''Still Dangerous'' is a live album by Irish rock band

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. It was compiled from two live concerts by the band at the Tower Theater in

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, U.S., just outside of

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, at 20 and 21 October 1977 during the tour in support of their '' Bad Reputation'' album. No overdubs were made to any tracks so the album is completely live. The tracks "Cowboy Song", "

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", "Massacre" and "Emerald" were previously released on the album '' Live and Dangerous'', while "Opium Trail" and "Bad Reputation" were issued on the ''Killers Live'' EP in 1981. "Bad Reputation" and "Emerald" are bonus tracks made only available as downloads outside Japan. They are also available as a bonus 7" 45 RPM single on the U.S. vinyl version of the release. The live recordings of "Jailbreak", "Cowboy Song", and "The Boys are Back in Town" from this album are available as downloadable content as a Thin Lizzy track pack for the music video game ''

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''. The album features the common live Thin Lizzy practice of running one song straight into some more popular hit, typically using the ending note of one as the starting note of the next, notably with "Cowboy Song" which finishes with the first note of "

" and "Soldier of Fortune" which leads directly into " Jailbreak". This live version of "The Boys Are Back in Town" is used over the end credits of the film '' The Expendables'' (rather than the more well-known studio version from '' Jailbreak'').

Track listing

#"Soldier of Fortune" (

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) - 5:22 #" Jailbreak" (Lynott) - 4:28 #" Cowboy Song" ( Brian Downey, Lynott) - 5:04 #"

" (Lynott) - 4:46 #"Dancing in the Moonlight" (Lynott) - 4:08 #"Massacre" (Downey,

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, Lynott) - 3:02 #"Opium Trail" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott) - 4:51 #"Don't Believe a Word" (Lynott) - 2:25 #"Baby Drives Me Crazy" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott, Brian Robertson) - 6:11 #"Me and the Boys" (Lynott) - 6:48 #"Bad Reputation" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott) - 4:19 #"Emerald" (Gorham, Downey, Robertson, Lynott) - 4:35

Personnel

;Thin Lizzy *

–

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lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

– lead and rhythm guitar,

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

, producer * Brian Robertson – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals * Brian Downey –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

;Additional musicians * John Earle –

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on "Dancing in the Moonlight" ;Production *

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- producer, mixing

Charts

References

{{ThinLizzy Albums produced by Glyn Johns 2009 live albums Thin Lizzy live albums Albums recorded at the Tower Theater (Pennsylvania)