Covers that 'made' the Original

[bremen]

15 hours ago, casapete said:

 

The TL version sounds a bit like a pub band to me….

( runs for cover………)

Lol, I didn't realise you were allowed to think TL weren't all that. I can come out of hiding now  😍

Edited March 25 by bremen

[bremen]

And while I'm still getting dirty looks for that blasphemy, can I just add that I prefer Madonna's version of American Pie to the original...

[TrevorR]

15 hours ago, casapete said:

I prefer Seger’s version, more dynamics / groove and ‘soul’ to it.

The TL version sounds a bit like a pub band to me….
( runs for cover………)

 

37 minutes ago, bremen said:

Lol, I didn't realise you were allowed to think TL weren't all that. I can come out of hiding now  😍

 

34 minutes ago, bremen said:

And while I'm still getting dirty looks for that blasphemy, can I just add that I prefer Madonna's version of American Pie to the original...

 

As the film critic, Mark Kermode, has been known to to say, “Everybody is entitled to have their own opinion…     …it’s just that yours is completely wrong!” 😉🤣🤣🤣

[chris_b]

16 hours ago, casapete said:

I prefer Seger’s version, more dynamics / groove and ‘soul’ to it.

 

The TL version sounds a bit like a pub band to me….

( runs for cover………)

 

Even though he came from Detroit, Bob Seger was Southern Rock. Thin Lizzy was more top 40.

[casapete]

18 hours ago, bremen said:

Lol, I didn't realise you were allowed to think TL weren't all that. I can come out of hiding now  😍

I saw Thin Lizzy at Bridlington Spa in the late 70’s, and they were really good but just not my kind

of thing. Got tickets from their record company when I worked in record retail, so around that time

I went to loads of gigs I maybe wouldn’t have paid to see and that was one of them. 
Possibly one of the loudest gigs I’ve been to probably didn’t help either, my ears were ringing

for days afterwards. 

[bremen]

18 hours ago, TrevorR said:

 

 

 

As the film critic, Mark Kermode, has been known to to say, “Everybody is entitled to have their own opinion…     …it’s just that yours is completely wrong!” 😉🤣🤣🤣

I fully accept that I may be completely wrong on that one, though I stand by Madonna's version of American Pie.

 

Until, that is, A.Hitler comes along and says: -opinions are like testicles: everyone's got one.

[TrevorR]

29 minutes ago, casapete said:

I saw Thin Lizzy at Bridlington Spa in the late 70’s, and they were really good but just not my kind

of thing. Got tickets from their record company when I worked in record retail, so around that time

I went to loads of gigs I maybe wouldn’t have paid to see and that was one of them. 
Possibly one of the loudest gigs I’ve been to probably didn’t help either, my ears were ringing

for days afterwards. 

Lizzy was the first band I saw back in 81 (St Austell Colosseum). I asked for 2 gig tickets for my birthday. One week later I was back to see Elkie Brooks in the same venue. Ironically my ears rang longer and louder after Elkie - which was a shock to 3/4 of the audience who clearly only knew “Pearl’s A Singer” and “Lilac Wine” etc. She spent 30 mins at the start getting all the MOR pop hits out of the way then said “Well, that’s enough of that, let’s rock…” the following hour was full on Vinegar Joe, swampy blues and full tilt rock’n’roll. I may be wrong but I think Geoff Whithorn was her guitarist/MD…

Edited Wednesday at 08:51 by TrevorR

[Paul S]

29 minutes ago, casapete said:

I saw Thin Lizzy at Bridlington Spa in the late 70’s, and they were really good but just not my kind

of thing. Got tickets from their record company when I worked in record retail, so around that time

I went to loads of gigs I maybe wouldn’t have paid to see and that was one of them. 
Possibly one of the loudest gigs I’ve been to probably didn’t help either, my ears were ringing

for days afterwards. 

 

I saw them at Wembley June 1978 and, for me, it set the bar for live music.  I was 20 and the gig completely resonated with the type of music I was into at the time - and poignant for so many personal reasons.  Great memory.🙂 

[casapete]

7 hours ago, TrevorR said:

Lizzy was the first band I saw back in 81 (St Austell Colosseum). I asked for 2 gig tickets for my birthday. One week later I was back to see Elkie Brooks in the same venue. Ironically my ears rang longer and louder after Elkie - which was a shock to 3/4 of the audience who clearly only knew “Pearl’s A Singer” and “Lilac Wine” etc. She spent 30 mins at the start getting all the MOR pop hits out of the way then said “Well, that’s enough of that, let’s rock…” the following hour was full on Vinegar Joe, swampy blues and full tilt rock’n’roll. I may be wrong but I think Geoff Whithorn was her guitarist/MD…

I saw Elkie in the late 70’s with a Geoff Whitehorn too, great band. I sold merch for her / A&M and got to meet

her afterwards. She played Hull a few times earlier in the 70’s with Robert Palmer and Vinegar Joe, but

I was a bit too young to get in the club they played at. A few of my friends said they were amazing gigs though.