Thin Lizzy tour 1970

From: Belfast 
Active:
Lineup:
Eric Bell - lead guitar
Rodney Howes -
Tom Patterson -
 
The Atlantics was an intrumental group, formed by Eric Bell, who included school friend's Rodney Howes and Tom Patterson. The band performed at Bell's school Orangefield Intermediate Boy's School in Belfast. This was Bell's first band. 
Thanks to John H Warburg

Brian´s father bought a drumkit for Brian. Shortly after the guys in the street suggested to Brian that they should start a band. They named the band The Liffey Beats after The Mersey Beats. The guys were Tom Cullen on lead guitar, `Bomber` Fagan on rhythm guitar, Robbie Welsh on vocals and Brian on drums. The band used to play numbers by The Shadows, Tornados and The Spotnicks (Swedish band). The bands biggest gig was when a priest asked them if they wanted to play in a hospital. The audience were children between six and twelve years old. The band got a box of candy for the gig.
(Info from the book The Rocker by Mark Putterford)

Phil asked Brian one day in school if he wanted to join the band, because the bands drummer Nick Higgins was going into the army. The first song he played with the band was You really got me. The band was now Phil on vocals, Brian on drums, Danny Smith on bass and Frankie Smith on guitar. The manager was Danny´s and Frankie´s father Joe Smith. They played the  first gig with the new linup at St. Paul´s Hall in Dublin. It was a big success with 400 people in the audience. The band used to play four gigs a week in Dublin. 
(Info from the book The Rocker by Mark Putterford)

Before the split they changed the bands name to Jigsaw.
(Info from the book The ballad of a Thin Man by Stuart Bailie)

Brian played with the country and western group for a short period. When Brian was offered a gig with Sugar Shack he left the band. 2-3 months
(Info taken from The official Brian Downey homepage)

Van Morrison and Them Again (Eric Bell)
 
From: Belfast  
Active: September - December 1966  
Lineup:
Van Morrison - vocals, harmonica (born George Ivan Morrison, 31.8.1945, at 125 Hyndford, Bloomfield, East Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland)
Alan Henderson - bass (born 26.11.1944, in East? Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland)
Mike Brown - bass
Joe Hanratty - drums
Eric Bell - lead guitar (born Eric Robin Bell, 3.9.1947 in East Belfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland) 

This band played a few unsatisfactory ad hoc gigs in Belfast.
Thanks to John H Warburg

Kama Sutra was a soul band that played numbers by Eddie Floyd and Sam and Dave. When Philip was in the band he met Brush Shiels who was an up and comer of the beat club scene in Dublin.
(Info from the book Irish Rock by Mark J Prendergast)

(Info from the book Irish Rock by Mark J Prendergast)

Ted Carroll - manager

Lead guitarist Bernie Cheevers and bassist Brush Shiels got the band together in Summer 1967, after both had been sacked from their previous group The Uptown Band and they thought they would obliterate every other band in Dublin. They got Noel Bridgeman in on drums in what was his first band, and went hunting for Phil Lynott and that was how Skid Row formed, orginally as My Father's Moustache (Summer - Oct 1967). Shiels had wanted Phil Lynott in the band, not because he could sing, but because he was good looking. Shiels went around to his house and Lynott agreed to join. Shiels also tried to get Lynott to get his friend Brian Downey to join Skid Row, but he turned down the gig as he was more into the blues than the West Coast sound. So instead Skid Row got in Noel Bridgeman. The band had their first rehearsal in a condemned house (with scaffolding poles holding up the ceiling and one single working socket outlet on a dangling flex) off Lower Dorset Street in Dublin. The first number they tried was Hendrix's 'Manic Depression.' They also rehearsed in a room in Synnot Place, that was let by a Mrs Quigley, whose son Pat Quigley was bass player in Dublin band, The Movement and the first song the band attempted together was Hendrix's 'Hey Joe.' They also found themselves a management deal with Ted Carroll, who had managed The Uptown Band. The band also played at the UCD (University College of Dublin).

When Cheevers left the band in Earl 1968 the band to find another lead guitarist and found one in Gary Moore. Moore at the time was playing in The Method. He was playing with them because their lead guitarist Dave Lewis had a car accident and could not go on the bands trip to Dublin, so they approached Moore (ex The Beat Boys) in a Belfast park and virtually kidnapped him and took him to Dublin, where they played some shows at The Club-A-Go-Go in Abbey Road. It was in the dressing room of this club that Moore was introduced to Brush Shiels, who was looking for a guitarist for Skid Row, who were playing across the road at The Seventy Two Club. While Skid Row taking a break Shiels had come over to The Club-A-Go-Go to watch Moore. So when The Method were taking a break Moore went across the road to The Seventy Two Club to watch Skid Row. Moore decided to join the band and about a week later he moved to Dublin and got to meet the rest of the band. Moore who was not getting on with his father, thought by joining Skid Row it was a good move to get away from home and was also told he would be getting £15 a week, which he did not!
Thanks to John H Warburg

Jon Hojes memorial dance

Eric Bell and Eric Wrixon meet Philip Lynott and Brian Downey

N.O.A.H Concert

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Thin Lizzy

From: Dublin
Active: December 1969 - 4th September 1983

Line-up:
Philip Lynott - vocals, bass
Brian Downey - drums
Eric Bell - guitar
Eric Wrixon - keyboard

Terry O´Neill - manager

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