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Rory Gallagher - Calling Card, new documentary


It's had replacement necks, while one was drying out the substitute was on ,i'msure Rory said in a magazine interview he left it on top pf the mantlepiece, also it's had replacement tuners and pickups replaced , 1,000,000 for a partscaster :lol:..
 
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Tánaiste Micheál Martin has pledged to explore ways in which the State might purchase rock legend Rory Gallagher’s Fender Stratocaster guitar before it goes on sale for an estimated £700,000 (€833,000) to £1 million in London later this year.

Mr Martin said he had great memories of hosting a civic reception for Gallagher at Cork City Hall when he was lord mayor of Cork in 1992/93 and that he would be delighted if a way could be found for the State to secure the guitar, which is being put up for auction by the Gallagher estate.


“I have very fond memories (of the civic reception) – he [Gallagher] played in the Everyman Theatre and his brother Donal was there on the night and I asked Donal would Rory mind being honoured tomorrow.

“Donal said he was extremely shy and that he shied away from all these kind of public events, but he did come in and we had a small group of about 40 people and I have very fond memories of that day in Cork City Hall,” Mr Martin said.

“I would love if we could [intervene to buy the guitar] – obviously, I will talk to [Minister for Arts and Culture] Catherine Martin and see what’s possible but it would be lovely if we could get that guitar back on Leeside.”
 
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Tánaiste Micheál Martin has pledged to explore ways in which the State might purchase rock legend Rory Gallagher’s Fender Stratocaster guitar before it goes on sale for an estimated £700,000 (€833,000) to £1 million in London later this year.

Mr Martin said he had great memories of hosting a civic reception for Gallagher at Cork City Hall when he was lord mayor of Cork in 1992/93 and that he would be delighted if a way could be found for the State to secure the guitar, which is being put up for auction by the Gallagher estate.


“I have very fond memories (of the civic reception) – he [Gallagher] played in the Everyman Theatre and his brother Donal was there on the night and I asked Donal would Rory mind being honoured tomorrow.

“Donal said he was extremely shy and that he shied away from all these kind of public events, but he did come in and we had a small group of about 40 people and I have very fond memories of that day in Cork City Hall,” Mr Martin said.

“I would love if we could [intervene to buy the guitar] – obviously, I will talk to [Minister for Arts and Culture] Catherine Martin and see what’s possible but it would be lovely if we could get that guitar back on Leeside.”
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What a splendid story. Thank you for posting.
 
RORY GALLAGHER WAS VOTED THE WORLD’S No 1 GUITARIST IN THE MELODY MAKER’S ANNUAL SHOWBIZ POLL RECENTLY. And it’s easy to say we told you so. Sure, everybody knew that Gallagher had it in him. He used to sleep with that battered guitar in the bed with him, its paint flaking off. And it wouldn’t have surprised us to hear that he used his amp as a pillow. Rory Gallagher, for as long as we knew him, has been interested in only one thing – music.

Chicks, birds, women, girls and groupies were in a different world as far as he was concerned. Heroin, cocaine and acid might have been big influences on the lives of other musicians, but Rory didn’t even want to know. Pot, hash, cannabis meant nothing to him. He didn’t even smoke cigarettes. And as for drink – he sipped Guinness by the half pint.

But to talk to the quiet Corkman about music and his face lit up. He had n open mind about it. He’d listen to everything, but he knew what he wanted to do himself. He knew what his roots were – not the Clippers or Johnny Quigley, but American blues. And he knew where he was gong – gradually developing a style to go with his talent.

Rory has come a long way since playing with the Axills. He’s come a long way from the first- original-Taste, from Cork. He’s come a log way from that first Major Minor single – a sloppy version of ‘Blister on the Moon’. Now he has more albums released than Morrison. Now he’s part of Polydor’s Pop History.

Rory Gallagher’s name is up there in lights and it’s gonna stay that way for quite a while.

Success came hard to the man who was born in Donegal and brought up in Cork. There was a lot of sleeping-in-the-van in the early days. And there was a lot of traveling from Cork to play a gig in Belfast for £12. Nowadays you need to add two noughts onto the end of that to get near to his current fee.

Taste had to slog hard to break through in England. The endless gigs in the Marquee where
originally the band had to pay the management for the privilege of gracing their famous stage….The long drags through the Continent, shipping themselves over on ferries and driving for twelve hours at a stint.

Rory first began to attract real attention on the Continent. Germany, Holland, Belgium – it was in countries like that where he first became regarded as a superstar.

The English fans were not in a great hurry to honour him but they came round to it eventually – at the Isle of Wight Festival which, ironically, signaled the end of Taste.

John Wilson and Richie McCracken split, Rory mused around Cork and took an odd Guinness with his friends. He was taking it easy. He almost looked lazy for a while….and then, wham bang, he was off again like a delayed action firework. In no time he has a brilliant solo album released and a new band on the road.
 
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