Phil Lynott: "When I'm in England, I say, I'm from Ireland. When I'm in Ireland, I say, I'm from Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say, I'm from Crumlin. When I'm in Crumlin, I say, Leighlin Road. When I'm in Leighlin Road, I say... I'm a Lynott."
I am not sure about greatest Irish band but could agree with possibly greatest Irish Rock Band. I mean there are the Dubliners, the Pogues, the Cranberries so many great Irish folk, punk, and other bands but I do agree that I do not think of U2 when I think of great Irish bands.
I knew Phil in the later stages of his career. He was such a sweet guy. After his wife (Caroline Crowther) left him, taking his two girls, he was devastated. The drug pushers and hangers on swooped in to take advantage of his mental state. He was sad and lonely. He used to call me up at work, using daft names so I knew it was him!) and I would get the bus round to his house in Kew. We'd drink tea and talk til I had to go back to work. Once he came to my house in the middle of the night because he was on his own and needed someone who cared to talk to. He cuddled up and slept on my sofa, In the morning I had to go to work, so he came on the bus with me (the bus passed his house). He thought it was a hoot as all the kids going to school recognised him. He laughed all the way home. Unfortunately I had to let our friendship slide as the pushers got their hooks really into him and he was a mess. I couldn't help him and couldn't bear to see his decline. That was a very sad time. His 'lifestyle' finally got the better of him and he died far too young.
Wow.. what a great thing that you knew him... I was entranced and amazed when I saw him in concert... I almost forgot my crush on Brian May (they were opening for Queen)... what an amazing talent, and engaging performer!
I’m so surprised you didn’t know the lead singer was mixed! You use a part of their song for your intro, I thought for sure you knew the band! 🤣 They’re really fucking good ❤
Rip Phil. Loved you, man!❤ Can't believe you didn't know the band or info of your theme tune, BP.!!! That's a whole new rabbit hole to go down there.!! Big respect as always from the UK 🇬🇧 bro,and brother Dom, as always, you're a star 🌟
It was just the anniversary of Phil Lynott's death a couple days ago. RIP he was a total legend. There are some more great Thin Lizzy tunes if you fancy going deeper. I absolutely adore Dancing in the Moonlight (not to be confused with the King Harvest song of the same name) and Cowboy Song, but there are many many others.
Had the pleasure of meeting Phil Lynott back in the 1970's in Toronto just walking on Yorkville St. He was surprised my friend and I, both 14 years old, had recognized him. Brazilian father and an Irish mother.
…Thanks for the suggestion: My 3 favorites Thin Lizzy songs I just learned about recently are: -Little Girl in Bloom -Vagabond of the Western World -A Ride in My Thin Lizzy Mobile
Have just bought a copy of Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds on cd, the original. Was surprised to hear Phil Lynotts voice on the recording. Hadn't bothered to look up the cast, but David Essex and Phil Lynott make it Stellar.😎😎😎
9 месяцев назад+8
Finally, my youth heroes and idols. Phil Lynott was born and raised by his Irish mother. His father was from Brithish Guyana but was not around. The band formed in Dublin early 70s. I managed to see them live in Sweden all years from 1980 and to the last show before Phils death. This was filmed in 1981.
Long over due boys! Thin Lizzy were a special band, so much energy, a string of hits. Phil Lynott RIP, taken way too early. Rare to have a bassist frontman, my word he fulfilled that role. I've seen many bands live but always just missed these boys, my brother saw them, lucky b*stard!
My mum saw em, I was so jealous that I spread a rumour around our workplace that mum had gone in leather trousers and a boob tube (I wasn't blessed with the boobs 😂) and that she crowd surfed at a gig. Everyone believed it and I'm a rubbish liar 😂 funniest rumour I've ever spread 😂😂
This will be played at my funeral. Over the years. I've lost all my rat pack. We were closer than blood brothers. I'm the last one left. Hope to see them on the other side.
From their wiki page since I couldn't remember the details of how they got their name..."The name came from a robot character in The Dandy called Tin Lizzie, which they adjusted to Thin Lizzy as a playful reference to the local Dublin accent, in which "thin" would be pronounced as "t'in"." Phil was an amazing talent. I believe he was the first black man to lead an Irish band. They were the music of my childhood. So good! 💜
I would say most Americans don't know what "the Dandy" is/was. Explaining it was the magazine that Denis the Menace was a character in is a reference my generation would know.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 But there was the English Dennis the menace, and the American Dennis the menace, who appeared in totally different comics. Weirdly enough, the two Dennises were completely independent inventions but first appeared in the same week!
