Gary moore

Gary Moore is an Irish blues-rock guitarist and singer. He is an former member of the band "Thin Lizzy" but he's know mostly for his solo career.

He's one of rock's most underrated guitarists (both from a technical and compositional point of view). Gary Moore is a really good guitar player that brings such intensity and feeling trough his guitar. There is not many that can make so good blues-rock that goes right in to your soul. When the lyrics plays in some of his songs it's like the guitar starts to speak out the lyrics and it gives the lyrics so much more feeling...

"Still got the blues"

There are a few songs where the lead guitar communicates vibe and emotion better than any vocal you could apply to a song. This is one of those songs. This is one of those rarities where every note, every lick is timed, spaced, and played just perfectly, where the whole is much greater than the sum of it's parts.

The song is mainly about a guy that though it was easy to let love go, but he found out that it wasn't easy and that his love will always be in his heart ("but i still got the blues for you").

The lyrics is in a way simple but it has a really good feeling in it that makes the word really good. And when the guitar solo just kicks in after a long vocals part it just feels that the guitar just brings the whole song together and deliver the meaning in such amazing way.

This is really how you make a guitar cry and speak at the same time....



"The loner"

It not easy to feel the amazing feeling of and "instrumental" song. An instrumental song is and song with no vocals at all, it's just the instrument that talks for them self...

The guitar just sings and cries at the same time trough the whole song and it's such a beautiful melody, it truly feels like the saga of someone who's alone in the world. I wouldn't hesitate to say that it's an hauntingly(yeah, that's a word) melody.

This is one of does songs that have a real soul in it and such great passion that send shivers trough you whole body and it almost makes you want to cry because the guitar just cries trough the whole song in a so beautiful way....

just close your eyes and enjoy....



"Out In the Fields"

Lets go to one of Moore's song that is more rock to it then blues. "Out In the Fields" was written and recorded by Gary Moore and Phil Lynott (Phil formed the band Thin Lizzy). Gary Moore on vocals and guitar and Phil Lynott on bass and vocals.

Baisically saying that in war everyone is equal. Nobody has a better chance of not being killed. Therefore it is a message of peace "The cries of every nation; they're falling on deaf ears again". It's also about how so many wars/conflicts have to do with religion and race, and how stupid it all is.

The lead guitar solo performed by Moore in "Out in the Fields" has long been considered a masterpiece by electric guitarists, despite its short duration. Included in the Top 100 Guitar Solos of All Time. It starts out slowly then builds up great speed and it's a feel of harmony and above all sheer power.



"Over the Hills and Far Away"

This song is probably Gary Moore's most known song, it a song that everybody have heard sometime.

he lyrics speaks of a man that is accused for a robbery and is being imprisoned for ten years because he can not tell where he had been that night. He had been with his best friend wife that night and she prays that he will returns some that, that's for sure(referring to the line:

"Over the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the rivers reach the seas,
back in his arms again she'll be."

And he knows that he will taste freedom again some day and he swears that he will return some day.

This is so pose to be based on a true story.

Out trough the song there is a drum play that feels so powerful and joyful that you almost want to jump to it. The drums gives away a little feeling of a military march. The solo is almost like "Out in the Field", it a short solo that begins slowly for a few seconds and then fires up big and just feels so good. The is a really good violin play in the song that gives away a good melody of joy and feeling.

A really good song that because of it's powerful vocals and music.



"Empty Rooms"

This is and really heartbreaking ballad. The lyrics really speaks for them self. It about a love that is broken up and the guy can't get her out of his mind. She is everywhere and he knows that he must be strong but his heart tells his that he is wrong. He must learn how to live without love... The term "Empty Rooms" has an dual meaning. Literally empty rooms - empty of the one you love or empty of love. Also it symbolizes the period of time in which you "learn to live without love" where ever that may be.

There is two versions off this song one "original version" and one "original long version". for me I'd say that he long version is much more better because in the middle of the song it slows down and it one of those part where you feel the power and the soul in the song.....