Skid

by Skid Row

Skid cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1970
  • Label: CBS
  • Country: Ireland
  • Length: 41:57
  • Community rating: 3.24/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Gary Moore, Brush Shiels, Skid Row, Clifford Davis, Noel Bridgeman

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Famed primarily as the launching pad for the legendary guitar virtuoso Gary Moore, this Irish power trio unleashed a remarkably muscular, technically dazzling debut. The ferocious tracks incorporate lightning-fast blues-rock riffs and intensely complex, jazz-inflected time signatures that rival the power of contemporaries like Cream. The highly aggressive rhythm section perfectly supports Moore's explosive solos, setting a high watermark for Celtic hard rock.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, complex, technical, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Sandie's Gone (5:44)
  2. The Man Who Never Was (2:55)
  3. Heading Home Again (3:02)
  4. Felicity (9:04)
  5. Unco-Up Showband Blues (5:26)
  6. Morning Star Avenue (4:08)
  7. Oi'll Tell You Later (3:51)
  8. Virgo's Daughter (3:59)
  9. New Faces Old Places (3:43)

Credits

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