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GENERAL >> MAIN BOARD >> Anybody ever hear of this?: RORY GALLAGHER’S IRA KIDNAP FEAR http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1441133014 Message started by Edith Grove on Sep 1st, 2015 at 1:43pm |
Title: Anybody ever hear of this?: RORY GALLAGHER’S IRA KIDNAP FEAR Post by Edith Grove on Sep 1st, 2015 at 1:43pm MARTIN KIELTY / 01 SEP 2015 Brother Donal tells how late-night phone call from Stones led guitarist to believe he faced terror threat Irish blues-rock icon Rory Gallagher feared a late-night phone call from the Rolling Stones was a terror threat from the IRA. Stones keyboardist Ian Stewart phoned the Gallagher house in Cork in January 1975, while the Irish Troubles were at their height. And Gallagher – who died in 1995 – worried that he was about to be kidnapped. His brother and manager Donal tells the Sun: “It was a really scary time in Ireland. Paramilitaries were kidnapping people. So when the phone went off after midnight, and a strange voice asked if Rory Gallagher was there, we got very scared.” The guitarist spent four days rehearsing with Mick Jagger and co, with a view to replacing Mick Taylor. But he ultimately decided to focus on his solo career, leaving the door open for the Faces’ Ronnie Wood to join up. Donal recalls: “They got on brilliantly – but we’ll never really know what happened.” http://classicrock.teamrock.com/news/2015-09-01/rory-gallagher-s-ira-kidnap-fear-rolling-stones-call-1975 |
Title: Re: Anybody ever hear of this?: RORY GALLAGHER’S IRA KIDNAP FEAR Post by mojoman on Sep 1st, 2015 at 8:13pm
this came out last year and expands on the legendary tour
explosive stuff!! http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/irish-tour-expanded-deluxe-edition-mr00042... Discs 5 & 6 Belfast (29th of December 1973) "Messin' with the Kid"* "Cradle Rock"* "Tattoo'd Lady"* "Walk on Hot Coals"* "Hands Off"* "A Million Miles Away"* "Laundromat"* "As the Crow Flies"* "Pistol Slapper Blues"* "Unmilitary Two-Step"* "Bankers Blues"* "Going to My Hometown"* "Who's That Coming"* "In Your Town"* "Bullfrog Blues"* |
Title: Re: Anybody ever hear of this?: RORY GALLAGHER’S IRA KIDNAP FEAR Post by Voodoo Chile In Wonderland on Sep 1st, 2015 at 8:25pm
Yes, I heard that story before, Rory without any doubt is one of the best! The Irish Tour was great, Taste was great, Rory too
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Title: Re: Anybody ever hear of this?: RORY GALLAGHER’S IRA KIDNAP FEAR Post by sweetcharmedlife on Sep 1st, 2015 at 8:51pm mojoman wrote on Sep 1st, 2015 at 8:13pm:
Never heard that story. But love me some Rory. :willya :keithpunky :keithpunky :keithpunky :keithpunky |
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