"Philby" Rory Gallagher performs at Montreux (1985)

[rkl17]

@emmgeeo - Gerry behaves like a dickhead??? Better check your opinion at the gate bud..... Gerry was perhaps the best bassist Rory ever could have had, he was rock solid, extremely dependable, and simply always just played his heart out. And if he was good enough to last 20 years w/ Rory Gallagher, that's good enough for me.

[MrEguitarF]

Do anyone knows how RG gets that sound out of the guitar? What kind of effect is that? Just love it...

[detoth67]

@MrEguitarF It5s not an effect, its a Coral Sitar. Its designed to play like a guitar but have the tone of a sitar

[MrEguitarF]

@detoth67 Thanks. Have to get one of those. are they expensive?

[detoth67]

@MrEguitarF A real, vintage one is on Ebay right now for $4000. Thats pretty high.

A new reissue is $800.

The downside is that the sound has no variety. Look up B.J. Thomas - Hooked on a Feeling and THE LEMON PIPERS- " GREEN TAMBOURINE ". Great songs, but everything played on the Coral Sitar sounds like that.

[P00TANARA]

that's no guitar for rory...sorry

[TehHermgirl]

Damn, Sam! Rory, you ripped my head off at the end of this one!!!

[gtrnum]

more views please!!!!!

[detoth67]

@PADDYBLUE79 Plenty of people have done it before and after him.

[dictator54]

It was one of the last sitars in exsistence his brother told the story of how he came to get it.

[detoth67]

@dictator54 Its not that rare. I've played 3 of them. They're even remaking them now.

[twessels]

nice version of this song!!!

[kw219251]

I love the Coral Electric Sitar Rory plays here. They were made for and sold by Danelectro in 1967 and '68. I believe only about 500 of them were produced. It was featured on such 60's and 70' hits as Cry Like a Baby by the Box Tops, Monterrey by Eric Burdon and the Animals, Games People Play by Joe South, to name a few. But nobody ever played it like Rory does in this clip. Gives me the shivers every time.

[9903kateyes]

Love this version of Philby--best the band has ever played it in my opinion.

[Chris1CRW]

I am proud to say that I was lucky enough to have seen the great Rory Gallagher perform at the Old Lion in Adelaide SA shortly before his untimely demise. What a legend!

[gruffpuppycomcast]

Best fake ending ever.

[Kris3Gs]

Love this guy, way gone too soon too.... Why are guitar players never playing Rory?

[Hlotar]

@Kris3Gs Coz his songs are very difficult to play

[PADDYBLUE79]

@Kris3Gs 'Cause they can't. Can't copy that energy and... well, can you copy a genius? I can't. Nobody's can't. He's THE 'Blueprint'. Can't be touch.

[olissime]

@Kris3Gs cause they simply do not have the skill for . Nobody has it on earth ...

[thirtyoseven]

The best there ever will be...

[Bmc7231]

I saw him twice with my good pal dougie the dog It was.......!

[WHOUSES]

I was lucky to see him 1977 one of the concerts he gave in Greece, no many in the pocket to buy the ticket, at the end i found money and I went my parerents lost me for a week........... Nice memories fantastic show.

[SuperbCurmudgeon]

What goes missing in all our comments about RG is what a great bass player Gerry McAvoy was. Whenever RG changed the band, he always kept GM. That says something about RG's respect for him.

[rkl17]

@SuperbCurmudgeon Good comment regarding Gerry. He truly is an amazing bass player, and he provided Rory with one hell of a tight backing groove for many great years.

[SuperbCurmudgeon]

@rkl17 Thanks for the reply. I always was impressed that no matter how many ways he changed the band, add keyboards, horns, harp, whatever, he kept "Gerry Mac" as RG called him. He seemed to have a hard time finding the perfect drummer. I think D'Ath was the best as far as playing in the band. I am a drummer and it used to drive me nuts watching him until I found out he was ambidextrous. I just know that if you got hired to play with him, you were one lucky musician. God I miss that guy!

[MiloDuplex]

@SuperbCurmudgeon - Too true, Gerry is a one of a kind bass player.. Mad props..

[emmgeeo]

@SuperbCurmudgeon Just a shame Gerry behaves like such a dickhead on stage.

[COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY]

saw him live in 1980, Incredible. That is a coral sitar Rory is playing, from memory, his brother Donal bought it for him in Los Angeles(?)

[mcleanartists]

@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Rory bought it in Texas in 1985 for $1,000

[tvrulesnation]

WOOOO what a fucking tune

[TehHermgirl]

@tvrulesnation--it's a fucking tune and a half.

[carlossimon]

Without a doubt eilean

[queeneilean]

The best there ever was.