GAZ Issue 3

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Gary's Action Zone

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Welcome!
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We are back with the third issue of GAZ. I have established an new e-mail address (gaz@sn.no), and this can be used with reply.
Note that Lennart has also got a new e-mail address: Lennart.R.Hedenstrom@telia.se

We are 103 subscribers by now. Following countries are now represented: USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Holland, Japan, France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Barbados, Mexico, Australia, Brazil and Peru.
We are only missing one continent: Africa. It means we are world-wide!!! There are still some problems with some of your addresses. We are working on it, but if you hear from people not getting 'GAZ', Please send them a copy. We will make a list soon with those addresses we have trouble with. If you have't got issue 1 & 2 by know let and I will send it soon as possible to you.

Stefan Mosseberg from Sweden has made a new Gary Moore WWW-page. The Address is: http://www.wineasy.se/hakanf/stefan.htm. By now it contains lots of pictures, video clips and sound bites. We hope he continues the good work. Really worth a visit!!

Some of you have complained that I made a difficult task for you to name your 15 favorite Gary Moore songs. Life ain't easy, but I guess you survive this and enjoy the result. We might do this yearly if you are interested.
For those of you that haven't sent in your 15 favorite tracks by Gary Moore so far, we will extend the entry limit to 15. June. (So all of you are having a hard time to figure out the best songs. Do you dare to let others decide which song by Gary is the best. Your votes will make a difference.

Along with this issue of GAZ I send out an separate mail, attched as WORD document with the Gary Moore solo 7" singels. If you can't read this send me mail and I will send back it as ASCII file.
I hope you will enjoy the singles, I have used the UK releases as main body filled out with different pressing from all over the world. If you miss any items in the list, please be kind to send me mail and I will correct it.

All the news from the editors are put in the sections 'General News' and 'Collectors News'. The info you provide will be put in the submission section.

In this issue it will feature: Japan Tour 1983 by Tomoyuki Yamazaki and The RPO & friends (Arrested) session by Lennart Hedenstrom.

Do you think anything is missing or need improvements, I am happy to hear your comments.

Next issue planned Week 25/26.

- Have enjoyable reading

Best regards.......
Ole-Johan

The content issue #3:

1. General News
2. Collectors News
3. Submissions - questions/answers
4. Submissions - Trade of records etc.
5.1. Features: Japan Tour 1983
5.2. Features: The RPO & friends (Arrested) session
6. Fanzine Information

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1. GENERAL NEWS
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The forthcoming album might be released in the end of the year, it is said to be totally different to what Gary has done before! There is no definte time schedule for the release of the album yet.

In May issue of Record Collector, they presented this year'a reader's Top 500 collectanble artist. Gary Moore was on the 233. place fallen from 211 (1994: 283, 1993: 190, 1992: out of the list). Thin Lizzy 81. place climbed from 101 (1994: 108, 1993: 180, 1992: 181). It's not so bad for Gary Moore since the promotion hasn't been the best for Gary lately. But we should expect huge promotion for the new album, otherwise Virgin is far out. I don't think Gary Moore will accept a low profile for this album after four years since his last 'own' album.

Tomoyuki Yamazaki interviewed Peter Green at his home in Surrey on 20 April. He is doing very, very fine, and is very enthusiastic about re-starting his musical career. He has already recorded one track for the Shadows tribute album, followed by a couple of tribute stuff and, yes, a new album. The interview will appear on "THE HO-NO-O" magazine in Japan (sorry, in Japanese only!), followed by coverages in a number of Japanese magazines. Tomoyuki would like to thank Michelle, Nigel and Steve Mash for making it happen.

Have you noticed it's two people playing the guitar on the picture, when you have opened the booklet of the Blues For Greeny CD? I guess some of you noticed, it took me 10 months to notice it. The left hand belongs to no other than............. yes! Peter Green. Really nice gimmick, especially when you open the booklet further and see the two pictures of Gary and Peter matching the guitar picture! GM's Management confirms it was Peter Green's hand!

