![]() ![]() ![]() We only do one slow song, 'Still In Love With You', and 'Southbound' is medium tempo. "I don't see why he says more hard rock," Brian Downey reflects. Downey just can't see what Phil can mean when he suggests Lizzy's stance will become even harder. The live album is our biggest yet – it's the ultimate we can do, so now we've to put new stuff into the set." Since we left Ireland in '70/'71, we've been working non-stop but now we've got a bit of time to get our thoughts together, see what we're going to do. This last year is the first year we slackened off a bit. "We're going to the States," he opens, "so that should be the start of a whole new Thin Lizzy. ![]() There's no hint of disillusion – his belief in the collective animal is still unflinching – but he certainly feels very strongly that the time has come to move on, pronto. To some extent it's as if the interview offered him an opportunity to reflect on what misgivings he has about the group's current musical standing. In that scheme of things, Downey is indubitably Earth. Unity and mutual identification may indeed be developing both within and about Thin Lizzy, but the band will always be composed of four different elements, between which there are inevitable occasions of conflict. Indeed talking to the Lizzy drummer offers a new perspective on the inner workings of a band that'll never be noted for its lack of internal 'dynamics'. Now it'll be unremitting? 'Are You Ready To Rock?' could become the new signature tune when the boys are back in town.īut Brian Downey sees things differently. Previously, Lizzy's fire-power was always tempered by moments of sheer tenderness. You can get that effect maybe by using open chords rather than bar chords – that type of thing." There's a plan to release 'Jamaican Rum' as the A-Side of the first solo single from Phil – a track that bubbles along with acoustics prominent in a calypso-type arrangement that oozes romance.Ībout the shape of things to come in Lizzy, Phil is definite: "Yeah, the music is gonna get more aggressive. Lynott the romantic will be put on ice, more or less, for group purposes – only to be given freer rein in the shape of Phil Lynott, solo artist. ![]() Phil Lynott has already gone on record as saying that he sees the group concentrating even more exclusively on the harder, rockier aspect of their personality. They've been doing largely the same set for about two years now - which is why Live And Dangerous ideally represents a watershed for the band – and now they're ready to move on. That hasn't happened with Lizzy, nor is it likely to, because they've been putting their collective brain to work on the problem in time. The way to ensure survival on a creative level is to keep one step ahead of the play, to realise when you've been doing material long enough, to anticipate and therefore forestall the point at which it begins to fossilise right there in front of everyone on stage. behind them – there would seem to be little room for pausing, taking a breath or making any other nod in the direction of self-analysis.Īnd yet, amid all this high-powered achievement, that's precisely what's happening within Thin Lizzy. With that kind of momentum built up and an American tour imminent – almost certainly with the fresh promotional thrust of a new label, Warner Bros. On the live front, there was the successful negotiation of the Wembley Empire Pool hurdle, with two packed houses there finally establishing the band, with no remaining grounds for reasonable dispute or logical argument to the contrary, among the Major League as regards drawing power. 2 in the Hot Press charts for a month with only (guess who?) the Stigwood gang holding them out. The same indeed is the case in Ireland, with extremely healthy figures to date suggesting that, in the long run, it can outsell their biggest money spinner so far, Jailbreak. And still Lizzy are in there with a fighting chance. Live And Dangerous has been in the top three in Britain - and don't forget we're talking about a double album - for the six weeks since its initial showing, being denied the number one spot only by the sales-monster of the decade Saturday Night Fever it's never easy to compete against an album that's got a film to market it and, what's more, a craze. Not only that, but the critical acclaim which greeted the work has been more than borne out by the immediate and, so far, sustained commercial success it's achieved. For a start they've just delivered what's commonly regarded as their definitive recorded statement in the brilliant Live And Dangerous double album set. On the surface, it might seem that Thin Lizzy could have their eyes and hearts and minds on only one thing – the present. ![]()
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