@@pobsdad As far as I know the American version was a spin off from the UK mag. In fact this is the first time even hearing a suggestion that they were not related in it's origin.
Took that to break them into the UK, and beyond, Phil didnt want the band to be stereotyped "Irish" but the version was so different it became its own classic.
Fun fact: There was a popular household name and TV personality in the UK back in the 70's and 80's called Leslie Crowther. Phil Lynott married his daughter and they had two children. They got divorced and from what I remember he declined and became dependent on drugs RIP Phil Lynott
He's Irish. Full stop. He's green. He was actually born in Staffordshire, England. He died at age 36. His skin colour came from his dad but he's born and raised in Britain and Ireland.
This song is about some local gangsters from here in Manchester England. My uncle was a drinking pal of one called jimmy, everyone knows who he is.. Lived in failsworth, they were neighbours. The boys were called the quality street gang. And are absolutely folklore in these parts. They were the 60s honest type gangster.. Help an old lady across the road, but you don't fuck with them, they would hold a grudge..
Phil was Irish. The band was Irish with revolving guitarists of different nationalities. My number one band as a teen. I saw them many times. "Live and Dangerous" is a superb live album. It's funny you mention colour. I had supported them for yeaqrs, then I read a review where the writer referred to Phil as black. Although I'd watched them, discussed them with mates etc.. I literally had to go and look at a picture. I'd never thought about it. And didn't after.
Like the beer Guinness, he is half black half white full Irish. This might be a quote of his in response to a racist comment, or just and urban legend.
I saw a Billy Connelly travel documentary on TV several years ago where he toured Ireland. He visited Phil’s grave with his mother and told her an anecdote about her son, whom he’d been good friends with: Someone asked Phil what it was like to be black and Irish, to which he replied “like a pint of Guinness’.
Funny story. I grew up in the 60s/70s (female) in NJ & whenever summer rolled around, me & my girls would go to the jersey shore bars & the dudes would always play this song for US .. "the girls are back in town" Lolol fun times!! ☺️☮️💚
Thanks, BlackPeg! I saw TL open for Queen in 1977 (January) - my BFF and I were there for Queen, but I was totally entranced by Phil Lynott.. he was magnetic! and they were amazing.. so many people don't even know they are IRISH...(Phil.. mixed race? probably.. ) So many great songs... Cowboy song is a favorite...
About bloody time😅 you should know what your "theme" is about, this is our (late 70's - 80s)swagger song. When asked what it was like to be black and Irish? "Like a pint of Guinness, Black with a white Head" This song: His mother used to run an underground drinking club called showbiz in Manchester UK and some of the regular members were the "Quality street Gang" a Manchester gangster mob. "DINOS" was a Manchester nightclub. This song references wnen some of the gang were released from a stretch in prison And going out on a payback session. 😮😅
Takes me right back to high school, we blasted the "Jailbreak" album every where we went. So sad we lost Phil so early. Honestly that album reminds me of hang gliding in northern Arizona, used to launch of the top off a cinder ash extinct volcano, while soaring above my buddy would turn up the stereo so I could hear it while flying above. Thanks for the memories, Lizzy rocks!
Mr Phil Lynott on bass /lead vocals has an Irish mama and a Caribbean dad. Thin Lizzy is basically from Dublin Ireland. Brian Downey drums , Scott Gorham on lead guitar and Snowy White on lead guitar, Irish guitarist Gary Moore was in the band twice
Phil Lynott what a force of nature that man was. i met him several times when thin lizzy did gigs in Glasgow as him and the band would come into my local pub for a pre gig drink and then a post gig drinking session for you iformation Phil Lynott was black irish who hailed from ireland.
I live in that town, West Bromwich, home of Robert Plant and half of Judas Priest and yes there is statue of him in the town centre, a guy from Ireland paid for it to be erected there
Check out The Cowboy Song from the Sydney Opera House if you want to see these guys playing to a massive outdoor crowd and see Phil's rock star mastery on full display.
Phil was a mixed race rock star when such things were rare. He lived local to me & I remember as a child seeing his car when he came back from his wedding in Richmond Surrey. His music has sadly got stuck in the classic artist of the past slot when it should have been better known. He died young in 1986 from sepsis brought on by issues with drugs/drink. He deserved a better future.
