I was living in Oakleigh in this sharehouse with a bunch of Uni students. I had just finished teachers college and was about to start a year of doing nothing but playing in a band. The Fiction. I had my own entrance so I was set up quite well. I even managed to scrape enough together to get a proper stereo. My cousin Neil who I hung out with in Blackpool a few years previously had bought a music centre and was getting into taping letters and including tracks. I got one from him and it included his fave band Status Quo but also a bunch of tracks from Thin Lizzy who I didn't know much about except their superlative hit "Boys are Back in Town". Anyway, I loved the tracks and even though I was a punk I had to have this record despite all the rock cliches and long hair.
Tonight there's Gonna be Jailbreak!. great for driving my Mazda around town. Saw the doco and I think most of it was not really live. The power of overdubbing and replacing tracks. But who really cares when it's this good. The Cowboy Song and it's descending guitar lines, twin guitars and Phil Lynott's poetic turn of phrase. I was a punk for a short time and then a mod but I still had room for Thin Lizzy.
They played a free show at the Myer Music Bowl not long after. Foolishly I didn't go and have been kicking myself for 40 years.
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