chi non ha "Rockpalast" se lo procuri con una certa urgenza, oppure mi scriva.

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Rory Gallagher: Alternate BBC Sessions 1971-1974





London
Source: See Notes
Lineage: CD See Notes
Taped by: See Notes
Transfered by: GKlainer
Additional Notes:
Received these from a trader in the UK around 1992 that was affiliated with the BBC. He claims all were from his masters that he recorded himself, making them 1st gen. copies. Gklainer transferred these from the original cassettes to .wav files in 1998, and recorded the XM broadcast early last year. The estate of Rory Gallagher released "BBC SESSIONS" in 1999, and placed some of the original tracks from this set on this release. Those 5 tracks have been removed, along with 5 other tracks from 1971 and 1972 originally recorded that were either mono or had sound problems. The removed tracks have been replaced with the entire BBC Broadcast from 1/7/72 that was transferred from vinyl. So kick back and listen to a great sounding, dynamic selection of early songs from RORY GALLAGHER. 8/12/71- XM>DAT>CDWAVE>CD>EAC>FLAC
1/7/72- BBC Broadcast Vinyl>Analog>CDWAVE>Soundforge>CD>EAC>FLAC
Rest- FM>1st. Gen Analog>CDWAVE>Soundforge>CD>EAC>FLAC- see above notes

File Size: 869MB (FLAC)
Performers:
Rory Gallagher- Electric, Acoustic and Slide Guitars, Vocals
Gerry McAvoy- Bass
Rod D'Ath- Drums

Setlist:
Set List:
Disc 1 (76:24)
8/12/71 Paris Theater, London
01.Maybe I Will 5:08
02.I Could've Had Religion 9:25
03.Crest of a Wave 6:54
04.Messin' with the Kid 5:43

1/7/72 BBC
05.Tore Down 6:09
06.Used To Be 6:00
07.Hoodoo Man 8:23
08.Pistol Slapper Blues 3:57
09.The Cuckoo 4:05
10.Going to my Hometown 8:45
11.In Your Town 11:50

Disc 2 (77:09)
12. Bullfrog Blues 8:26

7/10/72 Bob Harris Show
13. I Could've Had Religion 7:18
14. Messin' with the Kid 5:39
15. The Cuckoo 3:30

2/5/73 Tommy Vance Show
16. Walk on hot Coals 7:32
17. Banker's Blues 3:20

2/21/73 Saturday Rock Show
18. Unmilitary Two Step 2:03
19. If I Had A Reason 5:16

5/12/73 Saturday Rock Show
20. Tattoo'd Lady 4:00
21. Cradle Rock 5:44
22. A Million Miles Away 7:37

6/20/74 Bob Harris Show
23. Tattoo'd Lady 5:23
24. Messin' with the Kid 6:36

8/19/77 N. Horne Show
25. I Take What I Want 4:36


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@ jacopo: se la tua risposta significa che hai il dvd, allora bene, ma se significa che i video ti piacciono mai non hai il dvd, allora sai che puoi mandarmi il tuo indirizzo.

in ogni caso, Donal Gallagher sta curando la pubblicazione di moltissimo materiale di Rory, non ultimo quello postato da Olia (anche se mi pare non c'entri Donal).
Se si va sul sito di Rory c'è veramente da spellarsi le mani (infatti ci vado il meno possibile...), ma il fatto è che un giorno vuoi prenderti i dischi di Rory, poi domani ti svegli col desiderio di prendere tutto di John Hammond, poi il giorno dopo ancora chissà quanti altri dischi, poi vuoi partire con gli amici... e come si fa?

"Hey Jimi, how it feels to be the best lead guitar player in the world?"
"I don't know, ask Rory Gallagher."

Giuliano, con cosa posso iniziare per avvicinarmi alla sua musica?Quali gli album imperdibili?

ciao Max, sotto ti scrivo quelli che, a mio parere, sono imprescindibili e che comunque sono i miei preferiti in una mia personale calssifica:

Studio:
Rory Gallagher (il mio preferito in assoluto)
Deuce
Blueprint
Tatto
Calling card
Against the grain

Live:
Irish Tour
Live in Europe
BBC Sessions

DVD:
Rockpalast
Live at Montreaux (di cui è stato pubblicato anche il cd)

di esibizioni live, sia cd che video, nel corso degli anni sono state pubblicate diverse cose, alcune sicuramente egregie ma che io ancora non ho, ma credo che tutto quello che ti ho segnalato sia una buonissima base.
per quanto riguarda i dischi in studio, a mio parere negli anni '80 ha virato troppo su un suono più hard e non lo preferisco molto, forse anche perchè cambiò la sezione ritmica e il pianista.
per quanto riguarda i Taste, hanno pubblicato solo due album e un live (Live Taste), la pecca secondo me è che non sono registrati benissimo.
per prima cosa, ti consiglio di prendere il primo omonimo, poi Deuce e poi Irish Tour.
a me piace da morire non solo per i fraseggi eccezionali, ma anche per la bellissima voce, per gli arrangiamenti, per la carica, per quella sua fusione di blues e rock'n'roll amplificata dal una sezione ritmica killer e da un pianista che macina boogie, per le virate folk col suo mandolino, ecc.
e poi, visto che anche l'occhio vuole la sua parte, come fa a non piacerti uno del genere? bellissimi capelli lunghi, giubbino di jeans, stivali, una stratocaster scrostata che sembra cadere a pezzi, beh mi hai capito.

