Thin Lizzy, fuck U2, this is Irish Rock and Roll

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Love Thin Lizzy. I still remember hearing Phil Lynott talking in that Irish accent and thinking "holy shit, this is a black Irish dude who sings like an American".

There's a BBC show of them playing a club in their heyday. Well worth checking out if you're a fan.
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Thanks, I found alot of shit on Yotube with them.

Best Phil Lynot story. At a show in the USA when they went on he says " How many of you girls have some Irish in them?" " How many of you want some Irish in them?"




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Thread title sums it up perfectly.
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ButterCupPowerRanch wrote:Thread title sums it up perfectly.
Bono is a faggot's faggot.
I remember one tour back in the late 80's early 90's where Bono would whip out a phone and attempt to call the President every night as part of the act. Just so he could enlighten our backwards thinking leader. Because nobody knew what was best for America like a pompous Irish rock star.

Fuck Bono.

And FUCK "The Edge" for even being in the same documentary on rock guitarists as Jimmy Page.
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My view of U2, Bono and the Edge are not cut and dry.

At one time I was into U2 as much as I was Rush, Maiden, Motorhead, Zepplin and Slayer, this was the 1980s though.

I loved the Edges playing and to me at the time I saw it as "High end Thrash" meaning unlike most Thrash bands who played most of their rythems on the bottom 3 strings (and how many fuckers just ride the E string like they were walking a goddamn tightrope?) the Edge played in an aggressive way with alot of rythems on the top 4 strings. I loved the contrast from the other stuff I liked. I used to have a sound in my head of combing those to styles. I did not have the chops to even get near it then. A thrash band Faith or Fear had 1 song that really touched on that.

I liked U2 and Bono's voice and much of his lyrics up through Auctung Baby but it seemed to me that Bono flipped a switc and the Edge stopped giving a fuck or trying and everythihng I have heard ever since then has made me quick to turn them off.

Bono is the world's biggest turd and not our kind of Turd.

I liked It Might Get Loud but the Edge just does not iinspire and the best thing he did on it was go back to playing " I Will Follow". His HAL2000 Rack system was a bit much. When you have to use a forklift to lift your amps and FXs maybe you need to go back to a pedal board, 1-3 amps , a rack FX unit and a couple of 4 x 12 cabs. Not counting Cabs he had 4 -6 times of the aforementioned number of what I listed. If his Roadie O.D.s he is fucked.

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The title was because
A. Everytime someone talks about Irish Rock they allways went right to U2 and alot of people have a hard time thinking of many more. You get Van Morrison but alot of people dont know of Rory Gallagher or know that Thin Lizzy is Irish.

B. For my brother Crom who is proud of his Irishness ( I never hear him talk about his German side, I dont think he gives a fuck becuase his last name starts with O') is just so sick of U2 and everyone telling them how fucking Irish they are.

He was at a pub, listening to a Guitarist play celtic songs. The guy was taken request and this chick ask the guy to play U2. The guy said he did not know any of their songs as he did CELTIC music, not Rock and Roll. The Bitch kept going and then Crom had to set the Cunt strait about how he was here to hear real Irish music and not some fucking overplayed U2 shit he could hear on DC101.

So real Irish Rock and Roll is Thin Lizzy, the Pogues, Therapy, Them, Gary Moore, Rory Gallagher, and Black 47.




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Gotta disagree a little bit about Achtung Baby. It was a great follow-up to Joshua Tree/ Rattle & Hum era. I mean what else could they do? They took off in a new direction and it was great. I think Achtung and Zooropa are quite good and show the evolution of a band that really had to push then envelope. I am a fan but I think Bono takes himself way way too seriously. Thin Lizzy was awesome. I love the cover of the Jailbreak album. Seventies rawk art at its finest. Fuck it, I love that whole album.
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Sandman wrote:Gotta disagree a little bit about Achtung Baby. It was a great follow-up to Joshua Tree/ Rattle & Hum era. I mean what else could they do? They took off in a new direction and it was great. I think Achtung and Zooropa are quite good and show the evolution of a band that really had to push then envelope. I am a fan but I think Bono takes himself way way too seriously. Thin Lizzy was awesome. I love the cover of the Jailbreak album. Seventies rawk art at its finest. Fuck it, I love that whole album.
I might have not put that right or you got me worng Sandman, I like Auctung Baby alot. " Untill the End of The World" is one of the best songs U2 has ever done. I saw them on that tour and at the time it ranked #2 for best shows I ever went to after Overkill, Motorhead and Slayer in 88 untill I saw Paul Weller in 95. Zooropa did not grab me and when they did that Batman shit I just put them down " Oh well I have Under a Blood Red Sky" " October and "War" and "Rattle and Hum"

Jailbreak is a cool album cover, it reminds me of the kind of ink and colours of old X-Men and Silver Surfer.

