Not 1 bad guitarist ever in Thin Lizzy, all very underated, but none have been able to duplicate Eric's original version; sound, solo, structure, style.
Underrated by whom exactly? I love them. They are the best hard rock band of the seventies. I could care less if anyone else recognizes the greatness that is Thin Lizzy.
I've always said if Jimi Hendrix ever picked up a bass this is what is would sound like--he was way ahead, not many bassists could sing and play that good--no one has, or will, touch Phil.
Wow. This takes me back. Saw Thin Lizzy several times during the Eric Bell days (and before Whisky in the Jar) Truly excellent band. Wish I could go back there. Brian Downey and Phil Lynott were one of the best rhythm sections I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. I'm still a Lizzy fan. Thanks for posting this vid.
What I'd give to teleport back in time and see one of the jams from the Eric era! Longer tracks like Funky Nomadic Tribes must have been especially groovy live
I have always thought the studio version of this was way ahead of its time with Mr. Bell, he absolutely owns this track but have never seen any footage like this! This is incredible to see, thank you for posting.
fantastic sound, but what on earth were the production team thinking when they filmed this? Shots of the gantry? and the worlds most unenthusiastic audience too. what a strange video.
The camera angles were more focused on the ART logo, crane shots, and bored footage of audience members than of the band itself. I would have preferred a close-up of Eric's guitar solo instead of a view of the lighting rig...
Eric def had his place in the history of Thin Lizzy. They wrote some brilliant stuff with him. Remembering - Mama Nature Say - Hero & The Mad Man - Vagabonds of The Western World. Sitamoia. Randalph's Tango. Little Darlin'. He was a class act. I loved Scott and Robbo too. Best hard rock band ever by a country mile. UFO? Judas Priest etc? Don't make me laugh!
En mi opinión,el mejor guitarrista que tuvo la banda,los comienzos de Thin Lizzy estaban lejos de definir su sonido,pero fueron esos tres primeros lp's,los más creativos de su historia.
Great sound and not a valve in sight! 100w transistor HH heads and a Colorsound Overdriver and a wah pedal, and a pure genius on the guitar. I cut my teeth on Lizzy mk2 (Robbo and Scott), great band, but I listen more to the original 3 piece now, much more inventive back then.
Eric bell is such a guitar wizard one of my favourites love the imagination he puts into his playing and the sounds he gets out of minimal gear true master of the instrument
These would absolutely be absolute legendary giants in their own life time if Phil hadn't of overdosed and died, Can you imagine how massive they would be if they were around today (this original line up), I think they would be up there with the likes of purple and the like.
Rockpalast is the best German channel for film of these classics. Teenage audiences still motionless though - white and uptight (like me!), even for geniuses like Wire.
I am your main man if you're looking for trouble I'll take no lip 'cause no ones tougher than me If I kicked your face you'd soon be seeing double Hey little girl, keep your hands off me 'cause I'm a rocker I love to rock and roll I get my records from the Rock On stall Sweet rock and roll Teddy boy, he's got them all Down at the juke joint me and the boys were stompin' Bippin' an a boppin', telling a dirty joke or two In walked this chick and I knew she was up to something I kissed her right there out of the blue I said "Hey baby, meet me I'm a tough guy" Got my cycle outside, you wanna try? She just looked at me and rolled them big eyes And said "Ooh I'd do anything for you 'cause you're a rocker" That's right I'm a rocker I love to rock and roll I get my records from the Rock On stall Sweet rock and roll Teddy boy, he's got them all
Wow! Eric Bell was a very tasty player. Just goes to show you don't necessarily need to "shred" to show how you can play. I'll take tone, feel and imagination over 1000 notes per minute anyday.
Doh ! I was talking about even Brian DOWNEY (Thin Lizzy drummer - in case you didn't know !) being drowned out by Gary Moore ! As well as drowning out Scott . Yes , apologies for cocking up his name - I was suffering with the flu at the time and could hardly see the monitor - lol ! I was also talking about the Robertson/Gorham lineup(Brian/Scott) being the best lineup apart from the Eric Bell years actually. Many thanks to ICETERICIA for putting this brilliant video on RUclips - GR8 stuff !
