Rory Gallagher - December 29, 1972 (AUD - 1st Gen - RESEED - 113 Minutes Long) City Hall, Cork, Ireland

This is from my 2008 offer, so this a RESEED, but a new text file has benn made/updated.
I'm always looking for upgrades, alternate sources, & uncirculated Rory Gallagher shows.
If you have any of those, please share or get them to someone that can do so.
Enjoy!!!

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Rory Gallagher .... December 29, 1972
City Hall, Cork, Ireland

June 1972 - May 1978:
Rory Gallagher - guitar, vocals
Lou Martin - keyboards
Gerry McAvoy - bass
Rod de'Ath - drums


Taper: John Quigley
Location: recorded from the middle of the balcony of the City Hall.
Source: Philips mono cassette recorder> AUD Master Cassette> Sharp RT-100 bog standard stereo cassette deck, 1st gen casette> Philips standalone early model CDRecorder, CDRW's
Lineage: AUD trade CDR's> (wav) EAC (secure mode)> (flac) Trader's Little Helper level 6 (align on sector boundaries)
Transfer: Patrick Donovan (Ireland). Thank You!!
Quality: "vg+" AUD
Length: 13 tracks = 112:15 minutes
Artwork: original from Patrick Donovan (Ireland). Alternate, Ebby (Japan). Thanks all!!
Samples: none.


Set List:

Disc One (57:22m):
01 Messin' With The Kid,
02 Hands Off,
03 band intros, What In The World,
04 Laundromat,
05 Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
06 Banker's Blues,
07 Pistol Slapper Blues,
08 Goin' To My Hometown,

Disc Two (54:53m):
01 In Your Town,
Encore:
02 Sinner Boy,
03 Hoodoo Man,
04 Bullfrog Blues,
05 Sinner Boy (different show??)



JAJ (roryglzep) Notes:
a - I originally received this as Dec. 29, 1971, so there may be "aka" versions out there that are misdated. While (After) listening to this I noticed Lou Martin was on keyboards & Lou was not part of Rory's band in 1971. Then I started e-mail exchanges with the trader, who contacted the taper, & in fact this is a Dec. 29, 1972 recording.
b - The Ebby artwork states that Disc Two tracks #2 thru #5 are from unknown venue, but in fact they are from this show, & are the encores.


FOLLOWING NOTES CONTRIBUTED TO DIME IN 2008, FROM PDonovan:
In the early days, Rory always played Cork City Hall, no other venue for music in the city, and Rory came back to visit his mother at Christmastime. (a good habit, b.t.w.)
These shows were taped on a crap mono philips cassette recorder with the standard crap tapes of the day. The tapes survived solely by not being played that often.
They were in pretty poor shape, some of them were 120's, which put the fear of god into me. The microphone came bundled with it, a stubby little pencil jobbie.
Cassette recorders in those days were in their infancy, the cassette recorder had only been invented in 1963, and playback was only possible through the totally crap in built speaker. hi fi was not an option for another ten years
Those early machines had a very small flywheel on them, and if you jumped around or even swayed vigourously the recording speed would wobble. So you had to keep still. No mean feat at a Rory Gallagher concert
They were played back on a bog standard stereo cassette deck, (sharp rt-100) nothing special, and transferred onto a standalone very early model philips cdrecorder onto cdrw disc.
that was then just wav ripped onto the pc using an early version of nero, probably.
These earlier shows were all recorded from the middle of the balcony of the city hall.
The sound was better up there, and downstairs had a wooden floor which recieved an unmerciful pounding from several hundred pairs of doc martens, army boots hushpuppies, or whatever, on songs like hometown or sinner boy.
I didnt tape these shows, a friend named John Quigley did that, but I woulda been at these shows. I stopped going to Rory shows in 74 when the tickets got too expensive, i.e £4 instead of the usual £1 or £2... Hard times even then.



Prepared by Jeff James (roryglzep@aol.com)
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