Such was his impact that a life sized bronze statue was sculpted in his honour in Dublin to celebrate his life. He was one of those at the forefront of a generation that brought about a radical change over a period of time, in a country, that had been very conservative and dominated by religion up to that period into the modern Euopean nation it us today
Let me quote Bernie Mack in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle "Ain't never heard of no black Irish?...Who do you think invented the McRib, Lucky Charms, huh?- Shamrock Shake? That's ours." 😁😁😁😁😁😁great video BP and DJ!
Summer of '76, after graduating high school and partying for a few weeks, a friend and I hitchhiked from Minnesota to Colorado Springs to party with another friend for a week, then hitchhiked back to western Minnesota. As we rolled into our small town in the back seat of the ride that brought us our last 30 miles or so, this song came on the radio and the driver cranked it up for us. Oh, yeah, we boys were back in town, it was Friday, and we had some wild stories to tell the ladies at the weekly barn dance that night! Great song and reaction, once again.
Ja dann muss ich wohl auch etwas schreiben. Thin Lizzy hat mich mein gesamtes Leben begleitet. Habe mich immer gefragt, Ihr habt > the boys are back in town > in der Einleitung und habt diese unfassbare gute Gruppe / Artist nicht in eurer Videoreihe / Reactions ? Bin jetzt echt gespannt was noch folgt. Grüße aus Deutschland / Germany
Been to Dublin to see Phil’s statue and seen Phil’s basses and his personal Jukebox at the Dublin Rock museum….its a must see if you Ever make it to Dublin!
Thin Lizzy went through a number of guitarists - Gary Moore ( who had solo work too ) and others, it was almost a training ground for them. For this tune in the studio I think it was two guitars, double tracked about 8 times to sound like 16
Crazy how advanced life has become , back then you had to take the pic , then take it to Kmart (in U.S.) to get the full roll of film developed , Then go back on the day they that they estimated your roll would be done and skim through all of the bad shot's to find maybe 2 or 3 that would be decent lmao R.I.P. Phil
I love Phil. The statue they erected for him in Dublin is high on my bucket list. There are a few good documentaries about his life. Basically, his mom is whiter than white and his dad is blacker than black. She took a bunch of crap for being with him and also for having a "dark" or "brown" baby in Ireland. There's a difference between being black and Irish and Black Irish. I was surprised to see that he got picked on and called the "N" word growing up. I thought that was a very American thing but apparently it existed in Ireland when young Phil was a kid. It is therorized that was part of the insecurity he had which was partly responsible for the heroin addiction that ultimately contributed to his death.
Hey BP, I don't know if you will see this, but I don't know a better place to post it. Steve Perry was a friend of Phil Lynott, and his song Any Way You Want It was inspired by him. They toured together a lot. Phil's death affected him deeply and added to his early burnout in the mid 80's. I thought that knowing two artists you admire were connected may interest you. He is also friends with Steve Ferrone, a mixed race Scot who was the drummer for The Average White Band, a Scottish funk band who's lead singer and guitarist, Hamish Stuart, would wear full kilts when performing. Check them out.
Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy was half-black (Mother was Irish, father was from Guyana)... Bob Marley was also half-black (Mother was Jamaican, father was British) ... There were a lot of Africans brought to South and Central America as slaves to work on plantations... they make up a lot of the populations of countries like Jamaica, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, etc.
Phil Lynott was born in England live there until he was 3 1/2 years old sent to live with his grandparents in Dublin. He would never identify as British and he would correct people when he said he was Irish and they would say British. He was an amazing artist.
Hell, if Phil Lynott's dad was born in British Guyana he could be related to me (long story) involving a number of a mix of South American "natives" and the "British, etc Shipping Imports" that got together pre mid 19th Century then my (oddly Dublin originating) relative went over as Britain had taken control of the land (had been divided Franch/Spain/Portugual for a while I think) to teach English and run part of the civil service. His son married but his wife didnt produce a son so he ran a harem of the locals aforementioned, the resultant children ended up in the civil service - running electric , timber trade and water or migrated to the US (as teachers) or canada. So there could have been a relative meeting someone else during the early half of the C20th, though its a big country (including a lot of chinese bought in to work in sugar plantations as cheap labour)
Please try this great band doing "I'm Still in Love With You from the Live and Dangerous Tour" 🔥🔥. This band was known for some of the best double lead guitar riffs of the 70's 80's and 90's 🎶🎵🔥🙏✌️
![ARGENTINA vs. BOLIVIA [6-0] | RESUMEN | ELIMINATORIAS SUDAMERICANAS | FECHA 10](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/C3wPtKNbAOA/mqdefault.jpg)
Phil Lynott:
"When I'm in England, I say, I'm from Ireland.