Great music - never seen that footage. Please don't write more about the audience until you know that ANY tv music shows were like this in the early 70s - regardless if it was in the netherlands, england, germany ´or elsewhere
Haha. "fanny kicking band." Phil would have loved that description. In Ireland and the UK, we use the word fanny the way Americans use the word pussy. Never as ass.
i worked with Eric on the 20th vibefor philo whata gentleman! i was using a gitane Django reinhehart copy guitar. after the gig in Dublin, he asked if he could have a go and the Bugger can play Django stuff too! only guy to play with Jimi Hendrix's bass player and drummer UNDERATED? not by me!!!! what a great clip warts and all what an honour to play Whiskey in the jar with him at SLATTERYS on capel st
had a friend whose uncle was a DJ in 70s at knac in long beach and he got us tickets to all the tapings of Don kirshners rock concerts. a lot of great bands ,but t.v. tapings are the most boring thing in the world. some bands would take like 30 minutes to get a song just right for t.v. others (the good ones) just blasted through the set. so you can't blame the poor Germans for not rocking out. they were probably bored shitless by the time the band finally played some music
I reckon the crowd can barely see the band. The stage is covered in camera crew, so there's no connection. The guy in the rafters must have known the editor/director, even if the producer banished him to the heights for some cock-up! :D
F**KIN HELL!, YAS!........what a band they were man, I love that 3 piece, they were outstanding man, Brian Downey, OOOOOFT!, superb, Eric Bell, a cosmic irish blues man, and Phillo, jeezuz, a poet, frontman, incredible bass player and lyricist, BOOM!.
If you know anything about the Europe crowd in the early 70's and late 60's, that is that they are very reserved. Maybe they don't want to get out of line?
Great to almost see a live version of this song, with Eric on guitar. But Sweet Holy Jesus and all the saints up in heaven, WTF was the director on? "Hey Hans, the band are starting." "Yep, but the control room, those rafters, the crowd, and . . . . oh yeah, the band. Can I keep cutting away from them? Yeah, I'll do that. They are such nice rafters."
Underrated? It's Thin Lizzy. They were never Underrated. For, ratings are trash, and purely subjective. The Rocker, Philip Parris Lynott, cannot be rated. That's Law.
It sparkles, doesn't it? So many rock bands are effected by the Sabbath effect for the last two decades. The 70's were vibrant with what was coming through. No doubt about it.
its scott gorham not gorman and gary was in the band with scott not brian. (maybe for a 1974 performace of still in love with you they shared the stage. that's it!)
Eric Bell - Thin Lizzy's original and best guitarist. When he quit, they had to use 2 guitarists to compensate for his loss. And no, he's not having a laugh. That's pretty much the way he played the solo on the album VOTWW.
What TV show is they're playing on? Was everything on this show like this, or did the director just not like Thin Lizzy or something? He's showing just about everything BUT the band. Lots of shots of mirrors, the audience (including a rather bored looking kid sitting on the floor), even the control room, with only the occasional shot of the band. Well, at least the band is actually playing live here.
Yea I gotta totally agree there . Eric was bloody great wasn't he ? I loved the Robertson/Gorman lineup too of course. Not so sure now about when Gary Moore was in it now - especially after seeing some of the vids on here it has helped to remind me of what a friggin ego that guy had/has overplaying over everyone and even to the point of drowning out Brian at times. Gary should have taken lessons from Eric - lol .
Thumbs up if this still rocks in 2024!!!!!!!!
Not 1 bad guitarist ever in Thin Lizzy, all very underated, but none have been able to duplicate Eric's original version; sound, solo, structure, style.
That's a fact and I've heard so many versions of whiskey in the jar Eric Bells is the best by far,and Black Boys on the Corner ,stunning guitar work.🎉
This lineup was😊
Everyone killed it, but cheers to Eric Bell. Dude slays.
Criminally under-rated band.
OhmyGAWD. Definitely REDICULOUSLY UNDERRATED!!!!
They were big back in the day. 80’s new wave eclipsed rock.
Underrated by whom exactly? I love them. They are the best hard rock band of the seventies. I could care less if anyone else recognizes the greatness that is Thin Lizzy.
Is very famous in all the world of rock.
Camera man filming other camera crew and the rafters when all I really want to see is the band and Bell's brilliant solo.
That’s the director’s fault, calling shots in the booth under the influence of some heavy chemicals. Wretched!
This surely the best version?? Eric Bell OWNS this track!!
I've always said if Jimi Hendrix ever picked up a bass this is what is would sound like--he was way ahead, not many bassists could sing and play that good--no one has, or will, touch Phil.
phil?
@@cesirwin1973 Phil Lynott?
