We were just that type of band at that point in time. Smoking a bit of dope and playing music went hand-in-hand for us. I didn’t know anything until the end of the record, it was just a haze. I can’t actually remember recording the first album. He brought it out, threw it on the table and said, 'Help yourselves, boys!' That was it. He had this enormous bag of grass in one of the drawers in the studio. Scott English was this jovial American guy, a nice big bloke. So I'd say to Philip, 'The Bearded One wants you to turn down the bass,' and he'd say, 'Tell that fucking Yank to piss off.' He knew full well the mike would be open." Eric Bell explained that the band was stoned during the whole process of recording and that he doesn't remember anything from the sessions but he remembers Scott English's accompaniment with band of giving them bags of weed: "We were permanently stoned. It got to the stage where I was up in the control room and Scott would say, 'Go down and tell the bass player to turn down.' He wouldn’t use the mike because Phil wouldn't do it anyway. According to manager Brian Tuite, while working with producer Scott English, Lynott had a fight with him about the bass sound: "Philip fell out a bit with him because Scott wanted to turn down the bass. Then we did it again, for the whole week". Brian Downey says: "We got up at nine in the morning, into the studio, played from about ten or half ten to eight or nine, then clocked off and went back to the guesthouse. The work began on the Monday morning and was done on Friday evening. The band booked a guesthouse in Sussex Gardens in which to stay during the first album recording. On their way to London, Lynott met John Peel and introduced Thin Lizzy to him within ten months Peel would be booking the group for a session on his Radio 1 show, on 12 October 1971. Thin Lizzy left Ireland after an afternoon gig on 3 January 1971 at the Afton Club in Dundalk, to start recording their first album in London's Decca Studios. The advance was £500, with a further £500 to be paid after the album had been completed. All going well, they were committed to delivering three albums to the company. The paperwork was drawn up on 12 November 1970, and on the first day of December, Decca officially signed “Tin Lissy" to a one-year recording contract, with the option of extending the deal by two further periods of one year in September 1971 and September 1972. Afterward Tuite travelled to London to meet Decca's head of A & R, Dick Rowe. "Look What The Wind Blew In" was one of the songs that caught Rodgers' attention. This time the band performed their original material. After watching Thin Lizzy's performance at the Zhivago Club on 12 November 1970, Frank Rodgers showed his interest in them rather than Cassidy, and offered them a record deal with Decca however, Rodgers also suggested another showcase gig for other Decca personnel before signing a contract. Cassidy lacked his regular band, and so Tuite put Thin Lizzy as his backing band. Since he had a good friendship with Decca Records's A&R man, Frank Rodgers, tried to arrange a gig for Thin Lizzy and another of his acts, soul singer Ditch Cassidy. after listening to some of the songs Tuite tried to find a record deal for the band. Lynott told Tuite: "we've got twelve songs at the moment that we'd be happy enough to record". In the autumn of 1970, Brian Tuite and Peter Bardon took over the management of Thin Lizzy. : 34–40 The songs from the EP were included in later editions of the album. The album was followed by the EP New Day, produced and recorded by Nick Tauber at Decca Studios on 14–17 June 1971 and released on 20 August 1971. Thin Lizzy is the debut studio album by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, released on 30 April 1971.
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