“Thin Lizzy: The Poet From Crumlin”
Dr. Rox Remember When?
WDGY: Article #121 March 2021
By: RLSchwinden aka MrZerr0
So it’s Mr. Zer0’s 12th St. Patrick’s Day in this location. so I did a “St. Patrick’s Day” Show for my #185 show for WDGY. My Grandma’s last name being Doughty, I grew up very Irish Catholic on the west side of Sioux City. In 2019 my good friend Evangeline got me a DNA test for my birthday, turns out I am 31% Irish. When I was a kid in Brandon (Jackson), Miss. I heard “Boys Are Back In Town” on the radio, I thought it was a pretty good song. When we moved back to Sioux City in 1978, it seemed like anyone’s house I went to, someone was always playing Thin Lizzy on the stereo.
Being young and poor, I used to walk to Sunset Plaza and go through the “Cut-Out Records” bins at Woolco, looking to buy the most records for my $5.oo weekly allowance, the “Cut-Outs” you could find older albums from .99 to $2.99. One day I was looking through them and I stumbled on 2 albums by Thin Lizzy “Johnny The Fox” & “Bad Reputation” I remember thinking “I liked that song “Boys Are Back In Town” and everybody I know is playing “Live And Dangerous” maybe I’ll like these songs” so I got them both sealed for $1.99 + TAX ! which ate up my $5.oo. I took them home and found out I loved most of “Johnny The Fox” and a lot of “Bad Reputation” about a year later I met a guitar player Michael who learned most of “Live And Dangerous” he encouraged me to learn the songs on there so we could jam. Alas I was just Not That Good. About a year after that I met another guitar player Miles H. who was a dead ringer for Scott Gorham, the guitar player in Thin Lizzy, although his jam was anything Joe Walsh, he taught me “Disco Strangler” by The Eagles, in the boiler room of a closed school where he used to jam.
In Dec 1982 I heard Johnnie Bolin’s band “DVC” perform “Hollywood” at The Patio in Sioux City. When I was with “High Fever” in 1983 touring the Mid-West, the band bought the Cassette, as you could not play a record in the car or even in some clubs, at that time, of “Thunder And Lightning” I remember at the time thinking this was a Great Cassette! So little by little I began to buy up most of their catalog on Cassette, Records and then CD, because when I get into an Artist, I really get into that artist, having said that, I think my favorites in order are: “Thunder And Lightning” “Johnny The Fox” “Renegade” “Bad Reputation” & “Black Rose”. In 2005 there was a statue erected of Lynott in Dublin, in 2018 my friend Damian P. took one of Mr. Zer0’s T-Shirts back to Dublin with him to take a photo of Mr. Zer0’s shirts next to the statue of Phil.
It was only in recent years I learned of where the name came from, the UK Comic “The Dandy” and “The Beano” there was a female robot called “Tin Lizzy” Downey thought this would be a good name and Lynott added the “H” because in Ireland, most people do not pronounce the “Th” in words. and I was shocked to find out how many guest appearances the memebers made including Lynott who played on Johnny Thunders 1978 album “So Alone” and from that Lynott and 2 other members of Thin Lizzy with 2 memebers of the Sex Pistols formed “The Greedies” and a UK Christmas Single “A Merry Jingle” which will be on my 4th Annual WDGY X-Mass Show in Dec 2021. About 2016 I decided to put together a Tribute Band to Thin Lizzy, with myself singing lead and playing bass, and MN Pete on drums as Downey is his favorite drummer. Since I was playing the part of Phil, we decided on the name “White Lizzy” unfortunately I have yet to find 2 guitarists to work together like Robertson & Gorham did, back in the day. I did see Gorham and Sykes in St. Paul on 24 Aug 2004, I saw Gorham again in April 2018 in MPLS.
So being March and Thin Lizzy being one of the most famous bands to come out of Ireland I decided to revisit Thin Lizzy and make Episode #186 Thin Lizzy Part 2B. Still in March I thought I should make my next “Cover Up” Show Program #5 on Thin Lizzy, too. Down below you will find the set list for these shows. To hear them simply go to MrZeroS.Com -Podcast and you can hear them for FREE. You can also grab the latest Discount coupon to Mr. Zer0’s 55113 Roseville on the very same Website!
PsychoGello Show 2021: March
Episode #185 “St. Patrick’s Day”
“When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” Bing Crosby: 1952
“Wild Mountain Thyme” The Byrds: 1966 July
“Cypress Ave.” Van Morrison: 1968 Nov
“Dublin” Thin Lizzy: 1971 Aug
“Give Ireland Back The Irish” Paul McCartney & Wings: 1972 Feb
“Luck Of The Irish” John Lennon & Yoko: 1972 June
“Sunday Bloody Sunday” U2: 1983 Feb
“Blood Of Emeralds” Gary Moore: 1989 Jan
“Belfast” Elton John: 1995 Mar
“Whiskey In The Jar” Metallica: 1998 Nov
“Cover Up” Show #5
Thin Lizzy: March 2021
“Rosalie” Bob Segar: 1973 Jan
“Whiskey In The Jar” Metallica: 1998 Nov
“It’s Only Money” Concrete Blonde: 1989 May
“Jailbreak” Fu Man Chu: 1997
“Boys Are Back in Town” Everclear: 1999 Aug
“Emerald” Ace Frehley & Slash: 2016 Apr
“Don’t Believe A Word” Gary Moore & Phil Lynott: 1978 Sep
“Dancing In The Moonlight” Smashing Pumpkins: 1994 Mar
“Bad Reputation” Foo Fighters: 2011 Apr
“Cold Sweat” Megadeth: 2013 June
PsychoGello Show 2021: March
Episode #186: Thin Lizzy: Part 2B
“Sha La La” 1974 Nov
“Fighting My Way Back” 1975 Sep
“Emerald” 1976 Mar
“Don’t Believe A Word” 1976 Oct
“Killer Without A Cause” 1977 Sep
“Do Anything You Want To” 1979 Apr
“Killer On The Loose” 1980 Oct
“No One Told Him” 1981 Nov
“Holy War” 1983 Mar
The Band Members: 1969- 1983
Phil Lynott; Vocals, Bass; 20 August 1949; Stafforshire, ENG. – 4 January 1986
Brian Downey: Drums; 27 January 1951; Dublin, IRE.
Eric Bell: Guitar; 3 September 1947; Belfast, N. IRE.
Gary Moore: Guitar, Vocals; 4 April 1952; Belfast, N. IRE. – 6 February 2011
Brian Robertson: Guitar; 12 February 1956; Clarkston, SCT.
Scott Gorham: Guitar; 17 March 1951; Glendale, CA.
Snowy White: Guitar; 3 March 1948; Devon, ENG.
Darren Wharton: Keyboards; 25 December 1961; Lancashire, ENG.
John Sykes: Guitar; 29 July 1959; Berkshire, ENG.
From: 1971 to 1983: they released 18 Albums, 2 EPs, 2 VHS Concerts, 33 Singles with 2 songs on the BillBoard Charts.
Well, there you have it fans, my take on St. Patrick’s Day and Thin Lizzy. Check in next time when you can read me on the nett, until next time … MrZerr0
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