True Brits "Ready To Rumble (Japan, Jimco Records, JICK-89083)"

True Brits were a Melodic Hard Rock band with Dennis Stratton guitarist from Iron Maiden, Clive Burr on drums also from Iron Maiden and vocalist Lea Heart from Fastway. Their fist album is "Ready To Rumble", released in 1992.

Tracklist:

1.-She Goes Down  シー・ゴーズ・ダウン   4:13

Backing Vocals – Biff Byford, Clive Burr

Drums – Nigel Glockler

Guitar, Backing Vocals – Cliff Evans, Dave Senczak, Dennis Stratton, Lea Hart

Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Paul Dianno

Written-By – D. Senczak

Written-By, Words By – L. Hart

2.-Had Enough ホワット・ディーヤ・ウォント  3:52

Bass, Backing Vocals – Mel Gabbitas

Drums, Backing Vocals, Guitar – Clive Burr

Guitar – Dave Senczak

Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Dennis Stratton

Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitar – Lea Hart

Written-By – C. O'Shaughnessy, E. Clarke

Written-By, Words By – L. Hart

3.-What Am I Gonna Do ホワット・アム・アイ・ゴナ・ドゥ  3:46

Backing Vocals – Algy Ward, Dennis Stratton, Dougie White, Fast Eddie Clarke, Jackie Bodimead, Kim McAuliffe

Bass – Mel Gabbitas, Neil Murray

Drums – Clive Burr

Guitar – Dave Senczak, Mark Kulke, Scott Gorham

Keyboards – Jem Davis

Lead Vocals, Guitar – Lea Hart

Written-By – D. Senczak

Written-By, Words By – L. Hart

4.-It Ain't Over Till It's Over イット・エイント・オーバー・ティル・イッツ・オーバー  4:59

Backing Vocals – Biff Byford, Dave Senczak, Denise Dufort, Gary Barden, Geoff Brown, Kim McAuliffe, Paul Samson

Bass – Algy Ward, Mel Gabbitas

Drums, Percussion – Clive Burr

Guitar – Andy Scott, Cliff Evans, Dave Senczak

Keyboards – David J Burrows, Steve Mann

Keyboards, Backing Vocals, Programmed By, Guitar – Lea Hart

Lead Vocals – Dennis Stratton

Percussion – Steve Hopgood

Programmed By – David J Burrows, Mark Taylor

Written-By, Words By – L. Hart

5.-Show Some Emotion = ショウ・サム・エモーション  5:01

Backing Vocals – Billy Kulke, Denise Dufort, Dennis Stratton, Jackie Bodimead, Kim McAuliffe

Bass – Neil Murray

Drums – Gary Ferguson

Guitar – Cliff Evans, Lea Hart, Paul Chapman

Guitar, Backing Vocals – Dave Senczak

Keyboards – Don Airey

Lead Vocals – John Sloman

Written-By – B. Badhams, D. Airey, R. Hawthorn

Written-By, Words By – B. Marsden

6.-Caught Your Lie  コウト・ユア・ライ  3:16

Backing Vocals – Andy Scott, Dougie White, Paul Dianno, Paul Samson, Steve Clarke 

Bass – Mel Gabbitas

Bass, Backing Vocals – Geoff Brown

Drums – Clive Burr

Guitar – Trev Thoms

Guitar, Backing Vocals – Dave Senczak, Dennis Stratton

Keyboards, Backing Vocals – Jem Davis

Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitar – Lea Hart

Written-By – D. Senczak

Written-By, Words By – L. Hart

7.-Don't Take These Dreams Away = ドント・テイク・ジーズ・ドリームズ・アウェイ  4:15

Backing Vocals – Denise Dufort, Jackie Bodimead, Kim McAuliffe

Bass – Tim Nibbs Carter

Drums – Steve Clarke 

Guitar – Dave Senczak, Fast Eddie Clark, Lea Hart, Tino Troy

Keyboards – Don Airey

Lead Vocals – Gary Barden

Written-By – C. O'Shaughnessy

Written-By, Words By – L. Hart

8.-We're So Far Away  ウィアー・ソー・ファー・アウェイ  4:07

Backing Vocals – Biff Byford, Billy Kulke, Clive Burr, Kim McAuliffe, Mark Kulke

Bass – Neil Murray

Drums – Gary Ferguson

Guitar, Backing Vocals – Dave Senczak, Lea Hart

Keyboards – Jem Davis

Lead Vocals, Guitar – Dennis Stratton

Written-By – C. O'Shaughnessy

Written-By, Words By – L. Hart

9.-This Man's On Fire  ジス・マンズ・オン・ファイヤー   4:40

Backing Vocals – Clive Burr, Dougie White, Mick White, Paul Dianno, Steve Clarke

Bass – Neil Murray

Drums – Dave Dufort

Guitar – Cliff Evans

Guitar, Backing Vocals – Dave Senczak, Dennis Stratton

Keyboards – Jem Davis

Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Lea Hart

Written-By – D. Senczak

Written-By, Words By – L. Hart

10.-What D'ya Want  アンド・ザット・エイント・オール  4:43

Backing Vocals – Biff Byford, Bram Tchaikovsky, Bruce Bisland, Clive Burr, Denise Dufort, Kim McAuliffe, Paul Dianno, Paul Samson, Tino Troy

