Rory Gallagher (Official Thread)

[ILoveJimmyPage]

I'm pretty sure this one has already been posted, but it deserves to be posted again if it has. One of the best from him I've come across as I become more familiar with his work. I love the hard blues rockin' Rory but this is a more subdued tune that instantly caught my attention upon first listening to his debut. I feel like with each album, no matter what order I purchase them in, he just becomes better and better.

 

[Sox]

^^^ A great track from a stunning album IMO ILJP.

Here he is doing Last Of The Independants from the Photo Finish album, once again I just love the raw energy in this performance.

 

[DaKillerWolf]

^^ That's such an awesome DVD. Have you ever watched it, Sox?

The whole thing SMOKES...even the acoustic stuff in the beginning of the first set is great. Just Rory and a guitar until the band comes out to finish the acoustic set off with, Going Back To My Home Town. After that it's pure charged up Hard Driving Blues Rock Bliss!!

So cool, the only thing I don't like about the DVD, is on the beginning of DVD II, this German announcer talks over one of the tracks while Rory is ripping it up.

Same thing on my, Johnny Winter Live in The 70's DVD, this German freak talks all over the whole damn guitar solo on Boney Moroney!!! If you have ever heard Johnny Winter Live, the album( which I know you have), you know he is just killing it..... I mean, I have nothing against the German people but what the hell is that talking over live concert footage thing about, that they do on their otherwise bad ass TV shows

 

[Sox]

I havn't yet DKW but I'll have a look at getting hold of a copy on your rec. ...

As for talking over the songs we had a few DJ's that did that on the radio, it used to drive me nuts.

Here's a bit of Rory from the "Against The Grain " album.

 

[E-Z]

It's very interesting how RORY GALLAGHER has 'picked up' a lot of newer and younger fan's in recent years although NOT surprising concidering his guitar & song writing skills as a musician. Another website that claims to be THE OFFICIAL RORY GALLAGHER WEBSITE (which i'm an ex-member of??) has lots of younger rock fan's which surprised me!.

Back in the late 1980s and into the 1990s and up to the time of his untimely death he was virtually a 'forgotten musician' over here in the UK apart from the few die-hard fan's who 'worshipped him' which to be honest wasn't that many also it was virtually impossible to pick up any of his albums during the late 1980s and 1990s in the UK other then the albums put out on Demon Records of DEFENDER in 1987 and FRESH EVIDENCE in 1990 and the Demon Records re-issues of LIVE IN EUROPE/STAGE STRUCK & TOP PRIORITY & JINX and that was about it until after his death!.

 

[Sox]

I think it's great that Rory's music is gaining new interest though EZ and it's good that his back catalogue is now so easy to get hold of. I think it's took me nearly 30 years of collecting to get my Gallagher gear together. I will say though both times I saw him in concert in the 80's the venue was absolutely packed to the rafters, the fans must have crawled out the woodwork and there was a healthy variation of agegroup.

 

[E-Z]

A music friend of mine reckons that Rory died at the 'wrong time' if anyone can die at the wrong time??.

Wot he meant was that at the time of his death he (Rory) had just gotten control over his 'back catologue' plus the I.T. was just being launched (remember all the talk of the information 'super highway' back in 1994/5?) most of his newer fan's have picked up on Rory through the I.T. U-tube in recent years thats wot he meant that he died at the wrong time.

I saw him 3 times live in London.

1.TOWN & COUNTRY CLUB in north London in 1988
2.TOWN & COUNTRY CLUB in north London in 1990
3.TOWN & COUNTRY CLUB in north London in 1992 This was the now 'infamous gig' where he came on stage under the influence of prescribed drugs and ONE glass of brandy and played "Against doctors orders" so Donal said at the end of his short 60 minutes set. I was right down the front of the stage just near to where he usually played when he wasn't running around the stage!!.

 

[E-Z]

I'm not sure if this stuff has been posted before but i read something about RORY being inducted into the ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME.

Also BERNIE MARSDEN blues/rock guitarist ex-WHITESNAKE is doing a RORY GALLAGHER NIGHT at the Jazz cafe in Camden Town in north London shortly.

According to Bernie's website Bernie was allowed to play Rory's 'battered old' Stratocaster guitar with Donal Gallagher's permission (Rory's brother) apparently one of only a 'select group' of musician's that have done so.

 

[Sox]

^^^ I watched Bernie play it EZ, Donal bought it on stage at Buxton Opera House '97. I will add that Bernie did a great job and the crowd went crackers for more. It was a memorial gala gig for Rory and one of his heroes also played that night Lonnie Donegan .. very emotional evening.

 

[E-Z]

Yeah i bet it was a great evening SOX

Yeah i read that Rory was a BIG Lonnie Donegan fan i believe that he played with him on several occasions and even appeared on one of Lonnie's mid-1970s albums as well.