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Courtesy of the Lord of the Strings, the worldwide Gary Moore fan forum , I was able to hear the amazing first show at an outdoor festival.
This was at Trondhiem Rock Festival 05/22/2010.
Gary is amazingly only using one guitar to play all of the songs, well he changes to a different sunburst Les Paul for Parisienne Walkways apparently, it's extreme bends and may require his 'Greeny' style Custom Shop LP, not a Melvyn Franks model btw.
He is using two Marshall 1959HW heads and moore reverb than delay from the sound of it.
Besides the amazing playing and singing of Neil Carter once moore by his side after 20 years absence, I find it incredible how Gary is handling the Wild Frontier era material, with a fixed bridge Les Paul. Lt only reinforces how incredible his vibrato really is.
I had been hoping against hope as many hard core GM fans have for years, that Gary would return to the Celtic rock era, as it wasn't really all said and with the death of Phillip Lynott in 1986, just as Gary was embarking on that style of music.
His blues period has produced a lot of amazing tunes and playing experiences, Albert King, B.B.King, Albert Collins and there were plans from Albert to have SRV join Gary on stage, but that never happened.
I am often unfairly accused of being a fanboy by the Internet trolls who have nothing better to do than attack my enthusiasm for guitar playing and music, not just my opinion, if that was the case, fair enough, but it goes beyond that.
I have to report how amazing Gary's playing and singing is on this classic material from 1985-89 and three new Celtic rock influenced songs.
One of these is about how Gary misses Phil Lynott, not being by his side, as I know they still had great material to produce together.
Hearing him reproduce those Floyded licks with a Les Paul and how he has embellished them to bring out new nuances is just breathtaking to me.
Audiences need to hear this material live again and not just the blues Moore, 20 years is long enough.
In fact many are saying he should have left out Still Got The Blues, Parisienne Walkways and Walkin' By Myself altogether, I agree.
The new songs have some similarity to the After The War era style Celtic licks, but that's OK.
Gary runs with these themes so flawlessly that it is almost what the newly 'reformed' Thin Lizzy should sound like, but can't.
In a nod to the stage clothes of that era, Gary is wearing a military chevron on his leather jacket.
I thought it would sound too different trying to recreate that massive stadium rock tone, with a smaller set up and completely different guitars, but Gary has pulled it off.
Sure he repeats a verse or two in Blood of Emeralds and fumbles slightly on the words of Military Man, but that is nothing for a first gig and very little rehearsal time, hearing those classic runs interpreted on his current Les Paul is nothing short of incredible. Honestly I couldn't believe my ears.
The DAT audience recording isn't too bad, you can hear the audience talking and drinking, but it doesn't spoil the show.
Where Are You Now, which refers to Phil Lynott hass the most amazing outro solo which is just cut off??
Hope a DVD is made and these new songs are released.
I feel very connected to all of this as over the past two years I have been in contact with Neil Carter and had the opportunity to thank him and tell him how much his contribution meant to the all the fans.
He was enthused about the Wild Frontier period, it being his favorite as well, then we did the interview published on his site and the Gary Moore web page as well.
Hearing the same material played with two half stacks and a much simpler equipment line up, than previously used, allows Gary to bring out the nuances that only time can bring, when older material is revisited.
Here is the setlist:
1. Dunluce (tape intro)
2. Over The Hills And Far Away
3. Thunder Rising
4. Military Man
5. Days Of Heroes
6. Where Are You Now
7. So Far Away
8. Empty Rooms
9. Old Wild One (Neil on rhythm guitar)
10. Blood Of Emeralds
11. Out In The Fields
12. Still Got The Blues
13. Walking By Myself
1st encore Johnny Boy (acoustic version)
2nd encore Parisienne Walkways
This is the downloaded set:
01 Intro
02 Over The Hills And Far Away
03 Thunder Rising
04 Military Man
05 Days of Heroes (new!)
06 Where Are You Now? (new!)
07 Empty Rooms-intro
08 Empty Rooms
09 A Wild One (new! Neil Carter joining in on guitar)
-
10 Blood Of Emeralds
11 Out In The Fields
12 Still Got The Blues
13 Walking By Myself
14 Johnny Boy
15 Parisienne Walkways
Here is the bit torrent file, it's a free download through Dimeadozen, which has some other great shows too..
