Comments on: Thin Lizzy Announce New Line-Up, UK Tour

By: nick

nick — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:31:17 +0000

There is way too much reading into this if you ask me. This is no different to Foxton & Butler doing the very successful “Of the Jam” gigs without Weller a couple of years ago. It’s always a pleasure to see genuine artists play the songs they helped create / wrote / collaborated on.

For me, Lynott was “the greatest ever”, but Gorham and Downey were the best at what they did too and they were a huge part (the backbone) of what made Thin Lizzy great! Phil Lynott, depsite his brilliance, needed the other pieces of the puzzle to make up a successful Lizzy in the first instance.

Around 8 years ago I passed up the chance to see a watered down version of Lizzy but now I have wised up and can’t wait to see Gorham / Downey and even Wharton on stage together in Dublin, blasting out the songs they sweated blood and tears creating. Surely this can only be a most fitting tribute to the great man himself and only further emphasises that the great Lizzy / Lynott music lives on!

If I had one wish, I would love to see Robertson in the mix too but hey, you can’t have everything. No mean line up however, with well acomplished and successful musicisions all round!

A Lizzy fans feast! Respect!!!

By: Angus

Angus — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:19:57 +0000

I saw Lizzy at the Manchester Apollo in 81 and 83 (17th November 1981, still got the ticket £4.50) . Still the best gigs i’ve ever been to but wished I could have seen them in 1977/78 when they were really at their peak (Live and Dangerous, Bad Reputation). I’ve never been tempted to go back, but something has made me buy ticket to Manchester. Maybe because Brian Downey has come back into the fold? His drumming always sounded great. I hope I’m not disappointed by what I hear in January. Still, it will be good to have a few beers in the pub round the back of the Apollo and remember the good times again before the gig. “The boys are back in town….”

By: Mark Long

Mark Long — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 09:25:55 +0000

“I saw Lizzy WITH Phil Lynott fairly late on, at Reading Festival, and Lynott had GONE! They weren’t Thin Lizzy THEN! LOL!
I don’t believe all this No Lynott-No Lizzy blx, though. That’s an insult to the rest of the BAND!”
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Sorry Paul, I was there as well. Lynott had gone were ? His voice held up to his very last recordings…circa late 1985….

What Fake Lizzy have been doing the last few years is an INSULT to Philo…..

NO LYNOTT = NO LIZZY

By: Mike Wire

Mike Wire — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:27:56 +0000

I’ve never really been into Thin Lizzy myself and the only reason I’m checking them out on this tour is because Ricky’s joined (and the fact the Supersuckers are support).
Can’t be a bad thing can it!!!

By: paul

paul — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:53:26 +0000

I saw Lizzy WITH Phil Lynott fairly late on, at Reading Festival, and Lynott had GONE! They weren’t Thin Lizzy THEN! LOL!
I don’t believe all this No Lynott-No Lizzy blx, though. That’s an insult to the rest of the BAND!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:06:34 +0000

Could of been worse ….. They could have got Gary Moore to sing lead vocals ….. Ouch!

By: Vinnie Fowler

Vinnie Fowler — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:54:02 +0000

I was lucky enough to see the real Thin Lizzy and find it very hard to see how they can call this Thin Lizzy. Phil Lynott was Thin Lizzy. It was his band, his voice, his bass. So if any one had any sense at all they would of got the singer out of limehouse lizzy to join to actually do this so called tour.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:09:27 +0000

It’s great to see te guys keeping Phil’s memory alive. I disagree with thos who say Phil WAS Thin Lizzy. Now don’t get me wrong, Phil was my childhood hero but come on, the BAND were special in more ways than just Phil’s superb songwriting. The classic Lynott, Downey, Goreham, Robertson line-up was truly awesome and a force like that will not come our way again.
As for Sykes … Well, I never like the pouting, poodle-haired, poser.. but that was a taste of what was to come in the form of 80’s rock for you…crap.
I say keep rockin lads and all the very best to ya!

By: Mark Long

Mark Long — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:35:47 +0000

“hi i just wondered why thin lizzy are not appearing in birmingham although i suppose wolverhampton is not too far too far away ! cheers”

Hi Denis, because when fake lizzy were THIN LIZZY, they sold out Birmingham Odeon 2 nights on the trot and could have carried on…..alas, not the case anymore……Wolvo civic aint too bad, Philo played there with Grand Slam, before him, so did Diamond Head, Nazereth, Aerosmith, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Saxon, MSG and UFO……..all the best

By: denis cronin

denis cronin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:35:55 +0000

hi i just wondered why thin lizzy are not appearing in birmingham although i suppose wolverhampton is not too far too far away ! cheers