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7 Responses to “Shades of a Blue Orphanage”

1. on 26 Jul 2010 at 3:47 pm1anarchaeologist

   Ah Conor, fair play to yeh! Play the whole lpee and you’ll see where Wilco’s last few are coming from!

2. on 26 Jul 2010 at 6:21 pm2Seán Báite

   Sounds like Philo had been listening to Van a good bit from that track you have up Conor. Even seems to me he says a couple of words with a Belfast cowboy accent (’jarred’ for ex.).

3. on 26 Jul 2010 at 6:49 pm3Conor McCabe

   Yeah I noticed that as well Seán. A bit of the Dominic’s Preview to it alright. Probably drinking from the same well, as they both came out the same year. and no bad thing either.

4. on 27 Jul 2010 at 1:21 pm4ec

   Never checked out thin Lizzy much beyond the obvious. This is really great. And yeah - I can hear the Wilco in it (coming from under the Van).

5. on 27 Jul 2010 at 8:52 pm5Brian Hanley

   Weren’t a couple of the band ex-members of Them?

6. on 28 Jul 2010 at 1:47 am6Conor McCabe

   Had a quick goo on Wikipedia and yeah there was a Them link alright.

7. on 28 Jul 2010 at 11:08 am7anarchaeologist

   Conor got there before me but Eric Bell was in the last Them line-up before Van went solo. He then played in a band called Shades of Blue, where Lynott and Downey had been in Orphanage, hence the title of the second Lizzy album.

   I wonder if they would’ve continued in the same direction if they hadn’t had the hit with Whiskey… just after Orphanage was released? The photograph Conor kindly posted is certainly iconic. That part of the Green hasn’t changed to this day and the shot expresses something of the ‘us against them’ vibe you get in bands, in this case the ‘them’ being the Dublin rain evident in the silly umbrella and the light reflecting on the footpath in front of the boys.

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