When I'm in Ireland, I say, I'm from Dublin.
When I'm in Dublin, I say, I'm from Crumlin.
When I'm in Crumlin, I say, Leighlin Road.
When I'm in Leighlin Road, I say...
I'm a Lynott."
love it.
💚💯💚💚💚💚💚
Proud😂Black/Irish😂with vocals of an angel😢gone way too soon. RIP Phil.❤
The Greatest Irish band ever ( yeah bono that's right), RIP Philo the last high king of Ireland
I am not sure about greatest Irish band but could agree with possibly greatest Irish Rock Band. I mean there are the Dubliners, the Pogues, the Cranberries so many great Irish folk, punk, and other bands but I do agree that I do not think of U2 when I think of great Irish bands.
@@tfodthogtmfof7644 Horselips as well. I never see anyone mentioning them.
I got over U2 long ago.
@@fionamb83 horselips were a different class, so good and underrated
Wolf tones after thin lizzy
I knew Phil in the later stages of his career. He was such a sweet guy. After his wife (Caroline Crowther) left him, taking his two girls, he was devastated. The drug pushers and hangers on swooped in to take advantage of his mental state. He was sad and lonely. He used to call me up at work, using daft names so I knew it was him!) and I would get the bus round to his house in Kew. We'd drink tea and talk til I had to go back to work. Once he came to my house in the middle of the night because he was on his own and needed someone who cared to talk to. He cuddled up and slept on my sofa, In the morning I had to go to work, so he came on the bus with me (the bus passed his house). He thought it was a hoot as all the kids going to school recognised him. He laughed all the way home. Unfortunately I had to let our friendship slide as the pushers got their hooks really into him and he was a mess. I couldn't help him and couldn't bear to see his decline. That was a very sad time. His 'lifestyle' finally got the better of him and he died far too young.
Wow this is incredible. He seems like a such an awesome guy but his soul was broken.
Wow.. what a great thing that you knew him... I was entranced and amazed when I saw him in concert... I almost forgot my crush on Brian May (they were opening for Queen)... what an amazing talent, and engaging performer!
@@GinMae May on Lead and Phil on Bass would have blown the stage away
😢 xxxx
I’m so surprised you didn’t know the lead singer was mixed! You use a part of their song for your intro, I thought for sure you knew the band! 🤣 They’re really fucking good ❤
Yeah he's mixed with heart And soul .
@@turkeeg7644 in the exact perfect amounts too! Their classics are timeless ♥️
Rip Phil. Loved you, man!❤
Can't believe you didn't know the band or info of your theme tune, BP.!!!
That's a whole new rabbit hole to go down there.!!
Big respect as always from the UK 🇬🇧 bro,and brother Dom, as always, you're a star 🌟
A Must: Living Color - Cult of Personality
A surprise and hard-core history lesson
Great suggestion!
I saw Thin Lizzy at my first rock concert in Houston in 1977. I was 16 y/o. They opened for Queen!
I'm so green! Would've LOVED to have seen all the great bands!
When asked what its like to be black and Irish, Phil Lynott replied "Like a pint of Guinness".
It was just the anniversary of Phil Lynott's death a couple days ago. RIP he was a total legend. There are some more great Thin Lizzy tunes if you fancy going deeper. I absolutely adore Dancing in the Moonlight (not to be confused with the King Harvest song of the same name) and Cowboy Song, but there are many many others.
Cowboy Song is my favorite!!❤
Had the pleasure of meeting Phil Lynott back in the 1970's in Toronto just walking on Yorkville St.
He was surprised my friend and I, both 14 years old, had recognized him.
Brazilian father and an Irish mother.
Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Out in the fields
I love that song!
…Thanks for the suggestion:
My 3 favorites Thin Lizzy songs I just learned about recently are:
-Little Girl in Bloom
-Vagabond of the Western World
-A Ride in My Thin Lizzy Mobile
Also Parisian Walkways
Have just bought a copy of Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds on cd, the original. Was surprised to hear Phil Lynotts voice on the recording. Hadn't bothered to look up the cast, but David Essex and Phil Lynott make it Stellar.😎😎😎
Finally, my youth heroes and idols. Phil Lynott was born and raised by his Irish mother. His father was from Brithish Guyana but was not around. The band formed in Dublin early 70s. I managed to see them live in Sweden all years from 1980 and to the last show before Phils death.
