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I like it! I like it!

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the list of favorite Thin Lizzy songs. I've played the first post of songs and i liked every one of them. I didn't know they were so "riffy". I never bought a T-Lizzy album. So, i am pretty happy you did this because now i will hear the best tracks which will help me appreciate the band like never before.

I do need to sleep soon, but i'm really eager to listen to all of these songs ASAP starting tomorrow, if possible.

Speaking of retro rock n roll from the 50s, i am a fan. I, actually, own a Little Richard vinyl album which features an unknown Jimi Hendrix on lead guitar.

Just last year, i learned to play the guitar parts and the solo, as played on the record, for The Beatles' All My Loving, Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock, Stray Cat Strut and Rock This Town by the Stray Cats, and i do a pretty good cover.
The solos for Rock This Town are pretty fast though and if i make a mistake while trying to cover the solo note for note like on the record, i end up abandoning it and improvising the rest in my own style.

I can, also, play Mary Had a Little Lamb and Pride And Joy (and a few others) in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan and i can do the guitar parts and solos like on the record.
So yea, i like all that stuff, too.
I don't just listen to it, i can, actually, play it. I should have been a famous rock-star-guitarist-songwriter.
But now, i suck dick. Hey Mike, wanna blow job? I can do THAT, too - note for note, move for move - just like on the record.

Babe,
xoxo

[BIG MIKE]

Babe,

I've PM'd you about the blowjob LOL

Some more really great Lizzy stuff:

[BIG MIKE]

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observations.

Hi Mike,

I just finished listening to the last of the T-Lizzy songs.

I really didn't like, Running Back, because the music sounds like it was done on a cheap Casio or something. I'm surprised it was on the same album that gave us, Jailbreak, and, The Boys Are Back In Town.

Got To Give It Up, sounds like it was written with, The Boys Are Back, in mind. The verses sound almost the same to me. The whole song arrangement sounds like it was stenciled from, The Boys Are Back's, song arrangement.
Listen and compare for yourself. There is nothing wrong with that, as that's pretty common for the same writer to write songs that have certain aspects in common with his other songs. But i noticed it.

The same thing with their song, Hollywood. I find the verses sound almost like the verses of their song, Jailbreak.

Check this observation out, Mike:
In 1976, T-Lizzy released an album which featured the song, Fool's Gold.
In 1980, Eddy Schwarz wrote, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, for Pat Benatar. It sounds to me that, Hit Me With You r Best Shot, was inspired by Fool's Gold. The chord progression is almost identical. I can almost sing the lyrics and melody to, Hit Me, while listening to, Fool's Gold.

I didn't realize that Lynott wrote all of Thin Lizzy's songs.

I hope you agree with my observations about the aforementioned songs sounding a bit the same.

I must admit that i'm still not a die hard T-Lizzy fan but i do respect and appreciate their contribution a little more.

I was not too happy to have read that, Still In Love With You, was credited to Lynott when Gary Moore actually wrote most of the song in 1969.
It's very curious to see that the song is credited to Lynott on T-Lizzy albums, but credited to Moore on his albums.
There must have been some friction between the two writers regarding this song.

Babe,
xoxo

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Ravi Shankar and his influence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5sRbmJdsFI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNuQPTzuof4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6d8eKvegLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4G2RlBKbrM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2xQAeCvOc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5i4-rWh44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu1Ezr1YEoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfk6sCzRTbM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsyfvYyxjp8

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Dr Judy Wood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vadS...id=P9AOQ0tblSo

[BIG MIKE]

Email sent Babe,

Here's a guy that I found unique. He did mostly cover songs but gave them his own style. Great old time rock and roll, blues, boogie, whatever you want to call it he did it and did it extremely well:

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Johhny Winter - Mojo Boogie / John Lee Hooker - House Rent Boogie

Hi Mike,

He is good, but i never really liked George T.
Yes, he had several hits, like, Bad To The Bone, Move It On Over, One Bourbon One Scotch And One Beer, and i like those songs, but i tire easily from hearing him. He always seems like some local guy who became famous for playing the blues and rock n roll. To me, there are thousands of Georges out there.

I much prefer Johnny Winter when it comes to slide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrGkma9Sf7I

As far as One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer goes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em7hGn9ojx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoXiwTFgJcs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAWHXNG_4CM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO2e7TkI_fc

Babe,
xoxo

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Harmonium (4 local hit songs from the 70s)

Hi all,

If you ever visit Montreal during summer time, it's very possible that you will hear these songs from the speakers of a passing car. These are Quebec classics.

Okay, so they are sung in French but, hey, the music, alone, speaks volumes.
i hardly have an idea what these songs are about, really, but they are a part of me as a Montrealer as my own skin is a part of me, as i heard these songs growing up on the streets of Montreal.

Hearing these songs are kind of like hearing, Supertramp's Crime of the Century album.

So you might as well listen to these songs as they are a part of almost every Quebecer's record collection.

