Gary Moore

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Gary Moore in 2010

Robert William Gary Moore (* 4. April 1952 in Belfast , Northern Ireland ; † 6. February 2011 in Estepona , Spain ) was a Northern Irish blues - blues-rock - and hard rock - guitarist , composer and singer .

life and career

Rise in Dublin

Moore grew up as the son of an event organizer with four siblings in East Belfast. There were many difficulties in his family. He left home at 16 and went to Dublin . A year later, his parents separated.

Moore earned his first living as a musician in Dublin from 1969, together with Phil Lynott . The common band Skid Row , not to be confused with the American rock band of the same name , released two albums. During this time, guitarist Peter Green and his band Fleetwood Mac , whom he met personally in Dublin and London, had a strong influence on Moore . At the end of 1971 Moore left the band Skid Row and supported the folk rock band Dr. Strangely Strange as a guest musician, then founded the first Gary Moore Band in 1973 , where he also took over the vocals. The only album Grinding Stone (1973) was unsuccessful and the band broke up again. In 1974 Moore joined Thin Lizzy and was again in a band with Phil Lynott. However, he only stayed there for a short time. He then worked as a studio musician , including for Jonathan Kelly and Eddie Howell.

In 1975 Moore founded the jazz rock- oriented formation Colosseum II together with drummer Jon Hiseman , keyboardist Don Airey , bassist Neil Murray and singer Mike Starrs . In 1978 the band broke up after three studio albums and many concerts. Moore then continued working as a studio musician and took part in albums by Andrew Lloyd Webber , Gary Boyle and Rod Argent. In 1978 Moore started again a solo attempt with the album Back on the Streets , which contains the successful single Parisienne Walkways , which was created in collaboration with Phil Lynott and was part of Gary Moore's live repertoire until recently. In 1978 he rejoined the band Thin Lizzy as a replacement for Brian Robertson and played the album Black Rose with Thin Lizzy . Surprisingly, Moore Thin Lizzy left again in 1979 during a US tour. He then formed the short-lived project G-Force with Mark Nauseef, with whom he had played with Thin Lizzy, and became a guitarist in Greg Lake's band .

The hard rock era

In the following years Moore gradually established himself as a guitar virtuoso in the hard rock and metal scene . Former UFO member Neil Carter became a major co-musician for Gary Moore in 1983. With Corridors of Power (1982) and Victims of the Future (1983) Moore established himself in the hard rock genre. The album Victims of the Future contains one of his most famous pieces, the ballad Empty Rooms . With the album Run for Cover (1985) at the latest , Gary Moore was a fixture as a rock guitarist. The album contains, among other things, the single Out in the Fields , in which Phil Lynott was involved. Well-known musicians at this time were Ian Paice , Glenn Hughes and Tommy Aldridge .

Gary Moore 1985 at the Apollo Manchester

Moore consolidated his position as a stylistically versatile hard rock guitarist and accomplished singer with the album Wild Frontier (1987), which is influenced by Irish folk influences. Wild Frontier is dedicated to Phil Lynott, who died in 1986, as indicated on the record sleeve with the imprint "for Philip". The song Johnny Boy included on the album is also a tribute to Phil Lynott. Wild Frontier remained Gary Moore's only Celtic rock album, even if the follow-up After the War (1989 ) reflects other Irish influences (for example in the song Blood of Emeralds ). Wild Frontier contains the single Over the Hills and Far Away, a well-known song from Celtic Rock.

After the War (1989, with Cozy Powell ) is thematically concerned with the Northern Ireland conflict (Blood of Emeralds) and the Vietnam War (After the War) . Furthermore, Moore expressed himself in Led Clones (with Ozzy Osbourne ) critical of rock bands thatorientatethemselves too much on idols like Led Zeppelin without developing their own musical identity. On this album, too, Moore remembered his late friend Lynott: "... the darkest son of Ireland, he was standin 'by my side." (Blood of Emeralds) .

Switch to the blues

Around 1990 Moore changed his style from hard rock to blues and blues rock and was able to achieve great success worldwide with the album Still Got the Blues and the single Still Got the Blues (for You) . Two influential blues guitarists, Albert King and Albert Collins, worked on the album ; and George Harrison of the Beatles is represented as a writer and guitarist for one song. The following album After Hours was released in 1992 and was designed in a similar way, this time BB King appeared as a guest musician . However, the singles Cold Day in Hell and Separate Ways could not quite build on the success of Still Got the Blues .

