With the help of some now-legendary electric guitar gear and a stacked vocabulary of blistering blues rock chops, Rory Gallagher became not only one of Ireland’s first rock stars, but one of the all-time greats of guitar music.
Those tones – and the various guitars, amps and effects pedals that helped Gallagher conjure them – were the topic of conversation in the latest issue of Guitarist, which recreated the exact rigs Rory played at some of his most famous live outings.