Bass – Mel Gabbitas

Drums – Nigel Glockler

Guitar – Andy Scott, Dave Senczak, Lea Hart

Guitar, Backing Vocals – Dennis Stratton

Lead Vocals – Dougie White

Written-By – C. O'Shaughnessy

Written-By, Words By – L. Hart

11.-And That Ain't All = ハド・イナフ  6:01

Bass – John McCoy

Drums – Thundersticks

Guitar, Backing Vocals – Paul Samson

Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Nicky Moore

Written-By, Words By – P. Samson

Issued in a standard jewel case with 24-page booklet including English release information and lyrics, Japanese lyrics and commentary, the latter credited as:

(1992. 6. / 大森庸雄 - TSUNEO O'MORI/AQUARIUS)

Also includes an obi.

From the back cover:

Under License from HEARTBEAT MUSIC

℗ 1992 JIMCO RECORDS: a division of JIMCO JAPAN CORP.

Thin Lizzy "Live And Dangerous"

Live and Dangerous is a live double album by the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, released in June 1978. It was recorded in London in 1976, and Philadelphia and Toronto in 1977, with further production in Paris. It was also the last Thin Lizzy album to feature guitarist Brian Robertson, who left the band shortly after its release.

The band decided to release a live album after their producer Tony Visconti did not have enough time to work on a full studio session. The group listened through various archive recordings from earlier tours and compiled the album from the best versions. Various studio overdubs were made to the live recordings during early 1978 in Paris; exactly how much of the album is overdubbed has been a contentious topic since its release. The album reached No. 2 in the UK album charts, ultimately selling over half a million copies. It has continued to attract critical acclaim and it has appeared in several lists of the greatest live albums of all time.

By the mid-1970s, Thin Lizzy had stabilised around founding members, lead singer and bassist Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey, alongside guitarists Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson. The band had found commercial success with several hit singles and developed a strong live following, including headlining the Reading Festival. Robertson had briefly left the band in 1977 but subsequently returned. The group had planned to make a new studio album at the start of 1978. Working with producer Tony Visconti, Thin Lizzy retained commercial success with the album Bad Reputation, and the group wanted to work with him again. However, Visconti had a very tight schedule and had committed to producing several albums for other artists, so Lynott suggested instead that they spend two weeks together compiling a live album from earlier recordings.

The band and Visconti listened to over 30 hours of archive recordings, looking for the best performances to release. The album sleeve notes credit two concerts as the source of the album – Hammersmith Odeon, London, England on 14 November 1976 (as part of the tour for Johnny the Fox, released earlier that year), and Seneca College Fieldhouse, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 28 October 1977 (as part of the tour for Bad Reputation). Visconti later revealed that shows at the Tower Theater, Philadelphia on 20 and 21 October 1977, a week earlier than the Toronto gig, had also been recorded. The band had listened back to the Hammersmith tapes shortly after recording and agreed that the performances sounded better than the studio versions. Thin Lizzy biographer Mark Putterford believes the majority of recordings on the finished album are from the Hammersmith show. Visconti later said the performance of "Southbound" came from a soundcheck before one of the Philadelphia gigs, with the audience reaction dubbed in from another song.

On this album, the band segues immediately from "Cowboy Song" into "The Boys Are Back in Town", on the line "a cowboy's life is the life for me" – the last chord of the former was the first of the latter, although their studio versions were recorded as separate songs. This segue between the two tracks remained a staple of the band's setlist for the rest of their career, and examples can be found on other live releases. The band had rearranged "Still in Love with You" to be slower and more emotional than the original studio version, and the version recorded on Live and Dangerous was considered by Putterford to be the highlight of Lynott's musical career.

To promote the album, the group filmed a gig at the Rainbow Theatre, London on 29 March 1978 for a television broadcast. However, this was cancelled and the footage went unaired.

