Tom Salisbury. That’s a great story bro. Must have been incredible to watch him live. His tone in this vid is amazing. You don’t hear these raunchy raw tones these days.

Tom I saw him too but in 87' but to see him with Fleetwood Mac and Deep Purple holy shit!!! He was such a rare guitarist who didn't want to sell out and wanted to keep it real!! He's sorely missed To think Jimi Hendrix was on this gig maybe not this nite but he passed away a week later!!! Wonder what he thought of Rory?

Superbe hommage !

@@simonmcgrath4112 Hendrix was asked in an interview, "How does it feel to be the best guitar player in the world?" and he answered "I don't know, you'll have to ask Rory Gallagher that."

Don Ashton - ( Lame Gypsy) I got turned on to Rory very early ,..I. Aspired to try and play guitar like him,..but sadly I failed,.....so I became a better Drummer,! ....( get the logic )

Very well said💕

Well said

RIP Rory🇮🇪. May the road rise to meet is a brilliant expression, I’d never heard it until recently on the Tommy Tiernan podcast.

@@sleepwalker8600 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNdnfbaayJeopIE.html

Hardly cleanest.

All appreciation and respect to Rory, but REAL bluesman he was not. That's the likes of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Son House etc. Rory was a friend of and appreciated the blues. Bluesman, no. Guitar shredders are not bluesmen. Blues is a lot deeper than just the guitar. You need to learn your blues a bit better.

@@zoso1980 all right then lovely! If thee say so! God bless

I did today!

@@zoso1980 Dear, you know RORY GALLAGHER as a shredder and not a blues virtuoso, you must have really fathomless blues intelligence and you probably haven't listened to his solo records.

@@zoso1980 with all do respect to you, you should check out other video of the man, stephanie you will find the blues that they're talking about.. ps. Make sure you look him up by his name and not taste..

he was a beauty with a soul to match.

Couldn't agree with you more, Brigitte. He was an honest, genuine person/musician. And that's a rare thing today, or yesterday.

Seems like you got it figured out to me. Too many players play to impress instead of express.

I'm only just discovered Rory and can already tell that he's pure rock and roll, the real deal, he gave it his all and was very talented it seems

tomorrow ?

lucky you!

I was there, too. It was out of this world.

​@@wewerecamerashy5190 What type of LSD was there?

DITTO.

hardly any all mesc@@stefanschleps8758

ja die `70er waren eine Manufaktur für ewig geile Musik

Shit! 22 oh god

Everything for which you know Peter Green - if you know him - was committed to tape before he was 24. Black Magic Woman Green Manalishi Oh Well Man of the World

Lot of musicians in bands at this time were very young, for example in "Free" guitarist and bass player were under 18 and the others under 20 I think- but Rory began to play with "The Fontana "at 15 too. It 's something we can't imagine today. There are young girls and boys music players on videos and tiktok perhaps but not on real stages

It always impresses me when a guitarrist only uses the same damn old pentatonic scale, but somehow instead of sounding dull and predictable, creates something unique and fresh like this crazy son of a bitch, what a legend

66 now and I still listen to and love the m usic Rory made.

68 now land so I am

totally agree

@@johnmcleod5440 Ritchie McCracken on bass, John Wilson on drums

Superb musicianship from Rory and the other guys...

@@billwray9474Thanks for naming them, didn’t know 😊

good... the best.. ok

In terms of technique,jimi and Rory are tied, but in terms of whether the best thing is a Robert Johnson

The year before was far better.

One of Hendrix last appearances.

Tickets were probably only like 10$....

@@markcook3570 £

+ ALVIN LEE

What a waste for the rock & blues the Rory died so young. He predestinated to do bigger even things than this solo. Excellent music.

U speak fo 600 000

oh please, this is average at best and the singing is horrible.

Good lineup, Wilgar was a pretty good!

@@belasgirl6 That is John Wilson on drums, Wilgar came along when Rory went solo.

Indeed what a festival. The Who at their best. Mega lineup!

and I'd mention The Doors...

Hendrix got heckled and booed at this concert, Rory and the boys had naked chicks jumping up on stage.

I was thinking that too 😂

Rory was a genial soul, alright, but he wasn't the only Irishman in that mold. Although they played a very different sort of music, the lads in Horslips spread a similar vibe just a few years later...

@@haeuptlingaberja4927 it would have been interesting to see Rory fall in to Playing a Track with the Great Horslips

You forgot the one Treble Booster pedal, but yeah, good stuff.

I take it you're now 33?

I picked up a bunch of the recent Gallagher deluxe album reissues, 2 CDs each, one of them one of the guys in his later band, I think Gerry, said he also had a Fender Champ or something that he used in the studio sometimes, mainly on the first Rory album, and he couldn't believe the sound Rory got out of even this little Fender amp! But of course the Vox AC30 with TB was his main rig for years.

No pedals for the great man, just sheer breathtaking playing on each note, with no gimmicks, the best guitarist who ever walked the planet

lucky man

um it's a 12

Yeah but these go to 11

@tp10488 On a scale of 1-10, this is boring. It's just late 60's/early70's blues rock noodling. If that's you're thing then this is great. If not, then it's boring.

Steve Jackson lemme guess you’re u like that mindless Steve vai type garbage?

