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Peaked at #63, was in charts for 1 week in the UK.
Peaked at #27 in Sweden.
Gillan describes the process of finding a new record company as knocking on doors and playing tapes to a new generation of record people.
When asked about the album by Metal Hammer Ian Gillan said, “Better than I expected in most countries. In the U.K. well, it’s been years since I did anything myself and the last Purple album didn’t sell shit there, so I guess I’ve got to start all over again. Internationally speaking the response has been better than expected, but England’s a funny old country.”
Gillan says in “Child in Time” of the album: “And so Steve would come down and work with me, or we’d send stuff by post, building up a project I’d decided to finance myself. Looking back on that, it was a mistake, and, as far as the album’s concerned, there’s a lot of things we could have done better.
Gillan goes on to say “I should have come out on Naked Thunder with both fists fling, but I didn’t want to be undignified nor appear to be in a corner. Having said this, what I was dealing with was the equivalent to a traumatic divorce, in which the parties should have been able to tay together. The first divorce had been bad enough, but at least I’d walked out. This time I’d been thrown out, and my band was continuing without me, and it was hurting.
Gillan describes the album as trying to push Deep Purple from his mind and do different material which may have disappointed some people.
They arranged a band for the tour. Gustafson, unfortunately, had a falling out with Gillan when they met to discuss. Phillips and Robinson as Gilland said “could have earned more in a few hours in the States than they’d take home in months on tour with us.”
The tour began right after the album was done. “We left for the vastness of Russia, where everybody seemed to be called Sasha.”
Production wise it’s very up to date but somewhat sparse, at times there is almost nothing happening. I think this has perhaps shown up weaknesses in some tracks. That’s the downside of it all for me. On the other hand some of the tracks are so catchy it’s practically a crime they aren’t hit singles. The two opening cuts, GUT REACTION and TALKING TO YOU really seem to hit the mark, as hard hitting as any stadium rockers, even if the latter does come over as Son of Living For The City on first hearing. The following two numbers fail to really capitalise on the opening salvo, NO GOOD LUCK has promise despite horrible keyboards. NOTHING BUT THE BEST has survived the journey from Garth Rockett but comes aver a little on the corny side lyric wise and soon runs out of steam. LIVING ON BORROWED TIME has some cracking vocals, which ought to have dominated the track. Instead the rather bombastic sections tend to overpower it.
LOLITA has a weary chorus line and comes from the Coverdale song book – pass! The second side also has its ups and downs. NOTHING TO LOSE just fails to make it, very empty sounding in places. LONG & LONELY RIDE is, despite some more annoying synth work, one of my favourites. Surely a likelier single choice than those used? The vocals are way ahead of the backing in places. LOVE GUN finally sees them letting rip a little, a real touch of Gillan magic. BRAZOS? Think I’ll stick with the Moonshiners video version. They’ve been unable to resist tinkering with it, losing the essence of the early version I heard in the studio. On the whole most people’s reactions have been very positive.
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 323.
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Moore had been in a band called Skid Row. It was in that band he met Phil Lynott and they formed a friendship. They shared an apartment in Ballsbridge, a neighborhood in Dublin at the time.
The band was not related to the American band of the same name but there have been refuted claims that Gary Moore sold the name to Sebastian Bach, a claim others deny.
Phil left the band to start Thin Lizzy. In 1974 when guitarist Eric Bell left the band Gary Moore joined briefly, recording a few songs. He left after a few months.
Moore went on to work on many other projects but rejoined Thin Lizzy in 1977 when Brian injured his hand in a bar fight. He recorded the album Black Rose: A Rock Legend with Thin Lizzy before leaving again, declining an offer to join permanently.
In 1978 Gary got a deal to do a solo album, his second after his 1973 album “Grinding Stone” billed as The Gary Moore Band. At the same time he was recording with Phil on his solo album “Solo in Soho.”
Tsangarides: “Gary asked me if I knew any drummers so I got Simon Phillilps in, who was only a young kid at the time, but who I had worked with on a Jack Bruce album, and we did the bulk of the album in a week, all jazz instrumentals. Then Gary came in with this ghetto blaster and played me a song done with a drum machine, keyboards and a guitar solo. ‘What do you think of this?’”
The track he played was “Parisienne Walkways,” and he said Phil and Brian were coming to the studio to record it.
