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First Uk re-press with new title and with the new Dublin Gas cover artwork
Skid Row began to coalesce in Dublin, Ireland in October 1967, around vocalist Philip Lynott, bassist Brendan Brush Shiels, drummer Noel Bridgeman, and guitarist Bernard Cheevers, who would be replaced the following January by a 16-year-old prodigy hailing from Belfast, north of the border, named Gary Moore. The quartet threw itself into playing pubs and working men’s clubs so as to develop their chops and repertoire, eventually recording a 1969 single for Irish label Songs Records entitled New Places, Old Faces. But when power trios were suddenly established as the most desirable rock band formation of the era by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, and Éire’s own Taste (helmed by budding six-string legend Rory Gallagher), Lynott found himself the odd man out of Skid Row, and forced to seek his fame elsewhere, eventually finding great fame as frontman for Thin Lizzy. In his absence, Shiels took over lead vocals and a newly more marketable Skid Row quickly parlayed a few support gigs with Fleetwood Mac into a record deal with CBS Records, thanks largely to Mac main man Peter Green’s recommendation. The fledgling combo’s full-length debut, simply named Skid, was released in October 1970 (re-issued as Skid Row in 1983 and 1987) and climbed as far as number 30 in the U.K. charts on the back of CBS considerable promotional muscle. But there were only so many consumers willing to stomach the album’s skittish instrumental excess and relentless genre-hopping through blues, jazz, heavy rock, and more. Looking back on Skid and the bands second album 34 Hours (released in early 1971) you will find what a smoking power-blues trio these three musicians were. Gary Moore, Brush Shiels and Noel Bridgeman made two albums that even up to this day remains a high-water mark for early 70s British blues.
Track listing:
1. Mad Dog Woman
2. Virgos Daughter
3. Heading Home Again
4. An Awful Lot Of Woman
5. Unco-op Showband Blues
6. For Those Who Do
7. After I Am Gone
8. The Man Who Never Was
9. Felicity