Colloseum II - BBC Sight and Sound in Concert 1978
Colosseum II - Inquisition
Colosseum II - Inquisition
Colosseum II - The Scorch Live
Colosseum II - War Dance - 01 - War Dance
Colosseum II - Dark Side Of The Moog
Colosseum II "Dark Side Of The Moog"(1976)
Colosseum II - Desperado (HQ Audio - BBC Sight And Sound 1978)
Colosseum II Gary Moore,Phil Lynott,Scott Gorham,Cozy Powell,Don Airey Ogwt Back On The Streets
COLOSSEUM II Strange New Flesh 02 down to you.wmv
COLOSSEUM II Strange New Flesh 06 winds.wmv
Colosseum II - Down to you
The Inquisition - COLOSSEUM II
Castles - COLOSSEUM II
Colloseum II - BBC Sight and Sound in Concert 1978
Colosseum II - Inquisition
Colosseum II - Inquisition
Colosseum II - The Scorch Live
Colosseum II - War Dance - 01 - War Dance
Colosseum II - Dark Side Of The Moog
Colosseum II "Dark Side Of The Moog"(1976)
Colosseum II - Desperado (HQ Audio - BBC Sight And Sound 1978)
Colosseum II Gary Moore,Phil Lynott,Scott Gorham,Cozy Powell,Don Airey Ogwt Back On The Streets
COLOSSEUM II Strange New Flesh 02 down to you.wmv
COLOSSEUM II Strange New Flesh 06 winds.wmv
Colosseum II - Down to you
The Inquisition - COLOSSEUM II
Castles - COLOSSEUM II
COLOSSEUM II Strange New Flesh 03 gemini and leo.wmv
The Scorch - COLOSSEUM II
Colosseum II - 01 Put It This Way
Fighting Talk - COLOSSEUM II
COLOSSEUM II Strange New Flesh 04 secret places.wmv
Colosseum II - Rivers - 1977
Colosseum II - Intergalactic Strut
Colosseum II - Desperado
Colosseum II Live BBC 1978
Colosseum II was a British band formed in 1975 by the former Colosseum drummer and leader, Jon Hiseman, following the 1974 demise of his band Tempest. Hiseman announced his plan to form the band eventually named Colosseum II in November 1974, but only Gary Moore was named. Rehearsals were due to begin on January 1, 1975, but a permanent unit was not finalised until May 1975. Among musicians who almost made the group were Graham Bell, Duncan Mackay and Mark Clarke. The line-up was completed by Don Airey, Neil Murray and Mike Starrs.
The band was oriented toward jazz fusion, much of which was based around the guitar work of Moore, leading to a much heavier sound than the original Colosseum band. After disappointing sales of the first album, Murray and Starrs were unceremoniously sacked by the band's record label (Bronze) in July 1976.
The band continued with a new record label and a new bass player (John Mole), and recorded two further largely instrumental (and still commercially unsuccessful) albums. They also performed on Variations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, which also featured Julian Lloyd Webber on cello, Rod Argent on keyboards and Hiseman's wife, Barbara Thompson, on flute and sax. This album reached number 2 on the UK charts.
The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.
Occupying a site just east of the Roman Forum, its construction started in 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus, with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81–96). The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia).
Capable of seating 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early medieval era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a quarry, and a Christian shrine.
Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011), was a Northern Irish musician, most widely recognised as a blues singer and guitarist.
In a career dating back to the 1960s, Moore played with artists including Phil Lynott and Brian Downey during his teens, leading him to memberships with the Irish bands Skid Row and Thin Lizzy on three separate occasions. Moore shared the stage with such blues and rock luminaries as B.B. King, Albert King, Colosseum II, George Harrison and Greg Lake, as well as having a successful solo career. He guested on a number of albums recorded by high profile musicians, including a cameo appearance playing the lead guitar solo on "She's My Baby" from Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3.
Moore started performing at a young age, having picked up a battered acoustic guitar at the age of eight. He got his first quality guitar at the age of 14, learning to play the right-handed instrument in the standard way despite being left-handed. He moved to Dublin in 1968 at the age of 16. His early musical influences were artists such as Albert King, Elvis Presley, The Shadows and The Beatles. Later, having seen Jimi Hendrix and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in his home town of Belfast, his own style was developing into a blues-rock sound that would be the dominant form of his career in music.
Philip Parris "Phil" Lynott ( /ˈlaɪnət/; 20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish musician who first came to prominence as a founding member, principal songwriter, and frontman of the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy.
As the leader of the band, Lynott's vocals and bass guitar were a key element in the commercial success of a string of hit songs, notably "Whiskey in the Jar", "The Boys are Back in Town", "Jailbreak" and "Waiting for an Alibi". Lynott also embarked upon a solo career, published two books of poetry, and after Thin Lizzy disbanded, he assembled and fronted the band Grand Slam, of which he was the leader until it folded in 1984. In the period before his death, he had major UK success with Gary Moore with the song “Out in the Fields”, followed by a minor hit "Nineteen".
Scott Gorham (born William Scott Gorham on March 17, 1951 in Glendale, California) is an American guitarist and songwriter who rose to international recognition as one of the "twin lead guitarists" of the Irish-formed rock band, Thin Lizzy. Although not a founding member of Thin Lizzy, he is best known for his continuous membership after passing an audition and joining the band during a time when the band was on hiatus after the departure of guitarist Eric Bell. Gorham remained in the band after joining in 1974 through the band's breakup in 1984. He and guitarist Brian Robertson, both hired at the same time, marked the beginning of the band's most critically successful period, and together developed the "twin lead guitar" makeup of the band that distinguished its sound with dual backing vocals as well. Gorham was the band member with the longest membership after founders Brian Downey (drummer) and frontman and bass guitarist, Phil Lynott.
