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Check this comprehensive list out. If you know of any additions please email roryfan@comcast.net
                       

http://www.roryon.com/time.html

I have just asked him to add an Aberdeen date for 24 August 1986 - 2 days later I drove to Edinburgh and got there at 8.30pm for a 10.30 start. He came on at 12.30 and played until 3am. Absolutely spellbinding gig but I was a bit tired driving home...............



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Re: Rory Gallagher Concerts

Pretty cool. My dates were already documented.  I always enjoy looking at tour histories like this.  Someone with a LOT of energy needs to start one for Joe.

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dknight16 wrote:

Pretty cool. My dates were already documented.  I always enjoy looking at tour histories like this.  Someone with a LOT of energy needs to start one for Joe.

I think between Rory and Joe they've touched just about every bit of this planet!!! All the Rory dates I attended were there.....all the Cardiff gigs plus the Reading Rock Festival....all brilliant!

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dknight16 wrote:

Someone with a LOT of energy needs to start one for Joe.

I would be interested in doing this if a moderator could point me in the right direction...............


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This is really great! I did write trying to help out regarding the two shows that I was at. Rory was such a rare talent and man and provided many of us with such joy, not to mention how many great players that he influenced. cool

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I have so many memories of Rory and saw him for the first time when I was just 16 (3 weeks after Led Zeppelin too). I am going to visit his grave in Cork when I am there for Tom Petty in June but I won't be wearing a check shirt and baseball boots, like I did back then smile


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Kenny wrote:

I have so many memories of Rory and saw him for the first time when I was just 16 (3 weeks after Led Zeppelin too). I am going to visit his grave in Cork when I am there for Tom Petty in June but I won't be wearing a check shirt and baseball boots, like I did back then smile
Kenny

Nor weighing around 9st (120lbs or 55kg) or having hair cascading over your shoulders - not that I knew you then, but if you were anything like me at that age. big_smile

I think I'd just turned 19 when I first saw Rory, which was at the Kursaal (correct spelling) in Southend on 7th December 1973. I have a photo of Rory from this gig, but it's difficult to make him out. lol I saw many great bands at this venue which was an old dance hall with a sprung floor. It was impossible to stand still once the bands and audience were in full swing. Happy days. smile

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http://www.bluesmagazine.nl/rory-gallag … nniversary

Scroll down to watch the video Cradle Rock.
Amazing.

And if you don't have something in your library from Rory, maybe the first-six-solo-album-reissue is something.

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Wooders wrote:
Kenny wrote:

I have so many memories of Rory and saw him for the first time when I was just 16 (3 weeks after Led Zeppelin too). I am going to visit his grave in Cork when I am there for Tom Petty in June but I won't be wearing a check shirt and baseball boots, like I did back then smile
Kenny

Nor weighing around 9st (120lbs or 55kg) or having hair cascading over your shoulders - not that I knew you then, but if you were anything like me at that age. big_smile

I think I'd just turned 19 when I first saw Rory, which was at the Kursaal (correct spelling) in Southend on 7th December 1973. I have a photo of Rory from this gig, but it's difficult to make him out. lol I saw many great bands at this venue which was an old dance hall with a sprung floor. It was impossible to stand still once the bands and audience were in full swing. Happy days. smile

Phil


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thanks for that, - if I am ever asked by a Policeman where I was and what I was doing on the night of 18th September 1980 I can now tell them because before seeing that list I could not have remembered smile .... And I had hair in those days!

My YouTube channel with plenty of my Joe's videos dating from 2009 inc his first Hammersmith Odeon ones:
http://www.youtube.com/ian916fun

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Ian916 wrote:

thanks for that, - if I am ever asked by a Policeman where I was and what I was doing on the night of 18th September 1980 I can now tell them because before seeing that list I could not have remembered smile .... And I had hair in those days!

Ah, the Stage Struck tour where Rory invited the audience up on the stage for Bullfrog Blues. Still have the t shirt but can't get it over my head smile


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