Track listings

Side one

1. "Jailbreak" Phil Lynott 4:31
2. "Emerald" Brian Downey, Scott Gorham, Lynott, Brian Robertson 4:18
3. "Southbound" Lynott 4:44
4. "Rosalie / Cowgirl's Song" Bob Seger / Downey, Lynott 4:00

Side two

1. "Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight)" Lynott 3:50
2. "Massacre" Downey, Gorham, Lynott 2:46
3. "Still in Love with You" Lynott 7:40
4. "Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed" Downey, Gorham, Lynott 3:32

Side three

1. "Cowboy Song" Downey, Lynott 4:40
2. "The Boys Are Back in Town" Lynott 4:30
3. "Don't Believe a Word" Lynott 2:05
4. "Warriors" Gorham, Lynott 3:52
5. "Are You Ready" Downey, Gorham, Lynott, Robertson 2:40

Side four

1. "Suicide" Lynott 5:00
2. "Sha La La" Downey, Lynott 4:18
3. "Baby Drives Me Crazy" Downey, Gorham, Lynott, Robertson 6:36
4. "The Rocker" Eric Bell, Downey, Lynott 3:58

Remastered edition

A new remastered and expanded version of Live And Dangerous was released in 2011. As well as the full album, remastered by Andy Pearce and Matt Wortham, it featured two additional tracks that were not used, and a DVD with the Rainbow Theatre footage. The sleeve notes were written by Malcolm Dome and included a debate of exactly how much of the album was live, and what was overdubbed.

CD extra tracks

1. "Opium Trail" Downey, Gorham, Lynott 4:43
2. "Bad Reputation" Downey, Gorham, Lynott 6:04

DVD

1. "Introduction"/"Rosalie"
2. "The Boys Are Back in Town"
3. "Emerald"
4. "Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight)"
5. "Massacre"
6. "Still in Love with You"
7. "Don't Believe a Word"
8. "Are You Ready"
9. "Sha La La"
10. "Baby Drives Me Crazy"
11. "Finale"/"Me and the Boys"

Issued in a gatefold sleeve.

Recording information:

Recorded live on November 14th to 16th, 1976 at Hammersmith Odeon in London, UK during their "Johnny the Fox" tour; and recorded live on October 20th and 21st, 1977 at Tower Theatre in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania during their "Bad Reputation" tour.

Thin Lizzy "Johnny The Fox"

Johnny the Fox is the seventh studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1976. This album was written and recorded while bassist/vocalist Phil Lynott was recovering from a bout of hepatitis that put him off the road halfway through the previous Jailbreak tour. "Don't Believe a Word" was a British hit single. Johnny the Fox was the last Thin Lizzy studio album on which guitarist Brian Robertson featured as a full member of the band, as the personality clashes between him and Lynott resulted in Robertson being sacked, reinstated, and later sacked again.

Once Lynott had returned to the UK from the aborted US tour in June 1976, when they had been scheduled to support Rainbow, he spent time in hospital in Manchester recovering from hepatitis. He had an acoustic guitar with him and wrote the songs for Johnny the Fox during June and July, with one outing to play a gig at Hammersmith Odeon on 11 July. After his release from hospital, Lynott joined the other members of the band and travelled to Munich, Germany in August to record the album at Musicland Studios with producer John Alcock. Alcock has said that the decision to record outside the UK was for tax reasons.

Early in the recording process, it became clear that neither the band nor the production team were happy with the studios or the recording process, and they experienced particular trouble obtaining a satisfactory drum sound. Lynott was still finishing the songwriting and, according to Alcock, the band were arguing about musical direction. On 6 August, they abandoned the sessions and returned to Ramport Studios in Battersea (where the previous Jailbreak album had been recorded), and Olympic Studios in Barnes, London. Brian Robertson has said that there was plenty of material from which to choose for the album, up to eight or nine tracks apart from the ten that appeared on the final album. However, Alcock claims that the album suffered because Lynott needed more time to finish the songs, and that some tracks, like "Boogie Woogie Dance", were not strong enough to make the album.

Lynott and Robertson also clashed over musical differences, such as the composition of "Don't Believe a Word". When Lynott first played the song in a slow 12-bar blues format, Robertson claimed it was "shite", and Lynott reacted badly, disappearing for a few days. Robertson then felt that he may have been a little harsh, and he and drummer Brian Downey decided to rework the song. Downey devised a faster shuffle rhythm, and Robertson wrote the riff, and Lynott was pleased with the outcome when he returned to the studio. Robertson was annoyed when the song was credited solely to Lynott, as he felt that all three members involved should have been credited. The original bluesy arrangement was subsequently recorded by Lynott and Gary Moore on Moore's Back on the Streets in 1978, and later appeared on Thin Lizzy's 1983 double live album Life.

Robertson also co-wrote "Borderline" with Lynott, for which he did receive a writing credit. He later revealed that the song was about a girlfriend: "I was really in love, [but] she hated me. I was extremely down when I wrote it." Alcock confirmed that Robertson had significant lyrical input on this track, and that the band's other guitarist Scott Gorham had similar influence on the lyrics for "Sweet Marie".

