Gary Moore

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Robert William Gary Moore (April 4, 1952 - February 6, 2011) is an Irish rock guitarist.

Starting in 1960, Moore played with Phil Lynott and Brian Downey during his teenage years, taking him to Irish band members Skid Row and Thin Lizzy, and the British band Colosseum II. Moore shared the stage with blues and rock musicians like B.B. King, Albert King, John Mayall, Jack Bruce, Albert Collins, George Harrison, and Greg Lake, and had a solo career.

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Early life and career

Moore grew up on Castleview Road across from the Stormont Parliament Building, from Upper Newtownards Road in east Belfast, as one of Bobby's five children, a promoter, and Winnie, a housewife. He left town as a teenager, because of problems in his family - his parents split up a year later - just as The Troubles began in Northern Ireland.

Moore picked up a battered acoustic guitar at the age of ten. He began performing at a young age, making his live debut in a school band, during a break from one of his father's promotional events. He earned his first quality guitar (Fender Telecaster) at the age of 14, and learned to play the right-handed instrument in the standard way, though not left-handed.

In 1968, after performing with a number of Belfast-based bands, Gary Moore, at the age of 16, was "headhunted" as a substitute guitarist at the Dublin-based Skid Row band and he moved to Dublin. Moore's greatest influence in the early days was British guitarist Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac who was Moore's mentor while performing in Dublin.

Other early musical influences are artists such as Albert King, Elvis Presley, The Shadows, Buddy Guy, and The Beatles. Later, after seeing Jimi Hendrix and Bluesbreaker John Mayall in his hometown of Belfast, his own style developed into a blues-rock sound that would become the dominant form in his musical career.

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Changing band, 1968-1979

After joining Skid Row group with Noel Bridgeman and Brendan "Brush" Shiels, in mid-1968, cutting out a number of singles and albums, released in 1970, Skid Row then went on to play shows across Europe and the United States, opening for number of bands high profile. It was with this group that Gary Moore gained a reputation in the music industry, and his relationship with Phil Lynott began. Moore left the band in December 1971.

In 1970, Moore moved to England and lived there, apart from two brief periods in the United States. In 1973, under the name "The Gary Moore Band", he released his first solo album, Grinding Stone . "Grinding Stone" was published in North America on Neil Kempfer-Stocker which recorded the Cosmos record label and received the "Album of the Year" award at KTAC-FM/Seattle-Tacoma, Washington, in 1974.

In 1974 he rejoined Lynott, when he first joined Thin Lizzy after the departure of founding member Eric Bell.

From 1975 to August 1978, he was a member of Colosseum II. With the band, he also collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the composer album Variations in 1978.

In 1977, Moore rejoined Thin Lizzy, first as a temporary replacement for Brian Robertson, and permanently a year later.

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Solo Career

Between late 1977 and early 1978 while moving from Colosseum II and the future back to Thin Lizzy's lineup, Gary Moore recorded the Back on the Streets album, featuring the hit single "Parisienne Walkways" which reached the Big Ten on the UK Singles Chart in April 1979. While Back on the Streets climbing the charts, Gary Moore joins Thin Lizzy more permanently. Recording the album Black Rose: A Rock Legend, which reached number two on the UK album chart. Moore appears on the video for "Waiting Alibi", "With Love" and "Do What You Want".

In July 1979, he left Thin Lizzy permanently to focus on a possible solo career, but went on to form a short-lived G-Force band that recorded an album for Jet Records. Several other albums were made at this time, but were not released until after Gary signed the contract, and found some success with Virgin Records in 1982, and has released the album Corridors of Power.

Prior to the recording of Corridors of Power, Gary had joined Greg Lake to help complete the recording of his first solo recordings of Greg Lake after the deaths of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Gary toured with the band Greg Lake and recorded Greg Lake's second solo record, but did not tour. A number of hard rock albums were released in the 1980s, with which Gary became disillusioned after the After the War release, prompting the recording of the album, Still Got the Blues, in 1990.

He experimented with many musical genres, including rock, jazz, blues, country, electric blues, hard rock, and heavy metal.

In 1987, he performed a guitar solo for the Beatles cover "Let It Be", which was released under the name Ferry Aid group. This record generates substantial funds for survivors of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. In 1990, he played a solo guitar in "She's My Baby" from Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 .

Released in March 1990, Still Got the Blues, with contributions from Albert King, Albert Collins, and George Harrison, saw Gary Moore return to the form of music that has inspired him in his early days in Belfast. This album was well received by fans and certified Gold in the United States. Peter Green's continued influence on Moore has been paid in honor of Green on his 1995 album Blues for Greeny, an album composed entirely of Green compositions. On this tribute album, Moore played the 1959 Les Paul Standard Green guitar that Green had lent to Moore after leaving Fleetwood Mac. Moore eventually purchased the guitar, at Green's request, so "it would have a nice house". Moore remained with the blues format until 1997. He returned to rock, but with a softer, more pop and ballad-oriented ballad Dark Days in Paradise, followed by another direction change in 1999, when he decided to experiment with the beat of modern dance on A Different Beat ; this left many fans, as well as the music press, confused.

In 2001 with Back to the Blues, Moore returned to the tried and tested blues format: he continued with this style at Power of the Blues (2004), Old New Ballads Blues (2006), Close As You Get (2007), and Bad For You Baby (2008).

In January 2005, Moore joined the One World Project, which recorded a song for the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami relief effort. The group featured Russell Watson, Boy George, Steve Winwood, Barry Gibb, Brian Wilson, Cliff Richard, Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley , and Robin Gibb on vocals (in order of their appearance), and featuring guitar solos by Moore. The song, entitled Grief Never Grows Old, was released in February 2005, reaching No. 1. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.

