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Post by Lolo on Aug 6, 2004 8:31:39 GMT
well actually it's my friends theory but if you believe it, it's mine. I don't know if it really influence KoL and I certainly haven't heard anyone talk about it as such... but it seems too much of a coincidence not to have something to do with it.
There is a song that Thin Lizzy do called 'Whisky in the Jar' which is all about a highwayman who is in love with a girl called Molly. 'Molly's Chambers' is where they go and have sex.
'Me I like sleepin' especially in my Molly's chamber'
Also he shoots a man to save her which is where it links to the pistol bit in KoL's 'Molly's Chambers'.
So yeah, maybe it was a starting point? Yeah I already posted this on the official boards.
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Post by ace on Aug 6, 2004 8:44:35 GMT
i noticed the molly's chamber line in that lizzy song too!
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Post by i shouldn't be here on Aug 6, 2004 13:21:16 GMT
someone bought this up on the official board months ago. it's a good theory, i like it! they played an irish version of 'whiskey in the jar' in the pub i ended up in Dublin when i was there! it was great!! proper dancing and hand clapping and lotza proper guinness, though i wasn't impressed with the beer, it was too bitter.
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Post by Lolo on Aug 6, 2004 13:30:02 GMT
Ahhh i was wondering if it had been brought up or not. Sorry. That's cool. Do we have any sort of answer as to whether it was an influence or not?
KoL played an irish version or am i reading that wrongly? How do you play an 'irish version' of something? Sing like leprachauns? Haha yeah my spelling sucks.
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Post by i shouldn't be here on Aug 6, 2004 13:39:55 GMT
awh no kol didn't play an irish version, would be interesting if they did though! i was in Dublin, i was there for a couple of nights, the first night, the kol gig, the second i ended up meeting the australasian bodhran champion (these things only happen to me haha i meet the oddest people!) and he was playing in this local pub where they play traditional irish music and they did a cover of 'whiskey' they also did a cover of that famous proclaimers song '500 miles' or sumpting. regrettfully i cannot remember the outcome of the previous discussion, if there even was one. rehased old ideas are good though! but in my opinion i reckon the girl they soing about in the song was real, because they've spoken about her when asked, but i guess they didn't want to use her name so they knew of the song 'whiskey' and so combined the two? as it was a similiar story. and as they are great story tellers they probabyl wanted to plump it up a lil bit with some classic referencing. so you can create threads like this and wonder about it hehe
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Post by Lolo on Aug 6, 2004 13:44:23 GMT
You are my guru. I love the idea that they nicked the name to cover for someone real. It must be so. Thank you.
On a slightly different note. I dont like it when bands write songs so clearly about someone in particular and then change the name to 'cover'. If it was about me i'd want the world to know it. Plus wouldn't you always be asking yourself 'hey that sounds familiar. is it about me?' Unless they were completely slagging you off in a song in which case it would better to be disguised. Just a thought.
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Post by Whisk grrl on Aug 6, 2004 16:02:16 GMT
Whiskey in the Jar was around long before Thin Lizzy, so to say that anyone 's covering the Thin Lizzy Song is a bit ridiculous. It dates back to at lest 1871 www.nls.uk/broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15111I think the Dubliners version that they recorded in the 60's is the best recorded version.
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