The only comment I liked ever...cheers.

poor old guitar needs a cigarette after ;)

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Great comment

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He did love playing more than life itself, his last show's were evident how bad off he was, no other entertainer ever would have done that! And for the fame, turning down the Rolling Stones made that pretty clear!

+chuck lane (Chuckylane) can you imagine how silly Keith Richards would look playing next to him?

I beg to differ, I don't think it'd be silly at all. Listened to any real early Stones lately? Or how about Blue & Lonesome?

can you imagine, how silly even Eric Clapton would look?

I love the Stones as a rock band and they had some nice blues songs. But, Blue & Lonesome to me sounds pretty boring and generic.

My right ear...oh waite

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lol

I saw Rory Gallagher in 1973 in the caley picture house edinburgh ..was an amazing concert

Awesome story! Never got to see him but there is a concert annually in Ballyshannon Co Donegal Ireland. Best Rory cover bands in all the bars. Recommend if ever in the Emerald Isle.

I saw him in concert in his Fresh Evidence tour. He was great! I saw him first on the Midnight Special so many years ago

@@carolgrosklags8933 Hi Carol, thank you so much for sharing. I love to hear stories like that! That would have been around 1990 maybe? I never got to see him, because I was too young, when he died in 1995 when I was just 7. I often go to see a great tribute band called Sinnerboy, the guitarist is Barry Barnes. I go to the Rory festival in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal also. My Mother knew Rory very well however. Her and her sister would go meet up with him at shows he played in the early days. They knew him very early in his career, back in the Irish showband days when he played with The Taste, but it was the first lineup of Taste, probably in the mid 1960s, not the later Taste lineup. Rory used to come play in Cookstown County Tyrone and met up with them there. My Uncle by marriage saw him in Belfast in 1976 however. He gave me the ticket a few years ago. Just a little pink paper ticket. I put it in a little frame. I don't know if you know of the other Irish guitarist Henry McCullough? He played with numerous bands, but probably most famous as he had a long career with Paul McCartney's band Wings. My Mother was very good friend of his. I always thought Henry was fantastic also, maybe not as well known as Rory, but an amazing player also. Henry was a good friend of Jimi Hendrix, apparently Hendrix was blown away by his playing and even signed him to his own record label. There are pictures of them together online. I believe Henry also started in the Irish showband scene in the 60s. I think my Mom told me he played for a band called "Gene and the Gents". Thank you again and have a great day. 🤗

@@Sinnerboy88 the fresh evidence concert was in 1991. I was really bummed out when I heard that he had that just 4 years after that

I was looking for how to make soup in the toilet and found this guy. What a silly world we all live in. lol

Rory was truly one of the greats. He's missed, but never forgotten.

ha ha ha

Mike Glendinning lmao...

You found a diamond in the rough lol!!

Dad hint? Too much pistol slapping or just drinking too much? 😊

Is your Dad from Germany or Holland?! Lot's of Rory fans there. I met a lot of the in Ballyshannon. Great people.

D.K. Kilby

I do admire his hair.

He’s not mentioned in the same conversation because he’s a few notches above them he has his own conversation

Honestly, I think he's in a different league. I don't say that in a snob way.. 'like my guy is better than yours' just because, I know all music is entirely subjective and don't get me wrong, I liked Clapton in the early days when he still played Gibsons, and Beck was fantastic too, back in the day.. but they never spoke to me quite like Rory. But, there's something about Rory that transcends them guys. It's not even possible for me to illustrate in words. It's so real with him.. especially when he plays the acoustic stuff on the National. Really touches you deep in your soul. You feel it. Like the old guys from the Delta or some of the Chicago bluesmen. It's deep. Like magick.

@@Sinnerboy88 Yes, I agree. Very well put. When you hear him at the start of a song on his old national, like too much alcohol for example, its like the guitars talking or something. The slight burr on the strings as he draws his fingers across really does and can hit a nerve...it is kinda hard to explain in words. When you listen and it hits a nerve, it leaves its mark on you.

​@@johnpirie3800even Jimi Hendrix once said that Rory Gallagher was the best guitarist at the time

Johnny Winter was the real deal as well. Also check out Roy Buchanan, the only other guitarist I can think of on Rory's level

There's a Rory Gallagher festival up in Donegal every June, I'm from Tipp and I've never been. Hopefully that'll change this year.

@@GerryBolger wow thanks for letting that he known! Ireland is on my bucket list, I have heard it is one of the greenest areas in the world as well!

Apsolutno

RIGHT

Jack white would love to be this good.

Not fresh and raw; eternal.

Just he happy what we do get to hear from this man. He made a lot of amazing music in his short lifetime

John Frusciante too.

Buckethead

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Linda Jones BRAVA LINDA.

Homage to the king....addiction is a horrible disease, Rory will always be Ireland's shining light!!!

Yeah right. Rory did what he did and hurt himself while he did it. Great musician and a great talent. I always play Rory when I am getting hammered. It just seems right.

Spread the word and check some Robin Trower

+trowerz Robin.

+John Fanuzzi Never too late to get the love for Rory !!! greetings from Antwerp i'm 60 and v seen Rory 7 times live...

I'm 59 & been into Rory since 79' when I was turned on to him by a guitar player from Boston, I don't play but knew a lot of good players here in Reno so I introduced this guy around, he was great as well & I'll always be thankful for this cat from back East where I guess Rory was well known. Not so much out here in the West for some reason. I was excluded from the Westerner's on that one! You're lucky to have seen him once let alone 7 times! (that's about how many Stone's shows my older brother has been to but he was only vaguely familiar w/ Rory! lol

im fifteen. i wish i could see him ony one time live!!!!

Rory is one of the guitarists Id name on one hand that shouldn't even be attempted to be emulated in my opinion. Bonamassa is a fine example of that, you just won't do Rory justice.

Influenced by black American musicians of the 30s and 40s ....the rolling stones were the same even in the modern era Eminem too... history always repeats itself and musicians pretty much put their own twist on their record collection

@@jackietreehorn5561 Rolling Stones were hacks don't even get me started

I am Swiss and so proud to tell u that Rory’s music was part of my teenage music in the seventies....how cool is that!!

ThinkerSociety Me neither. It's happened.

Right on My friend,he was awesome,Poppa.............

@Geoff Cooper the story about jimi hendrix's interview is correct indeed !

Rory loved a drop of alcohol himself, but it never stopped him touring constantly - he was famous for being one of the hardest workers on the circuit, and it never seemed to affect his performance, if anything it enhanced it. Perhaps it did get to him in the end but then again who wants to live forever, and if that's the price to pay for such extraordinary talent, then is'nt . say this again. thanks.

keurde coyote Great story but it's probably an urban myth, I've never heard two versions of it that weren't different and I've never heard the original interview/ article being cited. I've heard the same story on online guitar forums with different guitar players names.

Yeah ive head about that too

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