I was only 3 in 1976, I wish I had lived through that period as an adult, that to me would be the best time to have been part of the Rock and Roll scene. The early 90s had a feel that I felt could be the 70's equal but the good period was to short lived, by 94 corperate rock was back in charge and the faux Punks were making the scene.
That's when I started getting into alot of the stuff coming out of the UK, where I think they had the better scene from then till about 2000. (Weller, Mother Earth, Ocean Colour Scene, Corderoy, Blur, Radiohead, Portishead, James Taylor Trio, Thes Animal Men (Great show at the old 9:30Club in DC, Summer of 1994) As well as my thing for going back to the past.




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Don't forget Gary Moore was in Thin Lizzy. Another reason to like them.
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I hear you Darth. I am the youngest of four. The youngest by a mile. Next closest in age is 9 yrs older so Even though I was born in '72 I grew up kinda fast in that house and my oldest brother was a bit of an audiophile (and a massive pot smoker) it was always Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith, Devo, Talking Heads, as well as the police (both on the turntable and the ones with badges were at the house from time to time as well). Anyway interesting that you mention Radiohead. I like up to and including The Bends (awesome album). I just don't "get" OK Computer and newer. Everyone else loves it, what gives?
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Sandman wrote:I hear you Darth. I am the youngest of four. The youngest by a mile. Next closest in age is 9 yrs older so Even though I was born in '72 I grew up kinda fast in that house and my oldest brother was a bit of an audiophile (and a massive pot smoker) it was always Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith, Devo, Talking Heads, as well as the police (both on the turntable and the ones with badges were at the house from time to time as well). Anyway interesting that you mention Radiohead. I like up to and including The Bends (awesome album). I just don't "get" OK Computer and newer. Everyone else loves it, what gives?
Kindred spirits on this one Sandman.


Born in Jan 73. By 3 to 6 I was bounced betweeen my Mom, Dad and my materanl Grandma.

My Mom lived in a house with her friends, there was allways something on the turntable. I still get reminded how she had to cut out some of the Zappa because I would run around the House singing Zappa song. (And I have a great story about opening the door to the Cops in the front yard, with Guns drawn just like I used to see on "Police Story" back then. I wont say more but on PM)

My Dad lived with 3 other dudes in a house back in the woods. I remember them building a stage for the bands they used to get to play their parties. I also had a drum set there when I was 4.

At Grandmas, my uncle Boomer was your a-typical music and pothead 70's teenager. I remember sitting in his room staring at the Boston LP cover ( Star Wars kid) as he played Bad Company, ELO, Judas Preist and Zepp while pulling bong hits. He pretty much did this from then untill I was about 18, so as I got older we would still hang like this but by then I was turning him on to music as well.

I thought all adults under 40 did bonghits before bed, listend to Rock and Roll or Outlaw country and all men over 18 had facial hair and rode Harley Davidson's.

When Mom and I moved to Fla. in 86, I would wait down the street until she left for work, go back in the house and skip school all day listening to her big record collection when I wanted a day off from fighting with naggers at least once a week. Zepp, Cream, Foghat, Springsteen ect. This is the collection I nicked her Thin Lizzy from.
Her much younger Boyfriend played Guitar. He's the guy who got me into playing guitar and into Rush, Iron Maiden and Van Halen and first told me of this thing called Speed Metal.

I got into Speed/Thrash metal and Hardcore Punk because it was the music being made at that time that remeinded me of the spirit and was closest to the Rock and Roll I mentioned before. I hated early Rap, as to me it was some black dude or a Nagger talking shit (I got enough of that shit as it was going to school or walking 2 hoods over.) and pop music made me want to vomit. Metal was 3 to 5 guys with Guitars, drums, Bass, a singer and usually no or little keyboards.

At 16 I moved to my Dad's in Va and he had an even bigger record collection! 10 fucking peach crates of Bowie, Lou Reed, Status Quo, Jethro Tull, Talking Heads, Small Faces, Traffic, Steely Dan, Old Genesis, 10 Years After, Suzie Quatro ect. That collection is the only thing I have actually stated I want when he passes.

Around that time a group of friends got me into real Ska ( Specials, Atkins, Madness) Post Modern , Goth and Death Rock (Pixies, Violent Femmes, Bauhaus, Ssiters of Mercy, Feilds of Nephilem). By this point I could play guitar and I've talked about the rest and enough here for now.

I used to say to my friends in those "Deep" conversations 17-25 year olds have in smoke filled rooms " The 2 most important things human beings do is War and Art, music being the highest art."

I still agree with that one.




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