p.s. proprio l'altro giorno mi sono detto "devo chiedere a Mailexile di quel tal disco", ma ora chi si ricorda più qual'era...

ciao

Rory negli anni '80 insieme a Charlie e, accovacciato sul suo piano e visibile alla destra di Rory, il vecchio Ian Stewart

Mi interessa molto Alternate BBC 1971 1974 me lo procuro sicuramente. Rory mi è sempre piaciuto, un rocker come si deve senza fronzoli. Grazie Pietrarotolante per la segnalazione cd di Rory

rosso57

maliexile mi meraviglio di te a non esserti mai calato a questo grande artista e chitarrista!! ecco questi per me son dei grandi chitarristi altro che.....tutti i dischi consigliati da pietrarotolante sono uno meglio dell'altro mailexile prendili tutti se puoi vedrai che sono soldi spesi bene!!!

ho trovato alcune testimonianze a proposito dei giorni in cui Rory si unì agli Stones a Monaco subito dopo l'abbandono di Mick Taylor, chiamato da Ian Stewart in quanto pare fosse la prima scelta di Keith.
scopro ora che una delle cause per cui non diventò uno stones fu una sbronza di Keith mista ad abuso di cocaina (ma va...?), che non permise a Rory di parlarci per sapere cosa avrebbe dovuto fare, e cioè se andare in Giappone per il prosieguo del suo tour o registrare con gli Stones.
ma in definitiva, credo che il motivo principale fu che Rory non era per niente tagliato caratterialmente per quel ruolo (perfetto invece oer un tipo come Ronnie), un ragazzo troppo timido per quello stile di vita e che comunque aveva già una splendida carriera da solista.
comunque ecco qui:

In an interview with the NME in the early ‘70s, Keith Richards had remarked how the first artist he wanted to sign to the then-fledgling Rolling Stones Records was Rory Gallagher, though no further overtures were made: then, in the wake of Mick Taylor's departure in December 1974, the Rolling Stones came to suffer yet another bout of guitarist trouble.

So, in the first days of 1975, Stones keyboardist Ian Stewart rang the Gallagher’s family home. ‘Don't be kiddin’,’ was Rory’s response, typically, to Donal telling him the Stones were on the phone, but after being persuaded this was no prank, Rory agreed to take a plane to Munich and audition for the world's most notorious rock’n’roll band (Ry Cooder, Peter Frampton, Mick Ronson, even Jeff Beck were also on Keith Richards’ so-called ‘shopping list’).

The true picture of the liaison is murky: Donal remains ‘furious’ that a nervous Rory insisted on traveling alone save for his favourite tweed-covered Fender amp and the battered Strat It is known that, after being collected in a cab by Mick Jagger, Gallagher jammed a set of songs with the band and Jagger oozed positively about Rory becoming a Stone. The thing was,’ Donal outlines, ‘Jagger and Richards were barely talking at this point and although Mick told Rory to go and speak to Keith, when he tried Keith was just comatose upstairs. Everyone seemed to be waiting for Keith to get it together and make a decision. Rory tried to wake him but had to make a flight to Japan — this was January 27th and his Japanese tour started on the 29th. He left a note with the Stones as to where he'd be, but nothing happened.

‘Y'know, Rory didn't talk about it too much, but I know he was unsure as to whether the Stones had taken umbrage at him leaving like that with hindsight, of course, Rory should have canceled the Japanese tour. But the Stones, at the time, were banned from Japan for life and all those factors were playing in Rory’s head; if he didn't get to Japan now and then joined the Stones, he'd might never go back. The press had already run the headline that Rory had joined the Stones, and I know that when he got to Germany he was aware of all this going on, he was very shy about the whole thing. I knew Rory’s nature. He was just too placid, too easy-going. The Stones had all their management there, even Marshall Chess (of Chess records) was there, but it never happened. It's an unanswered tale. In the end, though, I think Ronnie (Wood) was more the required image of the Stones; he certainly didn't take them in a new direction.’

Richards has since conceded that, with respect to any new guitarist, he knew that
the Stones had to stay ‘an English rock’n’roll band, and not just English, but from London’, so perhaps it was a done-for deal anyway. And in truth, it's hard to imagine the gentlemanly and reputedly women-shy Gallagher indulging the S&M-advertising campaign that launched the Stones’ next album, Black And Blue.

As Rory curtly judged in retrospect: ‘Keith is a fantastic rhythm guitarist. But he's crazy.’

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It's a little-known fact that Gallagher almost joined Wyman in the Rolling Stones after the band's guitarist Mick Taylor walked out following a series of blow-ups with Keith Richards.

Rory's brother Donal, who was also his manager, explains: "It was January 1975. We'd just finished a tour and we got home to Cork. We got a phone call late at night from a man with a funny accent. He gave his name as Ian Stewart (the Stones' pianist and road manager) and asked if Rory would like to join the band.