Since 1996 onward, with a different lineup, Gorham has continued to perform with Thin Lizzy on guitar and backing vocals, and, as in years past, he has contributed to the band with songwriting material written or co-written with other band members.
The waves comin' in,
Sweeping up on the shore.
Bringing back the time
When our love was here before.
Clouds sinking down,
The hills are turning black.
I've seen it all before,
Think I'll make my way back.
Once there was laughter
Where now there's only pain.
All the childrens' sand caverns
Turn to mud by, by the rain.
My feet, they are sinking,
I'm feelin' so alone.
I see the storm is comin',
Time to make my way home.
Cold wind is ablowin',
Thunder he cracks.
I have seen it all before,
There's none to call the wind a liar.
Save those whose limbs can flow as fast.
Can creep up on unwatchful truth,
And pluck her sleeves, distract her eyes.
And leave in place the fitting image,
Burnished bright with the rub of easy belief.
The deafest ears hear falsehood's bell
A-tolling in the Belfry.
The loudest tongue is his
Whose ear is untuned to what's likely.
And thus the knowing spark
Is fanned into the mindless flame,
Denouncing all across its path.
It blots all trace of blame.
Only the blind man touches a hand
And feels a heart afire.
Only the blind man sees so well,
He can call the wind a liar, liar, liar, liar.
Behold the boomerang
Returns riding before the wind.
History written afresh
As the beginning becomes the end, end, end, end.
Only the blind man touches a hand
And feels the heart afire.
Only the blind man sees so well,
He can call the wind a liar, liar, liar, liar.
Behold the boomerang
Returns riding before the wind.
History written afresh
As the beginning becomes the,
Could you seek with me a secret place,
A clearing in the forest
And find the answer there?
Could you seek with me
A way through all the people,
Places, things that block our paths
And stop us getting clear?
Could we fight against the tides, (could we take the
faces)
And run before the storm (could we fit our names)
Of those who loved us dear?
Would you know what to look for?
Have you ever looked at the way you are,
Ever looked at yourself from afar?
Could you pick yourself out from a crowd?
Would you know what to look for?
Know what to look for.
Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.
Have you ever looked at the way you are,
Ever looked at yourself from afar?
Could you pick yourself out from a crowd?
Would you know what to look for?
Know what to look.
Could you seek with me a secret place?
Could you seek with me a secret place?
Could you seek with me a secret place?
Could you seek with me a secret place?
Could you seek with me a secret place? (Could you seek
with me a secret place?)
Could you seek with me a secret place?
Oh, could you seek with me a secret place, (Could you
seek with me a secret place?)
A secret place, a secret place, a secret place?
Could you seek with me, could you seek with me,
Under your wings now, over the worst.
Now that the storm clouds have all blown away.
Now that the spells have been broken.
Feelin' the beauty I am seeing today.
It was always there.
Don't let the rivers of our love run dry.
Don't stop the flames we have from burning.
Don't let the rivers of our love run dry.
Don't stop our world from turning.
Don't let the rivers of our love run dry.
Don't stop the flames we have from burning.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't let the rivers of our love run dry.
Don't stop our world, don't stop our world,
don't stop our world from turning.
The flames gonna keep on burning.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ooh, ooh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Everythin' comes and goes
Marked by lovers and styles of clothes.
Things that you've held high
And told yourself were true,
Lost or changin'
As the days comes down to you.
It's down to you, constant stranger.
You're a kind person,
You're a cold person too.
It's down to you,
It all comes down to you, ooh.
Go down to the pick-up station.
You're craving warmth and beauty.
You settle for less than fascination,
A few drinks later you're not so choosy.
The closin' light strip of the shadows,
On strange new flesh you found.
Clutchin' the night to you like a fig leaf.
You hurry to the blackness and the blankets,
And you lay down an impression of your loneliness.
In the mornin' there are lovers in the street.
They look so high, you brush against a stranger,
And you both appologize.
Old friends seem indifferent.
You must have brought that on.
Old bonds have broken down.
Love is gone, ooh love is gone,
Written on your spirit the sad song.
Love is gone, ooh love is gone,
Written on your spirit the sad song.
Love is gone.
Everythin' comes and goes.
Pleasure moves on too early,
Trouble leaves too slow.
Just when you're thinkin'
That you've finally got it made,
Bad news comes knockin' for you
At your garden gate.
Knockin' for you, constant stranger.
You're a brute, you're an angel,
You can crawl, you can fly too.
It's down to you ,
It all comes down to you.
It all comes down to you.
It all comes down to you.
It all comes down to you.
Hey, hey, hey.
It all comes down to you.
All comes down to you.
It all comes down to you.
I'm free to go.
There's no more need to stay.
Throw away the works of years
And return to Adam's way.
Retreat from shadow
To dabble baths and sun bleached joys.
Live it out on an island in the mind
Untouched by human flaws.
I'm free to go.
There's nothing in my way.
Up above the rainbow's end
The gold all melts away.
Return a hero
From distant lands of fight and fire.
Escape into the piece in my mind
And climbing higher and higher.
I nearly made it that time.
I nearly got away.
I nearly made it that time,
But I always have to stay.
I'm throwing out my tickets
To the outside world.
Lost interest in a drama
Which is destined to unfold.
I'm heading out for the shores
Of a friendly land.
Where every grain of sand
Reaches out to shake me
By the hand.
I nearly made it that time.
I nearly got away.
I nearly made it that time,
But I always have to stay.
I nearly made it that time.
I nearly got away.
I nearly made it that time,
But I always have to stay.
I nearly made it that time.
I nearly got away.
I nearly made it that time,
But I always have to stay.