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq0t1pgDnVU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeUVec-7eEQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybKN8rfah_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkabBUZhTDA

Babe,
xoxo

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Moonquake and Influence

Hi all,

Moonquake, from Montreal, were a rock band trio but they only had one hit that didn't go too far.
They didn't make it because the music industry wanted bands like April Wine who had the nice vocal harmonies that everyone loves to hear. That was not Moonquake's style
So, Moonquake never made it. Too bad.

They were Pagliaro's back up band at one time.

Maybe some of you old hippies might remember a band called, Influence, with Walter Rossi?
Well, the bass player for Moonquake, was in, Influence. Influence was quite the band.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_%28band%29
In Moonquake, he called himself, Jack August, but his real name is, Jacob August Geisinger. How do i know all of this? Well, i know EVERYTHING (almost).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oas34mxggBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_pWcmtWHe8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8gMRc_T_4E

Out of the nine songs on Moonquake's debut album, i can only find these three.
I own the album on vinyl, by the way. I played it so many times.

The song lyrics to Remember are awesome and timeless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c6TAgmLdUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV9gy6s1rzs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZx8gvKGtEI

From Moonquake's rare second album, which i have NEVER heard, i found only one song called, Just Another Saturday Night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yWfq-WA5m0

In case you don't know Walter Rossi, and/or (Micheal) Pagliaro, i will post some songs by them. They were pretty big in Montreal. Pagliaro now resides in France and he comes back to Montreal to perform every now and then,
Walter Rossi was pretty big all across Canada, if not internationally, at one time.


Babe,
xoxo

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Offenbach - Deux aut'bi?res (Two More Beers)

Hi all,

Offenbach is one of Quebec's most famous rock bands. They've been around for ages.
Their lead singer, Gerry Boulet, died of cancer at a young age, and they seemed to be without a singer other than the other singer, Breen Leboeuf, the bass player.

Then one day, along comes this physically handicapped guy named, Martin Deschamps, one arm, one leg, playing bass guitar and sounding exactly like Gerry Boulet.

Offenbach hired him right away because no one can sing like the late, great Gerry Boulet.

Martin blew every one away with his "Gerry Boulet voice".

So awesome.

In Offenbach's Gerry Boulet videos, Gerry is the long haired guy playing organ and singing.

Listen to Martin's voice when he sings in the third video. Amazing!!
This song is a duet with Breen and Gerry or Martin sharing vocals.

And now, you English Canadians from across Canada will know how to order TWO MORE BEERS in French lol.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLok1lO_DD8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r1Y3f9B7EU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDuYPy36Zxw

Enjoy your beers.

Lyrics in the Quebecois slang only

J'suis assis ? une table
Plein de monde que j'vois pas
La musique est trop forte
L'?clairage est trop bas

Pis la fille ? qui j'parle
?'qu'a raconte, j'l'sais pas
J'devrais ?tre dans mon lit
Endormi sous les draps

Deux aut'bi?res!
Deux aut'bi?res!
Deux aut'bi?res!

?a fait trop longtemps, que tu passes en dedans
Y fallait ben que j't'emm?ne icitte
J'm'en va te faire faire, des heures suppl?mentaires
? soir t'es sur le shift de nuit

Tu vas voir l'heure des chaises pos?es sur les tables
Pis des meilleurs clients couch?s en dessous
Tu vas voir l'heure des serveurs moins aimables
Pis des grosses bi?res qu'on fini en un coup

Deux aut'bi?res!
Deux aut'bi?res!
Deux aut'bi?res!

Babe,
xoxo

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Ladies and gentlemen and everybody inbetween...

...Walter Rossi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1d8xL9WmnI

Try and tell me that you can't like that song.

Babe,
xoxo

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Walter Rossi - Soldiers In The Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWZleVAzYds
Babe,
xoxo

[Guest]

Walter Rossi - Sniffing The Breeze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqavRlSJvOM

Yes??

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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2008 to youtube

"Before forming this great band, "Canadian guitar wizzard 'Walter Rossi' had cut his teeth in the late 60s with some pretty big names like, 'Wilson Picket', and 'The Buddy Miles Express', where he contributed lead guitar to Buddy's original version of 'Them Changes' (the song).

He even turned down offers from 'Three Dog Night' and 'Janis Joplin'.

Walter also had the pleasure of jamming with Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Miles during their 'Band of Gypsies' days.

Then back in Canada, Walter co-founded the progressive/psych rock band 'Influence' in 1968/69. After being signed by ABC records, they went on tour opening for 'The Doors', and 'Steppenwolf'.

In 1971 he formed 'Charlee', The band released one album that year, self-titled.

The 'Charlee' album is one of the best examples of early 70's heavy rock you will ever hear, so I highly recommend it!
Don't get them confused with the UK band 'Charlie' (different spelling).

After the album was released, David Bowie's manager 'Tony Defries' heard Walter playing in the studio one day. An offer was made to join Bowie's band for the 'Ziggy Stardust' tour, but Walter had made up his mind to stay in Montreal close to his Father, who was ill at the time.
Walter then went to Toronto, where he met up with 'Luke Gibson', and joined his band 'Luke and the Apostles' in 72/73, who were quite successful.

Walters solo LP's which came out between '76 & '80 were great too".