Rory Gallagher - Bullfrog Blues (Live - OGWT) Reaction

[@edcastillo9342]

The legendary Rory Gallagher. His album, Irish Tour 1974 is a must own. RIP....

[@heinztania9393]

Rory Gallagher.... Legend.......

[@paulmckeown8840]

Aah the great Rory Gallagher absolutely superb

[@barblessable]

Saw the late great Rory live twice ,his joy and enthusiasm on stage was infectious ,sadly missed. GHOST BLUES is good documentary about Rory.

[@vmax4steve524]

Tattooed Lady from Irish Tour '74, fantastic song, brilliant guitar solo, a must hear!

[@dawnmoore4329]

Thank you for the reaction! Rory and his band had such great chemistry. A fun fact is that Rory didn't use a setlist for his live performances and his band had to have a working repertoire of over 200 songs that he might pull out at any time-not just his own, but different blues and rock classics. They had to follow along with the first few notes he played and catch on to whatever song he decided to play. The fact that the band could keep up with this ever changing live set gives you an idea of exactly how tight they were. And Rory seldom played anything the same way twice-allowing both his mood and the crowd to determine how he played. On some songs, even the lyrics were subject to change depending on the performance. He was an amazing performer and very much missed. Want something a bit different? Try checking out Rory and Bela Fleck in Montreux 1994 performing "Walkin' Blues". An impromptu performance, these two master musicians, along with Mark Feltham on the harp, give an outstanding rendition of this tune. Its even more haunting when you realize that Rory would pass away less than a year after this.

[@geoffpoole483]

Gerry McEvoy was a permanent member of Rory's band so he'd be used to it! I saw Rory live twice, both shows were excellent.

[@patcomer2660]

Rory on the prowl, his slide guitar work is unsurpassed. The band were so tight they played as one even when Rory changed tempo lyrics etc. great stuff thanks for playing Rory. I’d love to hear you react to Moonchild (the studio version).

[@Sandy-dd4le]

Legend has it, Rory could peel paint at a hundred paces playing slide on that Tele! One of my favourite performances of his, the band are blazing!

[@mightyV444]

He'd even peeled the paint off his own Strat just by playing it! 😁

[@Sandy-dd4le]

@@mightyV444 i used to think he'd maybe got a Strat with a sub standard finish, but according to his brother, Rory had a rare blood type, that somehow made his sweat particularly acidic. The back of the guitar is probably more worn than the front, you can kind of see the pattern of denim in it. Never seen another quite like it, Willie Nelson's, Trigger maybe, he's worn a second sound hole in it!....Adrian Belew used a Strat around the time he played with Bowie that had almost as much wear as Rory's, but it was done deliberately with tools and fire. ... hilariously, to me at least, that's routine for a lot of new guitars these days, lots of companies offer, "reliced" finishes on their new instruments, and if you want to pay through the nose, you can buy exact replicas of famous guitars, right down to dings in the finish, buckle rash, stickers etc, all perfectly copied to the point that sometimes the owner can't tell them apart from the real thing

[@mightyV444]

@@Sandy-dd4le - Yes! Fender even make an exact replica of Rory's Strat! It's quite mind-blowing that such companies are able to do that! 🤯 I've also always loved Andy Summers' Telecaster Custom, but I think at around $20K USD for the replica, I'd also want that one to look brandnew and without any of the relic'ing done! 😅 Around '86, when I was 16 and drumming for my first proper band, one of our guitarists also had aggressive sweat, and it made all the metal parts on his guitar rust 😆 And it's also quite interesting to see how much tougher an acrylic finish on an electric guitar is compared to a nitro one = Rory's Tele vs. his Strat 😀 And yeah, I remember Adrian Belew playing that very interesting-looking Strat in 80's King Crimson, and he got some cool sounds out of that thing, too! 😊 One of Hendrix's half-burnt Strats had once gotten into Frank Zappa's hands and is now with his son Dweezil; There sure are some very interesting instruments out there! 🤩

[@Sandy-dd4le]

@@mightyV444 I've never managed to find out just how exact the Fender replica is of Rory's Strat. .. as I remember none of the tuners were stock, five were from one company and the sixth was from another. Plus the lead pickup was a Dimarzio iirc, Rory also replaced some of the other hardware, would sometimes remove his string trees, and possibly replaced the neck at least once. The Fender Custom Shop get pretty detailed, but im not sure how far they go with non Fender parts. Is the Andy Summers guitar the one with his photos on it? That's a cool looking thing.

