Thin Lizzy - The Hero And The Madman

[mdelair420]

Can any of tell Phil loved comic books and heros.?Alot of the cover art is done like comic book art..Cool as hell.Phil was so creative and a musical genius..Peaceout....R.I.P...P.­L

[jmoney31705]

i'm 114

[malcolm21160]

best album they ever did

[stradlin62]

Eric Bell at guitar!!!!!!

[1012egg]

I WANT THIS ON RADIO!

[jmsbk12345]

DO YOU KNOW THIS IS MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE TL ALBUM. There is no other Lizzy album that sounds like this one. Incredible.

[yourdabull]

im 21 and ive been obsessed with thin lizzy for 13 years now and still keep the passion. its timeless. i sing along to you everyday!!

[elmax316]

sounds like the doors met hendrix and jammed

[Wolfspiderxl]

Check out radio DJ 'Kid' Jensen, doing the narrative . Phil's soulful vocals and moody bass guitar rythmns, builds up the tension, like the calm, before that dynamic 'Perfect Storm' of a guitar solo, at the end, by Eric.

[debulin1]

Eric Bell's solo's is just superb

[Aveleyboi]

Eric Bell is the god of wah wah!!!!!!!!!

[thinkingskeptic1]

@USgovernmentLies i thought it was jimmy hendrix. then i heard lots of lizzys sound tracks and sayings.

[HalfBearPig]

I don't give a FUCK how old any of you are. Just listen to the music.

[sbyrne1]

@HalfBearPig We're all entitled to an age, whether or not you give a fuck. Listen to the music

[EW8S93]

@sbyrne1 do you comment on everybody's comment? Honestly who goes from listening to music to talking about our age?

[sbyrne1]

@EW8S93 I didn't realise it upset you that I comment on my channel vids. But you obviously have a perfect youtube ideology you adhere to and wish everyone else to.

[RockNfuckinRoller97]

@HalfBearPig im 14

[HalfBearPig]

@RockNfuckinRoller97 get off the computer and go play with your friends.

[RockNfuckinRoller97]

@HalfBearPig relax man im messin with ya

[tigerhorsefield]

@HalfBearPig bet you dont know the name of the ex radio 1 dj that has the speaking part?

[HalfBearPig]

@tigerhorsefield Bet you I don't care. If I wanted to know stupid shit I would google it. Just sayin. I'm in it for the music only.

[tigerhorsefield]

@HalfBearPig boo hoo im weeping into my book of stupid shit.

[HalfBearPig]

@tigerhorsefield Congratulations.

[tigerhorsefield]

@HalfBearPig hey thanks .

[princewurst]

Geiles Gitarrensolo!

[AlvaroClouds311]

My favourite song from Vagabonds of the Western World, Eric Bell guitar's is in hell here.

[nouoriel]

loved this tune and i think vagabonds is definitely in the top four of lizzy albums.

[mattimauri57]

at 70"s

[mattimauri57]

we finish booys understannd lyrics about 50% but it was veryy good styke indiid

[mattimauri57]

in finland  it was aweising to mee about 15 year

[helraiser666painkil]

this has got to be one of the coolest songs ever wrote by Philip Lynott always liked this song ever since I first herd it years ago and the way he does the bass playing on the frettless bass guitar is very ditinctive sounding brillliant the way he plays it in this song.

[DKBoogieMan]

I will sell my first born to the person that can give me the full version of this song!!!!

I want to hear the whole Solo!

[revan210]

This is why I hate the fact I was born in '91, music isn't like this anymore

[BigAlzer]

heard this a long time ago, its good to remind yourself of just how good this is especially 4.53 Eric's guitar solo awesome

[countsmyth]

No fuckin music like this anymore. Raw, uncompromising genius. Amazing!

[DKBoogieMan]

Top 5 guitar solos in my book :)

[eeliveld]

Well at 49... i can say: Great.