This was filmed in 1981.
Long over due boys! Thin Lizzy were a special band, so much energy, a string of hits. Phil Lynott RIP, taken way too early. Rare to have a bassist frontman, my word he fulfilled that role. I've seen many bands live but always just missed these boys, my brother saw them, lucky b*stard!
My mum saw em, I was so jealous that I spread a rumour around our workplace that mum had gone in leather trousers and a boob tube (I wasn't blessed with the boobs 😂) and that she crowd surfed at a gig. Everyone believed it and I'm a rubbish liar 😂 funniest rumour I've ever spread 😂😂
@@nancymoore9952 Brilliant! I've seen Limehouse Lizzy a couple of times, one of the best tribute bands out there.
@@patcow9999 🥰 gotta love the tribute bands 😃 🥰
This will be played at my funeral. Over the years. I've lost all my rat pack. We were closer than blood brothers. I'm the last one left. Hope to see them on the other side.
From their wiki page since I couldn't remember the details of how they got their name..."The name came from a robot character in The Dandy called Tin Lizzie, which they adjusted to Thin Lizzy as a playful reference to the local Dublin accent, in which "thin" would be pronounced as "t'in"."
Phil was an amazing talent. I believe he was the first black man to lead an Irish band. They were the music of my childhood. So good! 💜
I would say most Americans don't know what "the Dandy" is/was. Explaining it was the magazine that Denis the Menace was a character in is a reference my generation would know.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 But there was the English Dennis the menace, and the American Dennis the menace, who appeared in totally different comics. Weirdly enough, the two Dennises were completely independent inventions but first appeared in the same week!
@@pobsdad As far as I know the American version was a spin off from the UK mag. In fact this is the first time even hearing a suggestion that they were not related in it's origin.
But, the term “Tin Lizzie” used in the comics is a play on words originally used as a nickname for old automobiles.
@@vagabondwastrel2361 something I read somewhere. Never had any reason to check it out for accuracy.
"If that chick don't wanna know...FORGETTAHHH" best line ever!
Whiskey in a jar
Jailbreak
Two great songs to check out
Their version of " Wisky in the jar" is also remarkeble...like your comments verry nice.
Took that to break them into the UK, and beyond, Phil didnt want the band to be stereotyped "Irish" but the version was so different it became its own classic.
Fun fact: There was a popular household name and TV personality in the UK back in the 70's and 80's called Leslie Crowther. Phil Lynott married his daughter and they had two children. They got divorced and from what I remember he declined and became dependent on drugs
RIP Phil Lynott
He's Irish. Full stop. He's green. He was actually born in Staffordshire, England. He died at age 36. His skin colour came from his dad but he's born and raised in Britain and Ireland.
Thin Lizzy was one of the first bands I ever saw in concert. When they opened for Queen in the 70s at the Forum in Inglewood CA. They were amazing.
I saw them open for Queen in 1977 at the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, TX. My first concert at 16 y/o!!
No way, me too 1977 or 1978 at the Forum, I forgot, I was a freshman in high school🤘
@@RobertRodriguez-i7y so was I LMAO
In 1978 Thin Lizzy played to a crowd of 100,000 outside Sydney Opera House. There are some YT clips of the show.
Better performance than this.
Phil Lynott.. the mudda fuxin coolest Irish man that has ever lived, beyond doubt.
I leave a flower at his statue every time I am in Dublin!
This song is about some local gangsters from here in Manchester England.
My uncle was a drinking pal of one called jimmy, everyone knows who he is..
Lived in failsworth, they were neighbours.
The boys were called the quality street gang.
And are absolutely folklore in these parts.
They were the 60s honest type gangster..
Help an old lady across the road, but you don't fuck with them, they would hold a grudge..
Phil was Irish. The band was Irish with revolving guitarists of different nationalities. My number one band as a teen. I saw them many times. "Live and Dangerous" is a superb live album. It's funny you mention colour. I had supported them for yeaqrs, then I read a review where the writer referred to Phil as black. Although I'd watched them, discussed them with mates etc.. I literally had to go and look at a picture. I'd never thought about it. And didn't after.
Like the beer Guinness, he is half black half white full Irish.
This might be a quote of his in response to a racist comment, or just and urban legend.