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2. COLLECTORS NEWS
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R.P.M. Records will not release the two albums of Greg Lake, 'Greg Lake' and 'Manoeuvers' in UK this spring. Bruce Pilato, Greg Lake's mananger; said that they didn't have the rights for releasing the two albums. So that means we have to wait some more for the 'Manoeuvers' album on CD.

An addition to the 1995 releases is the following item. It comes just in jewel case without inserts etc, just with plain one track CD.
5" CD-Singles Promo:
I NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD GMBGS2 VIRGIN RECORDS ESP 1995

For your info the catalogue number of "Blues For Greeny Live" in Japan is: East West Japan AMVY-8093. It will not be released on a laserdisc.
In UK it's also released now. I have got my copy ordered now, And the info is:
BLUES FOR GREENY LIVE (TIME: 89 MIN.) 0630 13691-3 WARNER MUSIC VISION UK 1996

The Thin Lizzy remaster CDs will be released in Japan as well. The first batch will be in the shops on 26 June, and the second 26 July. The sounds are improved, but I could still notice the horrible hiss noises apparent on Black Rose.

New bootleg: Final Frontier (Bondage Music BON067)
Over the Hills / Thunder Rising / Shapes Of Things / Military Man / So Far Away - Empty Rooms / Out In the Fields / Rockin' Every Night / All Messed Up / Murder In the Skies
Taken from a live FM broadcast at the Paradise Theater, Boston MA on 1st September '87 (the final gig of the Wild Frontier Tour). The original broadcast was done live on the air, and the total duration was approx. 100 minutes. The bootleggers didn't give a shit and dropped The Loner to make the bootleg a single disc. The sound quality is okay, but the source tape could have been from any of the tapes circulating among the collectors. The cover is a shot of Gary during the Run For Cover tour, which again proves how ignorant the guys who made this are. It's not such a bad bootleg if you don't have the tape, but there's nothing to be crazy about really. - Tomoyuki Yamazaki

Colosseum II - "Empty Rooms" - COL2-767778 - JAP - Released august '94 - Pressed in 500 copies
Tracks: Unreleased Track (The Awakening) - (BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert '76)/Empty Rooms (BBC Session '84)/Put It This Way (BBC Session 15/8-77)/Intergalactic Strut (15/8-77)/Lament (15/8-77)/Fighting Talk (BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert 14/1/78)/The Inquisition (14/1/78)/Rivers (14/1/78)/Desperado (14/1/78)
The tracks are from BBC In Concert 25 June '76, BBC Friday Rock Show 27 Jan '84 (aired 10 Feb), BBC Peel Session 15 Aug '77 (aired 23 Aug) and Sight and Sound In Concert Bristol 14 Jan '78. Incidentally, the 'unreleased track' is The Awakening, written by Moore/Hiseman. Thanks to Soern Lindberg to drawing attetion to this Bootleg, comments is made by Tomoyuki Yamazaki.

'GAZ' is urgently looking for Live Tapes from following Concerts:

4th & 5th October 1992, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
May 1992, Los Angles, USA
Any Live tapes with BBM in Spain & UK.
The San Sebastian Concert is reported to be the Best BBM gig.

If you have/get any of these shows let me know ASAP, gaz@sn.no

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3. SUBMISSIONS - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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Due to gaving been off-line since mid-april, I haven't got any submissions.
Anything you want to tell/discuss, this is the place!

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4. SUBMISSIONS - TRADES OF RECORDS ETC.
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Note! Always reply to the e-mail address stated in 'from' column. By this time we keep these submissions standing for two issues before they get put off.
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From: jeffdcosta@accent.net
Subject: Gary Moore T-shirts

Do you know where I can get a hold of some old Gary tour
t-shirts? Please respond as soon as possible!

Best Wishes,

Jeff D'costa

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From: Byron Boldt <byronb@dtn.com>
Subject: Gary Moore stuff sale/trade

I will negotiate a little if you buy in quantities. Most of the stuff I
think is priced cheap because I want to get rid of it. Everything is in
great shape unless stated. The more you buy the better the deal. I will do
trading if you have some things I need. My want list is at the bottom. I
also
wouldn't mind just getting some of them on tape if you only have one copy.

All prices in American dollars.

