This 8 CD Super Deluxe Edition is a treasure trove for Thin Lizzy fans. It includes seven shows from 1976 to 1978, meticulously remastered from the original tapes. The box set features performances from iconic venues like the Hammersmith Odeon and the Tower Theater in Philadelphia, capturing the band’s raw energy and stage presence. Iain Macaulay: A real classic album. The sound of a party in full swing. A Celtic party with girls, too much drink, a lot of tall tales being told, and the odd fight or two. It’s the ultimate set list from a very original band, playing their songs way beyond the versions they captured in the studio. It’s maybe not their greatest album, but it is the album that presents the definitive sound of the band. The album that keeps the band alive. The album that made their songs live and breath as great pieces of music. Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous stands as one of the greatest concert recordings ever. Originally released as a double LP set in 1978, during the golden age of live albums, the inspired Live and Dangerous captured the classic Lizzy line-up of Philip Lynott, Brian Robertson, Scott Gorham and Brian Downey firing on all cylinders from the stage. The tight performances showcases Thin Lizzy's diversity and go-for-it spirit, as well as Lynott's larger-than-life star-power charisma. Special was the fact that the band had two lead guitarists. I only knew that from Wishbone Ash (also with such a beautiful live album). It does give the music something extra. Only a pity that the drum solo is not missing from Thin Lizzy either. Well, the drummer is the one who founded the band with Lynott. So he deserves a place of honour. And fortunately, the drum solo is only short. It was a culmination of too much fighting, boozing, drugging and challenging Lynott’s authority. Robertson played his last gig with Thin Lizzy at the Ibiza Music Show on July 6, 1978.

Live and Dangerous was originally intended to be a studio album. Working with producer Tony Visconti, Thin Lizzy had had huge success with their previous album Bad Reputation, and the group wanted to work with him again. But since Visconti had a very tight schedule Phil Lynott came up with the idea that they spend two weeks together compiling a live album instead. The group planned to make a new studio album at the start of 1978, helmed by producer Tony Visconti, with whom they had created the successful Bad Reputation. However, Visconti had a very tight schedule and had committed to producing albums for other artists, so Lynott suggested they instead spend two weeks together compiling a live album. [3] O’Donnell suggested 17 photographs on the gatefold, one from each song, so listeners could follow the music. The eighteenth photo was chosen by Lynott and showed straw, a razor blade and a rolled-up banknote – a glimpse of the recreational habits that would eventually derail him. And it really hit home, because that’s exactly what I’d been saying in interviews. And I thought: ‘You’re a twat, Robbo,’” he says, laughing. “But it’s true; we weren’t like Judas Priest going [growling] ‘Breaking the law, breaking the law…’” The best live album ever? It's always funny to see that just about every live-album is said or written to be the best live album in existence. Likewise from this album. I think I have 20 live albums with that predicate.The rest of the tour was cancelled, and Lynott recuperated by writing most of their next album. That album, Johnny The Fox, arrived in October 1976, just seven months after Jailbreak. By the mid-1970s, Thin Lizzy had stabilised around its founding members – singer and bassist Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey – and guitarists Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson. The band had scored hit singles and developed a strong live following, including headlining the Reading Festival. Robertson had briefly left the band in 1977 but subsequently returned. [2] a b c d Live And Dangerous (Media notes). Thin Lizzy. Phonogram. 1978. 6641 807. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) You can hear the love for what they are doing and can’t help but smile yourself as you listen. And all of that is enough to transcend any ‘overdubgate’ because that is something you can’t fake, and it shows that, at the end of the day, this is just a great album and that’s all there is to it.