I saw a Billy Connelly travel documentary on TV several years ago where he toured Ireland. He visited Phil’s grave with his mother and told her an anecdote about her son, whom he’d been good friends with: Someone asked Phil what it was like to be black and Irish, to which he replied “like a pint of Guinness’.
He to a interviewer who call him british: "Irish! Republic of Ireland!"
@@UdoMittendorf-h5t like spike milligan, and many of us.
The normal chat up line was , Have you got any Irish in you ? No?, Do you want some ?
Phil's father was from British Guyana in the Caribbean,
Great, great band! Worth to check out more of them boyz! :)
Funny story. I grew up in the 60s/70s (female) in NJ & whenever summer rolled around, me & my girls would go to the jersey shore bars & the dudes would always play this song for US .. "the girls are back in town" Lolol fun times!! ☺️☮️💚
Thanks, BlackPeg! I saw TL open for Queen in 1977 (January) - my BFF and I were there for Queen, but I was totally entranced by Phil Lynott.. he was magnetic! and they were amazing.. so many people don't even know they are IRISH...(Phil.. mixed race? probably.. ) So many great songs... Cowboy song is a favorite...
Legend passed away 38 years ago on 4th January 🙁
About bloody time😅 you should know what your "theme" is about, this is our (late 70's - 80s)swagger song.
When asked what it was like to be black and Irish? "Like a pint of Guinness, Black with a white Head"
This song:
His mother used to run an underground drinking club called showbiz in Manchester UK and some of the regular members were the "Quality street Gang" a Manchester gangster mob.
"DINOS" was a Manchester nightclub. This song references wnen some of the gang were released from a stretch in prison
And going out on a payback session. 😮😅
70s song all the way dallas COWBOYS THEEM SONG IN THE 70s
Takes me right back to high school, we blasted the "Jailbreak" album every where we went. So sad we lost Phil so early. Honestly that album reminds me of hang gliding in northern Arizona, used to launch of the top off a cinder ash extinct volcano, while soaring above my buddy would turn up the stereo so I could hear it while flying above. Thanks for the memories, Lizzy rocks!
A little easter egg for you...there is a Thin Lizzy poster on the wall in cousin Eddie's daughter's room in National Lampoon Summer Vacation.
I saw these guys live in Melbourne Australia in 1978 when I was 17 and they kicked ass!
Cold Sweat from Thin Lizzy and live..........😉
It's actually quite nice to watch your channel and hear this sung in tune for once
🤣🤣🤣
I cannot sing it in tune , I am always flat, I think it might have been sped up a fraction on disc
Yayy some Irish Rock. I'm Watching from Ireland 🍀🍀, Phil didn't identify as anything but Irish, as we say here were not white, were Irish.
We're not white, we're translucent
He identified as Dublin, specifically Crumlin ;)
Love all the 70s and 80s stuff you're delving into. So much great energy to the stuff of that era. Real performers.
Finally 🎉🎉🎉Thank you a legend 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
And a dub like my Mum he lived near my Aunty fantastic talent 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
So happy to see you react to this track, and band, finally. 😁 Pleas react to more of their music. I would highly recommend "Dancing in the Moonlight"
Mr Phil Lynott on bass /lead vocals has an Irish mama and a Caribbean dad. Thin Lizzy is basically from Dublin Ireland. Brian Downey drums , Scott Gorham on lead guitar and Snowy White on lead guitar, Irish guitarist Gary Moore was in the band twice
I forgot Snowy White !!
Phil Lynott what a force of nature that man was. i met him several times when thin lizzy did gigs in Glasgow as him and the band would come into my local pub for a pre gig drink and then a post gig drinking session for you iformation Phil Lynott was black irish who hailed from ireland.
Great Irish band❤
Color and ethnicity are no longer separable. We are all one. Phil is one of us. And he and his band rocketh us all. On we go.
Phil Lynott RIP....I had the privilege of seeing TL twice. Once in Manchester, and once in Hull...Brilliant band.
Saw the great Thin Lizzy live in 1983. Brilliant live act. Started out an Irish band but over the years also took onboard British and U.S. musicians.
My favourite song to play in my old convertible with the roof down!
theres a statue of Phil in his home town
I live in that town, West Bromwich, home of Robert Plant and half of Judas Priest and yes there is statue of him in the town centre, a guy from Ireland paid for it to be erected there
@@glennjones2635 Growing up speaking irish with a brummie accent , gives a unique sound. worked a bit with Roy Wood
Check out The Cowboy Song from the Sydney Opera House if you want to see these guys playing to a massive outdoor crowd and see Phil's rock star mastery on full display.