Colosseum II
Albums
Electric Savage - US - $8
Strange New Flesh - UK - $8
War Dance - US - $8

G Force
Albums
G Force - UK - Jet - JETLP 229 - $5

Thin Lizzy
CDs
Lizzy Killers - W German - Vertigo - 800 060-2 - $10

Albums
Remembering Part 1 - UK - Decca - SKL 5249 - $6 w/o Gary Moore
Fighting - USA - Vertigo - VEL 2005 - $3
Live & Dangerous - Holland - Vertigo - 6641 810 - $8

Phil Lynott
Albums
Solo In Soho - USA - Warner Bros - BSK 3405 - $3 w/o Gary Moore
The Philip Lynott Album - USA - Warner Bros - 1-23745 - $3

Gary Moore
7" singles
After The War/This Thing Called Love - picture disc - UK - Virgin GMSY1 - $5
After The War/This Thing Called Love - gatefold p/s - UK - Virgin GMS1 - $3
Always Gonna Love You/Cold Hearted - p/s - UK - Virgin VS528 - $2
Empty Rooms/Nuclear Attack(live) - p/s poster bag - UK - Virgin TEN25 - $4
Falling In Love With You/Instrumental - picture disc - UK - Virgin VSY564 - $5
Over The Hills/Crying In the Shadows - shaped disc - UK - Virgin TENS 134 - $5
Parisienne Walkways(live)/Once In A Lifetime/Victims of the Future - gatefold p/s - Sweden - Virgin 108 226 - $3
Take A Little Time/Out In The Fields/All Messed Up(live)/Thunder Rising(live) double pack - UK - Virgin TEND 190 - $5

12" singles
After The War/Over The Hills(live)/This Thing Called Love - p/s w/patch - UK - Virgin - GMSTW1 - $6
Hold On To Love/Devil In Her Heart/Law Of The Jungle - p/s - W German - Virgin - 601 163 - $3
Over The Hills(extended)/same(7" version)/Crying In the Shadows/All Messed Up(live) - gatefold p/s - UK - TENTG 134 - $5
Ready For Love/Ready For Love - p/s - promo - USA - Virgin PR2596 - $2
Wild Frontier(extended)/same(7" version)/Run For Cover(live)/Wild Frontier(live) - p/s - UK - TENT 159 - $5
Wild Frontier/The Loner - promo - USA - Virgin PR2060 - $2

Albums
After The War - stamped promo on cover - USA - Virgin - 91066-1 - $3
Anthology - UK - Raw Power - RAWLP 023 - $8
Back On The Streets - Japanese - MCA - $15
Corridors of Power - USA - Mirage - 90077-1 - The cover on the American is different than on imports. Falling In Love With You is also different. - $3
Dirty Fingers - UK - Jet - JETLP 241 - $5
Gary Moore(Fire Exit) - Japanese - MCA - $15
Live - Japanese - no band - Jet - 25AP 2677 - Same as Live at Marquee, but different cover - $10
Rockin' Every Night - Japanese - gatefold - Virgin - VIL 6039 - $12
Run For Cover - Picture Disc - UK - Virgin - DIXP 16 - $15
Run For Cover - UK - Virgin - DIX 16 - $3
Victims of The Future - UK - Virgin - DIX 2 - Different than American - $5
Victims of the Future - Canada - Virgin - VL2285 - Same as American - $3

CD Singles
Over The Hills And Far Away(extended)/Crying In the Shadows/ All Messed Up(live) - 3" - Austria - CDT16 - $7
Ready For Love/Wild Frontier(live)/Military Man(live) - 3" w/box & badge - Austria - GMSCDX 2 - $8

Posters
Out In the Fields - GM & PL - 36" x 60" - European - $10
Wild Frontier - 24" x 36" - $2
After the War - 24" x 24" - $2
Run For Cover Tour - 24" x 48" - European - $5
Mirage Promo Poster from around 1983 w/GM holding guitar - 18" x 36" - $3

Wanted
7" singles
Gary Moore
Back on the Streets/Track 9
Out In the Fields dbl pack
G Force
You/Trust your Lovin'
Thin Lizzy
Do Anything You Want To/Just the Two of Us
The Greedy Bastards Single

Albums or CDs
Don Airey - K2-tales of Triumph & Tragedy
Skid Row - Skid Row - CBS 450 263-1
Lots of others that he has played on. Let me know what you got.

