jar
Jailbreak
Two great songs to check out
This song was also featured in A Knight's Tale. Have you heard Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak?
My brother rob was born in 64 this was his and his friends unofficial theme song
Thin Lizzy was one of the first bands I ever saw in concert. When they opened for Queen in the 70s at the Forum in Inglewood CA. They were amazing.
I saw them open for Queen in 1977 at the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, TX. My first concert at 16 y/o!!
No way, me too 1977 or 1978 at the Forum, I forgot, I was a freshman in high school🤘
@@user-tl4yt9ti6h so was I LMAO
Phil was Irish. The band was Irish with revolving guitarists of different nationalities. My number one band as a teen. I saw them many times. "Live and Dangerous" is a superb live album. It's funny you mention colour. I had supported them for yeaqrs, then I read a review where the writer referred to Phil as black. Although I'd watched them, discussed them with mates etc.. I literally had to go and look at a picture. I'd never thought about it. And didn't after.
Cold Sweat from Thin Lizzy and live..........😉
When reacting to thin lizzy, alway react to a live version. The songs are written for a live environment, and they just come alive that way.
Thin lizzy's live and dangerous album is still ranked in most top 10 live album listings ever, over 40 years after its release.
Emerald is the song to do next.
Also, whisky in the jar, a rock version of a classic irish folk tune
And jailbreak.
Phil Lynott, was Irish, but his father was from Guiana.
Thanks, BlackPeg! I saw TL open for Queen in 1977 (January) - my BFF and I were there for Queen, but I was totally entranced by Phil Lynott.. he was magnetic! and they were amazing.. so many people don't even know they are IRISH...(Phil.. mixed race? probably.. ) So many great songs... Cowboy song is a favorite...
A car called a tin Lizzy is what I always heard their named for
theres a statue of Phil in his home town
I live in that town, West Bromwich, home of Robert Plant and half of Judas Priest and yes there is statue of him in the town centre, a guy from Ireland paid for it to be erected there
Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy was half-black (Mother was Irish, father was from Guyana)... Bob Marley was also half-black (Mother was Jamaican, father was British) ... There were a lot of Africans brought to South and Central America as slaves to work on plantations... they make up a lot of the populations of countries like Jamaica, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, etc.
I love Phil. The statue they erected for him in Dublin is high on my bucket list. There are a few good documentaries about his life. Basically, his mom is whiter than white and his dad is blacker than black. She took a bunch of crap for being with him and also for having a "dark" or "brown" baby in Ireland. There's a difference between being black and Irish and Black Irish. I was surprised to see that he got picked on and called the "N" word growing up. I thought that was a very American thing but apparently it existed in Ireland when young Phil was a kid. It is therorized that was part of the insecurity he had which was partly responsible for the heroin addiction that ultimately contributed to his death.
A little easter egg for you...there is a Thin Lizzy poster on the wall in cousin Eddie's daughter's room in National Lampoon Summer Vacation.
This song is about some local gangsters from here in Manchester England.
My uncle was a drinking pal of one called jimmy, everyone knows who he is..
Lived in failsworth, they were neighbours.
The boys were called the quality street gang.
And are absolutely folklore in these parts.
They were the 60s honest type gangster..
Help an old lady across the road, but you don't fuck with them, they would hold a grudge..
Yayy some Irish Rock. I'm Watching from Ireland 🍀🍀, Phil didn't identify as anything but Irish, as we say here were not white, were Irish.
We're not white, we're translucent
He identified as Dublin, specifically Crumlin ;)
About bloody time😅 you should know what your "theme" is about, this is our (late 70's - 80s)swagger song.
When asked what it was like to be black and Irish? "Like a pint of Guinness, Black with a white Head"
This song:
His mother used to run an underground drinking club called showbiz in Manchester UK and some of the regular members were the "Quality street Gang" a Manchester gangster mob.
"DINOS" was a Manchester nightclub. This song references wnen some of the gang were released from a stretch in prison
And going out on a payback session. 😮😅
Video is likely 1981-82. Find a video of "Emerald" from 76-78. You won't be disappointed.
Great, great band! Worth to check out more of them boyz! :)
Phil Lynott what a force of nature that man was. i met him several times when thin lizzy did gigs in Glasgow as him and the band would come into my local pub for a pre gig drink and then a post gig drinking session for you iformation Phil Lynott was black irish who hailed from ireland.
Mr Phil Lynott on bass /lead vocals has an Irish mama and a Caribbean dad. Thin Lizzy is basically from Dublin Ireland. Brian Downey drums , Scott Gorham on lead guitar and Snowy White on lead guitar, Irish guitarist Gary Moore was in the band twice
RIP Philip Parris Lynott! Really nice reaction!
Phil Lynott RIP....I had the privilege of seeing TL twice. Once in Manchester, and once in Hull...Brilliant band.
"he probably what Jesus look like!" YESSSSSSSS!!! This song was such a huge part of our 80's teenage years...so good.
Check out The Cowboy Song from the Sydney Opera House if you want to see these guys playing to a massive outdoor crowd and see Phil's rock star mastery on full display.
Takes me right back to high school, we blasted the "Jailbreak" album every where we went. So sad we lost Phil so early. Honestly that album reminds me of hang gliding in northern Arizona, used to launch of the top off a cinder ash extinct volcano, while soaring above my buddy would turn up the stereo so I could hear it while flying above. Thanks for the memories, Lizzy rocks!