She also took part in the comedy drama "The Easy Guitar Book Sketch" with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow musician Mark Knopfler, Lemmy from MotÃÆ'¶rhead, Mark King from Level 42, and David Gilmour.

Other collaborations include various artists including Trilok Gurtu, Dr Strangely Strange, Jimmy Nail, Mo Foster, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Jim Capaldi, BB King, Vicki Brown, Cozy Powell, Rod Argent, Beach Boys, Paul Rodgers, Keith Emerson, Roger Daltrey, and Otis Taylor.

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Personal life

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

Since 1997, he lives with his partner, an artist named Jo, and their daughter Lily (born 1998). In 2003, he bought a separate five-bedroom Edwardian home in Hove, just west of Brighton, Sussex, to be near his children. At the time of his death, his residence was reported to be in Vallance Gardens in Hove, East Sussex.

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Death

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

According to The Daily Telegraph , Moore's fatal heart attack was caused by the large amount of alcohol he consumed on the night of his death. Moore has 380 m of alcohol per deciliter (100 milliliters) of blood (0.38%) in the system, which means it is five times the legal drinking driving limit. The alcohol content in the blood from 0.40% to 0.50% is considered deadly.

Moore is buried at St Margaret's Churchyard, Rottingdean, East Sussex, England, in a private ceremony, with only family and close friends present.

The eldest son of Gary Moore, Jack, with his uncle Cliff Moore, performed the traditional "Danny Boy" song at his father's funeral. It is reported in the Telegraph Belfast as a flawless award in which some mourners in church cry openly.

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Style and inheritance

Moore is known for his highly emotional approach to guitar playing. Despite technical mastery and mastery of the guitar, it stands out through the expression and dynamic controls that are largely influenced by blues melodies.

Moore is very popular in Europe, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Japan, but is less successful in the US. Throughout his career, Moore was recognized as influenced by many famous guitarists including Martin Barre, Vivian Campbell, Patrick Rondat, John Norum, Paul Gilbert, Gus G, Slash, Orianthi, Joe Bonamassa, Adrian Smith, Phil Collen, George Lynch, Doug Aldrich, Jake E. Lee, Zakk Wylde, Randy Rhoads, John Sykes, Henrik Freischlader, Janick Gers, Gary W Suede, and Kirk Hammett.

Since his death, many fellow musicians have commented on Gary Moore's talents including Ozzy Osbourne, Kirk Hammett, Eric Singer, Doug Aldrich, Tony Iommi, Bob Geldof, Roger Taylor, Brian May, Brian Downey, Andy DiGelsomina, Ricky Warwick, Glenn Hughes, Bryan Adams , Henry Rollins, Scott Gorham, Ignacio Garay, and Mikael ÃÆ'â € | kerfeldt. On April 18, 2011, a number of musicians including Eric Bell and Brian Downey, Thunder rising, Silverbird and The Blues bands gathered for an award concert at the Whelan bar in Dublin, Ireland entitled 'The Gig For Gary'.

In March 2011 Guitarist generated special awards with unreleased recordings beginning in 2009. Twitter was flooded with tribute from fans for a few days after his death.

The large statue of Moore was erected on a small island just outside SkÃÆ'n nevik, following many of its performances at the SkÃÆ'  ¥ nevik Blues Festival . The statue still stands until July 2013.

In April 2017, Henrik Freischlader released a tribute album titled Blues For Gary featuring Pete Rees and Vic Martin.

Jack Moore presented an award to his guitar, which was his father's, with Danny Young in the form of a music video around his father's birthday, in April 2017. The song was named Phoenix, written and performed by both Jack Moore and Danny Young.

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Guitar

Gary Moore is associated with many guitar brands during his career but Gary's most related guitar is Gibson Les Paul. Gary Moore's 1959 guitar Les Paul Standard is famous for its distinctive out-of-phase sound associated with the possibility of pickup repairs, where the magnet in the neck pickup has been reversed, causing an out-of-phase sound when combined with a bridge pickup. This guitar was originally owned by Peter Green. Green sold the guitar to his younger friend Gary Moore in 1974 for the price Gary earned from selling Gibson SG, his main guitar at the time. Gary used the guitar for the next 30 years, on songs like Parisienne Walkways, which was his best song. The guitar is now owned by Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett who bought the guitar, a few years after Gary sold it, for an undisclosed amount.

Also related to the 1961 Fender Stratocaster, purchased by Gary Moore in 1981. The guitar was almost sold to Greg Lake, former Emerson, Lake and Palmer who initially saw the guitar, but Gary Moore had tried it and liked the sound of the guitar acoustically. Greg passed on the guitar because it was not in pristine condition, and Gary made a deal. The Red Strat is also known as the Pink Strat which is widely used by Gary in Corridors of Power along with many other recording sessions, over the years. Red Strat is seen in many live performances, especially at the 50th Anniversary Fender event held at Wembley Arena, north London, in 2004 when Gary performed Red House by Jimi Hendrix. The neck pickup was rewritten by pickup maker Seymour Duncan in 1998. Fender Guitars launched a custom shop tribute replica from Red Strat, in 2016, conducted by Fender master builder John Cruz.

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Discography

• Grindstone (1973)
• Back on the Road (1978)
• G-Force (1980)
• Dirty Fingers (1981)
• Power Corridor (1982)
• Future Victim (1983)
• Run for Cover (1985)
• Wild Frontier (1987)
• After the War (1989)
• Still Got the Blues (1990)
• After Hour (1992)
• Blues for Greeny (1995)
• Dark Days in Paradise (1997)
• Different Beat (1999)
• Return to the Blues (2001)
• Wounds (2002)
• The Power of the Blues (2004)
• Old New Ballads Blues (2006)
• Close when you Get (2007)
• Bad for You Baby (2008)

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References

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