Seven you might dig this, I know a little about Rory, I was the tour manager for the Violent Femmes for a few years and this is a pic of us on a day off while in Athens atop the Acropolis with Victor De Lorenzo(Violent Femmes), Myself and **** Parry(Rory Gallagher, Pink Floyd, David Gilmore). **** would tour with us as a Sax player while we we toured Europe and Africa etc... He was in Rory's band and had some good stories, even better stories from his days in Pink Floyd!
Did you go see his last tour, **** invited a few of us down when David played in Chicago 2 years ago, it was an amazing show, we got treated like royalty!
%*%&^@( NO!!!!!!! friggin was outta work when he came thru and couldn't afford it... did buy the live in gdansk set though...
btw BHF, with regards to a nice electric... my strat is an Made in USA model, but if I were buying new today, I'd really have a good look at the Made in Mexico Road Worn 60's strat in Olympic White... if you like the whole 'relic' thing... I played one at Guitar Center a few month back when they first came out... they are very nice guitars and much like the Rory strat already have the finish worn off in many places and have an "old sneaker" feel to 'em... very comfy and sound very good... but now you're talkin about gettin upwards of $900 for the guitar alone... fwiw - if you can't tell I'm kind of a Fender bigot, I played gibson's for a while, but there's just somethin about a strat thats just ~right~...