Finally !
Oh and they are from Ireland not England.
I would say that Phil Lynott was the original black heavy metal musician and singer-songwriter, but given that it was Chuck Berry who invented rock music, then metal was always a MOBO, and it was overdue for black guys to start reclaiming it like they have.
Lynott was a pioneer of Metal, starting the band in the late '60s I think it was, as a folk-rock band, and building the career and the path for Irish musicians to cross over in the UK and thus the world at a time when Ireland was very much a cultural backwater, locked into traditional instruments and folk genres by Irish nationalism and government policies about fostering "Irishness", whatever that is or whatever any country's "ness" is supposed to be. Thin Lizzy was right there the whole while as rock developed into hard rock and psychedelic rock and then heavy rock and then heavy metal as such, pushing that development along from Thin Lizzy album to Thin Lizzy album, and he was the mastermind, as other band members came and went.
You should check out their song “Jailbreak”
It's actually quite nice to watch your channel and hear this sung in tune for once
🤣🤣🤣
Now for your outro, Thank You For Being A Friend by Andrew Gold
Love all the 70s and 80s stuff you're delving into. So much great energy to the stuff of that era. Real performers.
Hey BP, I don't know if you will see this, but I don't know a better place to post it.
Steve Perry was a friend of Phil Lynott, and his song Any Way You Want It was inspired by him.
They toured together a lot.
Phil's death affected him deeply and added to his early burnout in the mid 80's.
I thought that knowing two artists you admire were connected may interest you.
He is also friends with Steve Ferrone, a mixed race Scot who was the drummer for The Average White Band, a Scottish funk band who's lead singer and guitarist, Hamish Stuart, would wear full kilts when performing. Check them out.
Gary Moore and thin lizzy Dont believe a word.
BP please do their song “cowboy song”. Their very best song in my opinion. Thanks!
Saw the great Thin Lizzy live in 1983. Brilliant live act. Started out an Irish band but over the years also took onboard British and U.S. musicians.
He was British and fuckin good. As were they all
Epic, classic rock and roll!
Great Band…Great tune! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
If anybody said to Phil u are British he would go mad and give a history lesson that's our phil
Underrated band, sooo many great songs. Please hear more songs :)
"If that chick don't wanna know...FORGETTAHHH" best line ever!
Irish Rock!!
You need to check out the band Kings X.
Keep it up!
That’s what she said
This song reminds me of the movie Beautiful Girls. If you haven’t watched it you really should!
Very few bands had two lead guitarists.
Phil and Lemmy from Motörhead were best friends. ❤
Yh Guyana is on the coast between Suriname and Venezuela it gained independence from Britain in 1966
I always put thin Lizzy in the same genre as Howie Lewis, Billy Joel, and Dire straight . Sort of a retro 50s beat mixed in .
Irish Band
Phil , the singer was a black Irishman
I wore that album out in my teen years lol
Color and ethnicity are no longer separable. We are all one. Phil is one of us. And he and his band rocketh us all. On we go.
Summer of '76, after graduating high school and partying for a few weeks, a friend and I hitchhiked from Minnesota to Colorado Springs to party with another friend for a week, then hitchhiked back to western Minnesota. As we rolled into our small town in the back seat of the ride that brought us our last 30 miles or so, this song came on the radio and the driver cranked it up for us. Oh, yeah, we boys were back in town, it was Friday, and we had some wild stories to tell the ladies at the weekly barn dance that night! Great song and reaction, once again.
He is black Irish, was adopted by a white Irish family
Nit many black Irish guys back in the seventies and Phil was an amazing writer singer and performer...lots of their songs fir you to delve into
I saw these guys live in Melbourne Australia in 1978 when I was 17 and they kicked ass!
Been to Dublin to see Phil’s statue and seen Phil’s basses and his personal Jukebox at the Dublin Rock museum….its a must see if you Ever make it to Dublin!
Use to know this song on guitar played it in a cover band once upon a time, fun song to play
My favourite song to play in my old convertible with the roof down!
This concert was at a festival in Germany called Rockpalast in 1981 .
METALLICA uses this song as their intro song for their shows.
iT'S ABOUT DAMM TIME YOU REACTED TO THIS
if you're thinking of some kind of food, how about Sunday Dinner? each Sunday you could make a different dish with some appropriate music. just a thought.
☘️Thin Lizzy is such an underrated band! LOVE THEM!!! My favorites are: -Emerald -Warrior -Whiskey in the Jar (old Irish song) -The Cowboy Song
Cowboy Song, Emerald, jailbreak, or Whiskey in the jar would be great reactions if you wanted to dive further into them
This show was recorded around 1981, 6 years after the original. The guitar player on the left is Snowy White. He wasn't on the original recording. Guitarists on original were Scott Gorham( other player in the video), and Brian Robertson when he was in his late teens/ early 20s at the time. Snowy was good but Brian was better.
So happy to see you react to this track, and band, finally. 😁 Pleas react to more of their music. I would highly recommend "Dancing in the Moonlight"
Phil was a mixed race rock star when such things were rare. He lived local to me & I remember as a child seeing his car when he came back from his wedding in Richmond Surrey. His music has sadly got stuck in the classic artist of the past slot when it should have been better known. He died young in 1986 from sepsis brought on by issues with drugs/drink. He deserved a better future.
Lizzy is 🔥🔥💃💃
I get it. When I found out the guys from CCR were white I was mind blown.