In my opinion, the P-90 is the best pickup for slide - it has the right overtones. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I won't squander my credibility, whatever that is, just for one silly song. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I like a nice rumble on bass, openness on guitar and drums that breathe. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I kept playing blues-based music all during the 1980s, and it was tough. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
The best slide guitar, unless you're playing the Muddy Waters-style, is the old '52 Goldtop Les Paul. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I started on acoustic guitar after I heard Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Lonnie Donegan and the folk movement were responsible for a lot of the spread of the blues in England. The group Them… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
You can play slide on any guitar, but to be serious about it you have a tough set of strings, otherwise you… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
After writing quite a few songs now, I have not a method but a way of being patient with a couple of… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
If anything, even though I can play in the sort of standard string-bending style, in the B.B. King mold and all of… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Basically, I try to treat the electric guitar like an acoustic guitar. What you have to do is attack the instrument and… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
A lot of the time I use slide tuning for rhythm parts. I play a lot of slide in regular tuning as… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
When I listen to something, I like to be taken out of my seat and thrown across the room. If it sounds… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
It has affected me very much in the last 10 years. I get it from my grandmother. She was very superstitious as… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
The first songs I learned were 'It Takes a Worried Man' and Woody Guthrie's 'Grand Coulee Dam,' 'Rock Island Line' - those… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Basically, I like anything with guts - Lead Belly, Bill Big Broonzy, Johnny Winter, the Stones. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
It's dangerous not to tour, because people assume you've faded away, or have no interest. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I started on acoustic guitar after I heard Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I could bear being in the charts and being on everyone's car radio 10 times a day. I'm just terrified of... a lot of… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm a great listener - I play records all the time at home. And I play guitar as a hobby. So inspiration has never… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it's… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Playing live is my natural element. It's too hard to relax in the studio because there are too many options. It's just not as… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
