Roy Gallagher

[DaWoofer]

Artiist: Rory Gallagher
Album:The Story So Far
Year: 1973
Record Label:Polydor International
Genre: Blues/Rock

Never heard of this guy before. His albums were in the group of 500+ that I purchased. He is the lead guitar player/voalist and there is alot of lead guitar thoughout the album. Some basic blues riffs with the Edgar Winter type of vocals. His music is upbeat with alot of drum work that is really tight. It really surprizes me that I never heard of this guy cause his blues is as easy to listen to as any of the boogie blues/rock artists.
He prefers the club scene over the big concert hall. Maybe that is why he never promoted himself to the big scene. His songs are the classic story-telling in the blues form. If you like this genre I highly recomend this album. I am looking forward to his other albums.

[Divotdog]

If you try Rory, he's pretty good:thmbsp:

[Strangeband]

Rory remains one of my favorite guitar players ever. He died in 1995 from complications of a liver transplant, but he was and is highly revered in Europe and to a lesser degree here in the US. His live work sizzles and while some of his ablums are not as good as others, Jinx, Deuce, Blueprint, his first solo release, and several others are worth seeking out, plus his Irish Tour.

Rory was in a trio called Taste before going out on his own.

[hellhound94]

Rory Gallagher's Irish Tour album is, without a doubt, one of the best albums ever made by anyone. You can take that to the bank!

[Wornears]

Second the Irish Tour recommendation. A great record of Rory and his style -- his live work seemed to be better than his studio work. He really gave back to the audience.

[jimfet]

Saw Rory live at the Peachtree concert here at the North Carolina Motor Speedway, back when I was in the 10th grade. He was the last band to play. Came on after Cooper.

[Ampzilla]

Saw Rory 3 straight nights in Hollywood, CA in '78 he was great. There is a new DVD Live at Montrueax from Eagle Vision DVD. Has anyone seen it yet?

[SpeakerLabFan]

I never heard much about him back in the 70's other than a song of his on a compilation I had (8-track!). There's some good information in an article on him on wikipedia, including that he jammed with the Rolling Stones after they lost Mick Taylor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Gallagher

[modge]

I saw Rory about 76 at Bingly Hall Birmingham England. He was one of the finest bottle neck players ever. I still miss him

[jasong]

I have a couple of his records, and they're pretty good. I think Calling Card is my favorite. Rod DeAth (or whatever terrible name he had) was real tight.

[Andyman]

He also fronted a band called Taste before he went solo.

Actually, I saw him twice. Once at he Midwest Rock Festival in 1969 w/Taste and on a slate that included John Mayall (doing "The Turning Point" acoustic stuff), Delaney and Bonnie, and Blind Faith, and again on his own in a bar in Milwaukee about 3 tables from the stage. Great stuff!!

[jasong]

I'm so jealous of you old buggers that saw all these guys back in the day.

Next thing, someone will tell me they saw the Nite-Liters.

[Tapehead47]

Calling Card really shines. He's one of my "new favorites". More accurately, an "Undiscovered Favorite".
Rory seems to hit all the right notes at the right time. I also love his solo stuff when he plays on a National Steel - type guitar. He really has a huge amount of presence. Not too many acoustic musicians can capture an audience like he can. Simply a pro's pro.
He would be considered a contempory of Eric Clapton if he wasn't Irish. I don't know if he did drugs, but his alcohol consumtion was legendary. Hence the liver transplant.
As mentioned previously, there's some good info from Wikipedia.

Rick

[Tapehead47]

Jasong: Back "In the Day" beancounters didn't run the music business. It's good to hear guys your age are interested in "Real Music".


Rick

[jasong]

Jasong: Back "In the Day" beancounters didn't run the music business. It's good to hear guys your age are interested in "Real Music".


Rick

There are a few of us out there aside from the DJs that pick over all the good records.

I'm only 30 but I was weaned from crap like the Beach Boys onto a diet of Hendrix and the like, and I really enjoy a lot of ~ pre-1976 music: funk, soul, rock, jazz fusion. There was some awesome stuff being put out before commercial forces and disco beats and cocaine drowned out a lot of the spirit of the music.