[sbyrne1]

@eeliveld An age which most of us hope to live to and listen to great music. Glad you enjoyed it fellow Lizzy fan! :)

[timjmyall]

thanks for posting this, together with the excellent lyrics - that guitar solo - wow!

saw lizzy at brighton dome in the mid 70's. i had a restricted view ticket so all i got to see was phil lynott in profile when he came to the edge of the stage!

saw phil lynott, touring alone, at middlesex poly in hendon north london, shortly before his untimely death - only a smattering of people in a big hall - phil came on stage and said 'good evening hendon' - he didn't sound too happy. timeless music.

[wandererlain]

I first heard this on Planet Rock today. Really cool!

[kevingobells]

i like this song but i dont want to mess up the 69 likes it has already lol

[wandererlain]

@kevingobells LOL

[homegrownpa]

Blows me away everytime. I can only imagine from the views that there are a lot of people out there that don't know what there missing!

[djdjany]

One of the the best solos ever made !

[guetskee]

I think I broke the repeat button. :D

[Wolfspiderxl]

Phil Lynott shares a birthday with Led Zep frontman Robert Plant, interesting to see Phil's 'Hero' scenario played out later in Robert Plant's 'Rain Song' Fantasy Sequence in the film 'The Song Remains The Same', It proves that great minds do think alike

[djdjany]

ERIC BELL !!!! 

[zealberg]

are you the one

that i think you are

[gatorcarter]

That's not Phil speaking that line and he definately was not gay! This is such an awesome track and an amazing album. It was really well produced for it's time. It needs to be remastered.

[DeluxeReissue]

I've been into Lizzy for the last 10 years and have heard all their albums and own all except the 1980s period. The weird thing is that I bought this album about 4 or 5 years ago and kind of ignored it as I was really into the 75-79 period of Lizzy. Now I'm writing an essay on Lizzy for University and I pulled this album out a week ago and haven't stopped listening to it. It is absolutely brilliant. This track is a killer. The narration is great - I love Phil's 'gay' wizard at 4:07 - lol.

[HappyMealGiel]

This song is tasty as fuck

[papulk]

ideal to smoke

[tomosoos]

i am 57, a player, and someone who appreciates the vast world of great music. and if anyone were to ask me what my favorite album was, it would be this one. so unique and storytelling. eric bell does'nt play licks, he goes on a journey

[sbyrne1]

@tomosoos Couldn't have put it better tomo!

[latawie]

@tomosoos You are correct. This lp, Vagabonds of the Western World, is one killer lp. It is by far and away my favorite of theirs. I mourned the day Eric Bell left. This is true rock n roll, unique, individualized, and instantly recognizable as Thin Lizzy. An underrated masterpiece.

[Wolfspiderxl]

@tomosoos His guitar playing is electrifying

[fuckylucker]

@tomosoos

have to agree. love the rock albums, but this is pure poetry

[DKBoogieMan]

Eric Bell , by far my favorite TL axe handler . . .His solo on this Number is fantastic! 

[nimuaythai]

I always suspected i was gary moore speaking at the start, it certainly isn't lynott. tPS, thin lizzy= best band ever, totally underrated, some of the most varied, creative and imaginative music from one band i've heard, possibly due to the ebb and flow of musicians in and out bringing their own influence.

[godofslumber]

This song is 1 of their best., but I hate the fucking narration...

[tewhere1]

sweeeeet!!!!!! farrr it has beeen so loong since ive heard songs from this old album..I so owned it back in the day..double album

[StayUgly]

@tewhere1 Double? Tell me more, Bwana! But seriously, I have own this both on cd and vinyl... but never as a double album.

[tewhere1]

@StayUgly research and you'll find that they had a double album and this song was on it..real early..with Eric Bell..alright!!

[tewhere1]

@StayUgly oh yeah i wasnt lookin at the album cover you see here..so its not this album thats why its not a double..Bwana??? wats that??

[aloalo09]

the best song ever! respect thin lizzy

[IncensePeppermints68]

who is speaking at the beginning of the song?

[sbyrne1]

DJ David 'Kid' Jensen

[tomosoos]

@IncensePeppermints68  the drummer

[chrisfrehley]

great song!

[bishopquack]

one of my favorite albums of all time! this song always gives me some deep deep feelings in all the right places

[McSmijens1]

this song portrays what could be the best movie EVER! i've just started listening to thin lizzy, and i like every minute of it!

