RORY GALLAGHER VIDEOGRAPHY

SIXTH PROVISIONAL EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2011

Welcome to the sixth provisional edition of the Rory Gallagher Videography. Sorry for the long time it took me
to provide you with an update.
What's new? I just recently found out about a couple of early Taste and Rory Gallagher shows about which I
had no idea that they had been existing at all. This does in particular account for the french tv show "Point
Chaud" that broadcasted a bit of Taste's performance at the 1969 Gala de la Rose d'Or (special thanks to
Franois Geraud for informing me!) as well as a virually unknown in-studio perfomance of Rory in late 1974. I
believe that a copy of this footage might still be existing at the INA archives in Bry-sur-Marne in France.
Also I managed to bring some clarification into the much disputed question whether there has been footage of
a 1970 Taste performance in Montreux. I had my doubts initially, but now it seems that the show that was to
be released as "Live Taste" LP was actually also filmed. Evidence for this assumption is growing stronger,
since not only Claude Nobs, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, stated in an interview that this footage was
in existence but it seems that we also have surviving footage from the same concert series (Super Pop
Montreux) of Santana.
I intend this release to be the final provisional edition of the videography - the next edition will be the first
revised editon. I will also try to include an in-depth review of all material that is included on the latest Blu-Ray
release of the Irish Tour movie/the Limerick performance.
Thank you for your patience and confidence.
Lars
All dates are given according to the European date notation (DD.MM.YYYY).
How you can contribute:
Please e-mail me, if
you can provide missing information, such as running times, track lists, missing tracks, screen captures etc.
you have discovered a mistake/wrong entry
you have/know footage that is not featured
Copyright for the editorial work at Lars Feller/[email protected]
Copyright for the programmes and video stills is at the respective owners. I do not intend to violate copyrights
and will remove video captures upon request.
Thanks to the following persons who have contributed or whose work I used as a reference (no particular
order):
John Ganjamie, Klaus Erlinghagen, Dieter Radnz, Peter Meyer, Volker Grupe, Barry McGivern, Dino
McGartland, Jeffrey James, John Wainwright, Franois Geraud, Ad van Zeeland, Nao W., Megumi Manzaki,
Doug Pugh, John Spreckley, Phil, Richard Messum, Nick (The Loop), Christine Fox, Frederick Roll, Tonny
Steenhagen, Joca Loureno, Bernd Feller, Simon Barr, all the people from The Loop, and, of course, Joachim
Matz with his great timeline.
Updates since the last release (September 2010):
26.04.1969 new entry!
07.02.1970 information updated
31.08.1970 info updated
12.09.1970 information updated
11.06.1972 track list updated
19.12.1972 new entry!
09.09.1974 date found.

02.11.1974
16.11.1974
1974/75 (?)
07.05.1974
??.??.1975
??.07.1977
05.06.1979
21.03.1980
05.01.1984

new entry!
new entry!
new entry: Rory at the Barry Richards Show. Thanks to RG forum user "Irish Karen".
link to photograph added.
Images upgraded (smaller tcr) - thanks to John W.
(Montreux) newly discovered interview footage (thanks to FB Rory Gallagher group)
info corrected
Images added, tracklist and info updated - thanks to Joca Loureno
Date corrected, thanks to Simon Barr for informing me

Pre Taste era

??.04.1965
PAL/PRO

Dublin
Pickin the Pops
RT
IRE
Slow Down
You Fool Me All the Time
(?)
Rorys first ever appearance on TV. Saturday evening show presented by Larry Gogan.
With The Taste:

Eddie Kennedy, Promo clip of Blister on the Moon, Munich 1968.

??.11.1968
PAL/COL/PRO

Munich
"P" #? (documentary)
SDR
D
Born on the Wrong Side of Time
Filmed at the end of a German tour in a Munich dump. This possibly earliest surviving film of Rory was
featured in an episode of "P", a documentary series about rock bands of the 1960s. Also included was an
interview snippet with former manager Eddy Kennedy. The clip was dubbed with full playback.
Directed by Werner Schretzmeier.
??.??.????
PAL/COL/PRO

London?
Late Night Line-Up (TV Show )
Lost!
BBC 2
UK
BBC Television Centre, Studio Pres B?
Whats Going on
Morning Sun (?)
Railway and Gun (?)
There is reason to believe that this episode of LNL-U was filmed in colour: LNL-U was produced in Pres B, a
small studio at the BBC Television Centre in London. Pres B was special in regards to equipment; as early as
1966 it was furnished with three colour cameras and used as the BBCs test room for colour television.
Note that the very same studio can be seen in Rorys 1973 appearance on Old Grey Whistle Test.

26.04.1969*
PAL/BW/PRO

Montreux
Point Chaud (tv show)
ORTF
CH
Gala de la Rose d'Or
Catfish
The official homepage of the festival at www.rosedor.ch suggests that, besides by ORTF, parts of the festival
were also filmed and broadcasted by Swiss tv (SF) and German tv. Thanks to Chino for tracking this one down
and providing the image stills!
Alternative date: 27.04.1969
07.05.1969
PAL/PRO

Brussels

TV Show
B

22.08.1969
PAL/BW/PRO
00:13:18

Bilzen
Jazz Bilzen (Festival)/Tienerklanken #? (TV show)
BRT
B
Interview
Blister on the Moon
Sugar Mama
During the interview footage with Soft Machine from you can hear Taste performing Sugar Mama in the
background.
??.??.1969
PAL/PRO

Belfast
Ulster TV
Whats Going on
Sugar Mama
Same Old Story
Walkin Blues
Feel So Good
Morning Sun
Railway and Gun
Ive Got My Brand on
You
Eat My Words
Special thanks to Barry for the track list.

An Evening with the Taste (TV Show)

NI

07.02.1970*
Slough, Berkshire (?)
Disco 2 #?
PAL/COL/PRO
BBC 2
UK
Century 21 Studios (?)
*Airdate. Also on the show: Jimmy Ruffin. Running time circa 25 minutes.

lost?

apparently lost

28.02.1970
PAL/COL/PRO

14.03.1970
PAL/PRO

Bremen
Beat Club (TV Show) #52
Radio Bremen
D
If the Day Was Any Longer
It Happened Before, Itll Happen Again (1st take, not on DVDs)
Morning Sun (not on DVDs)
It Happened Before, Itll Happen Again (2nd take)

WDF
Catfish
Acoustic Ocean

Baff (TV Show)

D

28.08.1970
PRO/COL

Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight Festival
MLF Productions
UK
Same Old Story
What's Going On
Sugar Mama
Morning Sun
Gambling Blues
Sinner Boy
I Feel So Good
Catfish
The tracklist is in accordance to the latest Q&A with Donal and Daniel Gallagher on rorygallagher.com. In the
mean time Daniel Gallagher also confirmed that a more complete audio recording of the performance
surfaced that includes two additional tracks, I'll Remember and Blister on the Moon. Thanks to Jay Jay for
bringing up the topic in the new offical Rory forums.
31.08.1970
Montreux
"Super Pop in Montreux" concert series
Lost?
PRO
CH
Casino
Apparently also this concert has been filmed. I believe I read in an interview with Claude Nobs, the festival's
promoter, that the master tapes/reels have been destroyed when a burst water pipe flooded the room they
were stored at.
12.09.1970*
PAL/COL/PRO

Slough, Berkshire (?)

