![]() ![]() ![]() This in-the-round approach confirms what we already knew, namely that Lizzy were on-point every night. The eighth disc remasters the pooled content of the original double-album. We get the three Hammersmith Odeon shows, two from The Tower Theatre, Philadelphia in October ’77, one from Seneca College Field House, Toronto that same month, plus Lizzy’s March ’78 show at the Rainbow theatre in London. This 8-CD Super Deluxe Edition brings seven full-or-as-near-as-dammit sets recorded between November 1976 and March 1978. That way, if Lizzy’s extra-curricular activities compromised future US tours – and they would – the band would at least have proof of their prowess for anyone who cared to listen. For three nights, Visconti would attempt to capture the juggernaut live show that Lynott’s illness had derailed in the US. ![]() Now wrapping a sold-out UK Tour in support of Jailbreak’s rapid fire follow-up Johnny The Fox, they were hyped a cocked pistol waiting to fire. There was a lot at stake, then, when a regrouped Lizzy parked outside the ‘Hammy’ Odeon that November with producer Tony Visconti and the Maison Rouge mobile studio in tow. Concurrently, Lizzy’s attempts to break America touring March 1976’s Jailbreak on the back of US Number 12 hit The Boys Are Back In Town had just come to nought when, sick and yellow-eyed with hepatitis, Lynott had been forced to quit the tour and fly home. Lynott had clocked the unprecedented, early-1976 success of Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive! and fancied his band might follow suit. In summer ’78, only the soundtrack to Grease stopped it topping the UK album charts.įeaturing the ‘Fab Four’ line-up of Lynott, Gorham, young Scots firebrand Brian Robertson and masterful, versatile drummer Brian Downey, L&D became an exemplar of on-stage heroics for U2 and other aspirants. Oft cited as the definitive document of hard rock performance, …Dangerous brought an impassioned, piratical air to Phil Lynott’s sometimes cock-sure, sometimes heartsore songs. “No matter what happened up there, nobody gave up on the squadron.” Such staunch commitment to the cause was obvious to those who witnessed Lizzy’s November 1976 shows at Hammersmith Odeon, and to punters who bought Live And Dangerous upon its release some 18 months later. “We would leave that stage smeared with blood if we had to,” Thin Lizzy’s Scott Gorham told this writer in 2018. ![]()
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