Rory Gallagher

Right.

And said, Rory Gallagher, welcome to Rolling Stones.

You're the man we want.

Thank you for coming.

You know, who's the guy that's around that could replace Mick Taylor at that time? You know, and Mick and Keith in particular, when they formed the Rolling Stones label, was interviewed about who else was going to sign them.

Right, right.

At that time, he said, the two people we want to sign is, one is Peter Tosh and Rory Gallagher.

And I remember the journalist kind of, why were, and he said, he completely gets it with country blues.

Anyways, Rick Johnston is dropped off at the Aragon Ballroom on the north side of Chicago, and he's dropped off by his sweet mother, Esther Johnston.

Now, as far as the reason that the 17-year-olds dropped there, there's a concert that night at the Aragon Ballroom, and performing was Rory Gallagher headlining.

I don't know.

I looked up Rory Gallagher's songs.

Never had heard of any of them, but I guess he was a big deal in the 70s.

But headlining, however, or not headlining, I'm sorry, opening for Rory Gallagher was Kansas.

The band Kansas.

Yeah.

yeah it's

big like and it's like as we were on about Rory Gallagher earlier like I'm sure I'd be looking at him playing the opera house and stuff but I'd be a bit of a crack I'm looking forward to

it Rory Gallagher and hundreds more but that's it yeah

completely but yeah I think I think it'd be the biggest crowd I've done now just myself just the guitar like do you know

and have you set lists done out no no I don't know I kind

So you got back to Cork anyway.

And your second song choice is Rory Gallagher, Do You Read Me? So explain Cork and Rory Gallagher and the whole scene around it.

I suppose it was grim.

My younger brothers were probably more into punk.

I got into ska and stuff myself.

But when I was like 10, 11, 12, Rory Gallagher was a shining light in the neighbourhood.

He was from just very close by to where we lived.

His mom was good friends with my mother, his mother, Monica.

It was special, yeah.

Like, and what happened afterwards as regards, right, okay, Rory Gallagher is now Hot Property.

Did it happen after the Isle of Wight?

Um...

I believe that I heard way too much about the British invasion when I was growing up and not enough about the Celtic rock invasion, which to me really began in the 1960s, especially in the year of 1969, 1970.

You had Horse Lips, Thin Lizzy.

And about the same time you had the Wizard of the Blues himself, Rory Gallagher.

Today, you've got amazing bands keeping that Irish rock spirit alive from Dublin City like the Deadly Inns, Fontaines, D.C., The Scrouch, and that amazing Irish metal band, Cruican, not to mention the amazing Waylander from the Hills of Antrim, but also from Cork City, you've got Cardinals and Pebble Dash, from Tipperary, the amazing Bog Bodies, and from Galway, the Walls and the Stunning, and the amazing band called The Falls from Belfast.

Guys,

that lineup was Hendrix, of course, as mentioned, Rory Gallagher, Cactus, Chicago, The Doors, Lighthouse, Moody Blues, The Who, Miles Davis, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Sly and the Family Stone, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Free, and Jethro Tull.

Filmed and recorded or no? I've

seen footage.