According to Robertson, Lynott wrote "Rocky" with him in mind. John Alcock has stated that "Massacre" was written in the studio. Its lyrics came after Lynott was visited in hospital by a Protestant clergyman, and Catholic Lynott grew uptight and defensive. Later he regretted his reaction, and wrote the lyric condemning religious prejudice.

"Fools Gold" was inspired by the Irish Potato Famine of 1845–52. The lyric imagines Irish people travelling to America to escape the famine and start a new life.

The album included two tracks with the name "Johnny" in their titles as well as the album title itself, a character by that name having already appeared in earlier songs such as "Showdown" and "The Boys Are Back in Town". Gorham noted the name's proliferation: "Phil should've been this guy's publicity agent, as he was cropping up everywhere!"

"'Johnny the Fox meets Jimmy the Weed' was really the only song that Lizzy did in a funk style…" noted Scott Gorham. "Phil Lynott was a huge fan of The O'Jays and their song 'For the Love of Money'. At every soundcheck, he'd be playing that funky riff… Once we'd found that riff, we just went for it. The whole thing really took off when Brian Downey sat down and put his personal funk take on it with the drums… And these characters – Johnny the Fox and Jimmy the Weed – they were real people. They were from the Manchester area, where Phil's mom had her hotel… They were part of a gang of cultured thieves… They weren't drug dealers, like it says in the lyrics for the song… But they were pretty heavy guys, yet they were real funny, so you couldn't help but like them."

Phil Collins of Genesis was brought in to contribute some percussion to one or more tracks, seemingly because he was a friend of Lynott's. Robertson later said, "Collins was just a mate of Phil's... I think Phil probably just wanted to get him on the album to name-drop." Neither Robertson nor Downey were able to remember which songs Collins played on.

Irish musician Fiachra Trench provided string arrangements, for example on "Sweet Marie", on which he used one bank of violins and two viola sections. Trench also contributed a brass arrangement to "Johnny", while Kim Beacon of String Driven Thing sang backing vocals. Again, none of the band members could recall which song(s) Beacon appeared on. Robertson claimed that Beacon was only used because Frankie Miller was unavailable.

Thin Lizzy used their usual cover artist, Jim Fitzpatrick, to design the sleeve for Johnny the Fox, but he was asked to provide the finished design before the album was given a title. When Lynott asked him for something Celtic, but not the usual kind of Celtic rock design, Fitzpatrick drew a complicated neo-gothic Celtic border with a disc in the centre, left blank for the title and central design. When the deadline was approaching and he grew desperate to finish it, he asked Lynott for any idea of a title to inspire him. Lynott replied, "Ah, call it Johnny the Fox, that'll do." Fitzpatrick reminded him that there was no track with that title on the album, and Lynott replied, "No-one will notice, Jim. The album will be massive." Fitzpatrick subsequently drew the fox design and added the title. An idea of a cut-out with the fox's head showing through was rejected by the record company.

An earlier Fitzpatrick design had the same border with the figure of a warrior in the centre, but both Lynott and Fitzpatrick felt that the fox represented a sort of "outsider" character, much like the panther on the cover of Thin Lizzy's 1974 album, Nightlife.

Johnny the Fox was released on 16 October 1976, and reached No.11 in the UK charts. The single "Don't Believe a Word" reached No.12 in the UK and No.2 in Ireland. Thin Lizzy toured the UK during October and November, supported by American band Clover, led by Huey Lewis. The tour was successful enough that an extra date was added at the Hammersmith Odeon in November. There was also a successful appearance on Rod Stewart's BBC TV show in the UK, where Thin Lizzy upstaged their host by playing live, whereas Stewart mimed.

The tour was scheduled to continue in the US in late November, but this was cancelled after Robertson suffered a hand injury in a fight at the Speakeasy Club in London. Robertson's friend Frankie Miller was about to be attacked with a glass bottle by the Gonzalez guitarist Gordon Hunte, and Robertson tried to intervene. The bottle cut his hand, badly damaging an artery and a nerve, preventing him from playing guitar effectively for several months. The tour was postponed until January 1977, when Thin Lizzy began a three-month US tour opening for Queen with Gary Moore standing in for Robertson.

Track listings

Side one

1. "Johnny" Phil Lynott 4:18
2. "Rocky" Brian Downey, Scott Gorham, Lynott 3:43
3. "Borderline" Lynott, Brian Robertson 4:37
4. "Don't Believe a Word" Lynott 2:18
5. "Fools Gold" Lynott 3:53

Side two

1. "Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed" Downey, Gorham, Lynott 3:36
2. "Old Flame" Lynott 3:05
3. "Massacre" Downey, Gorham, Lynott 3:01
4. "Sweet Marie" Gorham, Lynott 3:58
5. "Boogie Woogie Dance" Lynott 3:06

Includes a cardboard innersleeve.

Track 3 is misspelled "Borderlne" on the vinyl label.

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at Ramport Studios in London, England.