The late guitarist Rory Gallagher is to be honoured with a new statue outside the Ulster Hall in Belfast, where he performed many times over the years and where there’s already a plaque in his honour.
Gallagher’s birthplace of Ballyshannon in Donegal has a life-sized bronze statue, while Cork where he was raised, named Rory Gallagher Place after him in 1997. There have also been several commissioned street-art tributes, plaques and a bid by citizens to rename the airport after him.
Rory Gallagher to be honoured with statue outside Belfast’s Ulster Hall (Planet Rock)
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Now this man deserves a statue. Gallagher laid waste to legions of blues-rock pretenders.
dead right
we should actually just stop mucking about and rename the country ‘roryland’ and have done with it.
am i the only person on this island who finds his music hoary, bland and samey? it’s pretty run-of-the-mill white blues.
*tumbleweed*
In my best John McEnroe impression…YOU CANT BE SERIOUS!!!
As a guitar player I will forever be in awe of how Rory played. He, SRV and Jimi are the only players that I can actually see pour emotion into the instrument. They rarely played the same song the same way twice and could just flow off on a tangent in a way where you felt the instrument was just an extension of them.
Having said that, purely on a ‘song’ basis…I don’t altogether disagree with you. Stevie and Rory wrote a lot of tracks that, especially in the studio versions, could be on the bland side, the lyrics could also be a bit contrived. Blues, anything other than the roots, often runs a thin line between sincerity and cliche, well IMHO of course.
Starina hitting the wasp nest there!
but it’s funnnnn
Oh don’t mistake me, I like it!
As is so often the case, the early stuff is the most important.
He became sad when it turned into a business, or summat.
Bands usually make it to the second or.third album before going down the toilet, although there are exceptions.
Refreshing to hear that opinion. Presumed everyone was mad about him. I gave Rory Gallagher a go because of a couple I know, (who met at the Rory Gallagher festival about 8 years ago. Who got engaged at the festival 5 years later*. Now they’re married and have a baby on the way.) I liked one or 2 of his songs a little** but yeah, I don’t feel any real connection to the music. Which is a long, conflicted way of saying I agree with you.
*A festival which I attended btw. If you thought Rory Gallagher was run-of-the-mill white blues, wait until you hear a Rory Gallagher tribute act. The festival was still fun though, even before the great news.
**Maybe the album version of Cradle rock, if it was a good deal shorter, and the live version of sinnerboy below.
https://youtu.be/-VRrMsTxELg
What are they going to call the baby, then?
Alan?
Shots fired!
Rorys a gem. Fair play in fairness
Great to see this – a great man – all about the music and none of the fame.
One of the world’s best. Well deserved!