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This album was done like no album any of us had ever recorded before. Just sat in so many
interviews it was 12 songs in 12 days. I can't remember ever doing a Thin Lizzy album like
that, it's usually you do the basic track which is how we did it on this one where everybody
sits down in a circle and you get down enough so that everyone's comfortable with that particular
take, the difference being in the Lizzy days you would - ok that's the basic track, we'll put that to the side think
about that for a couple of days, think about the guitar parts of whatever that we all want
to put on these things then start on the next one. Where this one Jimmy DeGrasso the drummer
would count us in and you've done the whole damn thing right there I mean Ricky's doing
his vocals live as we were putting the basic track down which I think is
phenomenal that he actually did it that way I mean I don't know any other singer or ever heard of
or played with, that has trusted themselves that much to do it in one take. And the only overdubs that
got put on were some additional harmony guitars and the backing vocals. The lead guitar we
pretty much did it all right there, right on the moment. So like I said we'd never recorded
like that before except for maybe Live and Dangerous which you kind of have to do it
that way! But that's just the way Captain Shirley, that's the way he works, he's really
quick, he doesn't want to fart around with guitar tones and all of that he likes to make
sure you've got your guitar tones down right at the beginning of the song. There's a few
things I listen to the album and I wish we could have slowed it down a bit thought about
this a little bit more or add that or add this guitar line or whatever but it wasn't
to be so I have to get that out of my head. This album is where it is, we did it the
way we did it and I still love it to death but I think it's always going to be like that
with any musician whatever album you do there's always going to be those couple of things that you
either want to re do or add to or whatever but I think we got a good one out of this.