Scarily Good (Grinding Stone - Gary Moore)

Member Name: shanecreevy

Product:	Grinding Stone - Gary Moore
Date:	27/08/01 (305 review reads)
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Advantages: Spirit

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With only six tracks on this CD you’d be forgiven for thinking that 1973’s Grinding Stone was an EP. In fact, it’s a stupendously brilliant LP. This was at a time when Gary Moore had grown out of his bluesy roots and this was the start of a good long time doing rock. One of the special things about Moore is his unwillingness to do the same thing twice. Throughout his career he has played classical, blues, jazz, and in 1973, Hard Rock guitar. All of it exceptional.





This was the 1st, and last, album to be recorded by the Gary Moore Band (which featured Moore on vocals and guitar, Pearse Kelly on drums and percussion and John Curtis on bass). Moore’s guitar playing is absolutely sublime. However, to those that love his bluesy stuff, you mightn’t like this album because it was done at a time when Moore thought that to be a great guitarist you had to be fast. He realized soon after this CD that this is not true.





The high point of the album is by far the 17-minute track “Spirit.” Spirit has so many twists and turns but every single minute is scarily good. Without Spirit this album would be incomplete and a fairly all right CD. But Spirit makes it a must get album. The song is an epic and one of my favourite Gary More tracks of all time.





Any Moore fan out there should look into getting this LP because it is an important chapter in his history. Apart from Spirit this is still a very good album so it would be worthwhile having a look at this CD.

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