Phil Lynott and his 4001

12stringbassist · Post by **12stringbassist** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:50 am

From wiki: 'Lynott was born in Hallam Hospital (now Sandwell General Hospital) in West Bromwich (then in Staffordshire), England.'

I never knew THAT!!!

scala · Post by **scala** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:20 am

its a great one for pub quizzes ian, id say 99.9% would say he was irish.

squirefan01 · Post by **squirefan01** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:02 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9hrdwBvbY&search=thin%20lizzy

This has some clips edited in of Lynott and his Ric.

squirefan01 · Post by **squirefan01** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:10 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xjx2aaBJ0&search=thin%20lizzy

This is kind of cool...a full size statue of Lynott in Dublin...complete with bass (not a Ric though).

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:21 pm

Amazing how in the first clip one camera makes his bass look like a 4000 and another camera makes it look like a Dan Armstrong Lucite!!

squirefan01 · Post by **squirefan01** » Wed May 24, 2006 7:00 am

It's amazing how bad the editing can be sometimes, huh? He probably wasn't even playing that song with the 4000. They just wanted a clip of him doing something crazy with the bass.

Something I really love about this forum is how many different areas of music I've gotten into since I started here (helps that I actually picked up the bass again too). I didn't even know who Tony Levin was before I came here, and now I have become a Crimson head (at 42!), getting into Levin, Belew, Fripp's solo stuff as well as Crimson.

I was a Thin Lizzy Fan in high school but hadn't thought about them in years either.