Any cool concert videos. How about that Colosseum II show?

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FEATURES: JAPAN TOUR 1983
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Date: 30 March'96 - Written by Tomoyuki Yamazaki

<<<19 JANUARY 1983>>>
ARRIVED IN JAPAN

<<<20 JANUARY 1983>>>
PRESS INTERVIEWS

<<<21 JANUARY 1983>>>
REHEARSAL AT YAMAHA STUDIO, IKEBUKURO, TOKYO

<<<22 JANUARY 1983>>>
LIVE AT SHIBUYA KOKAIDO, TOKYO
(Available on the Japanese LP bootleg "Hurricane", which tries to conceal its source by cutting out some of the chats inbetween the songs. However, you can
tell it is from Tokyo as Gary says "come on Tokyo!" during Back On the Street
s.)

<<<24 JANUARY 1983>>>
LIVE AT SHINJUKU KOSEINENKIN KAIKAN, TOKYO

THEME / END OF THE WORLD / WISHING WELL / ROCKIN' EVERY NIGHT / COLD HEARTED /
NUCLEAR ATTACK / I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW / ALWAYS GONNA LOVE YOU / HURRI
CANE - DRUMS SOLO / WHITE KNUCKLES / ROCKIN' AND ROLLIN' / BACK ON THE STREETS
// PARISIENNE WALKWAYS / DON'T TAKE ME FOR A LOSER / THEME (REPRISE) / GONNA BREAK MY HEART AGAIN / SUNSET
<<<25 JANUARY 1983>>>
LIVE AT SHINJUKU KOSEINENKIN KAIKAN, TOKYO

THEME / END OF THE WORLD / WISHING WELL / ROCKIN' EVERY NIGHT / COLD HEARTED /
NUCLEAR ATTACK / I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW / ALWAYS GONNA LOVE YOU / HURRI
CANE - DRUMS SOLO / WHITE KNUCKLES / ROCKIN' AND ROLLIN' / BACK ON THE STREETS
// PARISIENNE WALKWAYS / THEME (REPRISE) / DON'T TAKE ME FOR A LOSER / SUNSET
/ GONNA BREAK MY HEART AGAIN
<<<26 JANUARY 1983>>>
LIVE AT FESTIVAL HALL, OSAKA
(Possibly due to the lack of audience response, Gary has decided to chat less inbetween songs.)

<<<27 JANUARY 1983>>>
KYOTO KAIKAN DAIICHI HALL, KYOTO
(Apparently Gary's not too sure what city he is in, and fails to say "hello Ky
oto!")

<<<28 JANUARY 1983>>>
SUN PALACE HALL, FUKUOKA
(Gary probably doesn't know where he is on this day either, and makes no refer
ence to the location he is in.)

<<<30 JANUARY 1983>>>
NAGOYASHI KOKAIDO, NAGOYA
(Segments of End Of the World and Wishing Well were broadcast on Chukyo TV pro
gramme "5-ji SAT Magazine".)

<<<31 JANUARY 1983>>>
SHINJUKU KOSEINENKIN KAIKAN, TOKYO
(Available on the CD bootleg "Nuclear Attack".)

<<<1 FEBRUARY 1983>>>
SHIBUYA KOKAIDO, TOKYO

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FEATURES: The RPO & friends (Arrested) session
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Hi, Lulea, April 29 1996

This time I will write about a session that Gary Moore did back in the early 80s which contained covers of songs by the Police. I picked this session since I was contacted after the previous issue of GAZ by someone who wanted to know more about this session. So if there is one session you would like to know more about drop me an e-mail (notice that I have a new e-mail address!) and I might write about that one next time. Now over to this issue's session...

I don't know much about the background of this project but I think that at some point Don Airey was contacted to do the arrangements for a classical version of some of the songs by the Police (the pop trio consisting of Gordon "Sting" Sumner, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland). He was to do the album together with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Airey who at the time was in Gary Moore's band together with Neil Murray and Ian Paice decided to use his bandmates on the album as well as some other friends of his, including guys like Graham Bonnet (Rainbow, Alcatraz), Roy Wood (E.L.O.), Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann's Earth Band), Keith Airey (brother of Don) and many more. So in many respects this album came to be more of a rock band doing Police covers backed with a symphony orchestra and not the other way around.

