So, tonight's listening pleasure comes courtesy of guitar legend Gary Moore. I remember reading about Gary in Guitar World circa 1984, but didn't really get to hear much of his music until a few years later, when I rescued a CD copy of Victims Of The Future from used bin at the original Record Exchange on Coventry Road, and I've been a fan ever since.
Tonight we're starting with Corridors Of Power, his 1982 album. His rhythm section on this album happens to be Neil Murray and Ian Paice who had both just left Whitesnake. This is one of a handful of Gary's hard rock albums that I've never owned before, but I remember seeing the video for Always Gonna Love You on VH-1 Classic probably about 15 years ago (I don't remember ever seeing it on MTV way back when).
Anyway, this is a cool record. He does a good cover of Free's Wishing Well. Which I actually first heard on his Emerald Aisles concert video/documentary. I didn't know at first that i twas a cover, Gary at this time had a habit of writing "topical" songs (e.g. Murder In The Skies, Out In The Fields, etc), so I reckoned this was aonther one of those, this time dealing with the The Troubles.
There's a couple sort of ballad type things, notably Always Gonna Love You, which deserved to be a hit, but I guess it wasn't (at least not Stateside, it wasn't). But mostly this is a pretty go for the throat heavy rock record. Years later, I read that he got pushed further in that direction than he actually wanted to go in, but I thikn the upshot is pretty golden
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