LEE LUCAS
By Lee Lucas & Allan Lyon
Tribute Project
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A collaborative project by Lee and Allan who both at sometime in their past used to enjoy doing Thin Lizzy songs with their respective bands they was involved in the past. All the songs are entirely free to download from Bandcamp and we would only expect them to be, as these are only our tribute version of the songs, and far from the real thing to which no one could never better on that score.
Don't Believe A Word (Thin Lizzy Tribute)
Our version of the 1976 classic hit by Thin Lizzy. Orignally off their great album Johnny The Fox released in the same year. It's always been a personal favourite of mine and it's a great rocking number to kick off the series with..
Words & Music By Phil Lynott.
Lee Lucas - Vocals (Production & Artwork)
Allan Lyon - Guitars - Bass - Drum Programming
The single track is available as a Free Digital Download only from Bandcamp.
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Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy Tribute)
The 2nd of our tributes to the great rock band Thin Lizzy. Jailbreak was another one of the bands fine hits taken from their 1976 album of the same title. It was also the album that gave them international success.
Words & Music By Phil Lynott.
Lee Lucas - All Vocals - Siren - (Production & Artwork)
Allan Lyon - Guitars - Bass - Drum Programming
The single track is available as a Free Digital Download only from Bandcamp.
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1976 was a very successful year for the band and this particular line up of Phil Lynott. Scott Gorham. Brian Robertson and Brian Downey was my particular favourite line up of the band. In the same year the band done two albums Jailbreak and Johnny The Fox which where both great albums and the latter being my fave of all their albums.
Dancing In The Moonlight (Thin Lizzy Tribute)
Another one of the bands most popular and successful hits. Dancing in the Moonlight came from the bands 7th studio album release Bad Reputation back in 1977. It's very much a song both me and Allan used to do in our respective bands years ago, though none of us had a Sax player. I thought it would be a great idea to have one for a change and could think of none other than Dave McKeown to do the job for us.
Words & Music By Phil Lynott.
Lee Lucas - All Vocals - (Production & Artwork)
Allan Lyon - Guitars - Bass - Drum Programming
Dave McKeown - Saxophone
The single track is available as a Free Digital Download only from Bandcamp.
To get your free copy please click on the Bandcamp Icon >>>
Lee At Work
A live little clip of myself recording the vocals for Dancing in the Moonlight. As I never get much time to be able to use my Microphone I have to use my mobile phone to record the vocals, so far all 3 songs in series have been recorded via my mobile phone. The clip here is very much exactly as it was taken off the video on my phone with no reverb applied to it and dry.
I then process it by putting the video off my phone onto my computer and into a Video Editor and exporting the audio only from the video, which is then placed into the track in Cubase and a touch of reverb is added for the final production.
Formed in Dublin Ireland in 1969 Thin Lizzy kicked off their musical career as a 3 piece band consisting of Phil Lynott - Bass & Vocals. Eric Bell - Guitars and Brian Downey - Drums. They released their first single "The Farmer" in 1970 followed by their self named titled debut album "Thin Lizzy" in 1971.
Though not very successful around this time they went on to become very successful and throughout the bands career they had a string of hit single and churned out 12 Studio albums up until Lynott's death in 1986. During this time the band had many line up changes and some major big named guitarists playing for them such as Gary Moore and Snowy White.
Personally my favourite era of the band was with Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson who really contributed the most to the bands more familiar style and sound and for me their best albums was done with those two guitarists working as a power horse in unison together just like the likes of how the band Wishbone Ash used to work with so well with two guitars.
Allan At Work
Well I must admit I had no idea what Allan looked like till I got these couple of shots off him here. I must say he looks the picture and takes a good picture as he his posing for these website shots. He's a cracking guitarist too and does the bees knees on the music for me on these Thin Lizzy tributes.
Allan also uses his guitar to play the bass lines and all 3 tracks so far in the series have been done on his guitar. He does however intend to get a Bass Guitar maybe in the not so distant future, but I have to say he's doing a grand job of it on these numbers.
Allan At Work Again
Another cracking shot and another part of Allan's work besides his guitar his doing the drum programming. For Allan this will very much take him the longest to do when working on these numbers, and the bass and guitar parts are more of an easier task for him and come natural.
The Thin Lizzy Tribute Project
The project started out really from myself having heard a Gary Moore version of "Don't Believe A Word" on Allan's cloud. I asked him if I could do a better production for it and whilst I was doing so Allan also asked me to sing it. Well it's always been one of my all time favourite songs of Thin Lizzy and I have always preferred the Thin Lizzy version. This I told Allan and he decided to that version for me to sing.
Having done so and put it out on the cloud, we still really had no intention of doing a project and a particular comment left upon the track made by Derek Cornett to do "Jailbreak" next really sparked it off and both me and Allan thought it would be a great idea.
So far the series as very much kicked off with the bands more popular songs, but as it goes on we will be doing some of the bands best album tracks too. What song is gonna be next I wonder? and who gets to pick the songs to do? Well right now we have no idea what song will be next, and both me and Allan very much decide which songs to do, so it's a 50/50 choice between us both really.
Dave McKeown At Work
Dave features on Saxophone on Dancing in the Moonlight and his a multi talented instrumentalist who specialises in Saxophone and Clarinet. He is also a composer and teacher of music and plays in about 4 bands of many musical styles and plays an array of wind instruments besides.
Having heard Dave's musical talent on Soundloud over the last 2 years and the many collaborations he has been involved in and fabulous work he does. I knew he was the right man to approach for this Lizzy number and he as done the bees knees on it for us here.
