Skid Row also played on the same bill in Detroit as The Allman Brothers and local heroes The Stooges. At a gig in the Whiskey a Go Go in Los Angeles in 1971, after having met Bridgeman at the bar, Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham briefly played drums with the band on ‘Got My Mojo Working’ and ‘Slow Down’. That year, they were Fleetwood Mac’s guests at their Dublin gig, and supported Canned Heat across Europe and America. They were signed to CBS Records and managed by Clifford Davis, who also looked after Fleetwood Mac. But he rejoined Skid Row in 1970 and things started looking up for the band. Noel quit again, joined Limerick’s Granny’s Intentions, playing on their album Honest Injun. Skid Row became a three-piece of Brush, Gary and Noel.įrom left, Noel, Gary and Brush in Skid Row Three months later Lynott quit to form Orphanage, which eventually became Thin Lizzy. When Cheevers left to become an electrician, 16-year-old Belfast boy Gary Moore joined on guitar.īridgeman left Skid Row in September 1968, returning to the band in March of 1969. Noel the drummer was barely 20 years of age, and he was joined by 17-year-old Crumlin lad Phil Lynott on vocals, Brush Shiels on bass and Ben Cheevers on guitar. They were Initially called Your Father’s Moustache, and in September 1967, they played their first gig in a basement on Dublin’s Lower Abbey Street. In August 1967, Noel co-founded iconic Ireland’s pre-eminent rock band Skid Row. And 23 years earlier he had played with Enya on Clannad’s 1982 album Fuaim. He played on ‘The Spaghetti Western Theme from the Celts’ on Enya’s LP Amarantine in 2005. Hot Press magazine editor Niall Stokes said he encapsulated with his life what John Lennon meant when he sang: “A working-class hero is something to be.” ‘We were playing ridiculously well, but there was no money’īorn on April 28, 1947, Noel Bridgeman grew up on Linenhall Place off Dorset Street.
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