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Other personsInfobox musical artist| name = Eric Bell| image = Eric Bell 2005.jpg| caption = Bell performing at the unveiling of the statue for former bandmate Phil Lynott , 2005| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Eric Robin Bell| Born = Birth date and age|1947|9|3|df=y Belfast , Northern Ireland | death_date =| alias =| genre = Rock music|Rock , blues rock , folk rock | occupation = Musician Songwriter | instrument = Guitar , Singing|backing vocals | associated_acts = Them (band)|Them , Thin Lizzy , The Noel Redding Band , Eric Bell Band| years = 1969 - present| notable_instruments = Eric Robin Bell (born 3September 1947 in East Belfast , Northern Ireland ) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068189/bio IMDb.com is a Northern Irish rock music|rock musician and guitarist , best known as a founder member and the original guitarist of the rock group Thin Lizzy .
Career
Early career
Bell began his career with local groups around the Belfast area, including the last incarnation of Them (band)|Them to feature Van Morrison , between September and October 1966.Alan Byrne, "Thin Lizzy: Soldiers of Fortune", Firefly, 2004. He also played with a number of other bands including Shades of Blue, The Earth Dwellers and The Bluebeats, before joining an Irish showband named The Dreams.cite web|url= http://www.irishshowbands.net/directory.htm|title=Irish Showband & Beat-Group Member's List|date=2001-2010|work=List of members who performed in the Irish Showbands in the 1960s-1970s|accessdate=20 June 2011|location=Ireland He left in 1969 having tired of the showband format, and at the end of that year he formed a band with local musicians Phil Lynott , Eric Wrixon and Brian Downey (drummer)|Brian Downey . Bell named the group Thin Lizzy , after Tin Lizzie, a robot character in The Dandy comic.cite web| url= http://www.eric-bell.com/paginas/bio/tl/thinlizzy.aspx |title=Thin Lizzy |accessdate=10 April 2011 |publisher=Eric Bell Official Website
Thin Lizzy
Wrixon left Thin Lizzy after a few months, and the remaining trio later secured a contract with Decca Records .Mark Putterford, "Philip Lynott: The Rocker", Castle, 1994 As lead guitarist, Bell played on Thin Lizzy's first three albums Thin Lizzy (album)|Thin Lizzy , Shades of a BlueOrphanage and Vagabonds of the Western World , as well as their hit single " Whiskey in the Jar ". He co-wrote a number of songs with Lynott and Downey, including " The Rocker " which became a live favourite throughout the band's career. He also composed one song on his own, "Ray Gun", from their first album, Thin Lizzy .cite web|url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/thin-lizzy-r19996 |title=Thin Lizzy - Thin Lizzy |accessdate=10 April 2011 |publisher=Allmusic.com
Although Thin Lizzy gained in popularity during the early 1970s, the pressures of recording, touring and the excesses of the rock star lifestyle began to take their toll. He left the band after a New Year's Eve concert in 1973, after throwing his guitar into the air in the middle of the concert, pushing the amplifier s into the audience and storming off stage. He stated later that he had no regrets about leaving: ''"I really had to leave because of ill-health. It was exhaustion, and the majority of things that were available to me... I couldn't really handle it." He was temporarily replaced by Gary Moore .
In 1974, after a brief period fronting his own Eric Bell Band,cite web| url= http://www.eric-bell.com/paginas/bio/ebb/ebb.aspx |title=Eric Bell Band |accessdate=10 April 2011 |publisher=Eric Bell Official Website Bell was recruited by ex- Jimi Hendrix sideman Noel Redding , along with keyboardist Dave Clarke (musician)|Dave Clarke and drummer Les Sampson, to form The Noel Redding Band . Bell was initially unsure of the musical direction Redding was taking,cite web| url= http://www.eric-bell.com/paginas/bio/noelredding/noelredding.aspx |title=Noel Redding Band |accessdate=10 April 2011 |publisher=Eric Bell Official Website but went on to record two albums with the group before they split in 1976. A third album of unused tracks was released in 1995. Bell composed the song "Love and War" for the second album, Blowin' (album)|Blowin' .cite web|url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/blowin-r47710 |title=Noel Redding Band - Blowin' |accessdate=10 April 2011 |publisher=Allmusic.com
The 1980s and Mainsqueeze
In 1980, Bell reunited with Thin Lizzy to record a tribute song to Jimi Hendrix, "Song for Jimmy" sic, which was released as an orange flexi disc and given away with Flexipop Magazine in August 1981.cite web|url= http://www.45cat.com/label/flexipop |title=Flexipop Label Discography |accessdate=10 April 2011 |publisher=45cat.com It was later included on the Thin Lizzy Vagabonds, Kings, Warriors, Angels box set in 2002. Bell also appeared as a guest on Thin Lizzy's final tour in 1983, and the accompanying live album, Life (Thin Lizzy album)|Life .
Bell had also reactivated his own band in the late 1970s, and released an Extended play|E.P. in 1981.cite web|url= http://www.irishrock.org/irodb/bands/bell-eric.html |title=IrishRock.org - Eric Bell |accessdate=10 April 2011 |publisher=Irishrock.org
Bell subsequently joined saxophone|saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith 's eight-piece blues rock ensemble Mainsqueeze. They toured Europe,cite web| url= http://www.eric-bell.com/paginas/bio/mainsqueeze/mainsqueeze.aspx |title=Mainsqueeze |accessdate=10 April 2011 |publisher=Eric Bell Official Website recorded a live album in 1983, and later toured as Bo Diddley 's backing group, recording the Hey... Bo Diddley: In Concert album in 1986.
Later career
Bell has continued to perform and record with the Eric Bell Band throughout the 1990s and 2000s, releasing several albums. He has also recorded with the Barrelhouse Brothers.cite web|url= http://www.rockdetector.com/recording/uk/thebarrelhousebrothers/album/pickituppassiton44330 |title=Barrelhouse Brothers |accessdate=10 April 2011 |publisher=RockDetector
In 2005, he joined Gary Moore onstage to perform "Whiskey in the Jar" at the Phil Lynott tribute concert "The Boy Is Back in Town" in the Point Theatre , Dublin . This was released on a DVD called One Night in Dublin: A Tribute to Phil Lynott .cite web |url= http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php? id=122521& PHPSESSID=07bdf4ec10a46eb5b78649bd3f38a5a5 |title=Thin Lizzy - One Night in Dublin - A Tribute to Phil Lynott |accessdate=3 April 2011 |publisher=Enyclopedia Metallum In 2010, Bell moved from London where he had lived for many years to his new home in West Cork, Ireland.Citation needed|date=April 2011
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