BBC 2

Disco 2 #?
UK
Century 21 Studios (?)

apparently lost

*Airdate. Also on the show were Humble Pie and Melanie. Running time approximately 30 minutes.
??.10.1970
PAL/PRO

Dublin
Irish TV?
Walkin Blues

IRE

24.10.1970
Belfast
On the Boards - Afternoon Matinee
PAL/BW?/PRO
BBC NI
NI
Ulster Hall
No details known. Possibly part one of the two-part farewell broadcast.

Lost!

24.10.1970
PAL/BW?/PRO

Belfast
BBC NI

Taste Farewell Concert

Lost!
NI
Queens University Student Union Refectory

Broadcast in two parts. A couple of years ago, rumours did the rounds that a copy of the footage was
in the hands of a collector and also screened to a small, selected audience at the annual
Ballyshannon festival. This could, in the course of the years, neither been verified nor refuted.
Though it might seem rather unlikely, there is indeed a slight chance that a copy of the master, that
would have been wiped later, could have survived: First of all, to my knowledge, the BBC's dire wiping
policy has been effectuated less rigorously by the BBC Northern Ireland, which is believed to have
been in charge of the production of the show (this does, however, not alter the fact, that the footage
could not be located in any of the BBC archives anymore). Secondly, there is the encouraging
example of Bob Pratt, a BBC technician in the late 1960's, who used to copy a large number of tapes
that were scheduled to be wiped. It is by his courtesy that e.g. Jimi Hendrix' famous appearance on
the "Lulu Show" (1968) could be recovered for the BBC archives (http://www.liveleak.com/view?
i=ebc_1267927385). It is not know whether Pratt was in possession of any Taste or Rory related
footage but the possibility alone seems to have a certain fascination on me.

With the Rory Gallagher Band:

30.03.1971
PAL/COL/PRO

Paris
ORTF
Interview
Hands Up
Wave Myself Goodbye
It Takes Time
For the Last Time
Its the Same Thing
I Fall Apart

Pop deux (TV show)

FR
La Taverne de Olympia

Hands Up, Just the Smile from the same session.

15.05.1971
PAL/COL/PRO

Bremen
Beat Club (TV show) #67
Radio Bremen
D
Laundromat
Sinner Boy
Hands Up (keyed*, never broadcast)
Just the Smile (never broadcast)
* the term keying is referring to the so called Chroma Key technique that has been used in most of the post-

1960s episodes of the Beat-Club series. The artists have been filmed in front of a so called blue- or
greenscreen, which has later been pasted over with an image still or another film sequence. Many of this
keyed Beat Club appearances of Rory obviously also still exist in their original un-keyed versions, as for
example In Your Town from the 26.12.1971 session (see below). This session is available as part of the
Ghost Blues DVD set.

Stills from the 26.12.1971 session, original unkeyed version.

26.12.1971
PAL/COL/PRO

??.??.1971
PAL/PRO

Bremen
Beat Club (TV show) #74
Radio Bremen
D
In Your Town (keyed, broadcast version, on DVDs)
B- In Your Town (same take but not keyed, not on DVDs)
Should Have Learned My Lesson (never broadcast, not keyed)
B- Should Have Learned My Lesson (same take, newly keyed version)
Crest of a Wave (not keyed and never broadcast, not on DVDs)
B- Crest of a Wave (same take, newly keyed)
Used to Be (keyed, broadcast and on DVDs)

RT

??.02.1972?
PAL/COL/PRO

London
BBC 2
Interview
Bankers Blues
This episode most likely was broadcast in colour.

09.04.1972
COL/PRO

Bringing It All Back Home (TV Show) (?)

IRE
Old Grey Whistle Test (TV show) Season 1
UK
BBC Television Centre, Studio Pres B?

London
UK
I Couldve Had Religion
Pistol Slapper Blues
Messin With the Kid
Were Gonna Jump/Bullfrog Blues

Marquee Club (Wardor Street)

Lost?

Original 4:3 version (above) and newly restored 16:9 broadcast.

11.05.1972
16/COL/PRO
00:26:56

Limerick
The Music Makers (TV show) #?
RT
IRE
The Savoy cinema
Toredown
Interview
Laundromat
Interview
Pistol Slapper Blues
Interview
Dont Know Where Im Going
Interview
Bullfrog Blues
Yellow area=old 4:3 version, magenta area=new 16:9
version, cyan area=original print?

One of the very first colour tv broadcasts in Ireland and the first gig with Rod DeAth on drums. An amazingly
restored version of the film was broadcast by RT ONE in October 2008. Although the 16:9 broadcast cuts the
top and the bottom of the image, it is slightly broader than the regular 4:3 version (see image).

Original unkeyed version of the 1972 session.

11.06.1972
PAL/COL/PRO

Bremen
Beat Club (TV show) #77/#79 (Rory special?)
Radio Bremen
D
Used to Be (not keyed, never broadcast, not on DVDs)
Should Have Learned My Lesson (not keyed, never broadcast, not on DVDs)
Toredown (not keyed, never broadcast)
B-Toredown (newly keyed, on DVD)
Pistol Slapper Blues (keyed, broadcast in episode #79, on DVDs)
B- Pistol Slapper Blues (same take but not keyed, never broadcast, not on DVDs)
Dont Know Where Im Going (not keyed, never broadcast)
B-Don't Know Where I'm Going (same cam. ancle as above, newly keyed, on DVD)
C-Don't Know Where I'm Going (diff. camera ancle???, see "Ghost Blues" entry)
Going to My Hometown (not keyed, broadcast in 2008)
B-Going to My Hometown (newly keyed, on DVD)
I Could Have Had Religion (not keyed, never broadcast)

B- I Could Have Had Religion (newly keyed, on DVD)

McAvoy Boogie Improvisation (not keyed, never broadcast)
B-"McAvoy Boogie" (newly keyed, on DVD)
In Your Town (not keyed, never broadcast)
Hoodoo Man (not keyed, never broadcast)
B-Hoodoo Man (newly keyed, on DVD)
Messin With the Kid (not keyed, never broadcast)
B-Messin' With the Kid (newly keyed, on DVD)
Wilgar Campbells brief return to the band. The band played in studio in front of a small audience. Although
according to the clapper board this was filmed as episode #77, the episode that would actually be broadcast
as #77 did not feature any of the footage.
19.12.1972
London
Old Grey Whistle Test (SE02 E?)
PAL/COL/PRO
BBC 2
UK
I just recently learned that many pre-1973 OGWT episodes were broadcast live from the studio and have just
not been taped at all. So probably no case of wiping here. Also on the show: Fumble. Could be identical
with ??.02.1972.

12.01.1973
PAL/COL/PRO

Dsseldorf
WDF (?)
Messin With The Kid
Hands Off (?)
Laundromat (?)

05.02.1973
PAL/COL/PRO

London
BBC 2
Hands Off
Walk on Hot Coals

Philipshalle

Old Grey Whistle Test (TV show) Season 2

UK
BBC Television Centre, Studio Pres B

Airdate probably 13.02.1973.

10.03.1973

Voorburg

VARA-Popgala

Fragment?

