Kirwan single

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Originally Posted by sharksfan2000

Yes, it is sad that the synth is so pervasive on this album and Danny's guitar couldn't have been highlighted more. But hard to know what kind of playing he was capable of at that point. Perhaps his guitar work was minimized by necessity rather than choice - I don't know.

I've heard that his playing on 'MISJ' was patchy and also that he wasn't on the title track because his playing couldn't be used, but I've never actually heard or seen proper evidence of that, like a session musician's word on it or anything like that. Personally my hunch is that he was still relatively together at this point and his playing was still pretty good, and it was only after the failure of this second album that he went seriously downhill. What is clear is that by the time 'Hello There Big Boy' was finally recorded, he could barely play at all, according to Bob Weston for instance. It sounds like we were lucky they got vocals out of him I assume this was the reason for the long-ish gap between 'MISJ' and 'HTBB' - maybe they were hoping Danny could recover a bit before doing 'HTBB'.

'I Can Tell' would have made a great single - I've always been a bit confused by the choice and timing of singles during Danny's solo career. For instance 'Ram Jam City' was released twice as a single in the UK, and in the US they followed up the second album with a single from the first album, before releasing 'Let It Be' There were also two releases in the UK (and one in the US) of Danny's songs as B-sides to Mac's 'Man of the World'. Also his work never saw release in Europe which might have been his best chance, given how popular Peter Green still was in Germany etc.

Having said all that, it must have been rather difficult to promote an artist who didn't play live... that has to be the main reason why his solo career didn't take off.