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Life Live

Thin Lizzy - Life Live Audio CD

A fair review of the Thin Lizzy "Life Live" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Thin Lizzy reviews here, or go back to the Thin Lizzy tabs.

Band: Thin Lizzy
Title: Life Live
Rating:

Release Date: 1999-01-12
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Thunder & Lightning 2: Waiting for an Alibi 3: Jailbreak 4: Baby Please Don't Go 5: Holy War 6: Renegade 7: Hollywood (Down on Your Luck) 8: Got to Give It Up 9: Angel of Death 10: Are You Ready 11: Boys Are Back in Town 12: Cold Sweat 13: Don't Believe a Word 14: Killer on the Loose 15: Sun Goes Down 16: Emerald 17: Black Rose 18: Still in Love with You 19: Rocker

A Desperate and Depressed Phil Sets the Bar Impossibly High for Others
While everything is good, you can tell that Phil is neck deep in depression- his band is breaking up, his addiction is killing him and he likely has long lost his wife. I cannot say enough good things about this CD. I'd trade this double CD in a heartbeat to have Philo' back, but with this album, his pain is our gain.

Tracks that I love: Hollywood, Got to Give it Up, Don't Believe a Word (original slow version), The Sun Goes Down, and the GREATEST most soulful rendition of Still In Love with You.

A down Phil sings his heart out, for me, this is the most sincere, soulful vocal performance, nothing else comes close.

WE ALL MISS YOU PHIL!!!.

Thin Lizzy Live Life
While the original album did justice to the performance, the CD truly captures the essence of Thin Lizzy and proves to the generations that have and will follow that Thin Lizzy and Phil Lynott were masters of the Heavy Metal sound of dual guitars, Bass that was not just an instrument for keeping time, and percussion that was used as an instrument of music. Unlike many fans of this greatly underestimated band, I was fortunate enough to see this concert tour live in a couple of locations. While we have unfortunatly lost the greatness of this Irish Band, the sound that is captured so eloquantly on Live Life will forever tell the tale of the founding of Heavy Metal. Long Live the Emerald!.

Desde Gij�n con una botella de sidra

Es el perfecto testimonio de su trayectoria musical, un repaso musical a su discograf�a y, adem�s, en directo. Aunque fans y cr�ticos se ponen de acuerdo en afirmar que "Live & Dangerous" es su mejor disco en directo, yo pondr�a �ste en el mismo lugar -e incluso casi por encima. Por el escenario pasan todos los guitarristas del grupo en una especie de tributo a ese mago/dios negro del rock, llamado Phil Lynott.

SI REALMENTE TE GUSTA EL ROCK DE LOS 70'S Y LOS DISCOS EN DIRECTO, aqu� encontrar�s otra joya de esa �poca. �Has pensado alguna vez en la cantidad de incre�bles discos en directo que aparecieron en los 70's y primeros 80's? Ponte a contar: ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND (at Fillmore), DEEP PURPLE (in Japan), HUMBLE PIE (at Fillmore o King Biscuit), RORY GALLAGHER (Irish Tour), JUDAS PRIEST (in Japan), GRATEFUL DEAD (Live Dead), CHEAP TRICK (at Budokan), LITTLE FEAT (Waiting for Columbus), J. GEILS BAND (Blow your face out), JOURNEY (Captured), KISS (Alive), PETER FRAMPTON (Comes alive), NEIL YOUNG (Rust never sleeps), LYNYRD SKYNYRD (One more from the road), UFO (Strangers in the night), MOLLY HATCHET (Double trouble), AEROSMITH (Bootleg) y un largu�simo etc�tera. Este disco doble est� a la misma altura que los anteriores: destacan los duelos de guitarras sin tregua, la secci�n r�tmica atronadora y, por encima, de todo esa voz tan sentida y �nica en el rock del malogrado Phil. Hay grandes momentos, de furia rockera, de medios tiempos sencillamente excepcionales y tambi�n de bell�simas baladas.

Las exageraciones adquieren aqu� verdadero sentido porque hablamos de THIN LIZZY y de sus discos en directo. Todos sabemos que sus discos en estudio son brillantes, pero cuando adquieren su verdadera dimensi�n es encima de un escenario -no cabe ninguna duda. Ha llegado un nuevo milenio y dos cosas: o me estoy haciendo viejo a pasos agigantados, o ya no hay grupos ni se hacen discos como �stos de hace m�s de 20 a�os. Aqu� est� una prueba m�s. CONV�NCETE Y DISFRUTA DE �L (como de la buena sidra). Un saludo.

A great live album
"Life" was recorded on Thin Lizzy's last tour(s) and while there are couple of dodgy songs (I don't really think that "Thunder and Lightning" is quite up to the standard of the band that produced the glorious "Cowboy Song"), there's a big, fat, valedictory tone about the whole album that's very satisfying. Rock "experts" rate Lizzy's earlier "Live and Dangerous" as being their best live album, but for my money this roaring monster is both bigger in sound and in soul. The last twenty-odd minutes are the high point, as all of the band's old guitarists take turns guesting on signature songs; Brian Robertson on "Emerald", Gary Moore on a stirring version of "Black Rose" and Eric Bell thrashing up a storm on "The Rocker" which ends up with about five or six guitars at once, as all the old boys troop on for a last bow.

A suitably epic epitaph for a great band, easily the best Irish band ever, in this (young) Irishman's opinion.

The "forgotten" live Lizzy LP...

Recorded on the bands farwell tour, it offers the band stomping through old favorites as well as newer material from "Black Rose" right up to "Thunder and Lightning. This often ignored double vinyl album came at the end of Lizzy's 13 year career in 1983. " The more diverse cross section of material performed on this release: make it superior to its higher grossing sibling live album "Live & Dangerous. "

The mix is a little flat, but its the music that matters the most. Its great to hear the incredible versions of "The Sun Goes Down," Phil's delicate vocals on "Still in Love with you," and the amazing finale of "The Rocker. " During "The Rocker" every nearly every guitarist who ever preformed reguarly with Lizzy is there - Bell, Gorham, White, Robertson, Moore, and Sykes. Its ear candy to hear all the Lizzy guitarists seguing back and forth.

The bottom line here is that for the wonderful cross section of material this is a must have set for the Lizzy fan. If you aren't familiar with later Lizzy this is a nice package to pick up to introduce yourself. Loaded with all the old favs and the '79 and later material its a special treat.

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