PAL/COL/PRO

VARA/Nederland 2
NL
Sporthal De Vliegermolen
Messin With The Kid
Hands Off
Laundromat (lost?)
What in the World (lost?)
Song order might be wrong.
Unfortunately, only Messin with the Kid and Hands Off have turned up on video. What in the World and
Laundromat have surfaced as off tv reel-to-reel recording. Popgala was a small festival organised by Dutch tv
association VARA. Also on the bill were Ry Cooder, The Faces, and The Who.
According to this web site the tapes have been wiped: http://keeponrockin.punt.nl/?r=1&id=404187
29.05.1973

New York
ABC/WNYS
Messin' With the Kid
Hands Off
Produced by Dick Clark (American Bandstand).
NTSC/COL/PRO

In Concert
USA
Hofstra University

29.05.1973 ?
Cork
?
IRE
Date has to be wrong, Rory was in New York at the time.
??.09.1973
Belfast
8MM/AMA
NI
Ulster Hall
Date has to be wrong, Rory was on US tour in September 1973.
28.12..1973
Belfast
8MM/AMA
00:20:39
Date probably December 28th 1973.
--.01.1974
COL/PRO

Various places

NI

Ulster Hall

Irish Tour 1974 (Movie)

IRE/NI

Walk on Hot Coals

Tattood Lady
Whos That Coming
A Million Miles Away
Goin to My Hometown
Cradle Rock (not featured in the original movie?)
As the Crow Flies
Hands Off
Bullfrog Blues
Track missing in the DVD-edition:
I Wonder Who (?) or
Garbage Man (?)
The original Irish Tour movie supposedly ran 88 minutes, not 83 minutes as the DVD release. I also learned
that Cradle Rock was not a part of the original cinema version, leaving a big question mark behind
approximately 10 minutes of the film. Its obvious that the film was a wide screen print originally but has been
copied to 4:3 TV standard for the VHS/DVD editions.
Versions(?):

a) 88 minutes (original cut?)

b) 75 minutes (different cut, without Cradle Rock?)
c) 83 minutes (restored DVD-version)
d) 55 minutes (1975 Swiss TV broadcast)

version c):

First reel:
Walk on Hot Coals (Cork City Hall/Dublin, Carlton Cinema)
-interview (Gresham Hotel, Dublin)
-backstage (Belfast, Ulster Hall, and Dublin, Carlton Cinema)
Tattood Lady (Cork City Hall)
Second reel:
-backstage/guitar demonstration (?)
Whos that Coming (Belfast, Ulster Hall, and Dublin, Carlton)
-shots from Cork
A Million Miles Away (Belfast, Ulster Hall)
Third reel:
Going to My Hometown (Belfast, Ulster Hall)
-interview (Gresham Hotel, Dublin)
-Rory at Crowleys shops in Cork
Cradle Rock (Dublin, Carlton Cinema) not included in original cut?
-rehearsal (Cork City Hall)
Fourth reel:
-interview (Cork City Hall)
As the Crow Flies (Dublin, Carlton Cinema)
Hands Off (Dublin, Carlton Cinema)
-backstage (Belfast, Ulster Hall, and ?)
-end of tour party (a boat club in Cork)
Fifth reel (?):
-end of tour party, pt. 2 (a boat club in Cork)
Bullfrog Blues (Cork City Hall, bass solo filmed in Dublin
Cuts of the audience were mainly filmed at Ulster Hall, Belfast.

27.01.1974
8MM/COL/AMA
SILENT

Nagoya
JP

Nagoya-Shi-Kokaido

22.03.1974*

Burbank
Midnight Special (TV show) #61/S02 E28
NBC
USA
Tattood Lady
Cradle Rock
Probably filmed in February or March 1974, *aired on March 22nd 1974. Host: Bill Withers. Reused in episode
#110 (Airdate 28.03.1975, hosted by Wolfman Jack).
NTSC/COL/PRO

07.05.1974

Burbank
Midnight Special (TV show) #72/S02 E39
NBC
USA
NBC Studios
Hands Off
Whos that Coming
Hosted by The Kinks. Not sure about the date. Airdate 07.06.1974. A photograph from the show can be found
at http://gregpapazian.com/!
NTSC/COL/PRO

03.06.1974
8MM/COL/AMA
SILENT?

Geelen
Laundromat

Pinkpop Festival
NL
Burgemeester Damenpark

Audio dubbed from Live in Europe LP.

09.09.1974

Los Angeles/Long Beach

Don Kirshners Rock Concert (TV show) #?
ABC
USA
Long Beach Civic Center/Center Theatre (?)
Cradle Rock
They Dont Make Them Like You Anymore
Whos That Coming
A Million Miles Away
Finally a date for the taping of this show could be found. Also in the show were Electric Flag and Steeleye
Span.
NTSC/COL/PRO

05.08.1974

Los Angeles
Don Kirshners Rock Concert (TV show) #?
ABC
USA
Whisky-A-GoGo
Featuring ABBA, The Sensational Alex Harvey Bad, and Electric Flag.
NTSC/COL/PRO

02.11.1974
Point Chaud (tv show)
PAL/BW/PRO
ORTF
F
Also on the show: Mike Oldfield. Image stills found at http://hardprog.pagespersoorange.fr/point_chaud_1971__1715.htm. Thanks!
16.11.1974
Point Chaud (tv show)
PAL/BW/PRO
ORTF
F
Might be from the same session as the 02.11.1974 episode.

1974 or 1975

Washington D.C.?
Barry Richards Show (TV show) #?
WDCA - TV?
USA
Walk on Hot Coals
This is going to be released as part of the "Barry Richards 70s Collection Vol. 1" DVD.
NTSC/COL/PRO

03.01.1975?

8mm/COL/AMA

Belfast
NI

Ulster Hall

00:20:37
??.01.1975

Irish Tour DVD bonus material

JP
Unlike the DVD release suggests, this small piece of film is very probably from early 1975.
8mm/COL/AMA

07.03.1975
B-W/PRO
01:01:17

Madrid
TVE
E
Teatro Monumental
Messin With the Kid
Tattood Lady
Garbage Man
Cradle Rock
Young Fashioned Ways
A Million Miles Away
Walk On Hot Coals
Unconfirmed:
Too Much Alcohol
Pistol Slapper Blues
Bankers Blues
Going To My Hometown
The unconfirmed tracks have been radio broadcast and are in circulation as audio bootleg, so they have
very probably also been filmed.
11.07.1975
PAL/COL/PRO

Montreux
9. Montreux Jazz Festival
TSR
CH
Casino
Messin With the Kid
Tattood Lady
Garbage Man
Cradle Rock
Tore Down
Laundromat
Pistol Slapper Blues
Too Much Alcohol
Goin To My Hometown
Whos That Coming
Bullfrog Blues
A Million Miles Away
I have absolutely no clue about the original order of songs. The official set list at www.montreuxsounds.com
names Pistol Slapper Blues as fifth song, but then it doesnt mention Tore Down and Laundromat at all. On
the DVD, however, it looks like Tore Down could have been played directly after Cradle Rock.
16.07.1975
PAL/COL/PRO

London (?)
BBC 2

Old Grey Whistle Test (TV show) #?

UK

Alternative date/airdate : 19.07.1975.

24.07.1975 (?)
PAL/PRO

Ostende
BRT

25.07.1975
PAL/COL/PRO

Lion dOr
B

Lille
FR-3
FR
Out On the Western Plain
All Around Man
Improvisation sur Film
Nothing But the Devil
Bankers Blues
Too Much Alcohol
Dont Know Where Im Going
Master tape destroyed (see Jean-Noel Coghes book).

09.09.1975
PAL/COL/PRO

Turku
YLE
I Take What I Want
Interview

Lambersart Studio

Rusirock Festival
SF
Runsala Parken

18.11.1975 (?)
Old Grey Whistle Test (TV show) #?
PAL/COL/PRO
BBC 2
UK
18.11.1975 might be airdate. Rory was in the US at this time. Could also be footage from episode
16.07.1975 or earlier.

1975/1976*

NTSC/COL/PRO

Hollywood (?)
ABC
Let Me In

Don Kirshners Rock Concert (TV show) #?

