Rory Gallagher ..why ..?
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He maybe a little forgotten but I saw him in a packed Southampton Gaumont so was popular at the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyHymAxUVrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyHymAxUVrc
Wacky Racer said:
Was on One of the Sky channels - just watching it with the music playing through the big speakers !!Would have loved to have seen him playing live
Goldblum there are a lot of technically brilliant guitarists out there but Jimi Hendrix is highly rated as he played in his own completely uninhibited style and played what he felt rather than what people expected. He opened up the vocabulary of the electric guitar for others to follow.
Rory had a great stage presence and played to his audience, Jimi perhaps played more for himself and the audience were incidental.
I first saw Rory in the Corn Exchange in King's Lynn in 1967. We sat around like a load of stuffed dummies while he tried everything to light us up. What he did not know was that he had lit us up inside but we were too inhibited to show it. He never changed and was not interested in fame. He turned down many opportunities, I think one time to join the Stones.
I love this clip of him playing "Politician" with Jack Bruce. He did not even know the song but after a steady start they both are really jamming like no other and Jack's grin says it all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXk--eL5-kQ
Rory had a great stage presence and played to his audience, Jimi perhaps played more for himself and the audience were incidental.
I first saw Rory in the Corn Exchange in King's Lynn in 1967. We sat around like a load of stuffed dummies while he tried everything to light us up. What he did not know was that he had lit us up inside but we were too inhibited to show it. He never changed and was not interested in fame. He turned down many opportunities, I think one time to join the Stones.
I love this clip of him playing "Politician" with Jack Bruce. He did not even know the song but after a steady start they both are really jamming like no other and Jack's grin says it all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXk--eL5-kQ
I came to his music relatively late - not 100% sure where I first heard him playing but I think it was a clip of Brute Force and Ignorance played live. I just loved the fact that he seemed to be enjoying playing the music and was engaged with the audience. I always prefer musicians who enjoy what they do, rather than being formulaic or technically brilliant but lacking emotion.
But at the end if the day, we all like different things, or the same thing for different reasons, and there are plenty of artists I don't 'get'.
But at the end if the day, we all like different things, or the same thing for different reasons, and there are plenty of artists I don't 'get'.
Vanin said:
Goldblum there are a...
I've tried to like Rory, but so much of it is run of the mill boppy rock'n'roll stuff I gave up a while back. Someone once said there's no such thing as s
t music - just music you like and music you don't like. I'd prefer almost any other guitarist to Rory Gallagher to be honest, but there you go.
goldblum said:
Because he wasn't that good? I've tried listening to him plenty of times over the years but just haven't clicked. Mind you I think Hendrix is over-hyped.
I think I need to arrange for a swarthy Mediterranean gentleman to come around for a discussion on the fitment of cement footware. 
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