In addition to other solo blues albums, Moore teamed up with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce , who formed the band Cream with Eric Clapton in the 1960s , for the album Around the Next Dream under the name BBM (stands for Bruce-Baker-Moore ) together, which was initially planned as Moore's solo album. Although the musicians themselves denied a connection, BBM sounds like a remake of Cream, in which Moore took over from Clapton.

In November 1993 he was a guest musician at the concert of Jack Bruce, which was played on the belated 50th birthday, where he also played some pieces as a trio with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce.

After Peter Green - Tribute album Blues for Greeny of 1995 Gary Moore published in 1997 Dark Days in Paradise . On this album Moore experimented with modern rock sounds. In the same year he composed the theme music for the film Middleton's Changeling , which he also recorded himself. With A Different Beat , the perhaps most untypical album followed in 1999; Moore experimented with hip-hop and drum-and-bass sounds, among other things. In 2001, Moore turned back to the blues with the aptly titled Back to the Blues album. In 2002 Gary Moore founded the band project Scars together with Cass Lewis (previously Skunk Anansie ) and Darrin Mooney (formerly Primal Scream ). In 2003 Gary Moore was an opening act for Whitesnake on the "Monsters of Rock" tour in Great Britain. During this tour he played pieces from his hard rock days for the first time in years. In the following year 2004 Moore devoted himself again to the blues with the album Power of the Blues.

On August 20, 2005, a memorial statue to Thin Lizzy front man Phil Lynott, who died in 1986, was unveiled in Dublin. At the memorial concert for Lynott, Gary Moore formed the backing band for numerous songs, friends and bandmates with Brian Downey (drums) and Jonathan Noyce (bass). With Brian Robertson , Eric Bell and Scott Gorham, Gary Moore played numerous hits from the history of the band Thin Lizzy as well as some of his own songs.

Gary Moore live in 2008

With Old New Ballads Blues (2006), Gary Moore took a closer look at the slow blues. Two of the pieces on this album are new recordings of tracks from his most successful blues album to date, Still Got the Blues . There are also cover songs by blues veterans Otis Rush and Willie Dixon . On October 25, 2007, Gary Moore gave a Jimi Hendrix memorial concert in London , where he was supported on three tracks by the original Hendrix musicians Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox . In 2007 and 2008 the blues rock albums Close as You Get and Bad for You, Baby were released , which in addition to their own compositions also contain cover songs and again pick up on somewhat faster blues pieces such as Thirty Days . The album Bad for You, Baby was nominated in 2009 in the category "Best Rock Blues Album of the Year" of the " Blues Music Awards ". Gary Moore last toured Germany in 2007 and 2009.

The last few years

Gary Moore live in 2005

At the end of 2009 Gary Moore stated in an interview in Budapest that he would only record one blues album and thus fulfill the obligations to his record company Eaglerock. This was to be followed by a Celtic rock album in the style of Wild Frontier (1987). To this end, he sought a collaboration with the Irish folk band The Chieftains . As early as 2005, Moore told the Japanese magazine Burrn that he had written some pieces, but an album would require a longer preparation time. Three of these pieces were released in a live version in 2011 on the album Live at Montreux 2010 . However, he was unable to finish the album planned for the same year because of his untimely death.

Moore had lived in England from 1970. In 2002 he moved to Brighton to be close to his two sons, who came from a marriage that lasted from 1985 to 1993. Since 1997 he lived with an artist; from this relationship there are two daughters.

Gary Moore was found dead on February 6, 2011 at the age of 58 in a hotel room in Estepona, Spain ( Costa del Sol ). He died in his sleep of a heart attack and is buried on the south coast of England in St Margaret Churchyard in Rottingdean near Brighton.

The DVD Live at Montreux 2010 was nominated in 2012 for the “Blues Music Award” in the “DVD of the Year” category. In 2018 his companions released "Moore Blues For Gary". Steve Lukather , Danny Bowes, Glenn Hughes , Joe Lynn Turner , Steve Morse , John Sykes , Neil Carter, Doug Aldrich and Eric Singer sing Gary Moore classics.

Dispute over Still Got the Blues

In 2001, Moore was sued by Jürgen Winter, bassist for the Krautrock group Jud's Gallery (1970–1974). Moore's hit Still Got the Blues from 1990 is a plagiarism of Winter's piece Nordrach (recorded in 1974, but not published until 1999): the guitar passage at the end of Nordrach is the main theme of Still Got the Blues . In 2008, Winter was right in a controversial decision by the Munich Regional Court. Moore reached a settlement with Winter in 2009, paid an undisclosed sum and retained the rights to Still Got the Blues .

