Need help with thin lizzy!!

mr.benn

Hi people,
So im doing a busking gig in a couple of weeks for a news paper that i probably cant mention for fear of getting a ban!Anyway its to promote a free thin lizzy c.d they will be giving away so i have to do two shifts each 4hours or so of thin lizzy songs.So most likely an hour worth of stuff to repeat.Yup just me and my acoustic and my voice!So id reallly appreciate if anybody could give me some suggestions as to what songs would sound good acousticly and maybe link me to some tabs or suggest how i might make certain songs work in this setting(grafton street!)Thanks a million!

AnonoBoy

What newspaper can you not mention without getting banned?

GhostInTheRuins

mr.benn wrote: »

Hi people,
So im doing a busking gig in a couple of weeks for a news paper that i probably cant mention for fear of getting a ban!Anyway its to promote a free thin lizzy c.d they will be giving away so i have to do two shifts each 4hours or so of thin lizzy songs.So most likely an hour worth of stuff to repeat.Yup just me and my acoustic and my voice!So id reallly appreciate if anybody could give me some suggestions as to what songs would sound good acousticly and maybe link me to some tabs or suggest how i might make certain songs work in this setting(grafton street!)Thanks a million!

Yeah you can name any newspaper without fear of being banned. What's the CD anyway?

There's a load of Lizzy songs that would sound good acoustically

King's Revenge
Southbound
Rosalie
Romeo and the Lonely girl
Cowboy song
Downtown Sundown
etc, etc

I suppose if you're busking on grafton you are going to want to do a few of their most popular ones: Whiskey, Dancing, Emerald, jailbreak, boys are back etc. Realistically though, you could get nearly all of their songs to work acoustically if you tried hard enough and were a bit creative.

For a start you're obviously going to have to drop most of the guitar solos, that's the best I can give you, you'll have to work the rest out yourself.

Good luck

mr.benn

Cheers for that!,
Some good suggestins i wouldnt have thought of some of those,cheers bud!Keep em coming people please!

mr.benn

And its for the daily mail,its a free thin lizzy greatest hits so keep an i out for that!

sombaht

Umm, just a few off the top of my head . . .

Running Back
Things aint working out (Down at the farm)
Slow Blues
Wild One
Rockey
Dublin
Eire

The last two may not be the best for a street gig but UI said I'd throw 'em in anyway.

Best of luck
somabht

nhughes100

Sarah since it's already acoustic, check out the early stuff from the Eric Bell years(first 3 albums) a lot of that stuff is slow/acoustic, more blues oriented. If you take live+dangerous most of the stuff on that would sound good acoustic - jailbreak, emerald, southbound, cowboy song, boys are back in town, suicide. The other live album life would have the sun goes down that I think would sound great acoustic. Some of Phil's solo stuff - Old town would be a Dub favorite.

Depending on how good a guitar player you are you could chance black rose.

If you're looking for tabs there is an official lizzy tab available, I last saw it in Goodwins on Capel street for about 30 quid or check 911tabs.com. Bit hit and miss but if you can fill in the gaps it's not bad.

mr.benn

cheers for that guys.Im finding sarah difficult and i cant seem to get good tabs for it does anyone have suggestions?

GhostInTheRuins

mr.benn wrote: »

cheers for that guys.Im finding sarah difficult and i cant seem to get good tabs for it does anyone have suggestions?

Don't know what to tell you, it's been years since I've played that song but I don't remember it being difficult.

I've got no idea if we can link to tabs or not but here's one that looks decent, just learn the verses and chorus and work the intro out yourself so it'll sound fuller on an acoustic.