But Ted Carroll kept on at us to record Whiskey so in the end Phil said he'd record Whiskey for the b-side of Black Boys on the Corner just to keep Ted Happy.” “He was convinced that song should be our next single. At the time Phil was writing some great songs and he had one in particular he was really proud of called Black Boys on the Corner. “He said it sounded good and we ought to record it as a single. “One of those songs was Whiskey in the Jar,” remembered drummer Brian Downey, ”and just at that moment Ted Carroll was coming up the stairs and he heard us. "We couldn't think of anything to play,” recalled Eric Bell, “We'd done our versions of The Green Green Grass of Home and Bridge Over Troubled Waters and some other nonsense, just for a laugh, and then Philip started strumming some Irish folk songs on a Telecaster.” One night while rehearsing upstairs at a pub in the King's Cross area of London they'd run out of songs and covers and. The song was a traditional Irish folk thing which had previously been a hit for the Dubliners and Lynott had sung it when he'd been in one of those previous bands, the Black Eagles. By the time Thin Lizzy came to record their breakthrough single Whiskey in the Jar the band's singer/bassist Phil Lynott had been through half a dozen groups and Lizzy had recorded an EP and two unsuccessful albums.Įven after the success of Whiskey they were a band in trouble: their next single crashed, they had line-up changes (guitarist Eric Bell bailing for the sake of his health, the young Gary Moore coming in for six months) and Lynott had serious doubts about whether to carry on with the group.īut Whiskey had given them a platform whether they liked it or not.
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