Rory Gallagher

Rory Gallagher en réponse à un blind test :

Extrait d'un entretien avec Donal Gallagher, le frère de Rory :

I’m sure you’ve heard this question plenty, but I’m going to ask it anyway. What truth is there to the story that Jimi Hendrix asked Rory Gallagher how it felt to be the best guitar player in the world?

Donal Gallagher: That’s a difficult one because it’s something that’s been circulating for a while, and it certainly has been used by the record companies. The source that it stems from is from a South African writer, I can’t remember his name straight off, but he wrote it on his blog. From what we understand, it happened after the Isle of Wight Festival. Now, with these quotes, they get arms and legs onto them, and I’ve seen that it was at Woodstock, but that’s not the case.

I do know that Hendrix had been to see Rory. In fact, on one occasion, Rory had a guy on stage jamming with him, this guy called Tim Rose. Tim Rose had a hit with this song called “Morning Dew,” and the other side of the record was “Hey Joe,” which was a traditional song he had contemporized. So he was on stage that night and spotted Hendrix at the back of the room and actually left the stage to go physically attack Hendrix because he felt Hendrix stole the song.

So Rory told me to keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn’t do anything whatsoever to Jimi, so I followed him down to make sure that he didn’t. So anyway, Hendrix and Tim got talking, and Hendrix bought Time a drink and told him how much he like his record. He told him that it inspired him to rerecord it.

Certainly, Jimi did see Rory on a few occasions at the clubs in London. I think that the phrase, to be honest, was at the Isle of Wight Festival. Now, Rory had opened on the Friday night, early at the festival. That caused quite a sensation; he actually got five encores. I still have all the press clippings. Here was this new guy who stole the festival. Hendrix didn’t play until Sunday night and wasn’t very well actually. He was quite ill at the time, and didn’t do a particularly great set.

This interview with the South African guy was conducted afterwards, so he may have been asking, “With everyone excited about Rory Gallagher…” and then the question. So you can take it in two slightly different ways, but nonetheless it’s an acknowledgement.

Source : http://guitarinternational.com/2011/05/26/donal-gallagher-interview-releasing-notes-from-san-francisco/

il parait qu'un jour : Un journaliste a demandé à Jimi Hendrix ce que ça faisait d'être le meilleur guitariste vivant, il répondit: « Je ne sais pas, demandez ça à Rory Gallagher, Monsieur. »

Il me semble que c'était lors de son passage a la télé, au "Dick Cavett Show".

Sgt. Pepper a écrit:

Il me semble que c'était lors de son passage a la télé, au "Dick Cavett Show".

Non ce n'est pas lors de ces émissions. Tu as les interviews complètes ici :

- Interview TV avec Dick Cavett : 7 juillet 1969
- Interview TV avec Dick Cavett : 9 septembre 1969

Dick Cavett : Vous passez pour être l'un des meilleurs guitaristes au monde.

Jimi : Oh non... (rires)

Dick Cavett : Disons l'un des meilleurs de ce studio en tout cas.

Jimi : Disons l'un des meilleurs assis à ma place.

Autant pour moi . Mais je suis sur d'avoir vu ou lu quelque part l'allusion de Jimi envers Rory Gallagher.

brume_pourpre a écrit:

Dick Cavett : Vous passez pour être l'un des meilleurs guitaristes au monde.

Jimi : Oh non... (rires)

Dick Cavett : Disons l'un des meilleurs de ce studio en tout cas.

Jimi : Disons l'un des meilleurs assis à ma place.

Quelle modestie !
40 ans plus tard il est toujours number one.

Hendrix était un grand modeste...

Citation :

Had you met Jimi?

I never met him. I saw him playing two times, but three shows. I was in the Speakeasy Club in London once, and he was sitting a couple of tables away, talking to someone. I hadn’t the guts to go over and annoy him. That’s happened to me a few times. And you regret it later – I mean, all you got to do is shake their hand and make contact. Because these people pass through this world and you don’t get to say hello to them, you know.

http://jasobrecht.com/rory-gallagher-the-1991-interview/

Citation :

"I'm not the kind of musician who believed in taking on the excesses of Jimi Hendrix in the hope of giving his music that edge. I'm not saying Hendrix sold his soul to devil but he did think - ' I'm a meteor and going to burn out young, yet even if I die I'm going to play as no one ever played before'. He paid for that aim with his life. He was as demonic as Johnson in his own way but I never really was tempted to try those excesses. And the key reason was absolute fear, fear of that darkness taking over. That fear was further fuelled by seeing people like Hendrix and Paul Kossoff of Free die as they did. I'm not saying Phil Lynott went that way, but I saw him weeks before he died and I got a cold feeling of his imminent death. And despite that Rock n' Roll line, 'die young and leave a good corpse', to me there's nothing glamorous about dying young, even if the journey makes you the greatest musician in the world." _ Rory Gallagher

Cork (Irlande) :



Probablement n'aurons-nous jamais le fin mot de l'histoire de toute façon ! Mais j'adore Rory Gallagher donc ça ne me dérange pas !!

YM

J'adore les deux moi aussi. Dans mon top 2 sans problème !

Rory était cool. Mais je préfère lui poser cette question, pour obtenir la bonne réponse..

Rubem a écrit:

Mais je préfère lui poser cette question, pour obtenir la bonne réponse..

Il n'y a aucune d'urgence !

YM

Extrait d'une interview pour le magazine Beat Instrumental datant de 1975:

"Buy an acoustic guitar first and learn to play on this for about a year or so, so that you don't get lumbered with the extra problems of amplification etc. that using an electric entails. Don't use ultra-light strings and don't necessarily use the most popular guitar on the market. There are a lot of really good unfashionable guitars about. Hofners are a good example. I heard the other day that Hendrix played Red House on his first album on a Hofner, so there should be no reason why anyone shouldn't be able to get a decent sound from one. In the field of amps there is the AC30 which is a superb amp, the Watkins Dominators are other good buy."

Quelqu'un peut confirmer ou infirmer les propos de Rory sur Jimi ?

C'est ce qu'on dit mais je ne connais pas l'origine de cette anecdote.

C'est mon solo de Jimi préféré. La version UK.

Tiger a écrit:

Hendrix était un grand modeste...

Oui sauf quand il est sur scène avec Clapton et lui met la fessée

I do know that Hendrix had been to see Rory. In fact, on one occasion, Rory had a guy on stage jamming with him, this guy called Tim Rose. Tim Rose had a hit with this song called “Morning Dew,” and the other side of the record was “Hey Joe,” which was a traditional song he had contemporized. So he was on stage that night and spotted Hendrix at the back of the room and actually left the stage to go physically attack Hendrix because he felt Hendrix stole the song.




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