Gary Moore - Wild Frontier - LP vg+/ex Thin Lizzy tested & cleaned

Sold Date: May 27, 2021
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Competitive pricing is my goal to get rid of the hundred's of Lp's.  I try my best to grade lp's, and on occasion I will play test if time allows... I am trying to clean records that raises my ire of suspicion, but am finding my self these days cleaning everything. My only method of cleaning is a cloth and some Audio Advisor product. That requires to listening to the LP after about 12 hours of product drying; listening with my turntable & needle (which cost more money these days) and collecting the dust from the grooves. If a stubborn noise erupts I will then look under a light and microscope. It is quite time consuming. So I may miss a thing or two sometimes on my listings,  but I will always be here to help resolve the issue. All I ask is my buyers realize these points and be rest assured I offer a refund policy but I would prefer you email me so we can work something out first, I may have a back up copy... I have been collecting records since my 20's... Its has been a passion and a part-time hobby, I hope you love and enjoy music as much as I do, and selling is another way to get to know other people with a like minded interest as I. I offer a refund policy, so please give me the opportunity to make good if there is a problem with a transaction.
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Jacket vg+. A few creases on cover  Record vg+ ~ play tested so ex, didn't even have to clean.. My last copy

Moore grew up on Castleview Road opposite , off the Upper  in east , as one of five children of Bobby, a promoter, and Winnie, a housewife. He left the city as a teenager, because of troubles in his family – his parents parted a year later – just as  were starting in Northern Ireland.

Moore picked up a battered  at the age of ten. He started performing at a young age, making his live debut in a school band, during the intermission of one of his father's promoted shows. He got his first quality guitar (a ) at the age of 14, and learned to play the right-handed instrument in the standard way, despite being left-handed.

In 1968, after performing with a number of Belfast-based bands, Gary Moore, at the age of 16, was "headhunted" as the replacement guitarist in the Dublin-based band  and he moved to . Moore's greatest influence in the early days was English guitarist  of  who was a mentor to Moore when performing in Dublin.

Other early musical influences were artists such as , , ,  and . Later, having seen ,  and  in his home town of Belfast, his own style was developing into a blues-rock sound that would be the dominant form of his career in music.

After joining the group  with Noel Bridgeman and , in mid 1968, cutting a number of singles and an album, released in 1970, Skid Row then went on to play shows across Europe and the US, opening for a number of high-profile bands. It was with this group that Gary Moore earned a reputation in the music industry, and his association with  began. Moore left the band in December 1971.

In 1970, Moore moved to England and remained there, apart from two short periods in the United States. In 1973, under the name "The Gary Moore Band", he released his first solo album, Grinding Stone was issued in North America on Neil Kempfer-Stocker's fledgling record label imprint Cosmos and received "Album of the Year" accolades on KTAC-FM/-, in 1974

In January 1974 he re-joined Lynott, when he first joined  after the departure of founding member . Moore stayed until April; the band recording three songs with him in that time, including the version of "" that was included on the band's fourth album .

From 1975 to August 1978, he was a member of . With that band, he also collaborated with  on the composer's  album in 1978.

In early 1977, Moore rejoined Thin Lizzy, first as a temporary replacement for the injured , and on a permanent basis in the summer of 1978.

Between late 1977 and early 1978 while performing with , Gary Moore recorded the album , featuring the hit single "" which reached the  in the  in April 1979. While Back on the Streets was climbing the charts, Gary Moore had rejoined Thin Lizzy, staying with them for a year and recording , which reached number two in the UK album chart in 1979. He also appeared in the videos for "", "" and "". He left the band abruptly in July of that year, in the middle of a US tour.

Moore soon formed his own band , recording an album for , but the project was short-lived. A couple of other albums were made at this time, but not released until after Moore had signed to, and found some success with,  in 1982, and had released the album .

During the 1980s, Moore released several  records as a solo artist, beginning with  in 1982, which were followed by  and  the following year. Dirty Fingers had been recorded already in 1981, and with an entirely different band. It represents Moore's last attempt at finding somebody to sing his songs; he would sing on all later solo records. The two remaining albums are notable for featuring ex- drummer , and Victims of the Future was the first album to feature , who would become a permanent fixture in Moore's bands in the years to come. In later years they were largely disowned by Moore himself,  but remain fan favourites.

Moore continued in a slightly more commercial direction with the album , which was released in 1985. This album was the final cooperation between Moore and  – front man and bassist in Thin Lizzy, who died early the following year – as well as being the final album to feature him that was released in Lynott's lifetime. The album's first single, "", was a major hit in the UK and Scandinavia, a minor hit in Germany and the Netherlands, and set the stage for Moore's greatest commercial successes later towards the end of the decade. The ballad "", which earlier had appeared in a less polished version on the Victims of the Future album, became a particular fan favourite, and it was the track from this era of his career that Moore later appears to have been most fond of.