"Rory wouldn't take the call. He thought it was a prank. So Ian rang back a second time and asked if Rory would go to Rotterdam to record the album that became Black And Blue.

"So Rory went over and played some sessions, but he was scheduled to go on a Japanese tour and it wasn't easy to pull out. He stayed for a few days and he was asked to go to Keith's hotel room for a chat about joining the band.

"Unfortunately Keith was comatose and Rory spent the night trying to revive him. Morning came and there were none of the other Stones around, so Rory just went to the airport and flew out to Japan."

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Finally Rory got on a plane to Rotterdam with his Strat and a small, tweed Fender Champ amp. The Stones had only provided one airline ticket, so Donal couldn’t accompany his brother. According to what Rory later told Donal, he was met at the airport by none other than Mick Jagger, who put him in a cab and took him to a rehearsal space the Stones had occupied. There he was met by Marshall Chess Jr., head of the stones’ record label at the time who reportedly said to Rory, “Welcome to the Rolling Stones. I knew it would be you, you’re the guy for the job.”

According to Donal, “Rory did four nights with them. The first night Keith didn’t turn up. So Mick said to Rory, ‘Can you give me a riff? I’ve got this song Start Me Up’ and Rory said, ‘Well I’m working on a song’ so they worked it up. It’s a legend that that album, [the Stones' Tattoo You] has different guitar riffs from different people. I think Rory referred to ‘Miss You’ as the other song that they worked on. On the second night, Keith came down and they got going. Keith liked Rory’s style in the sense that Rory was into Hank Snow and the country players as well as the rock and blues guitarists. So they obviously listened to the same records.”

Parts of Donal’s tales seem far-fetched. The ‘Start Me Up’ riff is very much dependent on Keith Richards five-string, open-G guitar tuning, a configuration that Rory Gallagher is never known to have used. So one has to wonder where truth gives way to traditional Irish blarney in Donal’s account. Still, it is theoretically possible that Keef’s classic “Start Me Up” riff could have been derived from an earlier idea by Rory Gallagher. As to what happens next the account becomes even more muddled.

“There was no coherence in the camp” Donal recounts. “Rory kept saying to Mick, ‘Look what am I supposed to do with these Japanese dates? How long can you guys wait?’ Mick said, ‘Go and speak to Keith. ‘Mick and Keith weren’t talking to each other at the time, which was another difficulty. The last evening Rory went up to Keith in his bedroom, but Keith was comatose. Rory spent the entire night up, going back every half hour, the door to Keith’s suite being wide open. Rory had to be on the plane back to Heathrow at 10 o’clock in the morning. Everyone else had gone to bed.There was no one else around, so Rory just picked his guitar and amp up, I met him with a suitcase at Heathrow airport,and we flew to Tokyo.”

ma Rory con gli Stones non sò se sarebbe funzionato certo di talento ne aveva da vendere e molto di più di Ronnie, ma lo zio Keith aveva anche bisogno di un compagno festaiolo e che sapesse tenere il passo oltre che un buon chitarrista e Ronnie mi sembrava il più adatto in quel periodo......Rory comunque ha avuto una buona carriera con ottimi dischi io li amo tutti non ce ne è uno che mi faccia schifo!!

dimenticavo di dire che ovviamente anche gli Stones fecero le loro scelte, ci mancherebbe. non c'è dubbio che Ronnie si sia rivelato il pià adatto, sia a livello musicale che per tutto il resto.
però, chissà che roba con Rory...

La musica di Rory Gallagher, il libro di Ian Rankin: nuovo progetto editoriale

Eagle Rock Entertainment ha presentato un originale progetto editoriale. Da un lato la musica, dall'altro un racconto, ed ecco nato "Kickback City": si tratta di un triplo CD di composizioni di Rory Gallagher al quale è allegato un racconto, "The lie factory", scritto ad hoc da Ian Rankin che viene anche letto dall'attore Aidan Quinn.

Ian Rankin è uno scrittore scozzese 53enne, laureato all'università di Edimburgo, tradotto anche in Italia dove ha tra gli altri libri pubblicato "Una questione di sangue", "Indagini incrociate", "Dietro quel delitto" e "Partitura finale". Lo scrittore James Ellroy lo ha definito "il re incontrastato del giallo scozzese". Il grande chitarrista Rory Gallagher nacque a Ballyshannon (Donegal, Irlanda), crebbe a Cork e morì a Londra il 14 giugno 1995. Il musicista è sepolto al St Oliver's Cemetery, a Ballincollig nei pressi di Cork, ad un indirizzo particolare: il camposanto si trova in Clash Road.

Gallagher, morto a 47 anni, era un grande fan del noir del quale Rankin è maestro. Ian ha affermato d'essere stato contattato da Donal Gallagher, fratello dello scomparso artista, che gli ha proposto il progetto. Al tutto sono state aggiunte illustrazioni di Timothy Truman, il quale secondo Rankin "ha fatto sue le sfumature e il sentimento noir". "The lie factory" ha 44 pagine. "Kickback city" uscirà il prossimo 28 ottobre.

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