USA
Aquarius Theatre (?)

I Take What I Want

Aint Too Good
Souped-up Ford
Also on the show: Ohio Players, Dolenz, Jones, Boyce, and Hart. Must have been shot after May 1975 since I
Take What I Want and Souped-Up Ford have not been performed any earlier. *Airdate probably was
14.02.1976.
??.01.1976

8mm/COL/AMA

Belfast
NI

Grosvenor Hall or Ulster Hall (?)

00:11:20

02.03.1976
PAL/COL/PRO
00:47:13

London
BBC 2
I Take What I Want
Bought And Sold
All Around Man
Out On the Western
Plain
Souped-Up Ford
Bullfrog Blues
* also known as BBC Television Theatre.

Old Grey Whistle Test (TV show) #?

UK
Shepherds Bush Empire*

26.03.1976
Hilversum
Filter Furore Show
PAL/PRO
Nederland 2 (?)
NL
NCRV Studios
Circa 25 minutes of acoustic performance. Producer/presenter was Harrie de Winter. Could not be tracked
down in the NCRV archives any more.
06.10.1976
PAL/COL/PRO

Cologne
Rockpalast (TV show) #?
WDF
D
Studio L
Pistol Slapper Blues (first take)
Too Much Alcohol
Out On the Western Plain
Bankers Blues
Rag Mama Rag
Nothing But the Devil
Pistol Slapper Blues (second take)
Goin to My Hometown
I Take What I Want
Calling Card
Secret Agent
Do You Read Me
Bought And Sold
Country Mile
Jackknife Beat
Boogie

Interview
First take of Pistol Slapper Blues is not included on any of the DVDs. For a fact, the second take of the song
was edited into its place.
??.01.1977

8mm/COL/AMA

Belfast
NI

Ulster Hall

UK

Hammersmith Odeon

00:21:49
00:14:05
These are actually two different films/sources.
19.01.1977
London
PAL/COL/PRO
BBC (?)
00:05:04
Different (raw) edit.

19.01.1977*
PAL/COL/PRO
0:59:31

London
Sight and Sound (SE01 E04)
BBC 2
UK
Hammersmith Odeon
Do You Read Me
Secret Agent
Calling Card
Bought and Sold
Out on the Western Plain
Barley and Grape Rag
Pistol Slapper Blues
Too Much Alcohol
Goin To My Hometown
Souped-Up Ford
Bullfrog Blues (performed but edited out?)
*Often wrongly referred to as 29.01.1977.

14.02.1977
PAL/COL/PRO

Dublin
RTE
Pistol Slapper Blues
Too Much Alcohol
Out On the Western
Plain
Bankers Blues

Me & My Music
IRE

Secret Agent
Goin to My Hometown
Also known as An Acoustic Legend. A restored version was broadcast on RT ONE in late 2008, unfortunately
edited to 16:9 aspect ratio.

??.07.1977
PAL/COL/PRO

Montreux

11. Montreux Jazz Festival

CH
Lake Geneva

Jam
Interview
22.07.1977
PAL/COL/PRO

Montreux
TSR (?)
Moonchild
I Take What I Want
Calling Card
Secret Agent
Tattood Lady
Garbage Man
Bought and Sold
A Million Miles Away
Do You Read Me
Out On the Western Plain
Barley and Grape Rag
Pistol Slapper Blues
Too Much Alcohol
Goin To My Hometown
Messin With The Kid
Jam Session

11. Montreux Jazz Festival

CH
Casino

23.07.1977
PAL/COL/PRO

Essen
Rockpalast (TV Show)/1. Rocknacht
WDF
D
Grugahalle
Messin With the Kid
I Take What I Want
Garbage Man (cut in DVD releases)
Moonchild
Secret Agent
Calling Card
Out On the Western Plain
Barley & Grape Rag

Tattood Lady
Souped-Up Ford
Bullfrog Blues
Bought and Sold
Interview
Preceeding the original tv broadcast of the 1. Rocknacht on July 23rd 1977 was a live programme called Wort
zum Sonntag (message for Sunday) which overran airtime. When the channel switched to Rockpalast, Rory
was already performing and the viewers had missed the first three songs of his show. Whathas been used for
the DVD release is some sort of reconstruction of the programme as it was originally intended to be. I recently
have been informed that there actually has been a complete master for this show (without the cut in Garbage
Man and the introductionary sequence) but that it has somehow vanished from the archives and could not be
found anymore.
??.??.1978
Studio
Videoed rehearsal for Photo Finish album. Not sure if this one actually exists. Could also be an excerpt from
the Macroom documentary.

June 1978
PAL/COL/PRO

Macroom/Cork
ARD/SFB

Elf (TV show) (documentary)

IRE/
DK

00:42:48

A Million Miles Away

(Acoustic improvisation?)
Brute Force and Ignorance
Shin Kicker
I Wonder Who
Do You Read Me
(Hot Press Award ceremony)
Interview
Tattood Lady
This documentary has been filmed on several locations on subsequent days: The acoustic session is believed
to date from June 21st 1978, Brute Force and Ignorance to be filmed between 22nd and 24th June (probably)
1978 at the Boat Club in Cork, and Tattood Lady in Roskilde (Denmark) on June 30th or July 2nd 1978. Airdate
01.10.1978 ?

18.08.1978
PAL/COL/PRO
Ca 38 min.

Vienna
ORF 2
Shin Kicker
Introduction/Interview

Ohne Maulkorb (TV show) #?

A
Konzerthaus

Secret Agent
Interview
Goin To My Hometown
Interview
Out On the Western
Plain
Interview
Calling Card
Interview
I Wonder Who

09.09.1978
PAL/COL/PRO

Munich-Unterfhring
ZDF
Shin Kicker
Shadow Play

23.09.1978?
PAL/COL/PRO

Berlin
SFB

Rock Pop (TV show) #?

D
Bavaria-Studios

Eissporthalle

??.12.1978
PAL/COL/PRO

Dublin
Aspects of Rock (TV show)
RT
IRE
National Stadium?
Interview
Toredown (Limerick 1972)
Interview
(sound check:)
Cloak and Dagger
Out On the Western Plain
Vorband (?)
Interview
(concert)
Too Much Alcohol
Out On The Western Plain
Tattood Lady
Hosted by Dave Heffernan .Airdate 16.06.1979. Filmed on 16mm (?).
??.01.1979
8mm/COL/AMA

Belfast
NI

Ulster Hall

12.01.1979
PAL/COL/PRO
00:39:55

London
Rock Goes to College (TV show) #?
BBC
UK
Middlesex Polytechnic/Hendon Campus
Country Mile (Radio broadcast only)
Shin Kicker (cut in)
Mississippi Sheiks
Do You Read Me
Brute Force and Ignorance
Tattood Lady (edited out)
Fuel to the Fire
Shadow Play
Cruise on Out
Bullfrog Blues (edited out)
Country Mile and Bullfrog Blues have been edited out of the broadcast version. Both songs also do not appear
in the BBC Infax database and are probably lost.
06.05.1979
PAL/COL/PRO

Wiesbaden
WDF
Shin Kicker
Last of the Independents
Off the Handle
Bought and Sold
Shadowplay
A Million Miles Away
Hellcat
Out on the Western Plain
Too Much Alcohol
Goin to My Hometown
Tattood Lady
Secret Agent
Roberta
Interview (?)
Jam session:
Bullfrog Blues
Walking the Dog
Sea Cruise
Around and Around
Roll Over Beethoven
Interview is likely to exist.