Let's look a bit closer to the four tracks where Gary Moore plays.

"Truth Hits Everybody" (Bonnet vocals, Paice drums, Airey synths)
Gary is present throughout this track. He is playing the rhythm guitar in the background and he turns in several squeaks in his usual style. WHat bother me is that the guitar sound is much more dry than everything else in a way that it doesn't blend in very well with the big orchestra.

"Arrested" (Paice drums, John McKenzie bass)
The intro is a guitar line repeated several times and every time answered by a string section. It then builds up with the entire orchestra in a very pompous way. Then back to the intro and so on. Since there are no vocals on this track it makes me feel as it's some kind of movie soundtrack. Again that dry sound on the guitar...

"Message In A Bottle" (Wood vocals, Paice drums, Murray bass)
Wood turns in a very Sting-like high-pitched nasal vocal and Gary uses a cleaner sound for the rhythm part. As usual you get to hear some typical Moore squeaks here and there, but as on the other tracks here Gary plays mostly for the song and there are no real interesting guitar parts. He shows us some speed playing at the end though. On this track the RPO takes the back seat and this is very much a rock band with a huge string section backing them up, with the exception of some horns here and there... I liked this track already when the Police did it and it's a very unusual track to hear Gary play!

"Invisible Sun" (Airey synthesizers, Kim Goody vocals, Paice drums)
Dominated by a plopping synthesizer (Airey) and some dream-like choirs (Goody) this one sounds very little like the Police original. Gary gets to play the melody line that is the only thing that makes me detect what song this really is. Gary uses a very bright and clean sound but nothing interesting really.

All in all not the most interesting album Gary has played on but you can easily hear it's him playing which is much harder on some of the other sessions he has done where he has perhaps been limited to some acoustic guitar playing very much in the background. I also don't think they have succeeded in mixing the rock band with big orchestra very well. In my opinion they should have dropped the rock drummers and electric bass players. That way it would have been real classical versions but topped with some vocals and with some guitar playing by Gary but with a less dry sound. On some other tracks Chris Thompson sings in a way that I wish Gary would work with him on something in the future. Killer vocals! Gary actually played on Thompson's solo album in the 80s... hmmm maybe something for the next GAZ? So where to find this album then? Well, I have not seen the original vinyl more than once and that was when I picked it up myself at a record show some years back, where it was standing at the front and I could see "ARRESTED" across the room and I ran over there being afraid I would see someone pick it up before I could get my hands on it! :) It has since been re-issued both in Japan and in Europe on CD so you should be able to find it. The original UK release on vinyl had the full title "Arrested, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Friends presents The Music Of The Police" (LP, RCALP 8001, RCA/starblend, UK 1983). The LP came with a nice inner sleeve with lyrics and the back of the sleeve has full details on who plays what and where. The Japanese CD re-issue came with the same artwork as the original UK LP but the title was slightly different "Arrested, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Friends presents The Music Of The Police" (CD, JICK-89316, J!MCO, Japan 1993). I have another CD re-issue printed somewhere in Europe (EEC) probably in 1994. The packaging is almost of bootleg quality if you know what I mean, with absolutely no details about musicians etc. Not even the release year is listed! Here the full title used
is "Classic Police Performed By The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra And Guests" (CD, GRF262,Tring/Double Play, EEC 1994?).

Good luck hunting it down,

Lennart
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Co-editor of GAZ - The Gary Moore Electronic Fanzine

ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AND FRIENDS Discography:
7"
WALKING ON THE MOON/Arrested (W/PS) - RCA 310 - RCA - UK - 1983

LP
ARRESTED (INNERSLEEVE) - RCALP 8001 - RCA - UK - 1983

CD
ARRESTED - JICK-89316 - JIMCO RECORDS - JAP - 1993
CLASSIC POLICE - GRF262 - TRING/DOUBLE PLAY - EEC - 1994?

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