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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    I did Micky :)
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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    I knew I had these photos, took a while to locate them. Shiels and Bell on stage at the Baggot Inn
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    Sad news

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/c5y7p6pw5gyt
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    Keep Cool

    20° this morning. It got up to about 23 yesterday and it rained. More rain forecast today, so come over with your mop and do your Singing in the Rain routine.
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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    "Influential BBC Radio one DJ John Peel is known to have repeatedly stated "Teenage Kicks" to be his all-time favourite song, from 1978 until his death in 2004. When he first played the song on his show on 25 September, he played the song twice (something he had never previously done). Peel also...
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    Steady Howard..

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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    Phil Lynott was actually sacked by the lead singer of Skid Row, Brush Shiels in the late sixties. They remained on good terms and by Lynott's admission Shiels taught him to play the base guitar. Phil went on to form the band Orphanage with Brian Downey which evolved into Thin Lizzy.
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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    I was in a technical college in Dublin in the early eighties and former Thin Lizzy member Eric Bell was in a band called skid Row at the time. They had a Friday night residency in The Baggot Inn and we went there very often. We used to meet Bell regularly, usually along Grafton Street and he...
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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    Thirty years ago today since the untimely death of guitar legend Rory Gallagher
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    What Episode #27

    Are there any issues that aren't tricky with the ladies. Some more so than others Mabel :eek:
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    What Episode #27

    Must be The Flag and it's Snag so.
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