Total legend ...and the first guy to make me question my sexuality......
This was the first concert I went to back in 1978 they opened for Bob seger
Use to know this song on guitar played it in a cover band once upon a time, fun song to play
Phil was a mixed race rock star when such things were rare. He lived local to me & I remember as a child seeing his car when he came back from his wedding in Richmond Surrey. His music has sadly got stuck in the classic artist of the past slot when it should have been better known. He died young in 1986 from sepsis brought on by issues with drugs/drink. He deserved a better future.
Phil compared himself to a pint of Guinness - tall, black, and Irish
His surname is pronounced "Lie not"
I thought that was Trevor M... er, not Irish 😝
that is NOT how his name is pronounced, these lads here pronounced it right.
@@locusmortisyes that's how it's pronounced. Lie not. So his daughters pronounce it and his band mates too. And I'm sure they know it.
@@fronthorse It's not how it's fucking pronounced. Lynott was from Crumlin, go ask someone there how it's fucking pronounced.
@@locusmortis awesome reply(not) 😉
I trust his family and mates more than you. Even you're cursing didn't convince me. Sorry mate.
Now for your outro, Thank You For Being A Friend by Andrew Gold
Glad you are taking a trip down the the road I grow up in
Was Huey Lewis in Thin Lizzy?
Under the name "Bluesy Huey Lewis", Lewis played harmonica on Thin Lizzy's 1978 landmark album Live and Dangerous.
You should check out their song “Jailbreak”
Such was his impact that a life sized bronze statue was sculpted in his honour in Dublin to celebrate his life. He was one of those at the forefront of a generation that brought about a radical change over a period of time, in a country, that had been very conservative and dominated by religion up to that period into the modern Euopean nation it us today
BP please do their song “cowboy song”. Their very best song in my opinion. Thanks!
Let me quote Bernie Mack in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle "Ain't never heard of no black Irish?...Who do you think invented the McRib, Lucky Charms, huh?- Shamrock Shake? That's ours." 😁😁😁😁😁😁great video BP and DJ!
Summer of '76, after graduating high school and partying for a few weeks, a friend and I hitchhiked from Minnesota to Colorado Springs to party with another friend for a week, then hitchhiked back to western Minnesota. As we rolled into our small town in the back seat of the ride that brought us our last 30 miles or so, this song came on the radio and the driver cranked it up for us. Oh, yeah, we boys were back in town, it was Friday, and we had some wild stories to tell the ladies at the weekly barn dance that night! Great song and reaction, once again.
The creole come from that area. But African was his father’s true origin..he was like a pint of Guinness
Ja dann muss ich wohl auch etwas schreiben. Thin Lizzy hat mich mein gesamtes Leben begleitet. Habe mich immer gefragt, Ihr habt > the boys are back in town > in der Einleitung und habt diese unfassbare gute Gruppe / Artist nicht in eurer Videoreihe / Reactions ? Bin jetzt echt gespannt was noch folgt. Grüße aus Deutschland / Germany
Underrated band, sooo many great songs. Please hear more songs :)
Been to Dublin to see Phil’s statue and seen Phil’s basses and his personal Jukebox at the Dublin Rock museum….its a must see if you Ever make it to Dublin!
Gary Moore and thin lizzy Dont believe a word.
RIP Philip Parris Lynott! Really nice reaction!
Thin Lizzy went through a number of guitarists - Gary Moore ( who had solo work too ) and others, it was almost a training ground for them. For this tune in the studio I think it was two guitars, double tracked about 8 times to sound like 16
Great Band…Great tune! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Crazy how advanced life has become , back then you had to take the pic , then take it to Kmart (in U.S.) to get the full roll of film developed , Then go back on the day they that they estimated your roll would be done and skim through all of the bad shot's to find maybe 2 or 3 that would be decent lmao
R.I.P. Phil
I love Phil. The statue they erected for him in Dublin is high on my bucket list. There are a few good documentaries about his life. Basically, his mom is whiter than white and his dad is blacker than black. She took a bunch of crap for being with him and also for having a "dark" or "brown" baby in Ireland. There's a difference between being black and Irish and Black Irish. I was surprised to see that he got picked on and called the "N" word growing up. I thought that was a very American thing but apparently it existed in Ireland when young Phil was a kid. It is therorized that was part of the insecurity he had which was partly responsible for the heroin addiction that ultimately contributed to his death.
