Live and Dangerous

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The box set is a large format (12″ x 12″) package and includes sleeve notes with new interviews by Mark Blake and a booklet packed with rare photos and memorabilia. To celebrate the 45th anniversary of Thin Lizzy’s 1978 live album Live And Dangerous, Universal Music Catalogue will release a definitive 8CD super deluxe edition featuring a newly remastered version of the album and alongside it all the gigs recorded for Live and Dangerous! Disc five originally released, in abbreviated form, as Still Dangerous (Live At The Tower Theatre Philadelphia 1977) in 2009. The sleeve notes were written by Malcolm Dome and included a debate of exactly how much of the album was live and how much was overdubbed. Unlike all the other’s what was actually released was a soundcheck recording, with crowd noise overdubbed to sound live.

The footage was released on DVD in 2007, with other group performances including a show from their farewell tour on 26 January 1983, and four Top of the Pops clips from the 1970s.The front cover, featuring Lynott in the foreground, was originally supposed to be the back cover as the group wanted equal coverage of all members.

However, one revelation included in the booklet, that I didn’t know previously concerns Southbound‘s inclusion on the live album. Recording [ edit ] Thin Lizzy live on the Bad Reputation tour in 1977, during which concerts at Philadelphia and Toronto were recorded for the album. The more serene material -- "Southbound" and "Dancing in the Moonlight" -- is just as gripping, while the slow blues of "Still in Love with You" contains two of the most heartfelt and lyrical guitar solos ever (a trade-off between both Robertson and Gorham).

It goes to dispel the rumours that the album was extensively overdubbed in the studio and its presented here as the shows were intended with the rawness of a band, they were at the top of their game night after night.

It’s a sign of their musicianship that there isn’t really any much difference between this and the final album. NME reviewer Tim Chester declared Live and Dangerous "the best live album we ever heard" despite the alleged overdubs, which he dismissed as irrelevant. As for the actual set, it's great BUT for the love of God, start putting the CDs in their own sleeves instead of this book format. On November 23, 1976, just a week after the three Hammersmith shows, Brian Robertson got involved in a skirmish while defending his Scots soul singer pal Frankie Miller at The Speakeasy Club in London’s West End.These three shows feature the classic Phil Lynott, Brian Robertson, Scott Gorham and Brian Downey at the their rawest. It celebrates not only the anniversary of one of the greatest albums of all time, but also one of the greatest live bands ever, at the top of their game. They listened through various archive recordings from earlier tours and compiled the album from the best versions.