Jailbreak was the seminal Lizzy studio album – that and Johnny The Fox,” believes Robertson. The album was filled with more tales of deadbeats, derring-do, doomed romance, sex and war. Its single Don’t Believe A Word reached No.12 in the UK, giving Thin Lizzy another much-needed hit. Some pressings of the record sleeve include a montage photograph in the studio containing a mirror, straw, razor blade and a rolled up five pound note (as an overt reference to cocaine consumption). Lynott insisted on adding the picture over the rest of the band's objections. [17] Release [ edit ] Live and Dangerous a b Popoff, Martin (October 2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 1: The Seventies. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p.280. ISBN 978-1894959025. g, manos (23 July 2014). "Review: CD Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous Album". Sputnikmusic . Retrieved 1 January 2015. The Cream/Hendrix-infatuated trio moved to London where their take on the traditional folk ballad Whiskey In The Jar went Top 10 in spring ’73. Then Eric Bell walked out on New Year’s Eve. Northern Irish guitarist Gary Moore was among his temporary replacements, before Lynott found his dream team in May 1974.Offiziellecharts.de – Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 27 January 2023. L-R Phil Lynott, Scott Gorham, Brian Downey, Brian Robertson (Image credit: Erica Echenberg/Redferns)

In early 2020, Gorham was introduced to the former guitarist in a big 80s pop group, who told him that his previous band overdubbed most of their live album because that’s what Thin Lizzy did with Live And Dangerous.Thin Lizzy’s Life Live was initially released in the Autumn of 1983 and was the band’s final album, recorded on their farewell tour earlier that year. a stuffed toy mascot Robbo plonked on his amp-head each night) they threw skinny, angular shapes as Lynott strafed the crowd with a beam reflected from his bass guitar’s mirror scratch-plate. The album was reissued on CD in 1989. [22] The March 1978 footage from the Rainbow Theatre concert was released a first time in 1980 on VHS by VCL Video and as a 60-minute edit by Castle Communications in 1994 and titled Live & Dangerous. [23] [24] The footage was released on DVD in 2007, with other group performances including a show from their farewell tour on 26 January 1983, and four Top of the Pops clips from the 1970s. [25]

Thin Lizzy’s leader Phil Lynott had felt it was time to disband the group after the ‘Thunder And Lightning’ tour, and to mark the occasion, he gathered together former Thin Lizzy guitarists Eric Bell (1969-73), Brian Robertson (1974-78) and Gary Moore (1974, 1977 and 1978-79) who joined the band on stage at Hammersmith Odeon. We were always told: ‘Never come off the road, because as soon as you do, everyone is going to forget about you,’” says Gorham. “So it was album, tour, album, tour…’” Live And Dangerous was originally intended to be a studio album, working with producer Tony Visconti on Bad Reputation. The band had enjoyed massive success with that record and was keen to work with him again. However, Visconti had only had a small window in his schedule, so Lizzy’s leader Philip Lynott came up with the idea that they spend two weeks together compiling a live album instead. Dutchcharts.nl – Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 January 2023.I’d gone for a pepper steak,” says Robertson. “All these writers were later saying I was out of my head on whisky. I didn’t have any whisky. I was living in absolute squalor with two groupies in Kilburn, putting fifty-pence pieces in the meter just to keep the gas on. Are you going to sit there all night, or go down the Speakeasy and get a pepper steak? Every song on this release outshines its studio equivalent. Lizzy's music was to be enjoyed in a live environment, and this collection of live hits proved it. Phil's swinging bass is prominent on the album, along with Robbo and Scott's amazing twin guitar harmonies and solos. The band's performance on Still In Love With You is magical, Massacre lives up to its name, and the whole side three is absolutely eargasmic ! It goes to dispel the rumours that the album was extensively overdubbed in the studio and its presented here as the shows were intended with the rawness of a band, they were at the top of their game night after night. I knew it was a Bob Seger song, really, but it felt like we’d made it our own,” he says with a laugh. “The original is too slow.” The impression of Thin Lizzy as a gang was compounded by the photographs on the inside gatefold and inner sleeves. Naturally, Gorham’s red flares made an appearance. The group’s co-manager Chris O’Donnell had attended a piano recital at the Royal Festival Hall, where he watched an audience member follow the pianist’s notes on a musical score.