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“He had a beat-up old Italian Rosetti that was his first guitar and so he traded that in, got the guitar, and was doing the showband stuff with it, and yeah, he just saved up all his wages and paid it off in instalments.”
Even for a guitar that was used as heavily as it was, however, Rory’s Strat is famously, remarkably worn and beaten up – and while received wisdom often lays the blame at Rory’s propensity to sweat on stage, the reality is actually more interesting…
“The start of the wear would have been around 1965 or ’66, when the guitar got stolen,” says Daniel. “They actually did a little piece on Ireland’s version of Crimewatch! It was very condescending, it was this thing on RTÉ called ‘Irish Police Watch’ or something like that [It was actually RTÉ Garda Patrol – Ed] and it was like, ‘Oh and a young man with long hair has had two of his guitars stolen…’ – I think it was the Tele and the Strat – ‘If anyone sees them, they look like this…’ and a picture went up on the screen. I really want to find that footage from RTÉ’s archive!
“But they got dumped in a ditch about two weeks later, because the guy couldn’t sell them – obviously! They’d been on telly, and it was probably the only Strat in Ireland, there probably weren’t that many Teles, either – so they were going to be hard to shift!
“So because they were too hot, he dumped them in this ditch, where someone found them and two weeks later, Rory had them back. But I think it got a bit of water damage from that, and probably a lot of scratches from brambles and all that, plus Rory’s constant playing of it just wore it away!”
Songs
1.Moonchild
2.Double Vision
3.I Wonder Who
4.Nadine
5.Bad Penny
6.I Ain't No Saint
7.Continential Op
8.Bourbon (Cuts Out)
9.A Million Miles Away
10.Out On The Western Plains
11.Walkin' Blues
12.Bankers Blues
13.Loanshark Blues
14.When My Baby Left Me/Shinkicker
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