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Friday, June 5, 2020

Rory Gallagher-Stage Struck (1980)

By the time "Stage Struck" was released in 1980, Rory Gallagher already had eight albums on his back in his solo career, plus several more with his germinal band Taste.
Along with Gary Moore and Phil Lynott, he is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary musicians that have given birth to Ireland, an exceptional guitarist, with a unique talent, a rock purist who has carved out a solo career such as those that today are no longer known. you can see.
At the end of the 70s, the good guy from Gallagher came from publishing his two hardest works, "Photo Phinish" and "Top Priority" where he had left behind the experimentations of yesteryear to focus on the purest and most visceral hard rock
Recorded in different locations during the world tour to present the album "Top Priority", we find a super revolutionized Gallagher who, along with his support group, bassist Gerry McAvoy and drummer Ted McKenna, are offering an incendiary repertoire of brutal hard rock and blues, that leave us breathless from the first minute to the end of the album.
Rock arsonists like the initial "Shin Kicker", the brutal "Wayward Child", "Brute Force and Ignorance" or hard rock gems like "Follow Me" or "The Last of the Independents", leave the listener perplexed at an anthological demonstration pure rock.
With this direct, which we could classify as a fascinating complement to his legendary direct "Irish Tour 74" and "Live in Europe" published years before and to which we could add his direct with Taste "Live Taste and" Live at the Isle of Wight ", reaffirms that what was really brilliant about this guitarist were his live shows with that vital spirit that he possessed, always full of strength, punch and energy.

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