Scars (Gary Moore album)

Scars
Studio album by
Scars
Released26 August 2002 (Europe)
2 September 2002 (UK)
4 September 2002 (Japan)
10 September 2002 (US)[1]
Recorded2002
Studio
  • Sarm West Studios and Music Bank's Waterloo Sunset Studios, London
  • Sarm Hook End, Reading, Berkshire
  • Parkgate Studios, Battle, East Sussex
GenreBlues rock, hard rock
Length59:50
LabelSanctuary
Victor (Japan only)
ProducerChris Tsangarides, Gary Moore
Scars chronology
Best of the Blues
(2002) 		Scars
(2002) 		Have Some Moore
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Rock Hard8.0/10[3]

Scars is a 2002 album by the Gary Moore-led blues rock group called Scars (not to be confused with the Edinburgh post-punk group called Scars).

In 2002 Gary Moore decided to form a band with ex-Skunk Anansie bassist Cass Lewis and Primal Scream drummer Darrin Mooney called Scars. A spokesman for Sanctuary Records says: "Gary was blown away by the power and precision of Mooney's playing when he was auditioning drummers [...], and while looking for a bassist to complete the new line-up Darrin suggested that he take a look at Cass. When they all got together to play for the first time, it was perfect. Everything just clicked. It was so natural, so completely uncontrived that it was immediately obvious to Moore that this was going to be the ultimate line-up, and he was right.".[4] This album and band title may allude to both Moore's emotional scars or the scars on his face he had contracted through a broken glass in a bar dispute in the late 1970s when he was protecting his girlfriend from harassment.[5]

Their studio album "Scars", released on 2 September on Sanctuary Records, includes compositions reminiscent of the sound of artists like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, in a modern way.[6]

  1. ^ "SCARS: Album Details Revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 7 August 2002. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. ^ Horowitz, Hal. "Gary Moore - Scars review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  3. ^ Böhm, Daniel (2002). "Review Album : Gary Moore - Scars". Rock Hard (in German). No. 184. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  4. ^ Donohue, Simon (17 February 2007). "Gary just loves his scars". manchestereveningnews.co.uk. Manchester Evening News.
  5. ^ Wall, Mick (10 September 2014). "How The Blues Saved Gary Moore". Classic Rock Magazine.
  6. ^ "Gary Moore's biography 2000-2008". Moorepanos.com. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 17 July 2018.