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Grand Slam- TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING: The Last Of Grand Slam- 2CD- 2003-
- Majestic Rock Records- 822927006824- 500 grn
By the end of 1984, it was becoming increasingly clear that Phil Lynott's first post-Thin Lizzy outfit, Grand Slam, wasn't going to succeed. After a year of playing Europe, the band was still without a recording contract, and shortly after a gig at the famed Marquee Club on December 4, 1984, the band was no more. But it's not to say that the group wasn't worthy, as evidenced by TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING, which is a document of the group's aforementioned final performance.
PERSONNEL: Philip Lynott - bass/vocals, Mark Stanway - keyboard/vocals, Doishe Nagle - guitar/vocals, Laurence Archer - guitar/vocals, Robbie Brennan - drums.
Mark Stanway raids the tape vaults, again, and finds the last ever gig performed by Grand Slam to unleash on a hungry Phil Lynott fan base fed on scraps. And is it a feast? Not really, but to be fair, this is a decent enough recording so we'll say an average enough meal and probably the best of what Stanway has given up. Since it was the bands last show they did put on a good one and were intent on going out with a bang, and it is still a wonder why they never got signed! Musically anyway. Philip Lynott's ridiculous and very public drug problems were a big factor, but the band were good, tight, and Lynott crafted plenty of fine songs during the year Grand Slam were together, though with help from guitarist Laurence Archer who co composed a few tracks. So with the band in good form we're given a good mix of cuts. Thin Lizzy obviously get a recall with the fiery "Cold Sweat", though tame enough here when compared to the beast Lizzy recorded with John Sykes on board. "Yellow Pearl" is jazzed up from the days it appeared from Lynott's first solo album, Solo In Soho. "Parisenne Walkways" seems to have lost all meaning. Lynott and Moore really powered the song with passion in 1978, but this sounds like a washed up covers band struggling through the motions as Grand Slam fail to inject any real life into the song. "Military Man" would turn up later as the B-side to the "Out In The Fields" Moore and Lynott single. But at least they could take the bull by the horns with their own material, as they do on "Military Man". "Nineteen" is fresh and cool, for its time of course, it would also become Lynott's first solo single after the Grand Slam demise. The centre point of Grand Slam would have to be "Harlem", a song which sees Lynott writing as good as he ever has. Originally titled Crumlin, after Lynott's ancestral home, "Harlem" is a grief filed tale that is melodic, provocative and poignant. It would later become "If I Had A Wish" while taking on even more a melancholic tone. Archer's "Can't Get Away" is a cracking tune while "Sisters of Mercy" is another top drawer Lynott number, subtle shades of Thin Lizzy alight, but with that Grand Slam touch. But of course there is a down side. "Here We Go" is a fucking football chant! Guess it was left on for the full effect of the gig but it is seriously annoying, and proof that the band WERE always pissed during gigs, even so, TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING is a good release. It was the last time Grand Slam would tread the boards after only being together within the year 1984. The sound of a band who spent a year bursting a gut in rehearsal and on the road. Spending £100,000 in the process to keep the band afloat, a bag of decent catchy songs with plenty of potential, Lynott even appearing in a Virgin airlines commercial all somehow conspired to the band not getting a deal.
Recorded Live At The Marquee Club, London On 4th December 1984.
Comes In A Tri-Fold Digipak With Two Transparent Digipak-Disc-Mounts On The Inside Covers Includes 8-Page Booklet.
Made In EU.
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