You can find out more about Dave on his cracking website here: http://www.davemckeown.co.uk/
The Cowboy Song (Thin Lizzy Tribute)
The Cowboy Song was originally from the bands 1976 Jailbreak and in many ways is very familiar to the Bob Seger song Rosalie which the band covered on their previous album Fighting though lyrically it tells a different story.
Words & Music By Phil Lynott & Brian Downey.
Lee Lucas - Vocals - Harmonica (Production & Artwork)
Allan Lyon - Guitars - Bass
Carlo Presti - Drums
The single track is available as a Free Digital Download only from Bandcamp.
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Killer On The Loose (Thin Lizzy Tribute)
"Killer on the Loose" was the classic single release from the bands 10th album Chinatown originally released in 1980. The song tells the gruesome story of Jack The Ripper. It's the 5th release in our tribute to the great rocking band.
Words & Music By Phil Lynott.
Lee Lucas - Vocals - Production & Artwork.
Allan Lyon - Guitars - Bass - Drum Programming.
The single track is available as a Free Digital Download only from Bandcamp.
To get your free copy please click on the Bandcamp Icon >>>
Chinatown (Thin Lizzy Tribute)
Our 2nd release from the bands 1980 great album Chinatown and the self titled album track is our 6th release in the Thin Lizzy Tribute Project series so far. This one was Allan's personal choice and it sure as hell is a great rocking song.
Words & Music By Downing/Gorham/Lynott/White.
Lee Lucas - Vocals - Production & Artwork.
Allan Lyon - Guitars - Bass - Drum Programming.
The single track is available as a Free Digital Download only from Bandcamp.
To get your free copy please click on the Bandcamp Icon >>>
Carlo Presti At Work
Carlo Presti features on Drums for us on "The Cowboy Song" Carlo comes from and resides in Italy. I have had the pleasure of his talent on a Drum Kit before working with him in a couple of collaborations on my cloud, he is without doubt a great friend and great person, he's a really great drummer too though he will not admit to that himself and loves to have a bash.
It was great having Carlo onboard with us here in the Thin Lizzy project and just like me and Allan he loves a great rocking song to play too as well, and is on the same wavelength with our taste of great rocking music. You can find more of Carlo's great work on his fine cloud here: https://soundcloud.com/spiderdrum and he has been involved in many collabs with a lot great clouders on Soundcloud.
Fools Gold (Thin Lizzy Tribute)
A classic album track from the bands 1976 classic album Johnny The Fox. Ut's the 2nd track we have taken on from the album and "Fools Gold" tells the story of the unfortunate ones in search of something more perhaps familiar to paradise, only to find out they will crash and burn. It's also the 7th release in out project together.
Words & Music By P. Lynott.
Lee Lucas - Vocals & Backing Vocals - Production & Artwork.
Allan Lyon - Guitars - Bass - Drum Programming.
The single track is available as a Free Digital Download only from Bandcamp.
To get your free copy please click on the Bandcamp Icon >>>
Still In Love With You (Thin Lizzy Tribute)
Our 8th release in the series is a lovely love ballad of a song that was originally from the bands 1974 album Night Life. It's also the 3rd time we decided to feature a guest, so we roped in our good friend Vlad Josephson to play the bass for us on this one.
Words & Music By P. Lynott.
Lee Lucas - Vocals & Mixing Production.
Allan Lyon - Guitars - Drum Programming.
Vlad Josephson - Bass & Artwork.
The single track is available as a Free Digital Download only from Bandcamp.
To get your free copy please click on the Bandcamp Icon >>>
Vlad Josephson At Work
Vlad Josephson features on Bass Guitar on "Still In Love With" Vlad is such a great bass player and is very much a dedicated bass player which are the qualities I have always seen in him and personally want from a bass player, rather than a guitar player who just plays bass in a box standard fashion. Vlad as worked on a good number of my own material in the past, to which he as always done a superb job for me.
Vlad is also a multitalented instrumentalist who not only can play Bass even though it is his main instrument, but he also plays keyboards and guitar besides. I have known him on Soundcloud more or less since I joined it a good 4 years ago now and Vlad as been on it a lot longer than myself, and as he loves in Australia he very much as the nickname of Vladreoo on the cloud.
You can find out more about Vlad and his great work on his cloud here: https://soundcloud.com/vladjosephson
The Sun Goes Down (Thin Lizzy Tribute)
Taken from the bands 12th and final album Thunder & Lightning "The Sun Goes Down" was also the bands final single release back in 1983. This our 9th tribute song to the band and features Graeme Robertson a.k.a. Vortexia on bass guitar who done a fabulous job for us on it.
Words & Music By P. Lynott/D. Wharton.
Lee Lucas - Vocals & Backing Vocals - Production & Artwork.
Allan Lyon - Guitars - Guitar Synth Pads - Drum Programming.
Vortexia - Bass.
The single track is available as a Free Digital Download only from Bandcamp.
To get your free copy please click on the Bandcamp Icon >>>
Graeme Robertson At Work
Graeme Robertson features on bass for us on "The Sun Goes Down" to which he done a superb job for us on, especially as it's very much the bass guitar that really drives this song throughout, so he played pretty much a major role in the song. On Soundcloud Graeme goes under the name of Vortexia and I have known him on their for a good few year now, and considering him as a great friend.
Graeme is also a multi talented instrumentalist who plays guitar, bass and keyboards and likes to sing himself too. He is very much a self taught musician who spent his earlier days playing his bass guitar and providing backing vocals in a couple of local bands around his own local town of Billingham around the Stockton Tees and Middleborough regions in England. He now spends his days like many of us making our own music, and doing collaborations on the cloud.
You can find out more about Graeme and is great work on his cloud here:https://soundcloud.com/vortexia
