February 12th, 2011
Legendary guitarist BRIAN ROBERTSON recently took some time out
to reflect and remember former band mate and friend Gary Moore,
who passed away earlier this week.
BRIAN spoke about the recording process of the Thin Lizzy "Nightlife" album and
his refusal to re-record Gary's solos:
"When I first joined Thin Lizzy and we recorded the Nightlife album, there was this track
that we had to do, a song called "Still In Love With You". As it was time to record the
guitar solos I refused to replace Gary's original solos. They were the best solos
I'd ever heard at that point and I wouldn't let anyone talk me into changing that!"
ROBERTSON reflected on just one of his memorable Gary Moore stories:
"In the early days with Lizzy we did a tour of Europe with Colosseum II,
which was the band Gary was in at the time, and we did a gig in Arnhem, Holland.
Gary came round my room at the hotel after the show with a crate of brandy.
Needless to say, we had a great time and we ended up hosing each other down
with the fire hoses in the hallway. Unfortunately the fire alarm went off and the whole
hotel had to be evacuated. It was a very cheap hotel and it had lots of senior citizens
living there, so all of these people had help each other out of the hotel in the middle of the
night while Gazza and I stayed in the room and tried to hide. We ended up in the nick for
that prank, but it was quickly sorted by our managements"
NIGHTLIFE
February 12th, 2011