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RIP Gary Moore - 2/6/2011 1:33:58 PM

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Gary Moore died on yesterday while on holiday in Spain: http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/world-news/rock-legend-gary-moore-found-dead-2527823.html ~ not sure if many people on this forum know Moore but he was regarded as one of the best guitarusts around. I put up a good few links to his songs below and also wrote a brief biography.

Moore started his music career in 1969 at the age of sixteen in the original Skid Row with Brush shields but left at the end of 1971. He released his first solo album in 1973. He worked in bands and released solo albums intermittently through the 70's with little commercial success. Moore helped form the Jazz fusion band Colosseum II in 1974 and they released three albums from 1976 to 1977. He contributed guitar and vocals. He also worked occasionally with Thin Lizzy for short periods such as in 1974. He became a long term member in 1978 after leaving Colosseum II and worked on what is regarded as their last great album “Black Rose” (1979), yielding searing guitar on “Waiting for an alibi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLjMmZ8D0E4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFHR_L6u6Qk and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOi-DY9rGTk ~ leading to the view that he was probably the best or at least the most accomplished guitarist to work with the band. While working with Phil Lynott and the band at that time he cut his second solo album, which was unsuccessful except for the single Parisienne Walkways, which is probably his most famous track. Lynott contributed the lyrics and vocals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18FgnFVm5k0 ~ this live version is from 1985 I think.

Moore left Thin Lizzy suddenly in 1979. In 1980 he was set to continue his solo career but started a band called G-Force which released one album. In the 1980's he kept working at his solo career which finally became successful. The material was largely 80's style hard-rock/metal which has dated production-wise but the song writing was impressive on some songs. One decent track is modest hit “Over the Hills and Far Away” from 1986 (not to be confused with a Led Zep song of the same name): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyJEytBlp1I which mixes in some Irish celticisms pretty well.

His 1990 album “Still Got the Blues” marked a return to blues and non-flashy production techniques. It was a big critical success ~ this is the closing track http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bewTZjjumUo and a live track he performed live at that time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0nKJFVVoYM

He continued with the blues rock format until 1997 with Dark Days in Paradise when he experimented with a modern electronic sound even with dance beats (!), which apparently baffled fans. Like Angels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnqSl3bajIw is one example. He stuck with this style for another album. He continued releasing studio albums on a fairly regular basis in the 2000's sticking pretty much with the blues rock template. His final studio album was “Bad for You Baby” in 2008.