Anaxagoras
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I never warmed to the song Black Rose - I think the Irishisms in the solos sort of put me off I guess but this is a nice version. I guess it must have been a better song live. The solos are cool where it gets really fast IMHO.
Well, what do you expect from an Irish band? Would be a bit ridiculous if they had Americanisms...
I didn't mean the Irishisms comment negatively as I'm Irish myself - just didn't like the first part of the guitar solo which has a well known Irish melody that I went off. The later part where it gets very fact is cool though.
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It was the first song I heard of Thin Lizzy, as a child in the car of my parents on the radio and I liked it, even my parents liked it and I was bopping around in the backseat, a few years later when I was a teen heard it it again and then went and bought the album with my pocket money, dirt cheap as vinyl as by then CDs were the new rage, I must have worn out Black Rose and Waiting For An Alibi.
One of my much older brothers had a vinyl copy of Black Rose that he left behind and it helped me discover the band when I was young. At that stage all I knew was The Boys are Back in Town. My two favourite songs on there are S&M which must surely qualify as one of the best songs about the subject, and Waiting for an Alibi which has a top twin solo.
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I really like the solos in that and in general guitar solos bore me to death, I think it's just showing off and when musicians launch into those long long solos at concerts, I usually just switch off and think "Yeah, we know that you can play, but can we get on with the song now..." Jimmy Page, fantastic guitarist, but his solos go on far too long, I recall the Led Zep reuinon in the 02 Arena, he just went on and on with solos, yeah, he can do it, but still, it's about the songs not him fiddling on and showing off for endless times. The only guitarists where I never minded solos were Gary Moore, Neil Young and Pete Townshend, because their style is so unique and it usually fits in with the song, not going off and doing it because they can do it...
Yeah it is often showing off when guitarists go into guitar solos. I remember Thin Lizzy avoided excessively long guitar solos on purpose as they were just getting too long in the 70's. Jimmy Page is a great guitarist but he was one of the worst. I remember their live album "The Song Remains the Same" which had a god-awful 27 minute version of Dazed and Confused. A great song in itself but Page's noodling especially in the latter half of the track was drek. I was astonished to learn this was in fact an edit of the original 33/34 minute performance and Led Zeppelin often performed the song like that! Eric Clapton while in Cream made a few Faux Pas as the live albums show. I guess few guitarists pull off really excellent extended guitar solos well. I reckon one overlooked guitarist Duane Allman could do them excellently. One of the reasons I went on about Rory Gallagher before was because he was one of the first to move away from flashier styles while he was in a band called Taste. While other guitarists were getting more indulgent and flashy back in the early 70's, he often stuck to rhythm and often played solos very slowly and with extreme intensity - such as this brutal primitive track http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGMnSFAVVDE - he can be heard hitting the guitar very hard a bit like Django Reinhart!
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RE: RIP Gary Moore - 
) Loved Moore's playing. And Rory Gallagher's. Still remember his "Walk on Hot Coals" 
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