one of the greatest ever.. i do feel he could have been greater if it wasnt all about him and he found himself 2 or 3 other equalled musicians and made us some real music..
alot of his songs come off as real corny to me, im like wow thats amazing how the shit did you do that, and then im like wow thats the cheesiest thing iv ever heard that sounds like an 80's porno or an elevator riff, but wow how did you do that!

he's pretty rocking 8)

I love the cheezyness of gary moore. But he is very cool

Gary Moore does an insane red house cover on Strat Pack, you should check it out ?

I hear a clear debt to Peter Green in Gary Moore's playing.

And a piece of trivia: Moore has an old Les Paul that was once Peter Green's main guitar. Green sold it to him (IIRC at a nominal price) when he decided to quite Fleetwood Mac and, indeed, the whole music business.

The first time I got Still Got the Blues for You on cd, it played in my car pretty much 24/7. That song and Brothers in Arms from Dire Straits are still my favourite guitar tones ever. I have a Best off cd from Mr. Moore with a live version of Parisienne Walkways on it, where at one point he sustains a note for what seems like eternity. Its impossible to hear that without curling your toes and pulling a funny face ?

I have best of gary moore cd(It is my dads)And has a awesome track list like military man and over the hills and far away and run for cover now.

The best Gary Moore album is Blues Alive, hands down. I want my guitar to sound like THAT!

3ight8all wrote: Gary Moore does an insane red house cover on Strat Pack, you should check it out ?

+1 - this is AWESOME. I also have the DVD.

I saw a video of Gary Moore, just cant think of the name, but he mostly played a Tele, and did quite a lot of blues stuff, It was awesome stuff.
Just cant think what it was called, must have been a while back because it was on VHS.

@Squonk: I saw ones like that on youtube, 'Dust my broom' was one of the songs I think.

Back in the early nineties I saw Mike Rowe play Parisienne Walkways where he held the sustain note so long you could go to the bathroom and back before the end of the note

X-rated Bob wrote: I hear a clear debt to Peter Green in Gary Moore's playing.

It's more than that, Moore made a study of Green's technique at one point. I remember a magazine interview years ago where he said he's now probably the person on earth who can play most perfectly in Green's exact style...something to that effect.

And my thought was "why the *%&#$# would a talented presumably intelligent individual such as yourself WANT to spend that intense effort to sound EXACTLY like someone else."

BMU wrote:

X-rated Bob wrote: I hear a clear debt to Peter Green in Gary Moore's playing.

It's more than that, Moore made a study of Green's technique at one point. I remember a magazine interview years ago where he said he's now probably the person on earth who can play most perfectly in Green's exact style...something to that effect.

And my thought was "why the *%&#$# would a talented presumably intelligent individual such as yourself WANT to spend that intense effort to sound EXACTLY like someone else."

I think he was his hero and some people would go to great lengths to be like there hero.

He did a Peter Green tribute blues album called 'Blues for Greeny'. I don't think Peter Green was his hero as much as that he identifies with the man as the blues master in the shade, hardly recognised by a larger audience.

Plus, his going back to blues and back in Peter Green's footsteps served him very well. After the dark period in the early eighties he was so down and out that he made a straight up blues album, which, much to his own surprise, did very well and saved his career.

BMU wrote: And my thought was "why the *%&#$# would a talented presumably intelligent individual such as yourself WANT to spend that intense effort to sound EXACTLY like someone else."

We've all got our influences. I don't think there's one player out there these days who is 100% original, they've all been inspired by some other player or players, will have spent some time early on figuring out things they heard on the radio or on albums. There might be some guy in Borneo who some how picked up a guitar, figured out it was an instrument, is otherwise completely cut off from civilisation and has managed to figure out some music that is unlike anything else ever played on the guitar - but even then he'll have taken influences from tunes that he knows from somewhere.

Once upon a time, of course, it was possible to make music that was completely unlike anything ever heard before, but those days are gone. In the pre-Christian era the Greeks were already talking about modes, and those modes corresponded to the predominant tonal scheme used in different areas of Greece and Asia.

Moore does more than imitate Peter Green. If you know both guys' playing then you'll know that Moore, unless he is deliberately paying homage, does not simply ape Green's style.

BMU wrote:

X-rated Bob wrote: I hear a clear debt to Peter Green in Gary Moore's playing.

It's more than that, Moore made a study of Green's technique at one point. I remember a magazine interview years ago where he said he's now probably the person on earth who can play most perfectly in Green's exact style...something to that effect.

And my thought was "why the *%&#$# would a talented presumably intelligent individual such as yourself WANT to spend that intense effort to sound EXACTLY like someone else."

yeah that last line is so much what i feel.......... too many guitarists even top pro's try to copy others just too much ...... that they lose their own identity and become audibly clear clones of their influences....

+1 BMU well said

Gearhead wrote: He did a Peter Green tribute blues album called 'Blues for Greeny'. I don't think Peter Green was his hero as much as that he identifies with the man as the blues master in the shade, hardly recognised by a larger audience.

Plus, his going back to blues and back in Peter Green's footsteps served him very well. After the dark period in the early eighties he was so down and out that he made a straight up blues album, which, much to his own surprise, did very well and saved his career.

Blues for Greeny was great, if a little clean on the production side... thanks for the memory!

Gearhead wrote: He did a Peter Green tribute blues album called 'Blues for Greeny'. I don't think Peter Green was his hero as much as that he identifies with the man as the blues master in the shade, hardly recognised by a larger audience.

It would have made some money for Green as well, as nearly everything on that album was a Green composition.

Paying musical tributes is one thing. Helping to pay the rent is another.

X-rated Bob wrote:

Gearhead wrote: He did a Peter Green tribute blues album called 'Blues for Greeny'. I don't think Peter Green was his hero as much as that he identifies with the man as the blues master in the shade, hardly recognised by a larger audience.

It would have made some money for Green as well, as nearly everything on that album was a Green composition.

Paying musical tributes is one thing. Helping to pay the rent is another.

+1 Reminds me of Led Zep crediting Ritchie Valens' mother (wife?) for a song on Physical Graffitti - Boogie With Stu (awesome by the way) in order to get some royalties shared in tribute to Richie. They then got knocked by the publishers I think.