This concert was at a festival in Germany called Rockpalast in 1981 .
☘️Thin Lizzy is such an underrated band! LOVE THEM!!! My favorites are: -Emerald -Warrior -Whiskey in the Jar (old Irish song) -The Cowboy Song
Irish Rock!!
You need to check out the band Kings X.
Keep it up!
That’s what she said
If anybody said to Phil u are British he would go mad and give a history lesson that's our phil
"he probably what Jesus look like!" YESSSSSSSS!!! This song was such a huge part of our 80's teenage years...so good.
REALY it was in the 70s when it was released allso
@@theodoreritola7641 I wasn't a teenager until 1983
Video is likely 1981-82. Find a video of "Emerald" from 76-78. You won't be disappointed.
70s SONG ALL THE WAY
This song was also featured in A Knight's Tale. Have you heard Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak?
This band was groundbreaking. they have so many songs you guys should check out, check out the song, showdown, or she knows
METALLICA uses this song as their intro song for their shows.
Do did thr DALLAS COWBOS IN THE FANTASTIC 70s
Hey BP, I don't know if you will see this, but I don't know a better place to post it.
Steve Perry was a friend of Phil Lynott, and his song Any Way You Want It was inspired by him.
They toured together a lot.
Phil's death affected him deeply and added to his early burnout in the mid 80's.
I thought that knowing two artists you admire were connected may interest you.
He is also friends with Steve Ferrone, a mixed race Scot who was the drummer for The Average White Band, a Scottish funk band who's lead singer and guitarist, Hamish Stuart, would wear full kilts when performing. Check them out.
Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy was half-black (Mother was Irish, father was from Guyana)... Bob Marley was also half-black (Mother was Jamaican, father was British) ... There were a lot of Africans brought to South and Central America as slaves to work on plantations... they make up a lot of the populations of countries like Jamaica, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, etc.
On the radio I just heard, great bass player. / amazing hair and smile.
I was one who asked if you ever had reacted to this song, it’s an old favourite of mine.
PHYL'S LEVELS OF TALENT AND HOTNESS... OFF THE CHARTS! ALONG WITH SCOTT'S!!!!
Phil and Lemmy from Motörhead were best friends. ❤
One of the top 1970s SONGS ALL TimeThe Dallas Cowbows use to use this as thier theem song when they woud play at HOME in DALLES In the 1970s
im from near west bromwich...got to see thin lizzy ozzie osbourne eric clapton robert plant...too oh the day at the birmingham odeon
Finally !
Oh and they are from Ireland not England.
Yh Guyana is on the coast between Suriname and Venezuela it gained independence from Britain in 1966
why did they say it was landlocked - is the main port techincally on a river estuary and not the atlantic/carribean sea?
Very few bands had two lead guitarists.
Thank you bp that’s what I’m talking bout..🤟🏼
My brother rob was born in 64 this was his and his friends unofficial theme song
Phil Lynott was born in England live there until he was 3 1/2 years old sent to live with his grandparents in Dublin. He would never identify as British and he would correct people when he said he was Irish and they would say British. He was an amazing artist.
Hell, if Phil Lynott's dad was born in British Guyana he could be related to me (long story) involving a number of a mix of South American "natives" and the "British, etc Shipping Imports" that got together pre mid 19th Century then my (oddly Dublin originating) relative went over as Britain had taken control of the land (had been divided Franch/Spain/Portugual for a while I think) to teach English and run part of the civil service. His son married but his wife didnt produce a son so he ran a harem of the locals aforementioned, the resultant children ended up in the civil service - running electric , timber trade and water or migrated to the US (as teachers) or canada. So there could have been a relative meeting someone else during the early half of the C20th, though its a big country (including a lot of chinese bought in to work in sugar plantations as cheap labour)
This footage was from a concert in Germany in 1981. More here, with 'Cowboy Song': ruclips.net/video/l_luDGhz-Mk/видео.htmlsi=cGjx076YtTeL6zbV
good reaction guys you know true music
I get it. When I found out the guys from CCR were white I was mind blown.
Please try this great band doing "I'm Still in Love With You from the Live and Dangerous Tour" 🔥🔥. This band was known for some of the best double lead guitar riffs of the 70's 80's and 90's 🎶🎵🔥🙏✌️
Epic, classic rock and roll!