Frank De Blase from Rochestercitynewspaper.com spoke with THIN LIZZY guitarist Scott Gorham recently about a number of topics including the just released Still Dangerous: Live At The Tower Theatre Philadelphia 1977. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

How did you guys come up with the idea for your signature twin-guitar leads?

Gorham: "The solo thing was really kind of a no-brainer because we were both lead guitarists. At that point it was just figuring out who had the best feel for which song or which part of the song. The harmony thing was more of an un-premeditated accident. We were in doing one of the really early albums. And Brian Robertson...there was this certain guitar line he was just laying down and the engineer mistakenly left the delay on his guitar, so as he was playing the line, the line was repeating and he was harmonizing with himself. And we were like, 'Oh shit, play that back.' So we re-did it. They turned off the delay and I laid down the harmony line for it. We just kept going back and fourth like that thinking, This isn't a sound, but it's just a pretty cool thing to have in your arsenal."

If Phil (Lynott) hadn't died...

Gorham: "If Phil wouldn't have died we'd still be on the road to this day. I have no doubt about that at all. Three weeks before he died, I was over at his house, at that point the band had been broken up for a couple of years. He was still having a very, very hard time with the drugs - I fortunately had been able to get off the drugs at this point. He brought out an acoustic guitar and started playing these chord patterns. 'This is a new song I've been working on...and gee, you and I we really gotta get back together again...' And I was all for that. I was like 'abso-fuckin-lutly.' Three weeks later Phil was dead."

Read the entire interview here.