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Post by digit on Apr 4, 2012 6:25:08 GMT -5
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Post by Cat Stevens on Apr 4, 2012 9:42:12 GMT -5
Is that... him!? No way! Great find, Owey!!!
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Post by digit on Apr 4, 2012 15:12:24 GMT -5
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Post by Cat Stevens on Apr 12, 2012 21:34:28 GMT -5
Rory with couple of soon-to-be-famous dorks back in 1981:  |
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Post by digit on Apr 15, 2012 9:29:20 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Apr 29, 2012 6:26:31 GMT -5
Ireland: Failures in the Present Tue, 24 Apr 12 Duration: 14 mins The Irish were largely absent from Shakespeare's stage but never far from the public's minds. The war in Ireland was the great military crisis of the Elizabethan regime and almost resulted in failure for England. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, presents. downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/r4shakespeare/r4shakespeare_20120424-1423d.mp3 |
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Post by digit on May 2, 2012 17:03:45 GMT -5
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Post by Cat Stevens on May 2, 2012 17:57:56 GMT -5
Thanks for the photo, Owey - here's a great anecdote from Rory: In 1973 he also appeared alongside Peter Frampton, among others, on Jerry Lee Lewis' infamous "London Sessions”. Rory does not recall those recordings with the fondness of the Muddy Waters sessions but he says he did find it intriguing to work in close proximity to such a volatile character as The Killer. "There was a strange sense of violence and madness around whenever Jerry Lee was in the room,” he says. "Whenever anyone annoyed him, he'd immediately pull up his left trouser leg and go for his sock as if he had a gun in it. I never actually saw him with a gun in the studio but I'm sure if he'd had, he'd have shot somebody. There was always a borderline of danger about him which I think is necessary for real rock `n' roll.” A year or so after the release of those "London Sessions”, Rory and a few friends were invited to a special Jerry Lee Lewis showcase gig at the Roxy club in Los Angles. The concert began equably enough and the audience was really starting to get into it when who should walk in but one John Lennon. "Lennon was going through his LA phase at the time and his hair was really short but everyone still recognised him and they all turned around to look at him as he took his seat in the balcony,” recalls Rory. "Needless to say, the fact that he was being upstaged drove Jerry Lee wild. He started to do the "Jerry Lee Rag” but everybody was still looking up at Lennon and whispering about him. All of a sudden, Jerry Lee stopped and started on about how The Beatles were shit and The Stones were shit and there ain't nobody could play real rock `n' roll the way Jerry Lee could. Lennon loved this. He had his boot up on the balcony and he started egging Jerry Lee on, shouting (adopts convincing Lennon voice) `yeah, you're right there man, The Beatles are shit!' People started laughing but Jerry Lee thought that Lennon was shouting abuse at him so he freaked out altogether. He just pushed the piano across the stage and stormed off.” The atmosphere in The Roxy was understandably tense. Most people left, fearing that Jerry Lee might go on the rampage with one of the firearms that everyone knew he always carried with him. Others stuck around hoping to witness just such an eventuality. As it happened, Rory Gallagher had a backstage pass and wanted to go in to Jerry Lee's dressing room to try and cheer him up and calm him down. Rory's brother and manager, Donal, warned against this and argued that he would be risking his life to enter such a fearsome lion's den at a time like this. Enter, at this delicate juncture, Tom O'Driscoll. O'Driscoll is a brick-shithouse of a man from Scull, Co. Cork. A fisherman by trade, he has acted as Rory's unofficial bodyguard for almost two decades and still travels most places with him today. Donal Gallagher agreed that Rory could go backstage provided that O'Driscoll went with him. "I wasn't too afraid of Jerry Lee because I had worked on the sessions with him,” says Rory. "But everybody else was obviously very scared because there was nobody else in the dressing room when Tom and I went in.” It took considerable diplomacy and tact on Gallagher's part but gradually he managed to coax Jerry Lee out of his sulk. "We actually got to the point where we were just chatting away, reminiscing about the sessions and that kind of thing.” Rory recalls. "Then, all of a sudden, the door opened and in walked Lennon. There was dead silence for a couple of seconds. I just stared at Jerry Lee to see how he was going to react. But Tom O'Driscoll couldn't resist this opportunity. He was a huge Beatles fan and he just went over to Lennon, dropped down on his knees, kissed his hand and said `I've been waiting twenty years to get the autograph of the king of rock `n' roll'! "Of course, this drove Jerry Lee completely wild. He went for his sock, thinking that he had a gun in it and then he started looking around for something to throw or break. Lennon could see all this so he quickly signed Tom's piece of paper and then, to diffuse the situation, he took the pen and another piece of paper from Tom and went across the room to Jerry Lee. He did exactly what Tom had done to him. He went down on his knees, kissed Jerry Lee's hand and said `I've been waiting twenty years to get the autograph of the real king of rock `n' roll'. Jerry Lee was delighted. He signed the scrap of paper and they started talking then and everything was fine. It was a wonderful moment.” www.rory-gallagher-tributepage.de/rory1/rorygallagherstory.htm |
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Post by digit on May 3, 2012 17:01:12 GMT -5
absolute classic story
i read a recent interview with jerry and he's still the same
Q: Why are record company releasing a box set now
JLL: Somebody got smart
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Post by manho on Jun 1, 2012 3:15:48 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Jun 17, 2012 3:04:26 GMT -5
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Post by digit on Sept 14, 2012 7:57:50 GMT -5
best gig poster evah  |
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Post by Cat Stevens on Sept 14, 2012 18:16:51 GMT -5
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Post by digit on Sept 20, 2012 15:40:10 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Oct 20, 2012 5:01:32 GMT -5
the new "stones in ireland, 1965" video looks interesting.
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