by Low D Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:14 am
A few years back i shared some Horslips bootlegs with Philip. As usual, the back & forth was witty & illuminating. I thought i'd share his comments here for everybody to enjoy.
philipchevron wrote:Low D wrote:Hello Mr. C.
I've noted that you're a Horslips fan, and ... i've downloaded a few great bootlegs now, all FM/Tv broadcast. Don't know if you're that kind of collector, but if you're intersted let me know and i'll throw copies in the mail for you.
Cheeers.
Hi LowD
Some serious Horslipry there! Would love copies, although I am not a huge fan of live recordings, there is a genuine historic component to these US shows and I would love to have them in my collection, thanks.
All best PC
philipchevron wrote:Low D wrote:
I continue to be amazed by what shows up out in trading land - I wasn't previously aware that Horslips had ever crossed the pond. Or indeed that they had had a reunion, but here's a slew of shows representing both.
Low D
The only common Horslips boot I've been aware of before is "Live At The Bottom Line, New York, 1979", though I don't actually have a copy. Horslips made many forays into the USA and Canada between 1974 and 1979 but although they had a minor chart placing with either
Aliens or
The Man Who Built America, they never really made the breakthrough. Common consent is that, forced to choose between Irish music and BigAss American Rawk Music, both elements lost something and, in the event, so did the band's confidence, which led to their split in 1980. But early Horslips (especially) were one of the greatest live acts I've ever seen - it was like they opened the door to a whole new Ireland of possibilities and invited all us Irish kids to walk in and discover it for ourselves. Which is, in truth, exactly what I did with both The Radiators and The Pogues.
They have a friendly online community:
http://www.horslipsrecords.com/fan_tasia/modules/newbb/and their own official site:
http://www.horslips.ie/Best PC
Low D wrote:Listening to the later Horslips, i see what you mean about their move towards more "American Friendly" music, and how it just lost something. But even there they sure have their moments.
LD
philipchevron wrote:There is a famous story about Horslips' ill-starred American journey. Interviewed in the back of a limo in the US, for an Irish-language TV show back home, Jim Lockhart (the band's only native Irish speaker) expounded on the band's hopes and aspirations for the future. Sitting upfront beside the driver, Eamon Carr (not a native Irish speaker, but no fool in identifying errors, in any language) heard Locky Jim promise that the Horslips' next album would have a "fonn móir láidir, coisúil le Boston" ["a big strong mighty sound, like Boston"]. From the front of the limo came the only two words that mattered at that moment. "Oh, fuck."
A few years back i shared some Horslips bootlegs with Philip. As usual, the back & forth was witty & illuminating. I thought i'd share his comments here for everybody to enjoy.
[quote="philipchevron"][quote="Low D"]Hello Mr. C.
I've noted that you're a Horslips fan, and ... i've downloaded a few great bootlegs now, all FM/Tv broadcast. Don't know if you're that kind of collector, but if you're intersted let me know and i'll throw copies in the mail for you.
Cheeers.[/quote]
Hi LowD
Some serious Horslipry there! Would love copies, although I am not a huge fan of live recordings, there is a genuine historic component to these US shows and I would love to have them in my collection, thanks.
All best PC [/quote]
[quote="philipchevron"][quote="Low D"]
I continue to be amazed by what shows up out in trading land - I wasn't previously aware that Horslips had ever crossed the pond. Or indeed that they had had a reunion, but here's a slew of shows representing both.
Low D[/quote]
The only common Horslips boot I've been aware of before is "Live At The Bottom Line, New York, 1979", though I don't actually have a copy. Horslips made many forays into the USA and Canada between 1974 and 1979 but although they had a minor chart placing with either [i]Aliens [/i] or [i]The Man Who Built America[/i], they never really made the breakthrough. Common consent is that, forced to choose between Irish music and BigAss American Rawk Music, both elements lost something and, in the event, so did the band's confidence, which led to their split in 1980. But early Horslips (especially) were one of the greatest live acts I've ever seen - it was like they opened the door to a whole new Ireland of possibilities and invited all us Irish kids to walk in and discover it for ourselves. Which is, in truth, exactly what I did with both The Radiators and The Pogues.
They have a friendly online community: http://www.horslipsrecords.com/fan_tasia/modules/newbb/
and their own official site: http://www.horslips.ie/
Best PC[/quote]
[quote="Low D"]
Listening to the later Horslips, i see what you mean about their move towards more "American Friendly" music, and how it just lost something. But even there they sure have their moments.
LD[/quote]
[quote="philipchevron"]
There is a famous story about Horslips' ill-starred American journey. Interviewed in the back of a limo in the US, for an Irish-language TV show back home, Jim Lockhart (the band's only native Irish speaker) expounded on the band's hopes and aspirations for the future. Sitting upfront beside the driver, Eamon Carr (not a native Irish speaker, but no fool in identifying errors, in any language) heard Locky Jim promise that the Horslips' next album would have a "fonn móir láidir, coisúil le Boston" ["a big strong mighty sound, like Boston"]. From the front of the limo came the only two words that mattered at that moment. "Oh, fuck."[/quote]
