Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
12 Oct 2024 Leave a comment
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Rory Gallagher: “Follow Me” (1979)
After the previous year’s Photo Finish LP and the successful US tour that followed, Chrysalis Records pushed Rory Gallagher to get a follow-up out quickly, telling him they’d make it a top priority to promote it.
Hence the title of his next album in 1979, a relentless blast of sweaty rock pretty much from start to finish, with the record’s first track “Follow Me” setting the tone.
16 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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(via The Telegraph) by Neil McCormick
Long before Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis sent the nation into a Britpop frenzy, there was only one rock and roll Gallagher that mattered. His name was Rory, and nearly 30 years after his untimely death, there’s plenty who would consider the Irish guitar slinger the only Gallagher worthy of being acclaimed a genuine musical genius.
On October 17, Bonhams auction house in London will host a sale of Rory Gallagher’s guitar collection, along with amps and accessories from his career. Amongst the items is Rory’s original 1961 Fender Stratocaster, bought second hand from Crowley’s Music Store in Cork in 1963. Gallagher was just 15 but already a professional working musician, playing covers on the Irish showband circuit. He paid £100 on credit for the guitar, persuading his parents that it would ultimately save money because he could play rhythm and lead at the same time, so wouldn’t need a second guitarist in his band. Today, it’s value is estimated at up to a million pounds.
It is a beautiful, battered looking instrument that Gallagher played all his life, as he rose to become Ireland’s first rock star. It is the instrument he would have been playing when his original power trio Taste supported Cream for their final concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1968. Eric Clapton later credited Rory for “getting me back into the blues.” Before he formed Queen, Brian May was a huge Gallagher fan, attending many shows at the Marquee in London. “He could make his guitar do anything,” according to May. “It seemed to be magic. I remember looking at his battered Stratocaster thinking ‘how does that come out of there?’”
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