Wow. This takes me back. Saw Thin Lizzy several times during the Eric Bell days (and before Whisky in the Jar) Truly excellent band. Wish I could go back there. Brian Downey and Phil Lynott were one of the best rhythm sections I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. I'm still a Lizzy fan. Thanks for posting this vid.
What I'd give to teleport back in time and see one of the jams from the Eric era! Longer tracks like Funky Nomadic Tribes must have been especially groovy live
@@zibberebbiz take me along with you...I fuckin hate the world today...🎶🎸👍
They put Ireland 🇮🇪 on the map, musically. Everyone loved Phil Lynott up and down the country for his modesty and talent... Sadly missed.
He seemed like such a modest man ❤
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ERIC BELL - WHAT AN UNDERRATED SENSATIONAL GUITARIST!!!
Yes. One of the best guitarists ever. Better than most well knowns.
Bell’s solo is epic!
holy shit people...this is a rock n roll show...WAKE UP!!!
I have always thought the studio version of this was way ahead of its time with Mr. Bell, he absolutely owns this track but have never seen any footage like this! This is incredible to see, thank you for posting.
fantastic sound, but what on earth were the production team thinking when they filmed this? Shots of the gantry? and the worlds most unenthusiastic audience too. what a strange video.
The camera angles were more focused on the ART logo, crane shots, and bored footage of audience members than of the band itself. I would have preferred a close-up of Eric's guitar solo instead of a view of the lighting rig...
Phil and Lemmy! Great bass players!
First time I've heard this version it' s bloody good.
Eric def had his place in the history of Thin Lizzy. They wrote some brilliant stuff with him. Remembering - Mama Nature Say - Hero & The Mad Man - Vagabonds of The Western World. Sitamoia. Randalph's Tango. Little Darlin'. He was a class act. I loved Scott and Robbo too. Best hard rock band ever by a country mile. UFO? Judas Priest etc? Don't make me laugh!
En mi opinión,el mejor guitarrista que tuvo la banda,los comienzos de Thin Lizzy estaban lejos de definir su sonido,pero fueron esos tres primeros lp's,los más creativos de su historia.
Wow! One of the greatest bands ever, Eric Bell kills it here, great sound quality, thanks for posting the video!
Rrrrrrrrrrrockeerrrrrr!!! =D
One of the best guitar solos of all time. Yeah, I said it.
Great sound and not a valve in sight! 100w transistor HH heads and a Colorsound Overdriver and a wah pedal, and a pure genius on the guitar. I cut my teeth on Lizzy mk2 (Robbo and Scott), great band, but I listen more to the original 3 piece now, much more inventive back then.
Eric bell is such a guitar wizard one of my favourites love the imagination he puts into his playing and the sounds he gets out of minimal gear true master of the instrument
Great front man, super musicians, tight sound, great tunes. The whole package.
Very, very underrated band. If you are a Rock N' Roll fan, and you own no Thin Lizzy.........Well, step back and ask yourself "why"?
For more fabulous Eric Bell guitar playing,have a listen to the solo on" Little Girl in Bloom" from the Vagabond´s album.
Agree mate, What a song
The solo from "The Hero and the Madman" is also awesome
Carl Ryder ok I hear you but come on the solo for hero and the madman was M E S M E R I Z I N GG
Eric is too GREAT!
I still play Little Girl a few times a week just for Eric's outro solo. Mesmerizing. Vastly underrated and totally unique guitarist
Audience seem to be a little passive considering it is such a great performance!
Germans aren't so rockish lmao
Sorry man,I don't think so... Scorpions, Lucifer's Friend, Accept, Can, Rammstein etc...etc...
hold your tongue and gather knowledge before u coment like that
These would absolutely be absolute legendary giants in their own life time if Phil hadn't of overdosed and died,
Can you imagine how massive they would be if they were around today (this original line up), I think they would be up there with the likes of purple and the like.
That's a funky way ta want out. The guy's awesome. Listen ta this guitar solo! ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!
Eric Bell is an incredible guitarist.
Brian Downey on drums - massive!
Amazing! I was taken by them around this time
Eric Bell such an underrated guitarist,..... what a solo
The early days of these Irish Rockers!
This song always kicked ass, check out live and dangerous version...
Eric still gets it done....he guested on Gary Moore's tribute to Phil about 5 yrs ago...good stuff
love the way phil THUMPS the shit outta that rickerbacker!
I didn't know Phil was playing Rickenbackers back then. I still can't afford one but I heard the action on those are insane. Great song, great band.
Rockpalast is the best German channel for film of these classics. Teenage audiences still motionless though - white and uptight (like me!), even for geniuses like Wire.
