{"id":37440,"date":"2024-03-29T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=37440"},"modified":"2024-03-29T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T19:03:39","slug":"thin-lizzy-guitarist-scott-gorham-speaks-exclusively-to-rock-candy-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/thin-lizzy-guitarist-scott-gorham-speaks-exclusively-to-rock-candy-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham speaks exclusively to Rock Candy Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cOUR AMERICAN LABEL DIDN\u2019T WANT \u2018LIVE AND DANGEROUS\u2019!\u201d<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham speaks exclusively to Rock Candy Mag about the band\u2019s fight with Warner Bros. over their classic double live.<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37441\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-RC43-COVER1-741x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"828\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yUHMS65T1og?si=LvdcYQNPk5KAL5W6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nRock Candy Magazine Issue 43 Out Now Featuring THIN LIZZY<\/p>\n<div>MARCH 29, 2024 &#8211;\u00a0Thin Lizzy\u2019s classic 1978 \u2018Live And Dangerous\u2019 double album is still revered more than 45 years after it first appeared. But had the band\u2019s US label had their way, the album might never have seen the light of day.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe\u2019d just signed a new US record contract with Warners,\u201d guitarist Scott Gorham told Rock Candy Mag editor Howard Johnson in an exclusive interview that makes the magazine\u2019s cover of issue 43. \u201cBut when we said the first release would be a double live, the label people weren\u2019t at all happy. They told us live recordings didn\u2019t sell and they wanted a studio record.\u201d Gorham claims that the directive came from the very top of the company, but even so the band and their managers dug their heels in and insisted on a live release first.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cLooking back I believe that decision put us in the sh*t with Warner Bros.,\u201d says Gorham. \u201cThey decided we were a difficult act to work with, and I don\u2019t think they ever wanted to really get behind a Thin Lizzy live album because we\u2019d defied their orders.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Given that \u2018Live And Dangerous\u2019 only reached number 84 on the US album charts, while it went all the way to number two in the UK and sold over half a million copies there, suggests there is some truth in Gorham\u2019s assertion. Plus the fact that the album is still revered to this day both as a rock classic, and as a perfect example of the double-live genre, shows that the US label may shoulder some of the blame for the relatively poor commercial performance of \u2018Live And Dangerous\u2019 in the States.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI\u2019m so lucky that I was in a band that was able to do something that had such a long-lasting impact,\u201d says Gorham. \u201cIt\u2019s very cool.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You can read the 16-page Thin Lizzy \u2018Live And Dangerous\u2019 special featuring exclusive interviews with Scott Gorham, Lizzy drummer Brian Downey, and manager Chris O\u2019Donnell in issue 43 of Rock Candy Mag, together with many other fascinating stories about Judas Priest, Great White, Riot, Saxon, and more.<\/div>\n<p>For more details visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockcandymag.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.rockcandymag.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT ROCK CANDY MAG<\/strong><br \/>\nRock Candy Mag is a 100-page, full-colour bi-monthly rock mag, created in the UK. It covers the sights, sounds and smells from the greatest era in hard rock music, the \u201970s and \u201980s. The brainchild of: respected UK rock journalists Derek Oliver, Howard Johnson and Malcolm Dome \u2013 all frontline writers for the legendary Kerrang! magazine in the golden era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rockcandymag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rockcandymag\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockcandymag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockcandymag\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockCandyMag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockCandyMag<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBjkpEXB53nRCs_yhEClGhg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBjkpEXB53nRCs_yhEClGhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For all inquiries, contact:<br \/>\nMICHAEL BRANDVOLD MARKETING &amp; MANAGEMENT<br \/>\nMichael Brandvold | me@mikebrandvold.com | 415-200-8483<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Michael Brandvold is a freelance music industry consultant based in Northern California. Having launched Michael Brandvold Marketing to leverage his years of experience to provide direction to large and small clients in the areas of online &amp; social marketing as well as e-commerce and customer acquisition and retention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gene Simmons of KISS first tapped Michael\u2019s skills as a pioneering online marketing strategist to launch and manage all aspects of Kissonline.com\u2019s multi-million dollar enterprise, including their ground-breaking VIP ticket program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Michael has also managed the online efforts for Jordan Rudess, Greg Kihn, KISS, ACCEPT, SOiL, Tantric, Killer Dwarfs, Dream Theater, Little Caesar, Narada Michael Walden, Motley Cr\u00fce, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna and Britney Spears to name only a few.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you are interested in speaking with Michael about what he can do to assist with your marketing needs contact him online at\u00a0me@mikebrandvold.com | 415-200-8483<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOUR AMERICAN LABEL DIDN\u2019T WANT \u2018LIVE AND DANGEROUS\u2019!\u201d Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham speaks exclusively to Rock Candy Mag about the band\u2019s fight with Warner Bros. over their classic double live. Rock Candy Magazine Issue 43 Out Now Featuring THIN LIZZY MARCH 29, 2024 &#8211;\u00a0Thin Lizzy\u2019s classic 1978 \u2018Live And Dangerous\u2019 double album is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":37441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3355],"tags":[3360,3362,3361,3363,2901,3375,3634,3633],"class_list":["post-37440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-marketing-2","category-press-releases","tag-announcements","tag-client-announcements","tag-client-news","tag-client-press-releases","tag-press-releases","tag-rock-candy-magazine","tag-scott-gorham","tag-thin-lizzy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1-RC43-COVER1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37445,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37440\/revisions\/37445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}