Moore's 1987 album  launched him as a super-star through much of Europe. The album saw Moore return to a -flavoured brand of hard rock exhibited in his earlier Thin Lizzy material, but with a new social conscience, as material dealt with  and questions of belonging in the face of hardships and death (one track was dedicated to the late Phil Lynott). Both the album and its first single, "Over the Hills and Far Away", topped the charts in Norway and Finland, and the album did tremendously well throughout Western Europe, but failed to make much of an impact in the United States, where Moore's heavy metal albums were never well distributed. The two follow-up singles, "Wild Frontier" and "" (a revamped cover of the classic  song), also did well. The following album, , was generally well received, and truly broke Moore into the German market, but overall did not do as well as his previous offering.

Moore is often considered to be one of the most impressive live artists of the era, and he capitalized on this by releasing several concerts either on record or video. His 1985 live album  is in particular regarded as a classic of the genre, as is the 1987 video Live at Isstadion Stockholm from the Wild Frontier tour.

Prior to the recording of Corridors of Power, Moore had joined Greg Lake to help finish the recording of his first solo record  after the demise of . Moore toured with the Greg Lake band and recorded a second Greg Lake solo record, but did not tour to support it.

Moore performing, 23 October 2010

Following the lukewarm reception of After the War, Moore decided to make a blues album. Released in March 1990, , with contributions from , , and , saw Gary Moore returning to the musical form that had inspired him in his early days in Belfast. The album was well received by fans and was certified Gold in the U.S; it was thus the first of Moore's albums to truly expand into the US market. Seeing the success of this album, Moore decided to restart his career around what was originally conceived as a one-off stylistic departure.

Peter Green's continued influence on Moore was repaid as a tribute to Green on his 1995 album , an album consisting entirely of Green compositions. On this tribute album, Moore played Green's 1959  Standard guitar that Green had lent to Moore after leaving Fleetwood Mac. Moore ultimately purchased the guitar, at Green's request, so that "it would have a good home".

In 1987, he performed a guitar solo for a  of ' "", which was released under the group-name of . The record raised substantial funds for the survivors of the  disaster. In 1990, he played the lead guitar solo on "" from .

In 1994 he played in the short lived power trio  (Bruce, Baker & Moore) with  and  of  fame releasing the album "Around the Next Dream"

Moore stayed with the blues format until 1997. He returned to rock, but with a softer, more pop and ballad-oriented sound on , followed with another change of direction in 1999, when he decided to experiment with modern dance beats on ; this left many fans, as well as the music press, confused.

In 2001 with , Moore returned to his tried and tested blues format: he continued with this style on  (2004),  (2006),  (2007), and  (2008).

In January 2005, Moore joined the , which recorded a song for the  relief effort. The group featured , , , , , , , , and  on vocals (in their order of appearance), and featured a guitar solo by Moore. The song, entitled "", was released in February 2005, reaching No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.

He also took part in a comedy skit on  entitled "The Easy Guitar Book Sketch" with comedian  and fellow musicians ,  from ,  from , and  from .

Other collaborations included a broad range of artists including , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and .

During a relationship in the late '60s while he was with Skid Row, his eldest daughter, Saoirse was born. He was married from 1985 to 1993 and had two sons, Jack and Gus.

Since 1997, he was living with his partner, an artist named Jo, and their daughter Lily (b. 1998). At the time of his death, he lived in Vallance Gardens, , East Sussex.

Gary Moore's gravestone in the churchyard of , 

Gary Moore died of a  in his sleep at the age of 58 during the early hours of 6 February 2011. At the time, he was on holiday with his girlfriend at the Kempinski Hotel in , Spain. After a quiet dinner, they went for a walk on the beach before going up to their room. His girlfriend raised the alarm at 4:00 am, and tried to give him a heart massage. His death was confirmed by 's manager, Adam Parsons.

According to , Moore's fatal heart attack was possibly brought on by the amount of alcohol he had consumed on the evening of his death. Moore had 380 mg of alcohol per decilitre (100 millilitres) of blood (0.38%) in his system  from 0.40% to 0.50% is considered to be lethal.

Gary Moore's eldest son Jack, alongside his uncle Cliff Moore, performed the traditional song "" at his funeral. This was reported in the Belfast Telegraph as a flawless tribute at which some mourners in the church wept openly. He was laid to rest in a private ceremony at , , , England, with only family and close friends in attendance.

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