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=305410
Enjoy, glad I stuck with my Handwired head, I knew Gary would end up using these
8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EKr0MrQfCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myOF9_Y6N5Q
yngwie308
This was at Trondhiem Rock Festival 05/22/2010.
Gary is amazingly only using one guitar to play all of the songs, well he changes to a different sunburst Les Paul for Parisienne Walkways apparently, it's extreme bends and may require his 'Greeny' style Custom Shop LP, not a Melvyn Franks model btw.
He is using two Marshall 1959HW heads and moore reverb than delay from the sound of it.
Besides the amazing playing and singing of Neil Carter once moore by his side after 20 years absence, I find it incredible how Gary is handling the Wild Frontier era material, with a fixed bridge Les Paul. Lt only reinforces how incredible his vibrato really is.
I had been hoping against hope as many hard core GM fans have for years, that Gary would return to the Celtic rock era, as it wasn't really all said and with the death of Phillip Lynott in 1986, just as Gary was embarking on that style of music.
His blues period has produced a lot of amazing tunes and playing experiences, Albert King, B.B.King, Albert Collins and there were plans from Albert to have SRV join Gary on stage, but that never happened.
I am often unfairly accused of being a fanboy by the Internet trolls who have nothing better to do than attack my enthusiasm for guitar playing and music, not just my opinion, if that was the case, fair enough, but it goes beyond that.
I have to report how amazing Gary's playing and singing is on this classic material from 1985-89 and three new Celtic rock influenced songs.
One of these is about how Gary misses Phil Lynott, not being by his side, as I know they still had great material to produce together.
Hearing him reproduce those Floyded licks with a Les Paul and how he has embellished them to bring out new nuances is just breathtaking to me.
Audiences need to hear this material live again and not just the blues Moore, 20 years is long enough.
In fact many are saying he should have left out Still Got The Blues, Parisienne Walkways and Walkin' By Myself altogether, I agree.
The new songs have some similarity to the After The War era style Celtic licks, but that's OK.
Gary runs with these themes so flawlessly that it is almost what the newly 'reformed' Thin Lizzy should sound like, but can't.
In a nod to the stage clothes of that era, Gary is wearing a military chevron on his leather jacket.
I thought it would sound too different trying to recreate that massive stadium rock tone, with a smaller set up and completely different guitars, but Gary has pulled it off.
Sure he repeats a verse or two in Blood of Emeralds and fumbles slightly on the words of Military Man, but that is nothing for a first gig and very little rehearsal time, hearing those classic runs interpreted on his current Les Paul is nothing short of incredible. Honestly I couldn't believe my ears.
The DAT audience recording isn't too bad, you can hear the audience talking and drinking, but it doesn't spoil the show.
Where Are You Now, which refers to Phil Lynott hass the most amazing outro solo which is just cut off??
Hope a DVD is made and these new songs are released.
I feel very connected to all of this as over the past two years I have been in contact with Neil Carter and had the opportunity to thank him and tell him how much his contribution meant to the all the fans.
He was enthused about the Wild Frontier period, it being his favorite as well, then we did the interview published on his site and the Gary Moore web page as well.
Hearing the same material played with two half stacks and a much simpler equipment line up, than previously used, allows Gary to bring out the nuances that only time can bring, when older material is revisited.
Here is the setlist:
1. Dunluce (tape intro)
2. Over The Hills And Far Away
3. Thunder Rising
4. Military Man
5. Days Of Heroes
6. Where Are You Now
7. So Far Away
8. Empty Rooms
9. Old Wild One (Neil on rhythm guitar)
10. Blood Of Emeralds
11. Out In The Fields
12. Still Got The Blues
13. Walking By Myself
1st encore Johnny Boy (acoustic version)
2nd encore Parisienne Walkways
This is the downloaded set:
01 Intro
02 Over The Hills And Far Away
03 Thunder Rising
04 Military Man
05 Days of Heroes (new!)
06 Where Are You Now? (new!)
07 Empty Rooms-intro
08 Empty Rooms
09 A Wild One (new! Neil Carter joining in on guitar)
-
10 Blood Of Emeralds
11 Out In The Fields
12 Still Got The Blues
13 Walking By Myself
14 Johnny Boy
15 Parisienne Walkways
Here is the bit torrent file, it's a free download through Dimeadozen, which has some other great shows too..
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=305410
Enjoy, glad I stuck with my Handwired head, I knew Gary would end up using these
8) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EKr0MrQfCg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myOF9_Y6N5Q
yngwie308
