Thin Lizzy : Thin Lizzy/New Day (EP)

 

UP TIL NOW

MY YOUTHFUL STAGE

WAS A USELESS RAGE

A TORN OUT PAGE

A WORN OUT GAUGE

A DIRTY SHADE

A BIG CHARADE

A HAS BEEN MADE

AND HONESTY WAS MY ONLY EXCUSE

I TOOK YOUR LOVE AND I USED IT

NOTES : 

HERE IS 

THIN LIZZY'S 

FIRST ALBUM

WITH THE

 BONUS EP ADDED 

Thin Lizzy 

is the debut

 studio album

 by Irish rock band 

Thin Lizzy 

released in 1971. 

Following the release

 of the album,

 the band recorded 

the EP

New Day, 

produced and recorded by 

Nick Tauber

at Decca Studios on 

 June 14th -17th 1971 

and released on  

August 20th 1971.

The songs from the EP

 were included in later editions 

of the album.

Background and Recording 

In the autumn of 1970,

Brian Tuite and Peter Bardon

 took over the management of 

Thin Lizzy. 

Lynott told Tuite: 

"we've got twelve songs

 at the moment

 that we'd be happy enough to record". 

after listening to some of the songs

 Tuite tried to find a

 record deal for the band. 

Since he had a good friendship 

with Decca Records A&R man,

 Frank Rodgers,

 tried to arrange a gig for 

Thin Lizzy

 and another of his acts,

 soul singer 

Ditch Cassidy. 

Cassidy lacked his regular band,

 and so Tuite put 

Thin Lizzy as his

 backing band.

After watching

 Thin Lizzy's performance 

at the Zhivago Club on  

November 12th 1970,

 Frank Rodgers 

showed his interest

 in them rather 

than Cassidy, 

and offered them a 

record deal with Decca; 

however, 

Rodgers also suggested

another showcase gig for 

other Decca personnel 

before signing a contract

 This time the band 

performed their original material. 

"Look What The Wind Blew In" 

was one of the songs 

that caught Rodgers's attention. 

Afterward Tuite 

travelled to London

 to meet Decca's head 

of A & R, 

Dick Rowe.

 The paperwork

 was drawn up on

 November 12th 1970,

 and on the first day of December, 

Decca officially signed 

“Tin Lissy" 

to a one-year 

recording contract, 

with the option of

 extending the deal by 

two further periods 

of one year in 

September 1971 

and September 1972. 

All going well,

 they were committed to 

delivering three albums

 to the company. 

The advance was £500, 

with a further £500

 to be paid after the album

 had been completed.

Thin Lizzy

 left Ireland after an 

afternoon gig on

  January 3rd 1971 

at the Afton Club in Dundalk, 

to start recording their

 first album in London's 

Decca Studios. 

On their way to London, 

Lynott met John Peel 

and introduced 

Thin Lizzy to him; 

within ten months

 Peel would be booking the group

 for a session 

on his Radio 1 show, 

on  October 12th 1971. 

The band booked a guesthouse

 in Sussex Gardens 

in which to stay during 

the first album recording. 

The work began on

 the Monday morning 

and was done on

 Friday evening. 

Brian Downey says: 

"We got up at nine in the morning,

 [went] into the studio, 

played from about ten or half ten 

to eight or nine, 

then clocked off

 and went back to the guesthouse. 

Then we did it again,

 for the whole week". 

According to manager 

Brian Tuite, 

while working with producer

Scott English, 

Lynott had a fight 

with him about the bass sound: 

"Philip fell out a bit with him

 because Scott wanted to

 turn down the bass. 

It got to the stage where I was

 up in the control room

 and Scott would say, 

'Go down and tell the bass player 

to turn down.' 

He wouldn’t use the

 [talkback] mike 

because Phil wouldn't do it anyway.

 So I'd say to Philip,

 'The Bearded One wants you

 to turn down the bass,' 

and he'd say,

 'Tell that fucking Yank to piss off.' 

He knew full well the mike 

would be open.

"Eric Bell explained that the band

 was stoned during the

 whole process of recording 

and that he doesn't remember anything

 from the sessions but he

 remembers Scott English's

 accompaniment with band 

of giving them bags of weed: 

"We were permanently stoned. 

Scott English was this

 jovial American guy,

 a nice big bloke. 

He had this enormous 

bag of grass in one of the 

drawers in the studio. 

He brought it out, 

threw it on the table and said, 

'Help yourselves, boys!' 

That was it.

 I can’t actually remember

 recording the first album. 

I didn’t know anything until 

the end of the record,

 it was just a haze. 

Smoking a bit of dope

 and playing music 

went hand-in-hand for us. 

We were just that type of band 

at that point in time. 

It seemed to work for us, 

we got ideas.

 There was a lot of things

 on that album that 

were completely ad-libbed

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