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Thin Journey?

Journey guitarist Neal Schon turns 65 today (February 27th). Believe it or not, the song: “Any Way You Want It” was inspired by Thin Lizzy. It was on the album Departure in 1980 and Thin Lizzy opened up for them on tour and their style rubbed off on Neil:

“That was inspired by Thin Lizzy. It’s got sort of a chunky rhythm guitar thing and I was listening to these guys every night, so it just rubbed off on me. I mean, there’s not much to the song. I mean, it’s the same three chords through the whole song. It’s sort of like you chunk on it for awhile in the verses and let it loose in the choruses and I felt I was Peter Townshend for a second. And then you get to rip a little solo and it was a real simple message. It’s just a good, fun-time song.”

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