Rory Stories
from his fans |
A Rory Gallagher
time-capsule : 1974 - 1976 LL's memories of meeting Rory as a 13 year old in California and becoming a fan for life |
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Shinkicker,
Moonchild and a
Roryfied Strat A pictorial journey of two big Rory fans and a Strat. Joyce & Perry Lictenberger's story |
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I'm A Professional, Don't Try This At Home Catfish's story of a Rory influenced bicycle ride | 3 |
A
National Holiday with Rory Gallagher Tony McLean recounts his 1985 meeting and night with Rory as manager for Canadien Guitarist, Paul Fenton. |
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Table Dancing Vince's story of Rory at the Bottom Line in New York in the late 70's | 5 |
The Hall Peter Williams' story of getting Rory into the Rock Hall of Fame | 6 |
A Daughter's Story A nice Rory story and a poem | 7 |
A Broken Bottle and a lost chance Maurice Finn's sad story | 8 |
The Lonestar Charlie Gili's close encounter with Rory at the Lonestar Cafe in NY 1985 | 9 |
Coffee Jan Wilkey shares a cup of coffee with the G-man and her memories | 10 |
Texas Fan by Fritz Huss A fan finds Rory by mistake at a ZZ Top concert | 11 |
Hanging out with Rory in Arizona, 1985 Roger Wrobel's chance meeting with Rory | 12 |
Pepper's Golden Bear Roger Wrobel's review & memories of a 1991 Huntington, CA show | 13 |
Donman's story Donman's story of 'discovering' Rory in Toronto | 14 |
A different Rory Story Marianne Murphy's story of meeting Rory and writing a song to honor him in 1991. This song was included on the Tribute tapes that Rick Oppegaard compiled after Rory left us. Details on the music included. | 15 |
The G Man Comes to Boston – 1979 Justin Jordan's story of Rory's kindness and how he influenced him on the road to becoming a professional guitarist | 16 |
A Rory story from John Hammond As related by John Ganjamie in a Loop post | 17 |
Bob Adams -THUMBS UP Bob's story of recovering Rory's slide and a thumbs up | 18 |
The Strand Jon Wilder's account of an early '90's show in Redondo Beach, CA | 19 |
Opening
Act Bob McCloskey story on Rory opening for Jefferson
Starship with familiar results! |
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The Last Tour Doug
Pugh's great memories of Rory's final US tour in 1991. |
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Rory's
Antics A collection of fan
stories remembering some of Rory's antics during shows-some fun |
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A Kiss at the Agora
Dwana Horner's story of meeting Rory at the Agora and a surprise kiss |
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The Real Thing Vince Rampino finds Rory's music,
then sees the real thing live |
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Paradiso Jan the Lazyman relates his memories
of Rory at the Paradiso in the Netherlands |
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Name
That Baby Diana Leary's
story of meeting Rory
and naming her baby before he was born |
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Impressed Peter Lefacuher's story of how Rory stood out from the crowd of rock guitarists | 27 |
Red Letter Day Nick "Rocky" Smith's great story of
his visit to a guitar shop in Brisbane, Australia and testing out
a Rory tribute Strat in 9/2005 |
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Old Friends, Memories
and Rory Keith Miles
reunites with some old friends and Rory memories |
29 |
A
week of Rory in Toronto Gerry
Gerhart's memories of a week of Rory
shows at the Colonial Tavern in Toronto in 1973 |
30 |
Kenny Murray's memories
of Rory in Ayr, Scotland
Kenny's memories of Rory's show at the Caledonian Hotel in Ayr,
including a surprise meeting at the bar. |
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Jim Grace’s memories
of two Rory Shows Jim's
pictorial memories of 1985 shows at The Chestnut Cabaret in
Philadelphia and Mean Mr. Mustards in Reading , PA |
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A Day to Remember Dino McGartland's memory of his first meeting with Rory in January 1984 at the Knock -Na - Moe, hotel Omagh in Omagh | 33 |
Richard Kelly's meeting with Rory at the Colonial Tavern in Toronto 3/24/73 Richard meets with Rory via friends of Gerry, then makes a little trip with Rory & crew during the intermission | 34 |
Doug Pugh's Long Beach CA Memories 2/17/74 Doug Pugh remembers a GREAT concert at the Long Beach Auditorium with KISS and a fake version of Fleetwood Mac listed as openers. Rory overcomes PA system problems to the delight of the crowd | 35 |
T.W.Parker's Rory memory from 1976 in Syracuse A great story of Rory opening for Aerosmith with results we're familiar with. Then TW tells a story of talking to gerry about the show many years later. | 36 |
Stratastic's Rory Build from scratch Well done, detailed copy of Rory's Strat | 37 |
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