Still Dangerous is Thin Lizzy “raw, unadultered” and “untouched”. What you hear is a hungry band, high on adrenalin and fury. Every track is short and fast. There are no self-indulgent solos here, nor any off-key murdering of favourite tracks. Instead, everything is fired out at you – song after song hitting you in the gut, leaving you reeling.
Lynott is to be found in fine voice all the way throughout, whether he’s belting out ‘Soldier Of Fortune’ or crooning soulfully on ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’, midway through the set. We feel his loss all the more keenly. This release also launches the Thin Lizzy Productions label. A finer, more assured album to debut the label with, they could not have chosen. One imagines that, if this album was a new director, auditioning for the rest of the board, he would receive at least one standing ovation for his efforts. This means that this is truly the Live And Dangerous album that Live And Dangerous can only wish it was. No pop here but plenty of seething, visceral riffs, lyrics that sound like they’ve been lived in a thousand times over, all of which add up to a real visceral punch of an album.