Tsagarides had worked as an engineer at Morgan Studios, working as a tap operator for the final two Colosseum II albums. Tsangarides said, “So, when it came time to do Gary’s album I said, ‘I’d like to do that,’ and it was okay because they weren’t looking for a ‘big noise’ producer and, anyway, producers were not in the same league as they became in the 1980s and 1990s, plus I was cheap!”
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This song was a bit of an issue in Thin Lizzy. It was originally a 12-bar blues song and Brian Downey and Robertson did not like it and added a bit more to the song. On this version it is simplified and Chris said in Sound on Sound, “I loved the simplicity and emptiness of it . . . it was a sort of Peter Green/Santana “Black Magic Woman”-type vibe.”
Fanatical Fascists (Lynott)
Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Backing Vocals – Phil Lynott
Donna Campbell was Gary Moore’s girlfriend of about five years. Also romantically linked to Mick Jagger. Jimmy Phantom of the Stray Cats, and even pre-Sharon Ozzy Osbourne. Was even once paid £1,000 to give a lap dance to Sylvester Stallone.
During the mixing of the track Tsangarides said he was at the desk and Ozzy Osbourne walked in with Bill Ward and Geezer Butler. They were really interested in the track and asked him to play parts back to him. He said Bill Ward then threw up in the garbage can and Ozzy pulled his pants down and chasing the tape op, Vic, around the room then ran straight into a wall. He went off to the hospital and Tony Iommi called asking what they’d done to Ozzy. Apparently Ozzy had done so much cocaine that he couldn’t feel anything. He ended up showing back up at the studio later and while Tsangarides was trying to mix the song Ozzy tapped him on the shoulder and when Chris looked over Ozzy’s dick was on it. Tsangarides said that this was a “famous Ozzy trick.”
What Would You Rather Bee or a Wasp (Instrumental) (Moore)
This song had been something Don Airey and Moore had worked on in Colosseum II called “Biscayne Blues” which had been based on a Kenny Dorham song called “Blue Bossa.” a bossa nova style song.
The song had been intended to be an instrumental.
Tsangarides brought the demo of this to Phil’s house to play for him. Phil said it sounded “really French” and then began writing lyrics to it.
The opening line is “I remember Paris in ‘49.” Phil’s father’s name was Parris and Phil was born in 1949.
The whole track was recorded live in just a few takes. There was no click track and Gary played the solo in perfect time. Phil overdubbed an accordion and the upright bass.Gary played a Solina string synth and a 12-string guitar on this track.
For what the information may be worth, it charted in the UK on 03 Feb 1979 for one week at the princely position of No. 70. His highest album charter was the No. 4 peaked AFTER HOURS from 1992. This is according to the Virgin Books issued HIT ALBUMS covering the period 1956 to 2008 which I acquired on 13 June 2011 on a visit to London Town. The book cost me 6 quid which was a promotional price reduced from the previously priced 16 quid.
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Although this album is given a 1978 release date I believe it was released in January 1979, with the Back in the Streets single (a faded version of the album track) issued in December 1978.
The single was originally to appear in October 1978 as per its listing on the 45cat page but I believe it was delayed until the December release.(See Martin C. Strong The Great Rock Discography).
I was a big GM fan at this point and was eagerly awaiting the appearance of this record after the dissolution of Colosseum II and my strong recollection of knowing about the release of the album was seeing Gary and his Thin Lizzy friends appear on OGWT early in 1979. My brother bought the album on the back of this appearance and I taped it from his vinyl shortly after but before Parisienne Walkways was issued as a single. Also full page adverts for the album didn’t start to appear in the UK music papers until January 1979 another indication that it appeared that month.
Tsangarides says of the album: “It was a strange album . . . Colosseum II, Thin Lizzy and a bit of punk coming in because Paul Cook and Steve Jones shipped up and we did a few songs with them, which never came out.”
1979 was a busy year for Irish guitarist Gary Moore, who after years of seemingly aimless wandering across the musical landscape (including a flirtation with jazz-rock fusion while fronting G-Force) simultaneously re-launched his long-dormant solo career and became a full-time member of Thin Lizzy. Moore had originally agreed to help his old partner in crime Phil Lynott only temporarily, while longtime Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson recovered from a broken hand incurred in a barroom brawl. But due to Robbo’s increasing unreliability, Moore was persuaded to stay on and record Lizzy’s Black Rose album in exchange for Lynott‘s help in shaping his own solo effort, Back on the Streets. And a good trade it was, too, as with the exception of the title track’s gutsy hard rock, Lynott‘s singing and songwriting contributions wound up providing the album with its most coherent and satisfying moments. These included the highly amusing “Fanatical Fascists,” a mellow reworking of Lizzy’s “Don’t Believe a Word,” a whimsical acoustic ballad called “Spanish Guitar,” and the simply exquisite Moore tour de force “Parisienne Walkways.” Unfortunately, these are rudely interrupted by a number of misplaced instrumental fusion workouts (no doubt G-Force leftovers) and a terribly saccharine ballad called “Song for Donna.” Half winner, half dud, the album would at least serve notice of Moore’s rebirth as a solo artist, and he would show marked improvement on his next album, Corridors of Power.
