Million miles away » from 74 irish tour, tears me up Every Time, remembering me, touch times at the bar, so often, my mind million miles away and then reappears and all is dead around… Well it touched me lol sorry
Thank you for taking a listen to Rory! He was a spectacular multi-instrumental musician, playing both electric and acoustic guitar, mandolin, harmonica and saxophone. Beloved by those who appreciate expert guitarists; relatively unknown to the mainstream public, Rory never sought fame. He lived and breathed music and performing for an audience was both his job and his passion. This was Rory at his most frenetic, a fireball on the stage, but he was just as at home sitting quietly with just an acoustic guitar. Check out "Rag Mama Rag" from the 1976 Rockpalast performance to see the magic he could weave on his acoustic. Offstage, Rory was a very soft-spoken gentleman, well known for being both shy and polite when not on stage. Please take a look a few more of Rory's performances.
Omg, you have discovered the man we spent our youth listening to, one of the best guitarist/songwriters ever, you need to see more. So special Also played a lot of other instruments, and his acoustic guitar was also superb.
The greatest blues guitarist able to play guitar hero in rock blues but ALSO with unplugged guitar playing traditionnal Blue grass. The bluesman with the widest range of styles ever. No one except him could do that.
flanel shirt - blue jeans - denim jacket - down to earth long hair - act stage - tunes output his old Fender guitar _ have vibe & high energy .... never boring when we watch & hear his show . .. he's Rory !!! ✌️🌹, ☕☕ 😎😊
Rory inspires me everyday to pick up my guitar he was an absolute master that doesn't get the credit he deserves cause he wasn't bothered about being a chart topper RIP Rory
The most underrated guitarist saw him at least 10 times back in the 60s and 70s never a bad concert and you could talk to him after the concert helped me with my playing not to his standard
Love Rory Gallagher, he was such a great guitar player, a great performer and this is one of my favourite songs, this is one high energy performance! Other favourite live songs are Bad Penny and Tattoo'd Lady, I'm sure you would love these songs! Thanks so much for a great reaction. 😊👍
A truly gifted musician and one of the humblest and hardworking men ever to pick up a guitar. Saw him 4 times and he and the band never played for less than two and a half hours. . .you really got your moneys worth. I'm with all of you who suggest Shadow Play for one of Andrei and Dominikas fabulous reactions! As an aside, I only recently learned that Rory Gallagher was invited to join the Rolling Stones but turned it down as he preferred to stay true to his own musical ethics.
I notice that there is a renewed awarness of Rory Gallagher,which for someone like me, is kind of great and also kind of sad because he is no longer with us. I'm an old original fan living in Dublin Ireland. For us back in the day, Rory was one of us and we loved it. It's interesting that the renewed interest is not just that he was one of the world's greatest guitarists, but that he was Irish too, not American or British. But we always knew there was indigenous Irish rock separate to the Anglo countries. We speak English but we speak Hiberno English, which means we use phrases directly translated from our own Irish language and culture. In a sense it meant our great rock icons like Rory and others, who were also world class, reflected that in their own way. I think perhaps aside from Rory's genius on the guitar, his Irishness is something that some people outside of us old Irish fans of Rory, are now seeing and find it interesting because they have only known American/British interpretations up to now. There is a street in Dublin called, Rory Gallagher Corner. Isn't that something?
I saw Rory several times in the 70s. He loved playing so much he would do encore after encore until the venue pulled the plug. There are requests for "Shadow Play" which is a must see. 1979 video by NEA ZIXNH. (I'm not putting a direct link as my posts with links seem to get deleted.)
Just found this. This was the first song of his set. He went on to do at least 90 minutes. Check out Shadowplay from this Montreux gig for the closing song.
Rory, another legend sadly gone to early, alone the look of his strat says it all, thats not a fashion styled instrument, that guitar earned it look by pure passion. If you want to do yourself a favour checkt out Tommy Emmanuel another Guitar legend
To answer that question for you: when not performing on stage Rory was a quiet and shy man and one of the nicest people you could ever meet. No "I'm a rockstar" attitude at all, he lived and breathed music.
Jimi Hendrix was being interviewed and was asked what is it like to be the greatest guitarist in the world Jimi answered I dont know ask Rory Gallagher.
