Editing Skid Row (Irish band) (section)

===Origins===
The band was formed in August 1967, comprising [[Brush Shiels|Brendan 'Brush' Shiels]] on bass guitar, [[Noel Bridgeman|Noel 'Nollaig' Bridgeman]] on drums, Bernard "Ben" Cheevers on guitar,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Intruders |url=http://www.irishshowbands.net/bgintruders.htm |website=Irishshowbands.net |accessdate=23 November 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616035141/http://www.irishshowbands.net/bgintruders.htm |archivedate=16 June 2018}}</ref> and [[Phil Lynott]] on vocals. Shiels and Cheevers had played together in a number of groups in Dublin before forming Skid Row. The band's first gig was in September 1967 in a basement club in Lower Abbey Street in Dublin 1.
Cheevers left the band in September 1968 to continue working full-time in the electrical industry.  Before his departure, the search for a suitably proficient guitarist resulted in Gary Moore joining the band as a fifth member. Moore and Cheevers both played in the band for a short 'hand-over' period. Robbie Brennan temporarily replaced original drummer Bridgeman until June 1969 and Cheevers was replaced by the 16-year-old Gary Moore in mid 1968, and the band recorded a [[single (music)|single]], "New Places, Old Faces" / "Misdemeanour Dream Felicity", for the Irish Song Records label (the only released recording of Lynott with Skid Row).

Later that year Shiels dropped Lynott from the line-up, converting Skid Row to a [[power trio]] by making himself the lead vocalist.<ref>[http://brushshiels.com/ ''A Brief History of Skid Row'' on the Brush Shiels – Skid Row website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070517164426/http://www.brushshiels.com/ |date=17 May 2007 }}</ref> By way of compensation, Shiels gave him a bass guitar he had bought from former musician [[Robert Ballagh]] for £49 in 1967 while with the Uptown Band, he taught Lynott to play bass and, after a stint with 'Orphanage', Lynott went on to international fame as founder, bassist and vocalist for [[Thin Lizzy]].<ref>''Hot Press: Special Philip Lynott Issue'' (24 February 2011)</ref><ref name="mrdeluxe">{{Cite web|url=http://mrdeluxe.tripod.com/hisbot.htm|title=HIStory of the Brush|website=Mrdeluxe.tripod.com}}</ref> The band recorded a second single for 'Song', "Saturday Morning Man" / "Mervyn Aldridge".  These two singles, plus three tracks from a [[BBC]] recording, were issued on the 'Hux'  label as ''Live and on Song'' in April 2006. At the end of 2006 a number of Skid Row demo tapes featuring Phil Lynott were discovered. These were his earliest recordings (from 1968) and had been presumed lost for decades.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0105/lynottp.html|title=Fans' joy as Lynott demos unearthed|website=Rte.ie}}</ref>