Bad For You Baby Gary Moore (Page 3 of 4)

What some members may be unaware of was the significance of Gary Moore to blues music in the UK. Still Got The Blues was released in 1990 and was the top selling blues album ever in the UK at that time. Songs like Still Got The Blues and Cold Day In Hell (from After Hours) even had some success as singles.  It did bring people's attention to the blues, including my own. Indeed if it was not for Gary, I'd probably not have travelled down the path that led me to Joe!

Great post Icon!   I may not totally agree with everything you said, but I do respect your opinion.  It's thoughtful posts like yours that keep me coming to this forum.

Wow Jane - I never figured you for being a metal-head! LOL

Gary went the blues-rock route about the time he released "Sill Got the Blues" c. 1990.
I'd suggest sticking with CDs recorded from 1990 onwards.

Before that he did metal, Celtic, jazz fusion... I do have some of his earlier stuff and it is good!

I hear you Martin. I would never have heard of Back Door Slam, Aynsley Lister or Ryan McGarvey without this forum.

I still can't understand people dissing other artists in here. Yeah, we've all been to bad concerts. I'm sure that some artists are so full of themselves that they choose not to interact at all with their fans.

I'm just glad that we have guys like Joe who will spend a few precious minutes after each show to sign autographs and greet fans. It just makes us all appreciate artists like that all the more.

Dont you just love the treatment he gives "Don't Believe a Word".
Apparently, Lynott wrote it as a blusey balad originally, hence Gary treating us to that before launching ito the better known version.

Ian

Hi Geoff, I'm sorry if my comments irritated you. I think I was having a bad day that day! My point was more that comments should really relate to the album rather than Gary in general.  I have to say though I'm not in favour of general negative posts that cannot be understood by the majority of readers. 

As far as Gary's work is concerned as far as I am aware all his music was rock, with a little blues until 1990 when he recorded Still Got The Blues. Since then it has been primarily blues based, albeit at times through the guitar trio of BBM and Scars.  He did one with dance beats that was pretty awful.  I've never read the statements you claim to have heard though!

To clarify I'm not a massive fan of Gary these days as I have found other artists such as Joe that I like more, however I will actually be seeing him live for the first time in a month, so I'll share my thoughts then on his new material. 

Some detail about Don't Believe A Word. Phil Lynott wrote the song for the Johnny The Fox album but when Lizzy's Glaswegian guitarist heard it, he did not like it and he and Brian Downey insisted on changing it to the famous version that was recorded on the album.

Then when Gary was recording the album "Back On The Streets" in 1979, he and Phil decided to re-record the song in it's original style.  That version it was a slow blues tune sang as a duet by Gary and Phil.  Apparently Peter Green was in the studio at the time and told them it was the kind of tune he would have recorded with Fleetwood Mac, and they said to him "yes, that was how we wanted it to sound".
It's hard to find the Back to The Street album, but worth it to hear that song.

Did he really sell the Peter Green Les Paul?!!! Thats Nuts! Did he at least get a million dollars for it?
Geoff - Say it isn't so.

This is bothering me.

I saw Gary Moore last night in Glasgow.

First on was Buddy Whittington who played a fine upbeat set of blues tinged with a little bit of funk. Most of the material came from his debut solo album and he went down pretty well with the crowd, although I suppose many were looking for a more rocky style of blues. No doubt he is a fine guitarist and he played the most tasteful guitar riffs all night...

Gary came on for his set and immediately launced into Bad For You Baby and the sound was not so good and his vocals were low in the mix compared to his guitar which was deafening. Then the vocals were turned up louder than the guitar!
Thanksfully by the third track the sound seemed to be rectified and Gary strapped on the Les Paul for a great version of Oh Pretty Woman, before an extended version of the John Mayall song Have You Heard.  Most of the songs came from Still Got The Blues and Bad For You Baby. The crowd although large was pretty subdued, they would applaud, but did not really get involved when he was trying to get them to sing or clap along. I'm not sure if they wanted rock or more blues. All Your Love and the slide driven Mojo Boogie were standouts as was the guitar organ interplay on Albert Collins' song Too Tired. There was some unnecessary soloing at times and I’d have liked to have heard something a little more subtle at times too such as  Need Your love So Bad, Midnight Blues or Jumping At Shadows would have been good.  The largest cheer was for the final encore Parisian Walkways and Gary perhaps playing in Scotland did give us a little hint of his celtic style in the closing minute before the end of the set.

I'd have bought a CD but they were charging £20 for a pre-signed CD, or nothing at all. My verdict: worth seeing and I'm glad I did so, but I do wish I'd seen him a decade or so earlier.