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Gorham agrees with Robertson about Nevison, but is less keen on the music on Nightlife: “I was really disillusioned. I can safely say that Ron and myself didn’t get on too well on that record.” “He was an American twat shouting, ‘Eh hey eh’. “Nevison would drive up to the studio in his Rolls-Royce at the height of summer and he’d be wearing a huge fur coat,” Robertson continues. Unfortunately, all involved vouch mercilessly that Nevison proved to be detrimental to their progress as a rock’n’roll outfit. Aside of that, we had to deal with Nevison.” There were four different people with a lot of different influences, who didn’t know each other that well and we were learning each other’s thing at the time. There’s a real sense of innocence about the whole thing. I liked it and still like it – primarily because it was the first album I recorded. “Overall though, Nightlife was a weird album. It was the record company that fixed up the ill-fated Nevison partnership. We hadn’t had any time to write much, so all this Barry White-type stuff started rearing its head. With Ron Nevison producing, the band initially thought they had the right man to bring their music into focus.īecause Lizzy had been constantly on the road over the previous year, it hadn’t left time for any ensemble writing, hence Brian Robertson’s torrid memories of these sessions: “On Nightlife we were short on songs, which explains the dichotomy of the material. Through much of September the band were in the studio recording material for what was to become the Nightlife album. We were all flattened at the end of each day but it was the right thing to do because by the fourth show we ended up with a record deal.”Īt the end of August Thin Lizzy eventually signed their contract with Phonogram’s rock outlet, Vertigo. We were rehearsing for about eight or nine hours a day, just going at it until we got all the material correct.

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It was my first look at what being a professional musician was all about. “Any of the other bands I had been involved with usually rehearsed for about an hour and after that it was, ‘Fuck this!’. “When I look back now I realise that Thin Lizzy was my first real experience of what rehearsal was all about,” recalls Gorham.

But Lynott’s dedication to the new line-up was total, and the band worked extremely hard to get in shape for some upcoming gigs. Having parted ways with Decca, the band’s financial position was hardly the envy of others. With Lynott, Downey and Robertson happy to offer the job to Gorham, the band set about trying to get a record deal.

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The band ploughed through some of their new numbers including The Rocker and Suicide, plus two other numbers that Gorham recalls, “were never actually played again”.

Whatever the first impressions, Scott’s guitar playing turned out to be exactly what Lizzy were looking for. “I’d have to say my first impressions weren’t all that great… I thought Brian Robertson was an arrogant prick, Brian Downey a complete antisocial who wouldn’t say anything to anybody, and Phil just seemed like a really colourful character who was really upbeat and approachable – but I was still wary.” Thankfully the American arrived just in time on a cold, dark, rainy night: With the trio jamming around Vagabonds… material, Robertson, Lynott and Downey were once more losing momentum after a succession of misfit auditions.

I’d never heard of them because they hadn’t really had much success outside of Whiskey… and I don’t think that was even released in America, so my knowledge of them was quite limited.”Īfter agreeing to the audition, Gorham set off to Hampstead where the band was still in residence at the Iroquo Country Club. “Ruan dragged me to the side of the stage after a gig one night and mentioned that there was this Irish band called Thin Lizzy looking for a guitar player. One night saxophonist Ruan O’Lochlaun saw him play. Meanwhile, Scott Gorham was playing around the pub circuit with his newly formed band, Fast Buck. Downey couldn’t see it as a three-piece either, so that put paid to Phil’s thoughts on what route the band should be taking.” By this stage we didn’t have a record deal, so we had to hit the road to prove our worth. In the studio it would’ve been fine, but touring would’ve been impossible. What Phil was writing at that point didn’t really suit a three-piece. It turned out that Phil didn’t want to get somebody else in. By the end of it, it was Downey who gave me the nod, and that was how we started. I walked into the auditions and saw those guitarists lined up. Robertson had his Lizzy audition in early June: “I was actually into Lizzy dating back as far as the Vagabonds Of The Western World album, so I knew the material. By the summer of 1974 Gorham had been in England for about four months, and time was running out in trying to hook up with a band.

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