I told Ricky and Damon, ‘Listen, I can’t bring myself to bring out a new Thin Lizzy album.’ And the relief on their faces was pretty comical really, because we’d all been thinking the same thing.” To be honest, you take a leap into the unknown when you say, ‘Well, we need to drop the Thin Lizzy name and create this new thing out of the ashes.’ So when it came down to crunch time, I just couldn’t take it any longer. “And all along, to think about doing that without Phil was pretty incomprehensible for me. “People kept asking me, ‘So, when are you gonna bring out a new Thin Lizzy album?'” Gorham says, his California drawl still prominent after years of living in London. Right off the bat, there was a chemistry, a camaraderie, that led them to start writing new material together. After he kick-started a new touring version of the latter group in 1994 with latter-day Lizzy guitarist John Sykes, Gorham guided the lineup through several personnel changes until he finally brought singer Ricky Warwick (frontman for the Scottish metal band the Almighty, and a fiery Northern-born Irishman himself) and guitarist Damon Johnson (formerly with Alice Cooper) into the fold. In one sense, Gorham’s current band Black Star Riders grew out of his long-running quest to cement Thin Lizzy’s legacy. Throughout the latter half of the Seventies until their drug-fueled crackup in 1983, the band also shared some incendiary live dates (and legendary nights of hell-raising) with the likes of Aerosmith, AC/DC, Journey, Rush and, most famously, Freddie Mercury and Brian May, on the North American leg of Queen’s A Day at the Races tour. After playing a warm-up show in Nevada City, the group made its San Francisco debut at the always packed Hallorager Halloween party that was held at the Bottom of the Hill last October, bringing down the house with their faithful renditions of Lizzy favorites.Lizzy peaked in 1976 with their exuberantly confrontational Jailbreak album, which went gold in the U.S. Thin Lizzy cover band The Rockers (CBS)įeaturing guitarists Sonny Reinhardt (best known for his work in Bay Area metal outfits Necrot and Saviours) and Chris Corona (Molten, Hazzard's Cure) replicating the intricate harmonized guitar sound of the band, the Rockers are rounded out by bassist/singer Bryce Shelton (Nik Turner's Space Ritual, Bädr Vogu) and drummer Clint Baechle (Owl, Deathgrave, Hazzard's Cure). But the band's legend and influence have only grown, to the point where former members including guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes toured extensively starting in 1996 as Thin Lizzy in what was essentially a tribute to Lynott. Using a sophisticated twin-guitar attack that exerted a sizeable influence on everyone from contemporaries Judas Priest to British disciples Iron Maiden and thrash-metal titans Metallica, Thin Lizzy came to an end with Lynott's death in 1986 at the far too young age of 36. While Thin Lizzy never became the huge stars they deserved to be during their '70s heyday, the powerhouse Dublin-based quartet led by bassist, singer and poetic songwriter Phil Lynott created a monumental body of work. Patrick's Day Thursday when the Rockers play the classic hits of Thin Lizzy at the Golden Bull in Oakland. OAKLAND (CBS SF) - A group of talented Bay Area musicians pays tribute to Ireland's greatest musical export on St.

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