Help me out here early crew - genuinely only ever heard of them in context of what I assumed was their only hit, which was on my Gladiators soundtrack cassette.
What should I do? This is in my order of my inclination.
It’s a 4 from me btw. Brilliant singles band who never quite made the record they probably should have but clearly win best live album of all time. Dancing In The Moonlight, Jailbreak, Waiting For An Alibi and TBABIT are all classics and despite never wanting to hear Whiskey In The Jar ever again (ran an Irish bar for 6 years, that’ll kill it for you) it’s still fucking great. Not quite in that top tier for me, but close.
I always have to play Jailbreak to work out which one is in my head when I say the name. I like both theirs and AC/DC’s immensely so it’s generally a toss up.
Of course, being me, I can easily have Shellac’s AC/DC cover in my head too.
Great Band! Great songs with that twin guitar sound. I’ve always thought that Phil was a great bass player especially when you are singing at the same time,Not easy. Difficult to choose a favourite song but I’ve gone for the one everyone knows from the Magners advert! it’s a 5 from me.
Did you know that despite being a friend of Bob Geldof and despite Midge Ure being a one time member of Thin Lizzy neither thought to invite Phil to reform Thin Lizzy for Live Aid. Apparently it deeply saddened Phil. He died 6 months later. There’s a statue of Phil in Dublin. How wonderful that it’s a decent proper statue of a black man and a legend.
