10183 Cold Sweat by Thin Lizzy is a piece of digital artwork by Colin Hunt which was uploaded on March 1st, 2017.
Title
10183 Cold Sweat by Thin Lizzy
Artist
Colin Hunt
Medium
Digital Art
Description
I See The Music #4 - Cold Sweat by Thin Lizzy
Digital artwork bas ed upon the sound wave of the song 'Cold Sweat' by the Irish rockers 'Thin Lizzy'. The song is from the bands last studio album 'Thunder & Lightning', which was released in 1983.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"Cold Sweat" is a song by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, and is the fifth track on their final studio album Thunder and Lightning. It was co-written by guitarist John Sykes and Phil Lynott, and became the biggest single from the album, entering the UK charts at No. 27, and peaking at No. 23 in Ireland.
The song is known for Sykes's guitar solo, which features a tapping playing style that was becoming popular at the time of the album's release, though also used at the time by players such as Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads.
Thin Lizzy are a rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist and lead vocalist Phil Lynott, met while still in school. Lynott led the group throughout their recording career of twelve studio albums, writing most of the material. Thin Lizzy's most successful songs, "Whiskey in the Jar" (a traditional Irish ballad), "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town", were all major international hits. After Lynott's death in 1986, various incarnations of the band emerged over the years based initially around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes, though Sykes left the band in 2009. Gorham later continued with a new line-up including Downey.
Lynott, Thin Lizzy's de facto leader, was composer or co-composer of almost all of the band's songs, and the first black Irishman to achieve commercial success in the field of rock music. Thin Lizzy boasted some of the most critically acclaimed guitarists throughout their history, with Downey and Lynott as the rhythm section, on the drums and bass guitar. As well as being multiracial, the band drew their members not only from both sides of the Irish border but also from both the Catholic and Protestant communities during The Troubles. Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including blues, soul music, psychedelic rock, and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes heavy metal. Rolling Stone magazine describes the band as distinctly hard rock, "far apart from the braying mid-70s metal pack".
AllMusic critic John Dougan has written that "As the band's creative force, Lynott was a more insightful and intelligent writer than many of his ilk, preferring slice-of-life working-class dramas of love and hate influenced by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all of the Irish literary tradition." Van Morrison, Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix were major influences during the early days of the band, and later influences included the pioneering twin lead guitars found in Wishbone Ash and American artists Little Feat and Bob Seger.
In 2012, Gorham and Downey decided against recording new material as Thin Lizzy so a new band, Black Star Riders, was formed to tour and produce new releases such as their debut album All Hell Breaks Loose. Thin Lizzy plan to reunite for occasional concerts.
This artwork has been featured within the following groups:
Abstract Moods (1st March 2017)
Images That Excite You (1st March 2017)
Arts Fantastic World (1st March 2017)
Rock Star (2nd March 2017)
All Aspects Of Abstract Art (2nd March 2017)
Uploaded
March 1st, 2017
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Comments (5)
Colin Hunt
Many thanks to Denise Davis for featuring this artwork in the group "All Aspects Of Abstract Art".
Colin Hunt
Many thanks to Romuald Henry Wasielewski for featuring this artwork in the group "Arts Fantastic World".