St.Pattys Day - Thin Lizzy, Black Star Rider's Ricky Warwick-Talks new solo album & Touring with Judas Priest.

<p>Happy St.Pattys's Day Metal Heads. To keep with the spirit of the Irish we welcome one of their own to this weeks show.  Jon 'The  Mc Vernomatic " Verno welcomes Irish Rocker Ricky Warwick to the show.</p> <p>Metal Forever Mark and "McVernomatic" share some past concerts shenanigans in a holiday edition of METAL CONFESSIONS.</p> <p>Ricky Warwick is a Northern Irish musician and songwriter, and the lead singer with <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Star_Riders'>Black Star Riders</a> and <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Lizzy'>Thin Lizzy</a>. He is also the frontman for the Scottish hard rock band <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almighty_(band)'>The Almighty.</a> with whom he achieved chart success in the UK throughout the 1990s. Warwick has released several solo albums and performed with a variety of other bands and artists, and also fronts his own band, The Fighting Hearts, to showcase his solo material.Warwick gained notoriety when he was asked to join a revised version of Thin Lizzy by long time thin Lizzy member Scott Gorham.</p> <p style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:6pt 0in 6pt 0in;">In September 2009, Gorham began to assemble a new version of Thin Lizzy, and in May 2010 a new line-up was announced. Joining Gorham was original drummer Brian Downey, long-standing keyboardist Darren Wharton, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Def_Leppard'>Def Leppard</a> guitarist <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Campbell'>Vivian Campbell</a>, and singer <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Warwick'>Ricky Warwick</a> from <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almighty_(band)'>The Almighty</a>, while Marco Mendoza returned to fill the bass guitar role. </p> <p style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:6pt 0in 6pt 0in;">In April 2011 the band announced that Vivian Campbell would be leaving Thin Lizzy amicably to rejoin Def Leppard after one final gig on 28 May. He was replaced by <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_N%27_Roses'>Guns N' Roses</a> guitarist <a href='