As well as Pyle and Graham Walker, Moore decided to try out other rhythm section combinations. Sitting in the tune-up room loosening up before a gig in Germany with his long-time bass player Bob Daisley (ex-Rainbow and Ozzy Osbourne), the answer came. The philosophy was going to be that the whole album would be done in a few weeks, not months, plus two or three weeks to mix. It took a while to sort out exactly who was going to be in the tour band to promote the album.

That’s why it’s given me another 20 years of magic ever since. Haven't we both got better things to do? Albert Collins joined the tour for about 30 dates and Albert King was flown back to do the video shoot for the single Oh Pretty Woman and for the filming of one of the two nights at Hammersmith Odeon in May. Or the drummer had suddenly done a drum fill when he wasn’t expecting one. During rehearsals, even Jack Bruce came down to jam just to help Moore gain a sense of how he wanted the album to shape up. There was a plan to tour the US in support of the Vaughan Brothers until the horrific death of Stevie Ray on August 27 that year put paid to that idea and the impetus was somehow lost. Albert Collins came in and they got Too Tired down in three takes. We tried running the tape at a different speed. And I think we can make it One more time If we try One more time for all the old times.

Peter told me that he liked my playing and invited me back to his hotel after the show. Time has dimmed the memory of exactly which tracks they tried out and eventually played to Virgin, but probably Oh Pretty Woman, Moving On, Walking By Myself, Midnight Blues, Stop Messin’ Around, a Fleetwood Mac track Gary later recorded with Phil Lynott, possibly an early version of Still Got The Blues. When Bob Daisley said “why don’t we do a blues album?” – he meant Gary’s touring band of the moment, with keyboard player Neil Carter and drummer Chris Slade. If we try

The album had a broader impact, too. Midnight is an awful hour

I said to Gary, ‘Why don’t we do a blues album?’”. Gary was a very tough critic of his own playing.”. I was the bandwagon!”, Learn from Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey and more as Rock'N'Roll Fantasy Camp goes online, Alice Cooper wants to play a terrifying game of truth or dare with you, AC/DC once tried to smoke out the Loch Ness monster with fireworks, Kiss, bingo, and a towel problem: on the road with Judas Priest in 1979. Its really a old Blues song by what was described to me as traveling misfits, hobos and blues musicians about the Sugar Land Texas TDC prison in the late 1920's.

“After we’d played our set, a local DJ, Pat Egan, who was compering the show, came up to me and said Peter wanted to say hello. Starting around the age of 10 with a jumbo acoustic almost as big as himself, he progressed so far over the next four years that he was the proud owner of a white Telecaster – one of the very few available in the city and bought on hire purchase by his dad for 180 guineas (an eye-watering £2,800 at 2013 prices). He thought it looked a bit battered, so Moore, who was also on the session, snapped it up. That was it, it all came together.” To which Taylor adds, “Gary had perfect pitch, so we dropped in two notes where the tuning wasn’t spot on. If we try

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Still Got The Blues put British blues playing back on the map, inspired a new generation of guitar players and provided much of the repertoire for the UK pub blues scene of the 1990s. For Albert, it was all about getting down to the studio, doing the song and going home.”.

“We did a gig in Holland called the Parkpop Festival in front of about 300,000 people,” says Graham Walker, “and we came offstage and there were all these TV cameras and a red carpet with a fence on either side and motorbike outriders for the tour bus. Moore recalled a particular night at The Marquee: “Peter asked me if I wanted to borrow his guitar. There are many stories of how it came to have that soulful, far away, out-of-phase signature sound. Scott Gorham on 40 Years of Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak, Bernie Marsden: Why I Love The Gibson Les Paul, Gary Moore: “I jumped on the Blues bandwagon?

I knew where he wanted the guitar in the mix and I made his life in the studio as easy as possible. He would come into the studio very relaxed, but as soon as he put that guitar on, everything had to happen or the moment was lost.

One o'clock in San Antone I was up for the whole thing. “Midnight Blue” was written by Carole Bayer Sager.. But as he got older he couldn’t deal with volume, so the first thing he said to Gary was ‘you’ve got to turn it down’.”, King also ticked Gary off for playing too many notes; Graham Lilley recalls King’s rebuke, “‘Ah told that other boy, my other son, Stevie Ray, stop playing all them notes.

