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[musicmags]

[spilladabalia]

Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Shake That Thing

[decembersoul]

The Sensational Alex Harvey band!

[thefrogholler]

Musical Birthday Notes - March 10th

Musical Birthday Notes – March 10th

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[aline-et-al]

Rory Gallagher - Brute Force And Ignorance

[generationclash]

Retronaut Selects: Rory Gallagher - Top Priority (1979)

I first found out about Rory Gallagher after my dad lent me a cassette tape that had four Rory Gallagher albums taped onto it.

It was taped onto an Ampex tape and it would stop in certain parts of the tape when I played it, which is strange because the tape would always play but it would just stop on it’s own.

Due to this, I never got to hear what was on that tape as full albums, only certain songs.

Eventually, I found a copy of “Top Priority” to listen to online and it’s an excellent album!

It has this amazing flow to it, and it’s so cool.

Checking out this album is top priority. (I’m not phasing out the bad puns.)

Essential Tracks: Follow Me, Philby, Bad Penny

Listen here: Top Priority

[rnurder-one]

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, 1974

Photo by Ian Dickson

[toomuchblues]

Back to that first audition at Air Studios after we’d finished playing, Rory, Gerry, and Donal carried my drums down the stairs for me!! I said “You guys don’t have to do that” and they said, “Get out of it, we’re real people, we don’t piss about” It was so unusual and unlike what the rock and roll scene was like. I knew then that Rory was still the same guy who was pulling his boots on in the car park all those years before. 

— Ted McKenna about his first audition for Rory Gallagher band