There's always been good stuff, but there was a ton of really great stuff from the early 70s when relatively obscure and sometimes obscenely creative bands could make a living off playing live venues that were then much more numerous. Plus, I think they were better off with weed and acid. :)

You'll be happy to know that my 3-year old boy's favorite records (and he loooooooves records) are by Ten Years After and Redbone...

[Tapehead47]

Great stuff Jasong. Boogie-on Jasong's baby boy. I think little kids know what music is more than adults. Compared to what's popular on the radio nowdays, your boy has better taste. You're doing a good job, jasong. If you keep his mind as open as yours is, there'll be hope for the future.

Rick

[jasong]

Great stuff Jasong. Boogie-on Jasong's baby boy. I think little kids know what music is more than adults. Compared to what's popular on the radio nowdays, your boy has better taste. You're doing a good job, jasong. If you keep his mind as open as yours is, there'll be hope for the future.

Rick

I try to expose him to everything that I like, which is in the genres I mentioned. He likes everything from Chase to Peter Appleyard to the JBs to James Brown ("Let's listen to Popcorn!") to Mashmakhan to...you get the idea. :) Sometimes it takes a couple listens for him to warm up, and he has definite favorites, but I think it's good to be exposing him to a wide range of original music, both for his mind and for his soul. It's a bit tricky when songs like Redbone's "Drinkin n' Blo" play, or when the songs on A Space In Time that are about drug addiction play. I just hope that some of the gravity of the lyrics of those types of songs pass him by. :)

Today's music market is often more about media saturation and Pavlov response than actual grooving music.

[shsulli]

Great guitarist, and great in live shows. I saw him back in Greece in the early 80's. One of the best shows I have seen.

[MichaelJ]

Got into Rory way back in High School (early 70's) when he was with Taste and have been a life long fan. Had my old Taste albums out a few months ago. Unfortunately they are almost impossible to listen to. I had a Motorola "stereo" at the time, with swing out speakers... and about 75 cents worth of coins on top of the tone arm so the piece of crap would track. You can almost see through the vinyl. I wonder if the old Taste stuff was re-issued?

[Carson]

Been listening to Rory for years, has always been one of my favorites............

[ihop]

Rory since the 70's, Rory Gallagher Live in Europe is a great album. Lots of younger folk into older music, maybe because there isn't much to offer today. I know in the mid seventies I was done looking for new music, it was all crap. My friend owned a record store and we would play cards there at night. Never any new music worth listening to, untill one night he said, I want you to listen to this guy, he's great, I thought, yah right,.......... it was SRV, Texas Flood, shortly after got another SRV album in, and shortly after that he layed a pass on the table to go on the River Boat President to see Stevie, there was about 150 or so people there, floating down the Mississippi on a stern wheel river boat,watching Stevie and Double Trouble. Music took a turn for the best then. Alot of people woke up, Eric Clapton for one.

[Edriz]

When Jasong mentioned his boy made me laugh. When my wife was pregnant with our first, I would put the headphones on her stomach and play Deep Purple-Machine Head over and over. When my daughter was born, she was crying to "Maybe I'm A Leo"

In all serious, I had the privledge to see Rory live in Germany in 1981. He was on the Jinx tour if my memory serve me. He was brilliant!! It really is a tragedy when the greats die so young, like Phil Linot from Thin Lizzy. Another great. In Germany back then these guys played everywhere so I was able to see Rory again 2 nights later only an hour away. Again it was a great show. I went out and got just about every LP I could find.

Unfortunetly for us, most European acts never did hit it big here. Rory being one of many. Even today I noticed that mos of the bands I was into back then are still going very strong over there. Uriah Heep, Saxon, Krokus and many more are still making new music and touring all over everywhere but here. It's good to know that there are still people that really appreciate true music that artists like Rory made. These guys played with more emotion than anything any of these fly bys could ever even try to muster.

I am rather new to this forum and so glad I found it. I was around way back then and can remember the day I bought the first Black Sabbath LP when it hit the stores. 2 years before Led Zepplin!!

I just recently saw Judas Priest on the Nostradamus tour and can honestly say they are just getting beter and better. I wonder how many new, and for lack of a better term, artists do you think will be around as long as them.

Hey, sorry to get off topic here it's just so good to know that there are sooo many of us still remembering such a true guitar legend as Rory. Let's just hope he will never be forgotten.

Ed