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Topic: Gary Moore

My dear Bonabuddies - I need some help:

I´m (pretty sure) going to see a Gary Moore concert at the "Rother Bluestage" (which is the festival where I discovered Joe!) in March ... but I have to admit that I don´t own one single album ... yeah, I´m ashamed wink. I´ve just got some songs on compilations.

So - can you recommend a good Gary Moore album or two?!
A friend of mine who works in the guitar business has met Gary a few times before, so maybe I also get the chance to talk to him - that would be cool..... 
I would be very thankful if someone helped me out of my shameful position smile.

Eva

P.S.: When I opened the page for the "Rother Bluestage" - guess what song was playing on the website?! Had to cry today! Joe´s just everywhere ....

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Re: Gary Moore

Eva,
Still Got the Blues...my favorite...many artists...lots of guitar.

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Eva he may not look like this anymore BUT he still plays like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWp-Mazmf88

and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXYjEMTQRm0

Tis no wonder Joe and he have a mutual admiration society going.....

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Gary is great.  Been a fan for a very long time of his.  I've got an old live performance of his on VHS somewhere.  I believe it is off of the Still Got the Blues Tour.  Completely awesome show that I am going to have to dig out and watch again soon!

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Eva, Blues for Greeny. Gary's tribute to Peter Green. Recorded using Peter's famous 59 Gibson that recently sold to a collector for around $1,000,000.00 dollars.

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Hallo Eva,

What album you want depends on which he period Gary is playing in.

He plays al least 3 kinds of music:

1,. Rock with Thin Lizzy and his own Rockalbums:- Wild Frontier
                                                                       - Run for Cover
                                                                       - After the war
2. His jazz rock fusion period with Colosseum.
3 His bluesperiod                              Albums:      - Still got the blues
                                                                        - 1982-ballads and blues 1994.

These albums I have myself, I like the rockperiode most however his Still got the blues album is by far his most successfull 4million copies sold. In the beginning I played it often, but now never again.
I don't like his voice with blues just personal, it fits better with the rock, hardrock.

His guitarplaying is outstanding, no question at all!

His DVD -Live in Montreux- is a must have if you want a blues DVD.

See you, in Bochum Zeche??

I can send you both bluesalbums if you want, I never play them anymore.

Gruesse,
Andre Wittebroek.

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Re: Gary Moore

This is what you want. Along with "Still got the blues for you"
His DVD -Live in Montreux- is a must have if you want a blues DVD.

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Re: Gary Moore

I'm gonna stay out of this topic before I get myself into deep doggy doodoo big_smile

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Corridors of Power. Contains "End of the World." Nuff said.

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Another one I would consider not that well known A Different Beat .Gary
Moore kind of channeling Jeff Beck.I came across this cd and it really suprised me.Not a real strait up blues album,but some great song writing and of course outstanding guitar work.stayed in my cd player for a long time.

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Eva: I echo the board's earlier suggestion of "Still Got the Blues"...the title song still blows me away....his tone and phrasing are impeccable.  The Montreux DVD is also awesome.  Blues Alive is a very similar list of songs to Still Got the Blues but is performed live with a killer horn section and a guest appearance from the late, great Albert Collins.  Also "Back to the Blues" has some great stuff on it.

Enjoy the show, you're lucky, he doesn't play in the States.

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Thank you everyone - also for the great videos! smile
Andre is sending me the two Blues albums he has mentioned and that will be my Gary Moore start smile ... But I´ll go to the record store on Saturday and try to find some of the other records too... and I will have to buy the tickets too - 40 Euro... but I think it´s worth it.

Why doesn´t he play in the States?!

Eva

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eva if you are getting two albums/CD's from Andre than just buy the Montreux DVD from 1990 or the Blues Live video, you won't be disappointed....

also you might want to hook up with Petra, she attends many of Gary's european gigs and lives in fact in Germany..

pet74@hotmail.de

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Which album was it that has him sitting on his bed practicing...in the backgroung on the wall is a picture of Hendrix....just what i've always imagined with all the hours of practice that the great guitar players do...I'm still angry at my son for lending out my music to his "so called friends"....so many dics have vanished...now that I'm this computer genius roll I'm ripping everything on this new computer....no more..."I'll bring it back in a few days"....cant even trust my own brothers sometimes....

Dave

P.S....do you all remember a few months back when we signed up to "bring Gary Moore to the states"...there were alot of forum peeps that did so...hmm...cant remember my # that  was given

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Shredit wrote:

Which album was it that has him sitting on his bed practicing...in the backgroung on the wall is a picture of Hendrix....just what i've always imagined with all the hours of practice that the great guitar players do...I'm still angry at my son for lending out my music to his "so called friends"....so many dics have vanished...now that I'm this computer genius roll I'm ripping everything on this new computer....no more..."I'll bring it back in a few days"....cant even trust my own brothers sometimes....

Dave

P.S....do you all remember a few months back when we signed up to "bring Gary Moore to the states"...there were alot of forum peeps that did so...hmm...cant remember my # that  was given

That was 1990 Still Got The Blues, George Harrison guested on that album!!!! Along with Alberts King and Collins... In fact Gary George and Alvin Lee lived beside each other in Henley on Thames at that time and occassionally jammed!! (woulda liked to have been a fly on the wall there!!!)

Remember an interviewer asking George what he thought of himself as a guitar player... he said " I am the third best player on my street"

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Just be sure to see him Eva - he is at the top of my list of guitarists to see but I think I
will have to travel across the ocean for this to happen. I'm jealous !   Jaci

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The double CD The Best Of The Blues is a great sampler.  CD 1 is studio stuff, and CD2 is all live gems (including duets with Albert King, Albert Collins, and BB King.  It's priced attractively too.

The Blues Alive CD absolutely smokes and catches Gary live at perhaps the peak of his blues era.

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Free? DOH! Ignore that big_smile

dknight16 wrote:

The double CD The Best Of The Blues is a great sampler.  CD 1 is studio stuff, and CD2 is all live gems (including duets with Albert King, Albert Collins, and BB King.  It's priced attractively too.

The Blues Alive CD absolutely smokes and catches Gary live at perhaps the peak of his blues era.

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