Dirty fingers
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| Studio album by Gary Moore | |||||
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Publication |
July 1983 (JP) |
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Early 1981 |
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| Label (s) | Jet Records | ||||
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LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
41:59 |
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Studio (s) |
Morgan Studios, London |
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Dirty Fingers is the third solo album by Northern Irish hard rock and blues guitarist Gary Moore . It was actually recorded in early 1981, but was released a few years later for commercial reasons. Dirty Fingers is Moore's last album that was not mostly sung by himself.
Emergence
After the short-lived G-Force disbanded in the late summer of 1980, Moore stood with drummer Tommy Aldridge ( Black Oak Arkansas , Pat Travers Band ), singer Kenny Driscoll ( Lone Star ), keyboardist Don Airey ( Colosseum II , Rainbow ) and bassist Andy Pyle ( Blodwyn Pig , The Kinks ) formed a completely new band. Already in autumn concerts were given in Ashford and London, at which the album Live at the Marquee (1983), later released in Japan, was recorded. After that, however, there were some line-up changes: Moore recruited former singer Ted Nugents Charlie Huhn for Kenny Driscoll , while Andy Pyle was replaced by Rainbow and Wild Horses bassist Jimmy Bain . He later stated that Pyle was not quick enough for the drummer.
In January 1981, the recordings for a studio album began. You went to the London Morgan Studios and worked there with producer Chris Tsangarides . The recorded pieces were mostly hard and riff-emphasized rock numbers, which except for the Animals hit “ Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood ” and “Kidnapped” written by Charlie Huhn were all by Moore himself. Unlike on his later albums, he only took over the vocals on one piece - the final ballad “Rest In Peace”. Lyrically, the two anti-war pieces “Hiroshima” and “Nuclear Attack”, in which Moore first dealt with the very real danger of nuclear war at the time , stood out.
publication
The album was not released for the time being, however, because Moore's record company Jet Records largely stopped its support before the recordings were completely mixed. Only a maxi with the tracks “Nuclear Attack”, “Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood” and “Run To Your Mama” was released in October 1981. Moore had meanwhile been engaged by Greg Lake and took “Nuclear Attack” for his first solo album all over again. After he had finally turned his back on his label, he signed a contract with Virgin in the new year . The album itself was initially completely on hold.
With the move to Virgin Moore had his breakthrough and his subsequent album Corridors of Power (1982) became an international success. Jet Records wanted to benefit from this. In mid-1983 it was therefore decided to release Dirty Fingers and Live at the Marquee, recorded in 1980, in Japan, where Moore was particularly popular at the time. However, he was not very enthusiastic and when the album was also released in Great Britain in June 1984, he feared competition for his current album Victims of the Future (1984). The rejection of Dirty Fingers , which in his eyes had not even been completed, Moore no longer put aside and except for “Nuclear Attack” he did not take any of the songs in his later shows.
Track list
- Hiroshima - 4:28
- Dirty Fingers - 1:09
- Bad News - 5:06
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - 3:35
- Run To Your Mama - 4:43
- Nuclear Attack - 5:09
- Kidnapped - 3:49
- Really gonna rock - 3:48
- Lonely Nights - 3:57
- Rest In Peace - 6:01 am
occupation
- Gary Moore : guitar, vocals
- Tommy Aldridge : drums
- Don Airey : Keyboard
- Jimmy Bain : Bass
- Charlie Chicken: vocals
literature
- René Aagaard, Finn K. Jensen, The Gary Moore Bio-Discography 1969-1994 , Søborg: Bidstrup, 1996. ISBN 87-983242-6-8 .
- Dave Ling, Dirty Fingers Liner Notes , Sanctuary Records, 2002.
Web links
- Dirty Fingers at Allmusic (English)