Just get the OPW to buy it, they should be able to sign off on the budget without too many questions.
Rory Gallagher’s music – a treasure
Rory Gallagher’s guitar – just another guitar
True. I remember picking up a guitar, finding the blues, and wondering how I hadn’t managed to have heard of him until then. True legendary guitar player.
Guitars that have good tone go for good money. And with a link to a famous guitarist they can reach good money.
But to get the amount being asked they have to be mega stars guitars from a particular period album or song.
No matter how much I respect Rory , he’s not that famous outside of guitar circles.
More it’s talked about the more the price will go up I think
Definitely belongs in Ireland though
“It belongs in a museum”
His sweat is soaked into that thing, can we not clone him. ???
Why doesnt his brother just donate it to a museum if its that important to him?
It’s hardly the Arc of the Covenant is it
Disagree completely, and I’m a huge Rory fan. Treating guitars or cars as museum pieces completely misses the point. Its not a sculpture, its ment to be played. Ideally great musical instruments would pass from great musician to great musician, just as most Stradivarius violins are in the hands of great players, not museum pieces
What if we buried it in Wood Quay, then dug it up again and hit it with hammers?
The guitar that got its start with royal showband
It can belong in Éire while still not being in a museum. Give it to a musician who appreciates and admired his work, a musical family member, or to an institution that teaches music.
The state should just buy it & stop fucking about. People will pay to come to see it.
Joe B is over at the moment. Possible sale?
Maybe we could Excalibur it? Let Irish lads up to bring it to life, whoever channels Rory the best becomes our overlord and deity.
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That sounds like such a special piece of history
Just get the OPW to buy it, they should be able to sign off on the budget without too many questions.
Rory Gallagher’s music – a treasure
Rory Gallagher’s guitar – just another guitar
True. I remember picking up a guitar, finding the blues, and wondering how I hadn’t managed to have heard of him until then. True legendary guitar player.
Guitars that have good tone go for good money. And with a link to a famous guitarist they can reach good money.
But to get the amount being asked they have to be mega stars guitars from a particular period album or song.
No matter how much I respect Rory , he’s not that famous outside of guitar circles.
More it’s talked about the more the price will go up I think
Definitely belongs in Ireland though
“It belongs in a museum”
His sweat is soaked into that thing, can we not clone him. ???
Why doesnt his brother just donate it to a museum if its that important to him?
It’s hardly the Arc of the Covenant is it
Disagree completely, and I’m a huge Rory fan. Treating guitars or cars as museum pieces completely misses the point. Its not a sculpture, its ment to be played. Ideally great musical instruments would pass from great musician to great musician, just as most Stradivarius violins are in the hands of great players, not museum pieces
What if we buried it in Wood Quay, then dug it up again and hit it with hammers?
The guitar that got its start with royal showband
It can belong in Éire while still not being in a museum. Give it to a musician who appreciates and admired his work, a musical family member, or to an institution that teaches music.
The state should just buy it & stop fucking about. People will pay to come to see it.
Joe B is over at the moment. Possible sale?
Maybe we could Excalibur it? Let Irish lads up to bring it to life, whoever channels Rory the best becomes our overlord and deity.