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Hiseman had previously had a band named Colosseum from 1968 to 1971. Colosseum II was intended to be more jazz-fusion based and as of the breakup of Tempest only Gary Moore was named as a member.
Gary had seen Tempest play at the end of April in 1974 at one of their last gigs at the Marquee. He went backstage and suggested that he and Hiseman form a band.
They hadn’t solidified working together or a project but met again at the recording of the rock version of Peter and The Wolf that JAck Lancaster and Robin Lumley were working on.
There they decided to form a band and they went to Germany to play with the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble (UJRE). This was a group of very highly trained musicians. Gary was nervous about playing with them as he would have been one of the only ones that didn’t read music.
Hiseman called Moore a “modern player” rather than a blues player and ranked him higher than Clapton for that reason. Hiseman defined him as a true original.
Gary said in an interview in Sounds magazine: “The first time I played with Jon, I alwmost fell through the floor. He played everything I’ve always heard in my head, everything that I thought a drummer should play and a lot more besides. It was just astonishing.”
The goal was to fuse strong songs and vocals with technical jazz rock. Gary stated that there were bands that had a great jazz-fusion background and bands with great vocalists but no one that was doing both.
They got a loan for 7,000 as they didn’t have any gigs or a manager and used that to pay Gary 10 a week.
They rehearsed in a studio underneath railway arches in London. Mark Clarke and Graham Bell were brought in. Mark left shortly thereafter to join Uriah Heep’s keyboardist Ken Hensley and Graham Bell left softly thereafter. Andy Pyle also played with them briefly.
Eventually they found a singer, Mike Starrs but they struggled to find a keyboard player.
Gary dealt with a lot of fear and anxiety and used alcohol to cope with it. During this time Gary and his girlfriend donna went to a bar and ran into one of Donna’s ex boyfriends. They got into an altercation and Gary got his face smashed with a bottle which lead to his signature chin scar. They went to the hospital but Gary wouldn’t even let the doctor finish stitching it up.
In April or May of 1975 Jon and Gary found Don Airey. Airey had been in Cozy Powell’s Hammer with Neil Murray. Neil had been auditioning for bands but had a short scale bass and thought he wasn’t getting gigs because he didn’t look professional. He said that he was able to get a Precision Bass before auditioning for Colosseum II and that’s what got him the job.
Gary said that he and Don didn’t see eye to eye on the composition. Gary would do things on piano and Don would tell him that you couldn’t do that. They eventually figured out a way to work together and create music and Gary would do a very good job of communicating what he wanted to hear to Don.
Mike Starrs said that they music was “completely alien” to him.
Hiseman went to Gerry Bron who had financed Tempest to get support for the new project.
Up until this point the band was being called Ghosts and Bron said that had to change. He urged Jon to reprise the name fo Colosseum and they changed their name. They entered Gerry Bron’s Roundhouse studios to record the album in August of 1975. According to Harry Shapiro in the official Gary Moore biography. It was recorded between August and January.
Wikipedia states the album was recorded in the winter of 1975-1976 at Roundhouse Studios.
London based recording studio, properly titled “Roundhouse Recording Studios”, established in 1975 by Gerry Bron. It was the studio arm of Bronze Records. Bron formed this studio after producing Uriah Heep’s debut album “Very ‘Eavy Very ‘Umble.”
Jon said Gary never really understood players like John McLaughlin or Larry Coryell. When it finally flicked and he could understand what they were doing is when his playing really took off. Jon had a jazz background and got Gary listening to Coltrane and Roland Kirk.
Don Airey said that it was at this time that Gary’s playing reached a peak. Don Airey compared Gary’s peak and how he maintained it to Oscar Peterson.
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Gemini and Leo (Moore/Hiseman)
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While Steve Morse and Don Airey were touring Australia with Deep Purple they played two live shows. The first was at The Metro in Melbourne (April 25, 2004), the second was at Fox Studios in Sydney (April 26, 2004).
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