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Post by hojam on Feb 7, 2011 2:21:05 GMT -5
Gary Moore passed away yesterday. He was 58.
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Post by bluecheer on Feb 7, 2011 9:54:53 GMT -5
Sorry to hear this.
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Post by rtbuck on Feb 7, 2011 12:07:05 GMT -5
I'm still in shock! I just listened to his Run for Cover album last week mainly because I wanted to hear "Out in the Fields" which featured Phil Lynott
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Post by Pete on Feb 7, 2011 13:02:43 GMT -5
Thin Lizzy have led the tributes to Belfast-born Gary Moore who has tragically died aged just 58.
The rock and blues guitarist passed while on holiday in Spain in the early hours of Sunday morning, leaving the music world in mourning.
Moore was best known for his work with Thin Lizzy, a band he was brought into by singer Phil Lynott. The pair had played together previously in Irish group Skid Row.
His former band mates Brian Downey and Scott Gorham have expressed their sadness at his death, while insisting his contribution to both the band to music will ‘live on forever.’
Downey said: “I am in total shock. I have known Gary since 1967 when he was in Platform Three and he’s been an amazing friend ever since.
“It was a pleasure to play with Gary again in 2006 after his days with Lizzy. He will always be in my thoughts and prayers and I just can’t believe he is gone.”
Gorham added: “Playing with Gary during the Black Rose era was a great experience, he was a great player and a great guy. I will miss him.”
As the news broke, Thin Lizzy’s 2011 line-up were preparing for a show in Vienna with current frontman Ricky Warwick vowing the blow the roof off the venue for Moore.
On his Facebook page Warwick said: “I am very shocked and saddened by the sudden death of one of the Thin Lizzy family – fellow Belfast man Gary Moore.
“Tonight’s show will of course be in Gary’s honour and all our thoughts are with his family at this time.”
Niall Stokes, editor of Irish musical magazine Hot Press, said Moore was a genius.
He said: “Even as a teenager, he had something special about him and throughout his career he worked really hard at improving his technique.
“His contribution to the Irish rock canon was immense, both in his own solo work, his days with Skid Row, the great records he recorded with Philip Lynott and with Thin Lizzy and in various other cameos. My heart goes out to all of his close friends and family. It is a huge loss.”
Moore was just 16 when he moved from Belfast to Dublin to join Skid Row – who were fronted by Lynott.
This sparked a lengthy but sometimes frosty relationship with Lynott. However the pair joined forces many times over the years, notably on the hit single ‘Parisienne Walkways’ and a later single ‘Out In The Fields’ which reached No 5 in the UK charts.
No details have yet been released about his death in a luxury hotel in Estepona. A post-mortem is expected to be carried out in the nearby city of Malaga.
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Post by blackers45 on Feb 7, 2011 15:43:58 GMT -5
This is sickening. Not only did i, think it was a joke on Facebook it set me to the computer to find out. I went to the BBC, and unfortunately they were reporting the pasing of Gary Moore. I had a dinner appointment and begrudgeoningly went to my car and got the i-pod plugged in on shuffle and After the War was the first song playing, and it got me out of the bad mood i was in. Thank God for his body of work is so huge, there's plenty to enjoy of his life.
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Post by Trexx on Feb 7, 2011 17:58:12 GMT -5
I'm bummed. I'm a big fan. FuCK!
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Post by Pete on Feb 8, 2011 11:19:00 GMT -5
Former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore died from a suspected heart attack, an initial post-mortem examination has found.
The Belfast Telegraph reports that forensic experts told a court in Spain's Costa del Sol that the rocker died of natural causes, hours after starting a six-day holiday with his girlfriend.
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Post by IRON BALLS on Feb 8, 2011 12:58:56 GMT -5
Very sad, I'm a huge fan of his metal days.  |
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Post by FunkyCanuck on Feb 8, 2011 21:03:58 GMT -5
Very sad to hear this. I just discovered his music a few months ago. RIP Gary.
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Post by Pete on Feb 9, 2011 10:45:36 GMT -5
Ozzy on Gary Moore:
“I knew Gary Moore for what seemed like forever. We’d run into each other many times over the years and we were always able to pick up right where we left off.
“I had the honour of recording with Gary on his After The War album on the track Led Clones which was great fun.
“To say that his death is a tragic loss doesn’t seem to give it the justice it deserves. We’ve lost a phenomenal musician and a great friend. Rest In Peace, Gary.”
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Roger Tayler:
Roger Taylor added:
“It was my wife who told me the news. It’s terrible: 58 is just too early. In Phil [Lynott]’s case it was tragic, and in Gary’s case there should have been a lot more years.
“I have great memories of Gary on tour in Thin Lizzy with Queen: always smiling, very cheerful and… too young to die. He’d recently joined Lizzy and he fitted in great: a blindingly fast player, and his thing was these staccato runs, with a bit of jazz in there. Totally different to Brian [May], who’s a very fluid player, but musicians usually ‘get’ other rated musicians, and Brian very much enjoyed his playing.
“Over the years, I’d see Gary out in the clubs: a great guy on the scene. He liked to drink, as I remember, but everybody did in those days. It’s very sad. But I think his music will live on. Virtuosity is something we really don’t have now: there are lots of great bands, but the emphasis just isn’t on that anymore. In those days, it was all about how great you were; there were so many virtuosos and he was definitely one of them. He was a star player.”
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Post by snakesandladders on Feb 11, 2011 12:06:06 GMT -5
RIP TO A great axeman and person.......remember best in the LIzzy yrs of course.....may you be rockin' out with Philo in the sky man....RIP:(  By blackglove at 2011-02-06  By blackglove at 2011-02-06 |
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