{"id":6753,"date":"2017-10-30T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T09:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/10\/30\/thin-lizzy-founder-eric-bell-details-new-album-standing-at-a-bus-stop\/"},"modified":"2017-10-30T09:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T09:11:50","slug":"thin-lizzy-founder-eric-bell-details-new-album-standing-at-a-bus-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2017\/10\/30\/thin-lizzy-founder-eric-bell-details-new-album-standing-at-a-bus-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Lizzy Founder ERIC BELL Details New Album ‘Standing At A Bus Stop’"},"content":{"rendered":"


Founding Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell will release his new solo album ‘Standing At A Bus Stop’ on December 1st, via Of The Edge Productions\/Cargo Records UK. ‘Standing at a Bus Stop’ is legendary guitarist, musician and songwriter Eric Bell\u2019s second album for Of The Edge Productions.
The eagerly anticipated follow up to 2016\u2019s Exile – Eric\u2019s first studio recording for more than ten years – Standing at a Bus Stop gives fans more of what Eric does best – bitter sweet lyrics, gorgeous melodies and fantastic guitar riffs. Featuring nine brand new tracks written by Eric – plus two wonderful covers of Howlin Wolf’s Back Door Man, and Elvis\u2019 Mystery Train – this latest album showcases Bell\u2019s talent for song writing and his desire to keep moving forward with his music.<\/p>\n

Track listing:<\/p>\n

1. Back Door Man (cover: Howlin Wolf)
2. Changing Room
3. In Memory of Django
4. Frustration
5. Golden Days
6. Mystery Train (cover: Elvis Presley)
7. One Day Too Early
8. Pavements Paved With Gold
9. Reality
10. Standing at a Bus Stop
11. Walking in the Park
12. Golden Days<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have been very easy to become Thin Lizzy part II,\u201d says Eric, \u201cbut I\u2019ve always gone my own way. You shouldn\u2019t be scared to take a chance and experiment. Whatever talent I possess, I want to use it and you can\u2019t do that if you\u2019re always looking to the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once again, Eric draws heavily on his own life for inspiration on this record (and his extraordinary life has certainly produced plenty of song writing material!), crafting songs that are highly personal yet completely universal – songs of love and loss, dreams and memories, good times and bad. Some are recent creations, reflecting Eric\u2019s thoughts on the modern world; some were written years ago, forgotten and rediscovered for this album.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou get a free razor blade with every copy!\u201d laughs Eric. \u201cThe songs on this album might be a bit melancholic but they\u2019re not miserable. They are honest, they\u2019re about real people and places and capture certain points in my life that meant something and made me who I am.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was never really considered a songwriter until Exile,\u201d he adds, \u201cso it\u2019s amazing to have the chance to do another record. It feels like a natural progression for me. Like maybe I can write after all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Bell reveals the stories behind the songs on Standing at a Bus Stop:<\/p>\n

Back Door Man
“This is my version of the great man’s classic. This track is all about the feel, and the authenticity of the guitar. You have to get the guitar rhythm just right with the riffs kicking in. Felt great”<\/p>\n

Changing Room
\u201cAnother relationship song – this one was with a very cultured lady (I don\u2019t know why she went with me). We met while I was in Thin Lizzy and she got a taste for the money – the best hotels, limos, the lot. She loved money but after I left the band I was just another struggling musician and I couldn\u2019t provide that any more. I was selling second hand clothes on Camden market to make ends meet. This song is about those times.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Memory of Django
“Django Reinhardt was one of the greatest influences in my life as a guitarist. I couldn’t believe the complexity of what he managed to play and how he played it. This is my tribute to him”.<\/p>\n

Frustration
\u201cThis Tamla Motown inspired song is a conversation between two people; a junkie waiting on his fix and someone – maybe himself, maybe someone else – saying \u2018be strong\u2019. The frustration of the junkie – those things stay with you. Your life is like a circus and you start to lose reality. You need a valid reason to leave that world – I think this song subconsciously comes from that place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golden Days
\u201cQuite a happy song – I must get rid of it! It\u2019s got a Chuck Berry, 50s Americana feel. I love that style; those guys were real. I had the fortune to work with Bo Diddly for six months and he was so full of life and wonder. I can\u2019t help but be influenced by all those old bluesmen. They were true pioneers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mystery Train
\u201cA rocking cover in a rockabilly style. I don\u2019t often do that finger picking style, but it\u2019s such a great track I thought I\u2019d give it a go. I\u2019m a huge fan of early Elvis so he gets one of the two covers on the album.\u201d<\/p>\n

One Day Too Early
\u201cClassic Robert Johnson blues vibe. Relationships are fertile ground for blues songs and like many others, this one is a true story. It\u2019s about a time when Thin Lizzy were touring in Europe. Our last gig was cancelled so I came home a day early and she told me she was sleeping with the guy upstairs. Keith Richards once said: \u201cThe thing about being a songwriter is, even if you\u2019ve been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour it out.\u201d Maybe I\u2019ve got a bit of Keith Richards in me – I might have had some heavy relationships but at least I got some good songs out of it. This happened in the early 70s and it\u2019s taken all this time to come out in a song. Sometimes I just have to get the crap out of my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pavements Paved With Gold
\u201cIn this one I\u2019m trying to emulate the sound of the banjo on the guitar to create an Irish sound – the \u201cfavourite Paddy rhythm\u201d! The song is about Irish working class navvies coming to London and promising to send money home but ending up drinking it. It\u2019s also about being homesick, about being in a strange country and wanting to be home. It\u2019s a bit autobiographical I suppose – being in a band is he musical equivalent of digging roads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reality
\u201cI wrote this a few years ago about a relationship that failed, it\u2019s a very personal story. It almost like therapy to get it out. It\u2019s influenced by traditional Irish laments, it\u2019s got that traditional tempo – I can\u2019t help that heritage creeping in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Standing at a Bus Stop
“The title track is based on a a profound memory in my life. Years after I left Thin Lizzy, I found myself back in Dublin. It was ten years after I had first visited there, joyous about getting my first professional job as a guitarist in an Irish Showband. I used to get the bus to rehearsals then. 10 years later I found myself standing at the same bus stop feeling like everything was over. It was a dark time. It’s also kind of a symbolic song that you never know what life is going to throw at you…good and bad…and you just have to somehow look forward..not back”.<\/p>\n

Walking Through the Park
\u201cOrmeau Park in Belfast. It\u2019s a magical place that I\u2019ve known since childhood so I\u2019ve lots of memories of it. One night I was staying at my Aunt\u2019s and I walked through the park at night. I was the only one there and I got an idea for a song in my head as I was wandering around looking up at the sky. Ten years later I wrote about it – there\u2019s no time limit to a good song! It\u2019s about the realisation that we\u2019re on a tiny planet floating in space – the amazingness of that. It\u2019s bizarre when you think about it. The song has quite a spiritual element to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: www.facebook.com\/EricBellOfficial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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