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Started by The Brain, March 10, 2009, 12:32:23 PM

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Savonarola

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74 (1974)

I had never heard of Rory Gallagher before; so I was surprised at how good this is.  It's a solid hard-rocking blues based album with a virtuoso guitarist.  I read up a little about him on Wikipedia, it sounds like his band preferred live performances (sort of like The Allman Brothers) and they had almost no studio time when they recorded their studio albums.  That might help explain why he didn't have a lot of hits here in North America.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Josephus

Quote from: Savonarola on May 02, 2025, 01:51:23 PM
Quote from: Josephus on May 01, 2025, 02:32:25 PMHysteria was huge when I was in Grade 10. Everyone, and I mean everyone wore Def Leppard shirts.
Except me. I was the lone holdout wearing Pink Floyd shirts.

I didn't realize we were the same age; due to your love of Prog I assumed you were a few years older than I was.

That's my memory of Grade 10 as well; Pink Floyd would have really stood out. 

I'm about to be 59

It may have been Grade 11.
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