Never heard of this guy in my life.’ So I made a tape up for Gary. One more time for all the old times Nobody was ever sure about who wrote it.

And what of the famous Les Paul?

Lovely tone. I hate the key of A flat.’ ‘Okay, no problem.’ When he walks onto the stage at Hammersmith Odeon, they are about to do Stormy Monday and Albert shouts out to Gary, ‘A flat! The prospect of doing a blues album was raised with the record company by Moore’s manager Steve Barnett. One more time for all the old times, For all of the times you told me you need me Eventually Moore settled on Andy Pyle and Graham Walker, with Don Airey on keyboards and also acting as MD with the horn section to form The Midnight Blues Band.

Chris turned round to me and said, ‘This is a really good album, you know.’ And here is a guy who is listening to albums all day. Even the simple things become rough Midnight Blues. He wanted the landscape clear so he could do exactly what he wanted.

For all of the times you told me you need me Needing me now is something I could use Midnight blue Wouldn't you … One thing’s for sure, Gary Moore was a worthy recipient of the most famous Les Paul on the planet. By then, Green’s life was unravelling; he left Fleetwood Mac, began to offload money and possessions and started down an awful slope into mental illness and obscurity. After some polishing and refinements, Steve Barnett took the demos to Virgin.

Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, Well, the clock is strikin' twelve Baby, somebody's gotta go I said the clock is strikin' twelve Baby, somebody's gotta go Gee, but I know I'm gonna miss you, honey This song is by Joe Bonamassa and appears on the live album Beacon Theatre: Live From New York (2012). Albert was saying ‘think 10 notes but play five’.”, Wooler remembers King trying to take over, saying he needed to teach the horn section what to do.
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Looks like we're gonna make it

The tour rolled on to Moore’s debut at the Montreux Jazz Festival (the first of five appearances) in July and then large festival dates in Europe supporting Tina Turner on her tour to promote Foreign Affair.

Keith Richards: "When we did Midnight Rambler, nobody went in there with the idea of doing a blues opera, basically. It was the first time anyone had heard a Les Paul going through a Marshall amp. I ended up talking to Albert’s lawyer in Arkansas and we eventually worked out a deal. Eventually Moore settled on Andy Pyle and Graham Walker, with Don Airey on keyboards and also acting as MD with the horn section to form The Midnight Blues Band.

Please refresh the page and try again. “People who were not blues fans, and they thought maybe this had got greater potential than just a straight-up blues record. That very same copy with the name ‘G. Still Got The Blues dramatically changed his life. As for his guitar sound, I’d never heard anything like it in my life. And Gary’s like ‘Ooh, fuckin’ hell, getting told off here!’ And he did take it on board; Gary himself said he had come from that rock thing – and he said that he was doing a blues album, but coming from the rock side of it and overplaying, too many notes and tearing the backside out of it – and on the later albums, he found another voice to it all and started listening to the space between the notes.

He brought rock aggression to blues playing and his blood is running through those strings. Turned out that back in his home town of Memphis, Albert was an honorary sheriff – and he produced the badge to prove it. Graham Lilley, Gary’s then guitar technician, recalls conversations about including another guitarist in the line-up, with Snowy White’s name being mentioned. (Classic Rock) 12 August 2016, 1990's Still Got The Blues album was an abrupt and risky game-changer that reignited the tradition of blistering British blues guitar.

I think the album and the single were right at the top of the charts. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer, Thin Lizzy in 1974: Brian Downey, Phil Lynott and Gary Moore, Gary Moore playing the Les Paul once owned by Peter Green.

Copyright: Writer(s): Melissa Toni Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager Lyrics Terms of Use. It's a soft, mellow tune with simple lyrics, yet its place in American folk music history is undeniable. But there was trouble in paradise. If hearing Eric Clapton was an epiphany, the next step in Moore’s blues journey became a lifelong obsession.

King. Once rehearsals were over, the main recording sessions began at Sarm West, the old Island Recording Studio in central London. Then Gary looked at me and said, ‘What are we doing? He won one and lost the other, although there was a feeling that he was on a hiding to nowhere by having to face a case brought by German musicians in a German court. I’d never heard a guitar sound so big and so passionate, and so full of energy and emotion.”.

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