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Goodness sakes alive, John...you GOT me!! I've been a huge fan of Mr. Moore ever since his all-too-brief stint with Thin Lizzy. His subsequent solo career has been uneven, but interesting by turns with its forays into metal, classic rock (a Cream revival with Bruce & Baker!) and revved up electric blues which pretenders like Kenny Wayne Shepherd only WISH they could emulate.

A great song, a great video and a stellar performance from one of the last true guitar heroes. THANK YOU.

"Gone Baby Gone" was a solid flick. I grew up in the Boston neighborhood in which the movie was shot, and Alfeck painted a painfully accurate portrait of my 'hood and my people.

A Fender guitar tech told me to try out Gary's studio album of the same name while the techie was working on my '78 Ibanez Artist at a local (southern ohio) guitar clinic. It was the year that album came out. How much would you give for peter green's les paul that Gary is using in this video?

gene214 @ 8:

Angel Of Mercy @ 6:

That was a killer, gene214; big thanks!

I would urge you to get some Moore on CD if you're at all interested in his playing. Some are better than others, but he always brings plenty to the party...

If you thought that was killer - give a listen to Gary doing Elmore James' "Dust My Broom"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX4zt9zk820

man o man....that was smokin...

Didn't he play with Thin Lizzy?

Jailbreak:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMFYs3gfgis

Always loved Gary Moore. Good solo stuff, with Lizzy and with Colesseum. How does he get that solid like a brick sound?

Gary doing a tribute to Phil Lynnott circa 1985 - sound not so good, but Gary's guitar playing cuts through. See how many people you recognize on that stage:

Whiskey in the Jar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvb5C9GyImY

Having trouble telling the Thin Lizzy clips with Gary Moore from the ones without him.

I guess he quit and joined Thin Lizzy more than a couple times.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qla13aWrNP4 out of my mind....John Mayer.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_GgcK7xE1jw ok last one...Who did you think I was....gn ...be well.

mudshark @ 20:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6KGw9JXsBmI John Mayer Trio...live.."TRY"

Hey that was pretty fucking good! I take back what I posted earlier about John Mayer. Thanks for opening my ears, mudshark!

Heywood Jablome @ 13:

Always loved Gary Moore. Good solo stuff, with Lizzy and with Colesseum. How does he get that solid like a brick sound?

Marshall amps, guitar is usually a Les Paul. That's the part of that sound that one can purchase...

Gone Baby Gone is one of the best flicks so far this year.

I've been a fan of Gary Moore since hearing his guest solo on the studio version of "Still In Love With You" on Lizzy's Nightlife album (which I bought used a few years after it came out; I'm not THAT old). Gary's got more than a little Peter Green in his style. His stuff with Jon Hiseman's Colosseum II was pretty slick, especially considering that Gary's self-taught and CII did some really intense fusion stuff.

Moore's first solo album, "Back on the Streets," is terrific -- Lizzy fans should check out his bluesy arrangement of "Don't Believe a Word"; Beck-heads would like "What Would You Rather Bee or a Wasp" (yes, that's the actual title). He went pseudo-metal after that for about a decade until "Wild Frontier" came out (circa '86, I think). He did a pretty decent cover of the Yardbirds' hit "Shapes of Things." And his recent blues stuff is all pretty killer.

His best work in Lizzy was on the "Black Rose" Album, particularly the title track which is just STOOPID good. He also does an exquisite lead on the ballad "My Sarah."

Where younger players are concerned, Mayer's pretty good and shows the blues idiom and its masters the proper respect. I also like his pop stuff (although Michael Franks called and wants his vocal affectations back, j/k). But even so I think on his best night Mayer would be blown into the next county by Joe Bonamassa, who,when he's on (which is most of the time) sounds like a cross between Robben Ford and the above-mentioned Mr. Gary Moore.

Schwantz Lefantz: Attention Span -

http://technohippie.com/geeklog/public_html/mediagallery/media.php?s=200...

Roger Daltrey and James Burton - Mystery Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeFZtFNELik

Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Karn Evil 9 -

http://technohippie.com/geeklog/public_html/mediagallery/media.php?s=200...

First of all, Gary Moore is a first-rate blues guitar player. A little fast, frantic and who cares for my taste, but, nevertheless, the sense that he overplays doesn't take away from the fact that he can flat-out play and his heart's in the right place.

That said, I remember getting this CD when it first came out in '90. I remember the cover and the personal memories it brought back. With the exception of Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Danny Kalb of the Blues Project, aka "The Jewish Beatles," he came up on the same stuff I did.

Like most white kids born in the early 50s and raised in NJ coming up, I became aware of the Blues through the Stones, the Animals and the Yardbirds. Rave Up and 12x5 were my path to Born in Chicago, East West, Beano and Projections which in turn led to Live at the Regal and Born on a Bad Sign, Lightnin' and Mississippi John Hurt.

Over the course of the past 40 years, the popularity of the blues has ebbed more than its flowed, however, like Hockey and what the rest of the World calls Football, the people who love it really love it and we always will.

"Cause it's Good.