Rockpalast/Maifestspiele
D
Rhein-Main-Halle

05.06.1979
PAL/COL/PRO

Wiesbaden
ZDF

Drehscheibe (TV show) #?

D

18.07.1979
PAL/COL/PRO
01:22:55

Montreux
SF (?)
Intro & award
Shin Kicker
Last of the Independents

13. Montreux Jazz Festival

CH
Casino

Off the Handle

Secret Agent
Mississippi Sheiks
Bought and Sold
Out on the Western Plain
Too Much Alcohol
Goin to My Hometown
Shadow Play
Hellcat
Wayward Child

21.10.1979

Zwolle
NL

8mm/COL/AMA

00:14:37

Shinkicker (cut)
Wayward Child (cut)
Moonchild (cut)
Tattood Lady (cut)
Follow Me (cut)
Keychain (cut)
I Wonder Who (cut)
Bad Penny (cut)
Out On the Western Plain (cut)
Deep Elm Blues (cut)
Too Much Alcohol (cut)
Gon To My Hometown (cut)
Bought and Sold (cut)

??.??.1979
PAL/COL/PRO

Montreux

Ijsselhal

Stage Struck promo clip

CH
Casino

Wayward Child
Sequence from 1979 Montreux Jazz Festival footage.

11.03.1980
PAL/COL/PRO

Newcastle
Tyne Tees TV
Shin Kicker
Wayward Child
Bad Penny

Alright Now (TV show) #?

UK

21.03.1980
PAL/COL/PRO

Paris
Antenne 2
Shin Kicker
Last of the Independents
Bad Penny
Moonchild
Off the Handle
Bullfrog Blues

10.04.1980
PAL/COL/PRO

Dublin

Chorus (TV show), broadcast 29.03.1980,

FR
Theatre de LEmpire

IRE

National Stadium

Shinkicker
Wayward Child
Keychain
Follow Me
Off the Handle
Tattood Lady
Bad Penny
Moonchild
Calling Card
Bought and Sold
Out on the Western Plain
Nothing But the Devil
Too Much Alcohol
11.04.1980
PAL/COL/PRO

Belfast
Good Evening Ulster (TV show)
Ulster TV
NI
Interview
Shinkicker (Montreux 1979)

12.04.1980 (?)

Cookstown (?)

COL
12.04.1980
8MM/AMA

Omagh
IRE?

Clubland Ballroom

29.08.1980
PAL/COL/PRO

Zrich
SF?
Off the Handle
Last of the Independents
Brute Force and Ignorance
Wayward Child
Bought and Sold
Philby
Shadow Play
Souped-Up Ford
Interview

Karussell (TV show) #?

CH
Volkshaus

11.12.1980
PAL/COL/PRO

Vienna
ORF 2

Ohne Maulkorb (TV show) #?

A

??.04.1980
AMA/COL
00:29:20

Belfast

16.01.1982
PAL/COL/PRO
00:25:25

Offenburg
SWF
Interview
Shinkicker
Nadine
What in the World
Ride on Red
Shadow Play

NI
National Foresters Club
Bullfrog Blues (?)
Tattood Lady
Moonchild
The Last of the Independents (End only. Horrible sound quality from here on!!!)
Do You Read Me
Off the Handle
The National Foresters are, despite what one might guess from the name, a motorcycle club. A full length
version of this show might be in existence. I am still not sure whether to classify this as pro-shot or not, since
although it has definitely been filmed with professional equipment it is a "monocam" video. The sound quality
of my copy worsens extremely after Bullfrog Blues.

SWF3-Festival
D
Oberrheinhalle

20.04.1982
PAL/COL/PRO
00:12:05

Dsseldorf
WDF
Interview
Acoustic track (?)
What in the World
Goin to My Hometown
Bullfrog Blues

Musik-Szene (also broadcasted as Irish Blues)

D
Philipshalle

28.08.1982
PAL/COL/PRO

St. Goarshausen
WDF
Wayward Child
Double Vision
Big Guns
What in the World
Nadine
Follow Me
Bad Penny
Bourbon
Jinxed
Moonchild
Brute Force and Ignorance
The Devil Made Me Do It
Out on the Western Plain
Ride on Red
Philby
Shadow Play
Shin Kicker
Peter Gun
-jam sessionKnockin on Heavens Door
Im Ready
Medley
Lucille
Dust My Broom
Im Movin
Be Bop A Lula
Slow Down
I Have the Blues

Rockpalast/1. Open Air Loreley 1982

D
Loreley-Freilichtbhne

30.07.1983

Lisdoonvarna

6th Lisdoonvarna Festival

IRE
Lisdoonvarna Ballroom

Dublin
RT

Scene Around Six (TV show) #?

IRE

8MM/COL/AMA

00:03:22
04.01.1984
PAL/COL/PRO

Ride on Red (?)

Interview

05.01.1984
PAL/COL/PRO

Belfast
Ulster TV
Ride on Red
Interview

Good Evening Ulster (TV show) #?

NI

05.01.1984
PAL/COL/PRO

Belfast
Rory at Midnight
BBC NI
NI
Ulster Hall
Introduction by Barry Devlin
Double Vision
Follow Me
I Wonder Who
Big Guns
Out on the Western Plain
Shadow Play
Although the broadcast version of this concert runs only 40 minutes, there is reason to believe that the whole
show was taped. The full set list was: Double Vision/Follow Me/Bad penny/I Wonder Who/Failsafe
Day/Moonchild/Brute Force and Ignorance/Shin Kicker/A Million Miles Away/Big Guns/Hoodoo Man/Out on
the Western Plain/Ride on Red/Bourbon/Philby/Shadow Play/Tattood Lady/Wayward Child/Summertime
Blues/All Around Man/Bullfrog Blues/Little Queenie/Get Back.

22.01.1985
8MM/COL/AMA
Ca. 57 min.

Budapest
HUN
I Wonder Who
Mama Pick My Shirt
Nadine
Bought And Sold
Out on the Western Plain

Sportcsarnok

Walkin Blues
Bankers Blues
10.01.1985
PAL/COL/PRO

London
Whistle Test* (TV show) Blues Revival
BBC
UK
Dingwalls
I Cant Be Satisfied
Interview
*Old Grey Whistle Test was renamed Whistle Test in the 1980s

20.06.1985

Houston
USA

NTSC/COL/PRO

Cardis Club

Interview
Seven Days
Bankers Blues
Philby
Alternative date: 27.05.1985.
05.07.1985
PAL/COL/PRO

Montreux
Montreux Sounds SA (?)
Double Vision
Shin Kicker
Brute Force and Ignorance
Off the Handle
When My Baby She Left Me
Bad Penny
Tattood Lady
I Wonder Who
Moonchild
Out on the Western Plain
Walkin Blues
Bankers Blues
Philby
Big Guns

19. Montreux Jazz Festival

CH
Casino

17.05.1986
PAL/COL/PRO
Ca. 20 min.

Dublin
RT
Follow Me
I Wonder Who
Messin With the Kid

Self Aid Festival

IRE
RDS Stadium

Shadow Play
Interview/backstage

Video stills used with kind permission from Volker Grupe of www.rory.de. Thanks also to the late Rudi Gerlach.

04.07.1986 (?)
Cologne (?)
Das Beste aus dem Rockpalast (TV special)
PAL/COL/PRO
WDF
D
This was a tv special in celebration of the supposed-to-be last Rockpalast broadcast in 1986. Interview and
Discussion with Rory, Frankie Miller and Peter Rchel. Visit www.rory.de/rudi for more information.