I am your main man if you're looking for trouble
I'll take no lip 'cause no ones tougher than me
If I kicked your face you'd soon be seeing double
Hey little girl, keep your hands off me 'cause I'm a rocker
I love to rock and roll
I get my records from the Rock On stall
Sweet rock and roll
Teddy boy, he's got them all
Down at the juke joint me and the boys were stompin'
Bippin' an a boppin', telling a dirty joke or two
In walked this chick and I knew she was up to something
I kissed her right there out of the blue
I said "Hey baby, meet me I'm a tough guy"
Got my cycle outside, you wanna try?
She just looked at me and rolled them big eyes
And said "Ooh I'd do anything for you 'cause you're a rocker"
That's right I'm a rocker
I love to rock and roll
I get my records from the Rock On stall
Sweet rock and roll
Teddy boy, he's got them all
Great band from the very start!! Eric Bell was so amazing on guitar.
Wow! Eric Bell was a very tasty player. Just goes to show you don't necessarily need to "shred" to show how you can play. I'll take tone, feel and imagination over 1000 notes per minute anyday.
love this....never ages...christ what a fucking miss..PHIL.... LONG LIVE THE MUSIC ...PHILO........
Eric bell on form, camara man needs a lesson though!
Great to see Phil really getting into playing the bass.
Great song and band. Terrible television, why show shots of the control room and roof etc, anything except the band! Producer should have been sacked!
Deadest crowd ever. I guess they didn’t realise they were witnessing greatness 🤷🏼♂️
Doh ! I was talking about even Brian DOWNEY (Thin Lizzy drummer - in case you didn't know !) being drowned out by Gary Moore ! As well as drowning out Scott . Yes , apologies for cocking up his name - I was suffering with the flu at the time and could hardly see the monitor - lol ! I was also talking about the Robertson/Gorham lineup(Brian/Scott) being the best lineup apart from the Eric Bell years actually. Many thanks to ICETERICIA for putting this brilliant video on RUclips - GR8 stuff !
Go Eric go! What a player❤🎸🎼
wish I was born back then...the world was blessed when Lizzy were around
why is there no footage like this of vagabond of the western world??
Great live performance, its a shame that the audience isn't Rockin' to the Rockers.
Totally...he's absolutley a legend and a seriously under-rated guitarist...
got to see thin Lizzie when in high school at the old Santa Monica civic auditorium. they had a lot of great bands in the 70s
Yes, lotta Don Kirschner's Rock Concert epis
@@pewsterbaby were you living in russia at the time. ? you all dont have fuckin clue
1970 fuckers
Did Phil Lenot write the lyric? Ya the guitarist has skills for sure.
Great song 🎶 god bless you Phil 🙏🏼
Eric is off his face! He's just havin' a laugh here, listen to that solo. He wanted out at this point.
Great music - never seen that footage. Please don't write more about the audience until you know that ANY tv music shows were like this in the early 70s - regardless if it was in the netherlands, england, germany ´or elsewhere
If this didnt get those kids movin,nothing ever did.😂
One hard rockin, fanny kicking band. This song is the bomb.
Agree Dennis...
Haha. "fanny kicking band." Phil would have loved that description.
In Ireland and the UK, we use the word fanny the way Americans use the word pussy.
Never as ass.
Raw and gritty. Love it! Audience is in Shock!!
i worked with Eric on the 20th vibefor philo whata gentleman! i was using a gitane Django reinhehart copy guitar. after the gig in Dublin, he asked if he could have a go and the Bugger can play Django stuff too! only guy to play with Jimi Hendrix's bass player and drummer UNDERATED? not by me!!!! what a great clip warts and all what an honour to play Whiskey in the jar with him at SLATTERYS on capel st
had a friend whose uncle was a DJ in 70s at knac in long beach and he got us tickets to all the tapings of Don kirshners rock concerts. a lot of great bands ,but t.v. tapings are the most boring thing in the world. some bands would take like 30 minutes to get a song just right for t.v. others (the good ones) just blasted through the set. so you can't blame the poor Germans for not rocking out. they were probably bored shitless by the time the band finally played some music
Phil , o Hendrix do contrabaixo ! 🎸🎸🎸🎸✊✊✊
Eric Bell, awesome! Phil Lynott, words haven't been made yet.
