

The production has Brian Robertson coming out of your left speaker and Scott Gorham at the right. You can't help but notice the variety of styles, from hard rockers to poppy toe-tappers to sweet ballads. There are 17 songs in total, and each and every one of them are great. I thought that if the music sounded as cool as the photos looked, then I wouldn't be disappointed - I wasn't. I couldn't listen to it until we got home to my record player, so I spent the first week or so just looking at the many photos on the double album's sleeves. I remember that I was in the 10th grade, vacationing with my family in Florida when I bought this record. Thin Lizzy was a band that had many different guitarists coming and going, but the most definitive line-up was that which included Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson on guitars, Brian Downy on drums, and of course the great Phil Lynott on bass and lead vocals. It's the THIN LIZZY classic, "Live and Dangerous". It might even get to the point where we can have guest contributors now and then (like You).Ĭhoosing an influential album for this first installment was a piece of cake. My goal is to do a review on a different album every month, and focus on those that really had an impact on me as a guitar player. Well, I figured that I should create a little section here on our site where I can provide some listening advice for the masses. But, in most cases, it usually results in the guy coming back the next time, saying "wow, I checked out that band and you were right!" (of course I was right). and then i realize that 20 minutes just flew by and my poor audience is looking at me with that "can i go now?" look in their face. Most of the time I'll go on and on about this band or that guitarist, and talk about how cool they were and how they don't make 'em like they used to.


I find that I'm constantly pushing my favorite guitar-based music on the many young up-and-coming players that pass through The Guitar World.