05.07.1986
PAL/COL/PRO

Dinkelsbhl
SDR
Im Ready
Follow Me

Out in the Green Festival

D
Inselwiese

06.07.1986
PAL/COL/PRO

St. Goarshausen
ZDF (?)
Nadine (excerpt)
Interview

Out in the Green Festival/Rock Pop in Concert (TV show)

D
Loreley-Freilichtbhne

06.07.1986
COL/AMA
01:50:47

St. Goarshausen

Out in the Green Festival

D
Loreley-Freilichtbhne

Moonchild

Double Vision
I Wonder Who
Nadine
Bad Penny
Tattood Lady
Off the Handle
Out of the Western Plain
Walkin Blues
Rollin and Tumblin
Shadow Play
Philby
Drop Down Dead and Die (?)
Messin With the Kid
Follow Me
??.??.????
PRO

Promo clip
The Loop

02.05.1987
PAL/COL/PRO

Vienna
ORF (?)
Moonchild
Double Vision
I Wonder Who
Nadine
Bad Penny
I Aint No Saint
Continental OP
Bourbon (cut)
A Million Miles Away
Out on the Western Plain
Walkin Blues
Bankers Blues
Loanshark Blues
When MY Baby She Left Me
Shin Kicker
Dizzy Miss Lizzy

City-Festival
A
Hof

02.05.1987
BW?/AMA
Ca. 116 min.

Vienna

City-Festival (audience shot #1)

A
Hof

Moonchild
Double Vision
I Wonder Who
Nadine
Bad Penny
I Aint No Saint
Continental OP

Bourbon
A Million Miles Away
Out on the Western Plain
Walkin Blues
Bankers Blues (cut in)
Loanshark Blues
When My Baby She Left Me
Shin Kicker
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
02.05.1987
COL/AMA
Ca. 60 min.

Vienna

08.08.1987
COL/AMA

Arbon

City-Festival (audience shot source #2)

A
Hof

Moonchild
Double Vision
I Wonder Who
Nadine
Bad Penny
I Aint No Saint
Continental OP

Moonchild
Continental OP
I Wonder Who
I Aint No Saint
Tattood Lady
Bad Penny
When My Baby She Left Me
Double Vision
Out one the Western Plain
Amazing Grace
Walkin Blues
Wanted Blues
Wayward Child
Dont Start Me Talkin
Nadine
Shadow Play

Seepark Open Air

CH

18.10.1987
PAL/COL/AMA
01:32:37

Birmingham

04.11.1987
PAL/COL/PRO

Cork
RT
Continental OP
Dont Start Me Talkin
Tattood Lady
I Aint No Saint
Follow Me
When My Baby She Left Me
Off the Handle
Out on the Western Plain
Wanted Blues
The Loop
Shadow Play
Messin With the Kid
Loanshark Blues

UK

Hummingbird

IRE

Officially released on VHS tape, Laserdisc and DVD

Cork Opera House

Continental OP
I Wonder Who
Moonchild
Dont Start Me Talkin
The Loop
Shin Kicker
Brute Force and Ignorance
Kickback City
Off the Handle
When My Baby She Left Me
I Aint No Saint
Tattood Lady
Out On the Western Plain
Amazing Grace
She Moved Thro the Fair
Walkin Blues

09.11.1987
PAL/COL/PRO

Cologne
WWF-Club (TV show) #?
WDF
D
Loanshark Blues (first take)
Loanshark Blues (second take)
Interview
Rory had to perform Loanshark Blues two times. Though obviously only one take was broadcast, the other one
is also in circulation.
13.11.1987
PAL/COL/PRO

Mainz
ZDF
Dont Start Me Talkin

Tele-Illustrierte (TV show) #?

D

19.11.1987
PAL/COL/PRO

Dsseldorf
Aktuelle Stunde (TV show) #?
WDF
D
Philipshalle
I Aint No Saint (excerpt Cork 1987)
The Loop (excerpt Cork 1987)
Calling Card (excerpt Essen 1977)
Interview
I Cant Be Satisfied (cut - out)

??.11.1987
PAL/COL/PRO

Cologne
Roxy (TV show) #?
WDF
D
I Cant Be Satisfied
Featuring German entertainer and jazz musician Gtz Alsmann on banjo.
??.??.????
PAL/COL/PRO

Munich (?)
Tele 5
Dont Start Me Talkin
Taped somewhere between 1987 and 1993.

06.02.1988
PAL/COL/PRO
00:04:21

Dublin
RT
Walkin Blues

Evening News
IRE

12.02.1988
PAL/COL/PRO
00:04:14

Dublin
RT
Out On the Western Plain
Interview
Excerpts from Cork 1987

The Late Late Show (TV show) #?

IRE

01.03.1988
PAL/COL/PRO

Borderline (TV show) #?

IRE

05.08.1989
COL/AMA
00:34:30

Mildenhall

29.07.1989
COL/AMA
01:28:33

Ballyronan

30.03.1990
PAL/COL/PRO

Baden-Baden
SWF

3rd Rock & Blues Festival

UK
Speedway Stadium

Dont Start Me Talkin

I Wonder Who
The Loop
Moonchild
Continental OP
Messin With the Kid

Rock the Lough Festival

IRE

Continental OP
Moonchild
Dont Start Me Talkin
I Wonder Who
Tattood Lady
The Loop
Kickback City
Cradle Rock
I Aint No Saint
Out On the Western Plain
Walkin Blues
A Million Miles Away
Shadowplay (tape end)

Ohne Filter (TV show) #?

D
EB-Studio 6

Interview
Continental OP
Dont Start ME Talkin
The Loop
Mean Disposition
Walkin Wounded
Wanted Blues
Out On the Western Plain
Tattood Lady (cut?)
Messin With the Kid
Bullfrog Blues
The Boys Are Back in Town
This concert was longer but has, as every episode in the Ohne Filter series, been edited down to 60 minutes.

22.05.1990
PAL/COL/PRO

Cork

Rocksteady (TV show) #?

IRE

Interview
Blues improvisation
27.10.1990
PAL/COL/PRO

Cologne
Rocklife* (TV show)
West 3
D
Live Music Hall
Continental OP
Dont Start Me Talkin
Mean Disposition
Kid Gloves
Middle Name
King of Zydeco
Out On the Western Plain
Empire State Express
The Loop
Garbage Man
When My Baby She Left Me
Shadow Play
Shin Kicker
Jam session:
Born Under A Bad Sign
Im Ready
Politician
Encore without Jack Bruce:
Bullfrog Blues (not on DVD releases)
*Rockpalast was renamed Rocklife for a brief period in the early nineties. Apart from a longer (complete)
version, there are at least two different camera mixes existing: One showing the conversation between Rory
and Jack Bruce backstage prior to the jam, the other just showing the cheering audience and the empty stage
instead.

