![]() So I play the chords and it sounded okay, but I’m thinking, well, shit, man, what the fuck can you make out of these? I said: “How about this?” and played the riff we now know. We were sitting around one day, and he was on his bass guitar, just kind of ‘dunga dunga dunga…’ He goes: “What do you think?” I said well, it sounds like ‘dunga dunga dunga’ He goes: “Yeah, yeah, I know. But it was one of those songs none of us never really paid attention to. Writing on the road and no time to demo things, it became a much bigger chore to push us to be able to write and record. Then after The Boys Are Back In Town hit, all the time just evaporated. There were a lot of peaks and valleys, especially on those first couple of albums, until we finally got into our stride around the time of Jailbreak and Johnny The Fox, which came out the same year. I think every album we did, there was an element of: well that song’s killer, maybe not so much that one. It seemed to take its cue from the rousing Sha La La – the only out-and-out rocker on Nightlife – and just keep building. ![]() We all walked out scratching our heads, going: “What the fuck just happened there?” That’s when Phil goes: “Fuck these producers, I’ll produce the next one.” I went: “Oh shit. So we’ll just take it down a notch.”Īnd Nevison was like: “Could you turn it down a little bit more?” And the volume kept going down and down, to where the songs just didn’t have that drive any longer. But when we got into the studio, Ron Nevison, the producer, kept saying: “Just turn the guitars down a little.” Robbo and I would look at each other and go: “This is our first album, and this guy’s just worked with Led Zeppelin. The rehearsals for that album were exactly the same way as when I went down and jammed with them: everything was loud, it was big. ![]() Was the thinking: this is where we should be going too? But 1974 was the year of Little Feat, the Average White Band, Rod Stewart doing Motown, Bowie’s Young Americans. It got written off for its unexpectedly laid-back, funk-brother vibe. The first Lizzy album of the new LynottDowney-Robertson-Gorham era was Nightlife. Now if I reverse the whole thing, and say a new guy comes in years later and goes: “You know, Scott, The Boys Are Back In Town, this is a whole new thing. Let’s get rid of Whiskey In The Jar.” You know, like it was that easy. He was buried in St Fintan's Cemetery, Dublin.So after about six months of playing this damn song, I go to Phil and say, you know, Whiskey In The Jar, it’s great, but we got a new band now, we gotta stand on our own two feet, you know? He goes: “Yeah, I get it. Phil Lynott's funeral was held at St Elizabeth's Church in London five days later, and was followed by a second service at Howth Parish Church in Dublin, on January 11. Just eleven days after his collapse, on January 4 1986, he died of pneumonia and heart failure at the hospital's intensive care unit. He was just 36. There he was diagnosed with septicaemia (poisoning of the blood), as well as kidney and liver damage.Īlthough he regained consciousness and was able to speak to Philomena, his condition worsened, and by the start of the New Year he was put on a ventilator to help with his breathing. Familiar with his habit, she rushed him to a drug clinic at Clouds House near Shaftesbury, where the clinicians took one look at the ailing Lynott and sent him quickly on to Salisbury Infirmary. He collapsed at home in Kew, and while his two daughters Sara and Cathleen were at the house, it was his mother, Philomena, who discovered him and called his estranged wife.Ĭaroline jumped in her car and drove the 100 miles from her home in Bath to be at Lynott’s side. ![]() Lynott's body finally gave in on Christmas Day.
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