DAVE VS: THIN LIZZY!

I am in the mood for the imaginary 1976. Tricked out Goodtimes Vans with wizards on the sides. Roller skating chicks in tube tops. The sun glinting off that Bicentennial can of Pepsi in the high school parking lot. And Thin Lizzy.

And that up there? That's just the cover. If you want a great slice of classic rock, you want this record. It's sounds so American, with it's street level, working class lyrics, sung in a voice like that of the guy who works down at the car wash, surrounded left and right by twin rock guitars. However, like the best rock of this period, it wasn't from the U.S. Thin Lizzy were Irish. So much of the best classic rock from this period is from across the ocean, echoing back American culture, like the blues, styles of music us yanks had little time for, until somebody like Thin Lizzy or Led Zeppelin blew then up to gargantuan size and aimed them right back at us. Especially "Jailbreak", with that huge first chord, exploding out of your speakers like the opening of "A Hard Day's Night" after a long night of beer swilling and bar fighting.

Thin Lizzy glossed up and foundered in the eighties until lead singer/songwriter Phil Lynott died at the age of 36 on January 4th 1986. This album and this song will live on, however,  as perfect a snapshot of a time and place as that yellowing photo taken at Skateland sitting on your Uncle's office wall, except this snapshot is vibrant, alive while also containing many embarrassing hairstyles.  And that's why this is your-

-K-101.7 Song Of The Day!

P.S: Dig deeper into the Thin Lizzy catalog with ten of their best RIGHT HERE.