01.03.1991
COL/PAL
00:03:29

Sydney
Seven Network
Out On the Western
Plain
Interview

07.03.1991
COL/AMA
Ca. 95 min.

Huntington Beach
USA

Peppers Golden Bear

Continental OP
Moonchild
I Wonder Who
The Loop
Tattood Lady
Off the Handle
Shin Kicker
A Million Miles Away
Kid Gloves
Out On the Western
Plain
Walkin Blues
Pistol Slapper Blues
Keep Your Hans Off Her
Laundromat
Bad Penny
Dont Start Me Talkin
Messin With the Kid
Mean Disposition

09.03.1991
Los Angeles
COL/AMA
Believed to exist but yet unconfirmed.

20.03.1991
COL/AMA
Ca. 135 min.

Tonight Live With Steve Vizard

AUS
Enmore Theatre

Including jam session with Slash of GunsNRoses

USA
The Roxy

Minneapolis
USA
Continental Op
I Wonder Who
The Loop
Moonchild
Dont Start Me Talkin

Guthrie Theater

Tattood Lady
Off the Handle
Shin Kicker
A Million Miles Away
Kid Gloves
Walkin Wounded
Laundromat
Goin Down to Elys
Ghost Blues
She Moved Thro the Fair
Out On the Western Plain
Walkin Blues
Pistol Slapper Blues
Keep Your Hands Off Her
Shadow Play
Bad Penny
Paint it, Black
Heavens Gate
Messin With the Ki
Bullfrog Blues
Tumblin Dice
All Around Man (film ends)

30.03.1991
COL/AMA
Ca. 32 min.

New York

30.03.1991
COL/AMA
Ca. 10 min.

New York

Source #1
USA
Marquee Club

Continental OP (cut in)

Moonchild
I Wonder Who
The Loop
Tattood Lady
Off the Handle

Source #2
USA
Marquee Club

Shin Kicker (cut in)

A Million Miles Away (cut)
Out on the Western Plain (cut)
Empire State Express (cut)
Messin With the Kid (cut)
Maybe same source as 30.03.1991 #1 but lower generation?

Dublin
Temple Bar Blues Festival
Temple Films (?)
IRE
College Green
I Wonder Who (?)
This small clip of film I took from the Slash introduction of the 1976 OGWT. It gives July 6 th 1992 as date.
15.08.1992 (?)
PAL/COL/PRO

13.12.1992
COL/PRO

Bonn

9. Blues Festival
D
Biskuithalle

Continental OP
I Wonder Who
Moonchild
The Loop
Off the Handle
Tattood Lady
I Could Have Had Religion
Ghost Blues
She Moved Thro the Fair
Out On the Western Plain
(acoustic medley)
Mercy River
Walkin Blues
Shadow Play
Dont Start Me Talkin/Revolution
Dust My Broom
Messin With the Kid
Just Like a Woman
Bullfrog Blues
Shin Kicker
La Bamba
Apparently the last meeting of Rory and Gerry McAvoy.
18.12.1992
PAL/COL/PRO
Ca. 00:02:30

Paris
TF 1
Interview
Excerpts of concert

FR

Bataclan

04.09.1993
COL/AMA
00:56:19

Tegelen

Tegelen Bluesrock Festival

NL

Intro
Continental OP
Moonchild
I Wonder Who
The Loop
Tattood Lady
A Million Miles Away
Messin With the Kid
Bullfrog Blues/
Dizzy Miss Lizzy/
Highway 61/
Outro

17-19.06.1994
London
COL/AMA
Rudi Gerlach Archive
UK
Conrad Hotel, Roundhouse Studios
Filmed recording session for the Peter Green Songbook. Completely uncirculated. See www.rory.de/rudi and
www.rorysfriends.de for more information.

02.07.1994
PAL/COL/PRO

Pistoia
Videomusic
Continental OP
Moonchild
I Wonder Who
Tattood Lady
Out on the Western Plain
Messin With the Kid
La Bamba

Pistoia Blues Festival

I
Piazza Duomo

12.07.1994
PAL/COL/PRO

Montreux
Montreux Sounds SA (?)
Continental OP
Moonchild
I Wonder Who
The Loop
Tattood Lady
I Could Have Had
Religion

28. Montreux Jazz Festival

officially released on DVD
CH
Auditorium Stravinski

Ghost Blues
Out On the Western
Plain
Medley:
Amazing Grace
Walkin Blues
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Off the Handle
Messin With the Kid
Im Ready

??.07.1994
PAL/COL/PRO

Montreux
28. Montreux Jazz Festival
arte (?)
CH
Interview
Out on the Western Plain (excerpt)

Short but very emotional, sad interview. Rory: Life is short, but we must take time to think, to
develop (to progress). My writing is getting better, my playing is getting better, I'm much more happy
today as a musician. I'm not happy as a person, but I'm happy as a musician". Thanks to Franois for
the translation.

08.08.1994
PAL/COL/PRO
Ca. 99 min.

Lorient
France 2 (?)/TVB
Continental OP
Moonchild
I Wonder Who
The Loop
Tattood Lady
I Could Have Had Religion
Ghost Blues
Out On the Western Plain
Walkin Blues
Dont Think Twice its
Alright
A Million Miles Away
Shadow Play
Dont Start Me Talkin
Revolution
Dust My Broom
Messin With the Kid
La Bamba

Festival Interceltique
F

Only known Rory Gallagher footage in genuine 16:9 aspect ratio. Alternative dates: 09 th or 10th 08.1994
11.08.1994
Cologne
COL/AMA
Rudi Gerlach Archive
Uncirculated film of Rorys last ever Cologne gig.

E-Werk

12.08.1994
COL/AMA
Uncirculated.

Cologne/Dsseldorf
Rudi Gerlach Archive

Dsseldorf Airport, ?

??.08.1994
PAL/COL/PRO

Saarbrcken
SWR

Extraspt in Concert
D

20.08.1994
COL/AMA
Uncirculated.

Brussels/Geel
Rudi Gerlach Archive

Geelhouse-Rock-Festival
B
Airport hotel Brussels, concert in Geel

21.08.1994
PAL/COL/PRO
01:35:00

Stuttgart
SDR
Announcement
Continental OP
Moonchild
I Wonder Who
The Loop
Tattood Lady
Bye Bye Bird
Ghost Blues
Out On the Western
Plain
Amazing Grace
Walkin Blues
Dont Think Twice
Shadow Play
Bullfrog Blues
Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Announcement

SDR 3 Top1000 XL-Festival

D
Reitstadion

16.10.1994 (?)
PAL/COL/PRO

Paris
F
Continental OP
Moonchild
I Wonder Who
Dont Start Me Talkin
I Could Have Had Religion

Ghost Blues
Shin Kicker
Out On the Western Plain
Walkin Blues
Shin Kicker (?)
Off the Handle
A Million Miles Away
Messin With the Kid
Bullfrog Blues
When My Baby She Left Me

16.10.1994 (?)
COL/AMA

Paris
F

LOlympia

Aeronef

Continental OP
Moonchild
I Wonder Who
The Loop
Tattood Lady
Mean Disposition
Ghost Blues
Shin Kicker
Out on the Western Plain
Amazin Grace
Walkin Blues
Shadowplay
Off the Handle
A Million Miles Away
Messin With the Kid
25.10.1994
COL/AMA

Lille
Continental OP
The Loop
Off the Handle
Shin Kicker
I Could Have Had
Religion
Ghost Blues
Amazing Grace
Walkin Blues
Moonchild
A Million Miles Away
(cut)

??.??.1994
PAL/COL/PRO

London
Rockn the North, Stratocasters (documentaries)
Ulster TV
UK
Conrad Hotel (?)
Interview
Improvisation
Interviewed by Ray Minhinnett (ex-Frankie Millers Full House). Unedited version is existing but not accessible.
You can find a script of the interview at http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/000931.html.
??.??.????
Acoustic session with Ronnie Drew
(?)
Mentioned by Donal Gallagher in the IT74 DVD audio commentary. Dropped due to bad lighting and lost (?).
Posthumous documentaries and promotion films:
10.07.1995*
PAL/COL/PRO
*Airdate.