[pedalist49]

No reason to flip out on G. Moore. With love is an AWESOME Lizzy track. Top 5 for me. Also, is it just me or do the lyrics in this song kinda match the story outline for the video that Muse made, "Knights of Cydonia". A white hero, a desert, horse and "Lost city of Mars". Also the rescue of a woman. Maybe Muse was influenced by this track.

Also this is one of the best Lizzy tracks I heard 'cause it has many elements, an announcer, a crowd and two characters. Who is the narrator in this track?

[TheBob777]

I can definitely hear where Mastodon gets there influences from especially the chorus.

[2329250]

funny lizzy were the best band in the world but had the worst twat in music playing for them ie gary moore what a asshole he is

[sbyrne1]

@2329250 , Gary Moore was only in the band for a few periods of time, usually stand-in. What he did bring was a great style of guitar for the tracks he was on (Waiting for an alibi, With love etc). But he did not perform nor write on this track. Less of the swearing and you may get your point heard.

[2329250]

i saw gary moore play in lizzy 1979 in bradford and 2 or 3 after that but not sure about 1982 i think. i saw the bell line up about 1972or 3 i think and robertsons ? and i saw snowy white play with them. in all i saw them about 12 times in 10 years i still haave most of the programs somwere . sory about swearing but gary moore gets me mad . saw him in april he was piss up and swearing all the time

[SoldierofFortune07]

@sbyrne1 I think it's that tractor lad twat. I was watching milk and alcohol by dr. feelgood and out of nowhere i saw him goin on about Gary Moore.

[Schuey4ever]

Any time I hear that amazing solo I think of the interview with Eric when he mentioned that the first time he went in to record the solo he was so f*cked up with drugs that he thought when Phil sang "Are you the madman?" that he was referring to Eric! Bell then proceded to go nuts and trash the place and storm out in a crazy rage! Must have popped back in at a later stage to cut that "furious" version, he certainly wasn't messing about when he played that!!

[vinto34]

my favourite band...r.i.p phil....left us too soon.

[RAndyVee]

One of my favourite songs of all time!! Light and dark and a wonderful build towards an absolutely storming guitar solo! A thousand listens and it's still fresh!

So my top track from their best album!

[psilocin]

:):)

[jaggienettles]

"But the worlds on fire" said the madman from the steeple spire.........Did gordon Brown write this?......or maybe Eddie may

[BaptizedinFire]

Eric Bell is so underrated. Even I used to underrate him, until I decided to take a proper listen to Vagabonds. Turns out he was one of the better and more skilled lead guitarists around at the time... His solos on this, The Rocker, the title track are pretty insane, and his use of feedback in Little Girl In Bloom is sp clever.

[blacksabfan]

I was never that impressed with Eric Bell's guitar playing until I heard this song. Don't get me wrong, he's very good, but for me, there was times where I felt his playing lacked excitement. This song totally destroyed that perception when I first heard the solo he pulls off to close the song. This is actually one of my favorite Lizzy songs, and surely my favorite with Eric Bell.

[djdjany]

Great song but people, this has to be one the best guitar solos ever made !!!

Absolutely.

[calpont]

Good solo, it remember Ofthe Merdyo.

[godofslumber]

I agree.

[paul1vandoren]

I know this song for a long time, and the solo with the bass ,drums.. and then... thanks

[MartyMolloy]

Is it true that the narrator on this track is the DJ who was then known as "Kid" Jensen before he grew up and reverted to his original name of David Jensen?

Great track from Lizzy's best album.

[Jim7711154]

yeah, you're right. it's kid jensen

[Aarodin]

brilliant!

[WoodRatGirl]

This song reminds me of David Bowie's "The Bewley Brothers" from his album "Hunky Dory."

[WoodRatGirl]

I have this song on a CD called The Hero And The Madman, along with a few other earlier Thin Lizzy songs. :)

[orangutani]

thin lizzy's best song, definitely. Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, every time.

[PwndByTheFed]

furious solo is right.

[taisguapos]

Great song, indeed. Thanks for uploading

[keykeyx10000]

This song rocks beyond all songs that rock. Thanks for the upload, dude.

[swimagain]

What a great song!