Thin Lizzy fans are long familiar with the video portion of this show which was released over a decade ago under the title "The Boys are Back in Town". For anyone not familiar, this show captures Thin Lizzy on one of the final dates of their Live & Dangerous tour, playing a free show on the steps of the Sydney Opera House. The show took place on October 29, 1978 and Lizzy played in front of an estimated crowd of 100,000.

This is one of the more short-lived lineups of the band but they sound great! Gary Moore had stepped in for Brian Robertson (who had a final falling out with Lynott) and drummer Mark Nauseef, from Ian Gillan's solo band, was filling in for Brian Robertson (who had taken leave of the band citing exhaustion).

The eight songs on this disc (below) runs just under forty minutes:
- "Jailbreak"
- "Bad Reputation"
- "Cowboy Song"
- "The Boys are Back in Town"
- "Waiting for an Alibi"
- "Are You Ready"
- "Me and the Boys"
- "Baby Drives Me Crazy"

The challenge with this disc is that the audio is a straight run-down of the DVD audio, which had muffled, almost bootleg-quality sound. As this was a pro-shot concert (not a bootleg), my guess is that the camera mic was the source of the audio and it overloaded. The other challenge with the audio is that the disc was recorded TAO so there are gaps between the tracks. The sound quality may scare off the casual fan but anyone not familiar with this concert should check out the video from the show (below) to see if this might be of interest.



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