Ulster TV

Gallaghers Blues (documentary)

NI

??.??.2005
PAL/COL/PRO
RT
Ca. 60 min.
Features excerpts from IT74 and Cork 1987.

Genius Rory Gallagher Live

IRE

??.??.2001
PAL/COL/PRO
BBC
00:25:39
Piece of film about Ted McKenna.

Old Wild Man (documentary)

UK

??.??.2005
Big Guns TV ad
PAL/COL/PRO
Various musicians interviewed about Rory, mainly excerpts from From a Whisper to a Scream documentary.
rel. 10.09.2010

PAL/COL/PRO
ca. 91 minutes

Ghost Blues (documentary)

Daniel Gallagher
IRE
16:9
This documentary captures Rory's life from his childhood and early showband days to his
death. It has been available to a couple of traders a long time before its official release
but since I could not get hold of it, I did not really know what to expect. I don't want to go
too much into detail regarding what is said in the interviews, what I found most
interesting, however, was what Bill Wyman had to say about the Rolling Stones' recording
sessions with Rory in 1975.

Since this is an official account on Rory and his lifetime, I was quite curious whether we would find any film
material included that we did not know before. Although this is not the case with the documentary part of the
DVD set alone, I'm still satisfied with the choice of footage we get to see in the course of the film. Between
many interviews (mostly musicians), we get to see cuts from the following shows and DVDs: Irish Tour 1974,

Limerick 11.05.1972 (interview snippet), Beat Clubs 28.02.1970 and 26.12.1971, Rockpalast
1976, 1977 and 1982, Me and My Music 14.02.1977, The Late Late Show 12.02.1988, Lorient
08.08.1994, and, maybe the most interesting piece of film from a collector's point of view, Bilzen
22.08.1969. The fact that nothing from the Live in Cork or Montreux DVDs is included, could
indicate that the film was actually finished earlier than Summer 2006. One should not take Ghost
Blues as a hint for which footage is in the Gallagher archives and which is not because not even
material from the newly available Beat Club sessions is included here. I have not much
understanding of the business/legal aspects of producing a DVD but what struck me was that no
footage from the Taste Isle of Wight show was used for the respective part of the documentary.
The second disc, The Beat Club Sessions, contains tv footage from 1971 and 1972 that, to a large
extent, has not been available before. In my opinion, there is no reason to call the DVD a complete or
definite Beat Club Sessions, but it's certainly one of the most exciting releases available by now.
Although fortunately (!) the producers refrained from formatting the original 4:3 image to 16:9, I
assume that there was a slight loss of quality when the footage was re-encoded from PAL to NTSC.
Also, the previously unreleased material found on this DVD has now been keyed. To be honest, I did
not like that very much in the Beat Club episodes I have known before, so I do not really like it here.
Nevertheless, that is only a very minor point of critic I want to make.
This is an overview about what is contained and what is missing on The Beat Club Sessions:
Title:

Session:

Version on DVD:

Unkeyed v. existing?

Laundromat

15.05.1971

original keying

not known

Hands Up

15.05.1971

original keying

not known

Sinner Boy

15.05.1971

original keying

not known

Just the Smile

15.05.1971

unkeyed

yes

Used to Be

26.12.1971

original keying

not known

In Your Town

26.12.1971

original keying

yes

Should've Learned My Lesson

26.12.1971

new keying

yes

Crest of a Wave

26.12.1971

new keying

yes

(missing) Used to Be

11.06.1972

not on DVD

yes

(missing) Should've Learned My Lesson

11.06.1972

not on DVD

yes

Toredown

11.06.1972

new keying

yes

Pistol Slapper Blues

11.06.1972

original keying

yes

I Don't Know Where I'm Going*

11.06.1972

new keying (?)

yes

Going to My Hometown

11.06.1972

new keying

yes

I Could've Had Religion

11.06.1972

new keying

yes

McAvoy Boogie

11.06.1972

new keying

yes

(missing) In Your Town

11.06.1972

not on DVD

yes

Hoodoo Man

11.06.1972

new keying

yes

Messin' With the Kid

11.06.1972 new keying
yes
*Update: If you look closely on the film sequence that has been used for the background keying of
the track you will notice that it has been shot from a different camera ancle. This raises the question

whether I Don't Know Where I'm Going has, like Pistol Slapper Blues, been keyed already in the
original production or whether there is a reel/tape with a different camera ancle of the same take of
the song in existence.
Official video releases containing Rory Gallagher or Taste footage with dates of performance:
INC = available footage not included completely
COM = available footage included completely
IWM = interview missing

28.02.1970 (INC)

28.02.1970 (INC)

28.08.1970 (INC)

28.08.1970 (INC)

28.08.1970 (INC)

28.08.1970 (INC)

28.08.1970 (INC)

28.08.1970 (INC)

28.08.1970 (INC)

28.08.1970 (INC)

28.08.1970 (INC)

15.05.1971 (INC)
26.12.1971 (INC)
11.06.1972 (INC)

26.12.1971 (INC)

26.12.1971 (INC)

09.04.1972 (INC)

09.04.1972 (INC)

09.04.1972 (INC)

09.04.1972 (INC)

11.06.1972 (INC)

05.02.1973 (INC)

Irish Tour 1974

(COM?)
??.01.1975 (Japan)

11.07.1975 (INC)
22.07.1977 (INC)
18.07.1979 (INC)
05.07.1985 (INC)

11.07.1975 (INC)

11.07.1975 (INC)

12.07.1994

06.10.1976 (INC) 06.10.1976 (INC) 06.10.1976 (INC) 06.10.1976 (INC) 06.10.1976 (INC)
23.07.1977 (IWM) 23.07.1977 (IWM) 23.07.1977 (IWM) 23.07.1977 (IWM) 23.07.1977 (IWM)
06.05.1979
06.05.1979
06.05.1979 (INC)
06.05.1979
28.08.1982
28.08.1982
28.08.1982
27.10.1990 (INC?) 27.10.1990 (INC?)
27.10.1990 (INC?)

28.08.1982

06.05.1979 (INC)
27.10.1990 (INC)

04.11.1987

04.11.1987

04.11.1987

04.11.1987

08.08.1994

see entry

22.08.1969 (COM)
09.04.1972 (COM)
from tv source bootleg?

04.11.1987

04.11.1987

Irish Tour 1974

Irish Tour 1974
1974/75 tv
??.01.1975 (Japan) ??.01.1975 (Japan) appearance. yet to be
11.05.1972
11.05.1972
released.

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ZDF:

American Broadcasting Company

now France 2
Arbeitsgemeinschaft der ffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland
Association Relative la Tlvision Europenne
British Broadcasting Cooperation
BBC Northern Ireland
Belgische Radio- en Televisieomroep (now VRT: Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep)
France Rgions 3 (now France 3)
Murray Lerner Film Productions, NYC
National Broadcasting Company
sterreichischer Rundfunk
Office de Radiodiffusion Tlvision Franaise (archive now under control of INA: Institut
national de laudivisuel)
Radio Telefs ireann
Sddeutsches Fernsehen (now SWR)
Sddeutscher Rundfunk (now SWR)
Schweizer Fernsehen
Sender Freies Berlin (now RBB: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg)
Sdwestrundfunk
Tlvision Franaise 1
Tlvision Suisse Romande
TV Breizh
Televisin Espaola
program library now owned by MTV Italy.
Washington, District of Columbia Area, TV. Now owned by Fox.
Westdeutsches Fernsehen (now WDR)
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
now WDR
today WSYR-TV, associated with ABC
Yleisradio Oy
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