@@shanesolar3924 I am not the guy you're replying to but I agree with him and I don't like mindless shredding whether it's blues or metal or whatever.

If there was vote by musicians rory would win everytime

This is REAL MUSIC, played by REAL MUSICIANS, Rory Gallagher looked amazing and sounded phenomenal and unique , a beautiful unassuming Irish man, He'll still be playing somewhere in the universe,

Did Hendrix say that

Hendrix ..did say his favorite was Terry Kath

One of the best in the whole World ever.

Better than Gary Moore?

@@chipdayton1625 in my eyes yes and I love Gary Moore as well but Rory just had something special, even jimi hendrix said that

@@nonrevnosnibormetalbeerrev6251 Indeed he did have something special. I just think Gary Moore doesn't get the respect that he deserves.

@@chipdayton1625 I think he does mate, seen them both live fantastic players but Rory just outdid everyone I have seen

wow !

Just get the albums

passion, indeed, married to talent.

Irish tour .great album.

Agreed and the film is a good watch too.

Not overlooked by his peers kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lbZ9lqaZ2JiZmo0.html

Were you able to do his type of bending and vibrato? I don't think I could imitate. Those are what makes this performance stand out.

John Flowers Have you herd taste by Tyga and offset ? Shit slaps bro

It's a shame that the manager lied to disband they

@@dirtyjunkieofficial8423 that garbage don't belong here

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5alptSIz9bVpGQ.html Yeah there's also footage of that around on KZfaq! Did you see Hendrix play too then? Heard rory blew him out of the water with his set

I was a bit late to the party myself, but better late than never. Rory's music is awesome, and fortunately we can still discover and/or enjoy it thanks to recordings.

At least you got there eventually 👍

Walk on Hot Coals.

In Joe Perry's autobiography, Joe tells how Gallagher blew Aerosmith off the stage at an early gig.

@@TheSanityInspector who's aerosmith?

The drummer is on it too!

Hawkwind had a dancer...

That's what I admired in him. He didn't have a pretentious bone in his body. Came on wearing working man cloths, plugged into a club amp and rocked out. He was the real deal.

Rory and Roy Buchanan as well.

Remember The Stones wanted Rory to join the group where he would have had fame and fortune but Rory turned them down,im glad he did it would have been a waste of his talents

And he was only 22

So True! I once him in PORTLAND Oregon at THE WRECK OF THE HESPRUS, a large hall. He also played At the Portland Paramount a few times this was mid 70,s

Zeppelin and Page were the best Rory would admit that simple.

​@@ZEP0034 Rory was very self critical, and he believed most of his contemporaries were superior to him. I love Zeppelin, and I would place most of their LPs in my all-time top 20, but if I listen to/watch Rory these days, I have to say that, live, he was superior to Page. Page has had his moments but he has always been very inconsistent, and you won't find many official live Zeppelin gigs that weren't sweetened in the studio. There are many unofficial recordings of Page live, which, I'm saddened to say, are pretty poor. At the ARMS concerts he was really quite appalling. I'm just a bit too young to have seen Zep live, but I did see Page with The Firm at The Hammersmith Odeon (Apollo now, I think). He was fine, but apart from Dazed and Confused, there was nothing to compare his playing with e.g., The Song Remains The Same concerts or The Albert Hall in 1970. I am yet to find a poor live example of Rory, but, sadly, I have never seen a post-Zeppelin Page do anything very impressive. When he's guested with bands over the years you'd expect him to really go for it, but most of the time he plays the riff, a bit of rhythm, and looks a bit lost. If you know of any good post-Zepp performances please share.

@@daevpaeldruid8200 he was nowhere near superior to Page. Nobody had the depth of Led Zeppelin. Rory has good songs but Led Zeppelin had 8 number 1 albums. Every album they did was better than anyone else. Success is what counts and Anyone into Rock would know Zep ruled the 70s. I'm not trying to compare them because they're both excellent but the best was Zeppelin fact. Type in best guitarists and Page is top 3 in every public poll. He and most stars had them bit at his best Page was the best alive.

@@ZEP0034 I don't think record sales are a mark of success in music. Just look at the shite that has sold millions, particularly this century. Whether or not you prefer one thing to another is a matter of 'taste', but I can tell you for a fact that when it came to playing live, consistently, Rory was technically a far better performer. I agree that Page at his best was one of the very best, not forgetting that when Zepp had become very popular, Hendrix was still alive, Peter Green still had his marbles, just about, and many excellent players had evolved from blues-rock and psychedelia into rock, prog-rock, jazz-fusion, etc. (Jeff Beck, David Gilmour and Steve Howe being prime examples, all of whom have also been consistently superb playing live, to this day.). As a studio musician/producer Page is second to none, but he has not consistently translated that into playing live. He doesn't travel well, and If he didn't suffer so much with fatigue, and hadn't been such a big drug user, it may have been a different story.

lewisheapy I read that Rory had a very high ph content in his sweat and that it almost acted like paint thinner on the finish. May have had something to do with his fondness of alcohol, which unfortunately led to his untimely demise

I think his playing with jackets on and long sleeved shirts helped along the way lol

I read somewhere that his guitar was stolen at one point, and whoever stole it just dumped it and it was found outdoors having been exposed to sun and rain which ruined the finish but fortunately didn't ruin the guitar

lewisheapy amazing video of a rock god and his legendary 1961 guitar.