RORY GALLAGHER – Palo Alto 1985 (2CD)

Audience 8.7 – Brassy, loud, and guitar dominant recording that delivers where it counts and finds Rory sounding, to my ears, much more rock/metal/grunge even though he features plenty of raw, blues soaked numbers in his set. It’s just that the atmosphere and volume don’t suggest this is a “blues” band blowing through town…I just get the feeling Rory felt the times changing and adjusted accordingly. Either way you parse it, this is high-intensity music, and the recording here really manages to capture that pretty realistically.

Rory Gallagher
The Stone
Palo Alto, California
May 17, 1985

Disc One

01 – intro – Double Vision
02 – Bad Penny
03 – band intros – Off The Handle
04 – Moonchild
05 – Hey Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
06 – I Wonder Who
07 – Tattoo’d Lady
08 – Mississippi Sheiks
09 – Big Guns

Disc Two

01 – Out On The Western Plain
02 – Seven Days
03 – Philby
04 – Follow Me
05 – Shadow Play
06 – My Babe
07 – All Around Man – Bullfrog Blues – Roll Over Beethoven – Route 66

Rory Gallagher Group; May 1981 – 1991:
Rory Gallagher – guitar, vocals
Gerry McAvoy – bass
Brendan O’Neill – drums
Mark Feltham – harmonica