Are the crowd zombies
Sensacional fantastico clássico puro 😎🎸👏👍🇧🇷
これだ!ERICBELL氏の切れ味鋭いギター🎸ソロ。当時のﾄﾞｷｭﾒﾝﾀﾘｰふうｽﾀｼﾞｵﾗｲﾌﾞも斬新です。
the crowd and the camera men must have been on some serious downers.
THey have never seen the likes of this live. they are blown away
they dont know what do, trance
I reckon the crowd can barely see the band. The stage is covered in camera crew, so there's no connection.
The guy in the rafters must have known the editor/director, even if the producer banished him to the heights for some cock-up! :D
Eric just kicks ass.
F**KIN HELL!, YAS!........what a band they were man, I love that 3 piece, they were outstanding man, Brian Downey, OOOOOFT!, superb, Eric Bell, a cosmic irish blues man, and Phillo, jeezuz, a poet, frontman, incredible bass player and lyricist, BOOM!.
If you know anything about the Europe crowd in the early 70's and late 60's, that is that they are very reserved.
Maybe they don't want to get out of line?
One of my fauvorites from Lizzys early days. Solo is great and very hard.
Some audience.
Phil is a legend! And probably the greatest fucking rocker ever!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Bell slaughters everyone here.. just freaking awesome.. wish there had been a bell/moore band !!
Fav Solo of all times
Why aren’t the audience going mental-I love lizzy. Too young to have seen them live, but seen Black Rose a few times!
Great to almost see a live version of this song, with Eric on guitar.
But Sweet Holy Jesus and all the saints up in heaven, WTF was the director on?
"Hey Hans, the band are starting."
"Yep, but the control room, those rafters, the crowd, and . . . . oh yeah, the band. Can I keep cutting away from them? Yeah, I'll do that. They are such nice rafters."
If Kiss sounded this good I would have been a Kiss fan. Why did were TL unable to break the US market?
Fecking superb
Met Eric two years ago and got to play the guitar he is using here. It's more or less the only one he ever used
You lucky bastard...
I've met Eric a few times too - what a great and nice guy his is just to sit chatting with :-) My fave lineup of TL - I saw them in '73 :-)
Luke Luke He sholdnt have routed it for humbuckers though.It still sounds great with humbuckers but not this good!
Underrated?
It's Thin Lizzy. They were never Underrated.
For, ratings are trash, and purely subjective.
The Rocker, Philip Parris Lynott, cannot be rated.
That's Law.
EERRRIIICCCCC
ps. Early 70s TV could never just normally film the performances 😂
Feral , savage , raw.
Blistering , Cracking , Smoking.
Boy Band and Boy Band fans ....... Jump off , your on the wrong flight here .
Never seen this tape. I love it :-)
Sheer class. They don't make um like this anymore.
oh i´ll do anything 4 U cause your a ROCKER that´s right i´m a ROCKER
LIZZY FOR LIFE
(everything else '70's pales in comparison)
It sparkles, doesn't it? So many rock bands are effected by the Sabbath effect for the last two decades. The 70's were vibrant with what was coming through. No doubt about it.
its scott gorham not gorman and gary was in the band with scott not brian. (maybe for a 1974 performace of still in love with you they shared the stage. that's it!)
Eric Bell - Thin Lizzy's original and best guitarist. When he quit, they had to use 2 guitarists to compensate for his loss.
And no, he's not having a laugh. That's pretty much the way he played the solo on the album VOTWW.
wow. Phil on a Rickenbacker. Never seen that before. Thanks for posting.
Eric Bell was amazing back then!What kind of amp did he use back then anyone?
He was using HH solid state amps into Sound City cabs. I saw them with this lineup - incredible!
Tearin' it up and the European audience is sitting there like zombies?
This is a brilliant version, never heard it before. There's a similar video of them doing Whisky In The Jar and Phill is playing a Telecaster
What TV show is they're playing on? Was everything on this show like this, or did the director just not like Thin Lizzy or something? He's showing just about everything BUT the band. Lots of shots of mirrors, the audience (including a rather bored looking kid sitting on the floor), even the control room, with only the occasional shot of the band. Well, at least the band is actually playing live here.
Yea I gotta totally agree there . Eric was bloody great wasn't he ? I loved the Robertson/Gorman lineup too of course.
Not so sure now about when Gary Moore was in it now - especially after seeing some of the vids on here it has helped to remind me of what a friggin ego that guy had/has overplaying over everyone and even to the point of drowning out Brian at times. Gary should have taken lessons from Eric - lol .
simple , live in the US otherwise freight kills it....i still buy cheaper from Ali....