[@mightyV444]

@@Sandy-dd4le - Yeah, that's Andy Summers' 'Monochrome' Strat, covered in photos he'd taken himself. Pretty cool indeed! 😃👍 I meant a different guitar, though: A 60's Tele Custom, 3-tone sunburst with binding and with a Gibson humbucker at the neck (in a white pickguard); It's not quite as exremely worn as Rory's Strat but still extensively, and he said that he had trouble to determine which one's the original, when Fender first sent him one of the copies. So I'm pretty sure the same must be true for the Rory Strat. Fender even put a DiMarzio FS-1 bridge pick-up in their The Edge signature model, which isn't an exact replica of his but a Strat made to the guy's specs, and he does have that DiMarzio in his one, too; So Fender were obviously also okay with THAT, instead of trying to convince him of using one of theirs 🙂

[@ghichens3418]

Yay ! Thanks again for playing the genius of Rory Gallagher !! Proper made my day ! And yes I refer to OGWT recording of this track as the full "Muppet Show " version ! This line up of ,Death on drums , Macovoy on Bass , Martin on keys is the same band on the Ace Album "Irish Tour 74 " brill !! All Legends !!! Cheers !

[@Radge-cc5uw]

Great review. I once said to a friend that you never hear many bass solos. He sat me down and played this song. Been a Rory fan since that day.

[@colrhodes377]

Check out Colin Bomber Hodgkinson . He was in Backdoor and also had a brief tenure in Whitesnake. He does some amazing solos, in fact, there is a duet with Colin and Micky Moody playing slide.

[@ghichens3418]

Hes a one off !! Ace

[@bert0522]

I saw him with his band Taste open for Blind Faith in 1969 in Ole St' Lou'. Jim

[@soulgalorememories9921]

Rory’s “Do You Read Me”is well worth a reaction as is “Bad Penny”…both are good old rock tunes.

[@indianwhiskey6150]

❤ his style as act stage ... so iconic , he's Rory ... 🌹, ☕☕?😊

[@davidclark3603]

That was really good that!

[@stephenagould6159]

You should play, Walk on hot coals from the 1974 Irish tour album

[@stevel2504]

Yep, love this, thanks👍

[@tonyfordgolf9438]

Hi Tony here again, Thanks for reviewing Joe Jacksons sunday papers, Sorry for the confusing name golf! I have my own golf channel back in England, T F without the golf will be fine lol! I see you are in to the legend Rory G, I saw him live way back in the 70s at the Lyceum ballroom in the strand London, and he played this amongst many others! Another great Irish guitarist to check out is The late great Gary Moore he to is way up there with the guitar gods One to check out is Jimi Hendrix Red house at the Fender 50yr celebration in London! Will blow your socks off! Thanks again, You play some great stuff!

[@markferrett700]

Wow....some bass riff.

[@oeokosko]

Rory on fire!!!!!!

[@geoffpoole483]

I'm surprised Lou Martin wasn't arrested for what he did to that piano.

[@diogenesagogo]

Yup, that's definitely Rowlf on piano 😁

[@1291-i1k]

Genius (the band) No.1 for all times!

[@SPKdesign1]

I don't listen to a lot of Rory Gallager but I do have a couple of his lps somewhere. There is a lot of really great Old Grey Whistle Test sets. I used to watch it every week. Bowie did a great set for it and also Alex Harvey's version of "Delilah" fro there is great.

[@mightyV444]

I still have a 3-DVD set somewhere; Great stuff! 😀👍 Alex Harvey is on there with 'Give My Compliments To The Chef' 😊

[@SPKdesign1]

@@mightyV444 Even when it was artists I wasn't so keen on, the Production was ayeways great.

