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“As I say, I gave sort of a plastic bag full of cassettes to Soren and I didn’t know what was in there. “They kind of span nearly 15, 20 years,” notes Robbo. The album’s timeless vibe (if forced, I’d call Diamonds And Dirt something most akin to ‘80s rock, enriched by a life lived through the ‘70s, recorded up to today’s standards) is the result of the arc of time from which the compositions originate.
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I kind of wanted to take that spirit into it, hence the lineup.” I loved playing live with him it was such great fun. And I kind of wanted to, after spending about ten or 15 years with Frankie Miller. Also, I feel I’m probably playing better now than I ever have done. We didn’t think there would be this much interest in it, to be honest. But we only did it for ourselves, really we had no intentions of it going quite the way it’s gone. It was him that decided that maybe we should do an album. “We had all these tracks that I have found over the years, or he did (laughs). “It was basically an album that’s sort of a personal thing really, between me and Soren,” explains Robertson, down the line from Sweden. Anyway, none of this wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for Robbo’s best bud Soren Lindberg, who has dedicated himself to getting Brian back on his feet and writing and recording again. Indeed the main nods to Lizzy (and there are none to Motorhead!) come not through tones or twin leads, but in remakes of obscure heavy Nightlife track ‘It’s Only Money’ and TWO re-configurations of Jailbreak’s ‘Running Back’. THIN LIZZY and MOTÖRHEAD legend BRIAN ROBERTSON has happily existed out of the spotlight for eons now, preferring life as bluesy axe partier for pub rocker FRANKIE MILLER, a life experience, it seems, that has informed his long-awaited first solo album Diamonds And Dirt, importantly issued on SPV.Īnd what’s cool about this record is that it’s anything but the expected, Brian rolling down a train track somewhat traveled by BRIAN HOWE-era BAD COMPANY, touched and torched by the magic of early WHITESNAKE.