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[MUSIC] GARY MOORE
Hi chi Huong,Minh Tuan (from Germany),and fans !
Here is some info about Gary Moore.Hope this will be helpful for you.
Chi. Huong,I do love the album " Ballads and Blues" you mentioned in
previous message.If i remember well,then "Always Gonna Love You",
"Still Got Ghe Blue(For you)" ,and more than that,"Parisienne Walways"
all appeare in this album.Such a wonderful songs,indeed.I ,once in a
while,got stuck on the "Parisienne Walkways" when listening to it,thinking
about nothing,but the song,even breathing.I think everyone who have
listened to it knows why.
For your question.here is my recommendation:Dirty Fingers,After The War,
Victims Of The Future.
Now,please ...........
Gary Moore
On April 4th Gary Moore is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
After moving to Dublin, Gary Moore joins local band Skid Row. Early line-ups
of the band include the following musicians: Brendan "Brush" Shiels on bass,
Noel "Nollaig" Bridgemore on drums, Bernhard Cheevers on guitar, and Phil
Lynott on vocals (he hadn't learned to play bass yet!).
Bernhard Cheevers and Phil Lynott leave Skid Row, the latter to form Thin
Lizzy. Gary Moore does some work with Granny's Intentions. Skid Row release
their first single, New Places Old Faces on the Song label. Skid Row (now a
trio) opens for Fleetwood Mac in Dublin. Peter Green (then guitarist of
'Mac) is quite impressed with Gary Moore's playing; so much so that he
invites him to join a jam session after the show in his hotel room. The
legend has it that Peter Green asked 'Mac's manager to help Skid Row get a
record deal with CBS. Indeed, soon after moving to London, Skid Row record
their first album, Skid (released in 1970).
Skid Row's first single on CBS, Sandie's Gone, is released in March. Their
first album, Skid, is also released that year. Then the second CBS single,
Saturday Morning Man is released and followed by a tour through the US and
Europe. Irish band Dr. Strangely Strange (Ivan Pawle, Tim Goulding, Tim
Booth) release their Heavy Petting album; Gary Moore has participated to the
album. Towards the end of the year (or maybe early in 1971) Skid Row record
their second album in 34 hours; hence the album title 34 Hours...
Skid Row's second album, 34 Hours, is released and in July the band embark
on a US tour, followed by a European tour. That year a popularity poll in
Irish magazine New Spotlight rates Skid Row as the no.1 non-resident Irish
band.
Skid Row record their third album, but while planning for their third US
tour, Gary Moore leaves the band and decides to try his hand at a solo
career. That album will not be released until Castle Communications gets a
hold of it in 1990! Peter (or is it Paul?) Chapman replaces Gary Moore in
Skid Row and the tracks for the third album are re-recorded; but that
version will not be released either. Later Ed Dean, Eric Bell (!), and Jimmy
Slevin successively assume the guitars in Skid Row. Shields and Bridgemore
eventually return to Ireland and tour there under the names Skid Row and/or
Brush.
Gary Moore resurfaces with his first solo album, Grinding Stone. The Gary
Moore Band is GM (guitars and vocals), Pearse Kelly (drums) and John Curtis
(bass). The album receives little praise at the time, but it's interesting
to listen to the last track, Boogie my Way Back Home, now that we know that
Gary Moore plays nothin' but the blues.
In January Gary Moore joins Thin Lizzy upon Phil Lynott's invitation, but he
leaves during the following spring. That first (but not last) short stay
with Thin Lizzy produces Still in Love with You, the only track with Gary
Moore which makes it on the band's album of the year, Nightlife (released in
October).
Gary Moore participates to the recording of Eddie Howell's Gramophone
Record. And thus begins Gary's session work, intruding his solo career on a
regular basis until today even. Later that year he is offered a job (by Jon
Hiseman) in fusion outfit Colosseum II (which he accepts). Colosseum II is:
Gary Moore (guitars/vocals), Don Airey (keyboards), Jon Hiseman (drums),
John Mole (bass).
Colosseum II's first LP, Strange New Flesh, is released. After a European
tour the boys meet at Morgan Studio 1 shortly before Christmas to record
their second album (in seven days!). That year, the Thin Lizzy compilation
LP Remembering Part 1 uncovers two songs from Gary's short stay with the
band in 1974: Sitamoia and Little Darling.
band in 1974: Sitamoia and Little Darling.
Colosseum II's second album, Electric Savage is completed within the first
few months of the year and is released, followed later in the year by War
Dance. On the Thin Lizzy front, a compilation LP resembling Remembering Part
1 is released in the US; It's called Rocker 1971-1974 but contains the same
two tracks with Gary Moore.
This is the year Gary Moore's career really takes off! Three appearances on
other people's LPs and one solo LP in one year! I'm not quite sure in what
order they were released, but here are his contributions for the year:
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Variations (Yes, Mr. Waters, that very same Andrew
Lloyd Webber!), Rod Argent's Moving Home, and Gary Boyle's Electric Glide.
But the big one is the solo album, Back on the Streets; an album which is
still re-released periodically on different labels. This album is noticed
(unlike his 1973 effort) for at least two reasons: (1) Phil Lynott is on it
and (2) the soon-to-be single Parisienne Walkways is also on it!
Back on the Streets produces the sublime single Parisienne Walkways,
Gary Moore's first chart success (reaching no.8 in May). And the
cycle starts again... Gary Moore then joins Thin Lizzy (again!) and records
Black Rose with them. The release of the LP is followed by a European tour,
then a US tour. For whatever reason Gary Moore leaves Thin Lizzy right in
the middle of their American tour! He then goes to Los Angeles to form a new
band called G Force. Sometime during 1979 he also manages to find the time
to record a little guitar for Cozy Powell's Over the Top.
Cheers.
--Tua^'n.