[@mightyV444]

@@SPKdesign1 - Yes, totally! 😀 But also, some artists/performances I didn't like during my very first watch/listen would later actually become some of my favourites, like The Edgar Winter Group with 'Frankenstein' 😁👍

[@SPKdesign1]

@@mightyV444 ​I liked The Edgar Winter Group but it's only relatively recently that I got a guide listen to them. I saw him at one of the many Weekend Rock Gigs where he was playing. Some of the stories he told in between tracks were absolutely hilarious.

[@mightyV444]

@@SPKdesign1 - Hehe, cool! 😄 Yeah, I watched an interview with him a couple of years ago, which was recent at the time, and he also told some interesting stories then! 😄

[@fuzzie1956]

Another good cut from this show : kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZvVhn6laN6NlZo.

[@julief7090]

It was written somewhere (Rolling Stone, maybe?) that the backing musicians were just mediocre. I never understood that! Also, the bassist, Gerry McAvoy, played in the band Nine Below Zero for many years and now plays with Band of Friends.

[@julief7090]

Oh, drummer was Rod D'Ath and Lou Martin on keyboards. I sometimes isolate the bass just to hear some of the incredible work that McAvoy put out. He always said Rory kept him on his toes--he often didn't know where Rory was headed in a song.

[@hanierfamily]

We noticed that on our last Rory Gallagher video. That look of 'Oh, here we go!' Gerry had on every second shot of him. He clearly had a blast, though.

[@Sandy-dd4le]

Gerry tells a great story, it might be in the Ghost Blues documentary,...every two or three gigs, Rory would come up to Gerry while they were onstage, and suggest playing a song that wasn't on the set list, it would usually be something they hadn't played for a couple of tours, Gerry would say,"I can't remember how it goes", to which, Rory would wink, grin, and say, "ah, Come on now. What's the worst that could happen?"

[@SPKdesign1]

@@Sandy-dd4le That's how you keep the band on their toes.

[@julief7090]

@@Sandy-dd4le In Gerry's book, (or in an interview) he says that they usually didn't play with a set list. The first 3 or so songs were known, and I imagine the final song, but the rest of the set was whatever Rory felt like. I can see him throwing in a tune they hadn't played in a while.

[@colrhodes377]

This is great 👍. To my eternal shame, I have never made the effort to get into Rory Gallagher despite other people telling me how brilliant he is. One of the two original guitarists in Whitesnake, Bernie Marsden is an enormous fan of Rory and a few years ago he did an album of RG songs. Maybe you could take a look at that album, and pick a track for Who did it better? . That would be a brilliant comparison ❤

[@stephenodonoghue464]

WOW

[@chutzpah157]

You should probably check out "Keychain and "Bad Penny" Although, I like keyboard that piano gets on my nerves. There's no doubt that Rory could play guitar. Good bass player too. Jmo

[@vedantapdx]

What you will find is that Rory was quirky. I have listened to him for decades as I used to own a couple of record/CD stores and selling good blues and rock was my business. Rory was one of the greatest guitarist I have ever run across. Raised in Ireland, his first band was called Taste and I think he only made one album under that name as he performed at the rare but legendary Isle of Wight concert probably early in the 70's. That album, Taste, led the European public to believe they had another Cream on their hands, with a young Irish guitar savant that reminded people of Eric Clapton. Fact is, Rory never followed that destiny and was much more satisfied being a blues guitarist superlative who just toured around Europe. The reason so few in America never knew much about Rory is that he was afraid to fly and to my knowledge never made it to the USA. Still, Rory was known as a blued savant on is instrument and died too soon during his constant touring in Europe. Rory was always playing in my home or car and I have missed him. I am glad new people are able to hear his music in this new medium. Try and track down a copy of Taste. It was brilliant.

[@avelingbarford]

He did play in the USA....

[@oeokosko]

Two Taste studio albums and 2 live ones. Also the complete IoW concert released on CD. 'On The Boards' was the best album, to my mind, very like his immediately following two 'solo' studio albums.