Equipment

Over the years Moore has played a wide variety of guitars. In addition to the three guitars he had acquired from the Bluesbreakers and Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green (a 1959 Gibson Les Paul - now owned by Kirk Hammett , a 1961 Fender Stratocaster and a Gibson Les Paul Junior), he played Models from Charvel , Ibanez , Hamer , Jackson , PRS and Heritage . Moore usually used amplifiers from the manufacturer Marshall , including Soldano amps, which, in conjunction with the Les Paul guitars, produce the well-known, powerful sound. In his later experimental phase, when he added synthetic sound elements, he used line 6 preamps.

Gary Moore was left-handed , but he played right-handed guitars, which he also operated like a right-handed person (attack with the right hand, gripping hand on the left).

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

  • 1983: Live at the Marquee
  • 1984: We Want Moore!
  • 1986: Rockin 'Every Night - Live in Japan
  • 1993: Blues Alive
  • 2003: Live at the Monsters of Rock - also released on DVD, recorded by Scars
  • 2011: Live at Montreux 2010 - also released on DVD
  • 2012: Blues For Jimi - recording of a concert in honor of Jimi Hendrix
  • 2012: Live At Bush Hall 2007 - posthumously published recording of a concert.
  • 2020: Live From London - London's Islington Academy, December 2nd, 2009

swell

  1. ↑ Rock guitar star Gary Moore dies aged 58 . BBC ; Retrieved February 6, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b Moore’s almanac. ( Memento from December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Biography text . (No longer available online.) In: Musicline.de. Archived from the original on November 18, 2007 ; Retrieved December 4, 2008 .
  4. ^ Gary Moore - Old New Ballads Blues . Music Street Journal; Retrieved August 11, 2009.
  5. ↑ On Sunday 6th February 2011 musician Gary Moore died in his sleep of a heart attack while on holiday in Spain. gary-moore.com; Retrieved February 10, 2011
  6. ↑ Gary Moore. In: Find a Grave . February 7, 2011, accessed February 16, 2015 : “Burial: St Margaret Churchyard; Rottingdean; Brighton and Hove Unitary Authority; East Sussex, England. "
  7. ↑ Why is the Gary Moore Revival flopping? Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Gary Moore loses trial for his hit. (No longer available online.) In: sueddeutsche.de. December 3, 2008, archived from the original on December 4, 2008 ; Retrieved December 3, 2008 .
  9. ↑ Judgment in the plagiarism process for “Still got the Blues”. In: Landgericht München I. December 3, 2008, accessed on December 4, 2008 .
  10. ↑ He was never so close to Nordrach. In: Badische Zeitung. February 8, 2011, accessed April 26, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Christopher Scapelliti August 05, 2016: Kirk Hammett Talks About His Prize: Peter Green and Gary Moore's Les Paul. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  12. ^ Brian D. Holland: Gary Moore Interview - Sticking With The Blues. In: all out guitar. September 2, 2007, accessed December 4, 2008 .

literature

  • René Aagaard, Finn K. Jensen: Gary Moore. The Bio-Discography 1969-1994 . Bidstrup, Søborg 1996, ISBN 87-983242-6-8 .

Web links

Commons : Gary Moore  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Gary Moore albums


Studio albums

Grinding Stone • Back on the Streets • G-Force  • Dirty Fingers  • Corridors of Power  • Victims of the Future  • Run for Cover  • Wild Frontier  • After the War  • Still Got the Blues  • After Hours  • Blues for Greeny  • Dark Days in Paradise  • A Different Beat  • Back to the Blues • Power of the Blues  • Old New Ballads Blues  • Close as You Get  • Bad for You Baby

Live albums

Live at the Marquee  • Rockin 'Every Night - Live in Japan  • We Want Moore! • Blues Alive • Live at Monsters of Rock • Essential Montreux • Live at Montreux 2010 • Blues for Jimi

Compilation albums

Gary Moore • Anthology • Ballads & Blues 1982–1994  • Out in the Fields - The Very Best of Gary Moore • Blood of Emeralds - The Very Best of Gary Moore Part 2 • The Best of the Blues • Have Some Moore: The Best of Gary Moore • Parisienne Walkways: The Blues Collection • Back on the Streets: The Rock Collection • The Essential Gary Moore • The Platinum Collection


personal data
SURNAME Moore, Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moore, Robert William Gary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British blues rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast , Northern Ireland
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2011
Place of death Estepona , Spain