Rory Gallagher

[Sweder]

I came to RG late in life, sadly too late to see him perform live. His old rythmn section occasionally back Never the Bride (though not at my recent 50th bash). Planet Rock play his stuff (usually live recordings), which is where I heard the wonderful 'As The Crow Flies'.

Like Stevie Ray Vaughan he was gone too soon.
The Hendrix story may be apocryphal. He is reporteded to have said something similar about ZZ Top axe man Billy Gibbons on the Tonight Show. There again, Jimi was all over the shop a lot of the time.