Hey everyone, just new here. Im just wondering if any of you have played the custom shop gallagher strats @ the moment and if so, what do you think.
Thanks in advance, Cheers,
lanky guitar-surfer from reef breaks in oz
Hey everyone, just new here. Im just wondering if any of you have played the custom shop gallagher strats @ the moment and if so, what do you think.
Thanks in advance, Cheers,
lanky guitar-surfer from reef breaks in oz
I've been wondering the same thing. Rory Gallagher has been one of my musical inspirations since I first heard him in 71. From what I've heard, the small patch of paint on the front is some sort of sticker. I'd really like to find out if it's true.
It looks like shee-it
I like my guitars all new shiny and sparkley
(yes I own an actual black and gold sparkle strat)
If I had the money to collect these things that would be one I would get. What an icon that guitar has become.
Rory ROCKS!
The actual original Rory Strat was on display at a museum in Dublin recently ( along with many other guitars from Rory's collection ). It really is as beat up as you might think. But such an iconic instrrument.
I met a Devil Woman, she took my heart away
She said I had it comin', But I wanted it that way
don't get me wrong , Rory was God, but...?? Find your own ID.
Anyway I'd be scared of scratching it.
I have one Rory CS since 2005. It's a very well built, extremely light axe, with brillant sound. Dynamics are to die for, it has a hell of a neck, slab rosewood with Gibson medium jumbo frets. Plays like butter, due to that slim, back-sanded neck and the big(ger) frets. I have /11s on that (my regular gauge for live), and it's one of my two main live strats.
How it looks, face to face? DON'T LOOK at the Fender product images, that is a very "brave" Rory CS model pictured, nothing to do with reality, go to a store and get one in your hands.. it's actually much darker than the pictures, full of rust and dust, and has that particular naked wood smell. It's THE Relic guitar itself... All other CS relics are just jokes compared to its look.. At least, you won't mind if you scratch or hit that axe, obviously you won't notice at all !!!
From a sound point of view, through it screams for that dirty, raunchy rock-blues sound, don't think it as a focused-style guitar... Actually you can play almost anything on it. Pups are very brillant, if you are into typical low output single coils, nice CS '61 replicas, also heavy reliced, rusted to hell, with deeply yellowed covers. I have replaced them with Kinman AVn Blues set, and now my Rory is a heavy Blues weapon...loud & proud, no compromise.
Pickguard is typical reliced '61 greenish style.
Don't let the relic look fool you, it's a new, well made guitar and ALL mechanical parts (tuners, tremblock & saddles, etc.) work perfect.
At least here in Europe, it comes on a very good price (actually cheaper than regular teambuilt CS relics). Check it out, if you have the chance to.
Hey guitar-surfer,
Welcome to the forum.
I have played several Rory Strats & I love 'em.
They are darker than the pic as said.
They play, feel , & sound good & that's why they are good.
Screw the looks- it feels right!
No sticker BTW.
bluesjuke thanks for verifying the sticker thing. Rory has been one of my favorite guitarists since i was about 14 years old. I'm 51 now.
The paint isn't a 'sticker'. The body is covered in a mask and then painted in a normal 'burst finish. The mask is then peeled off and this leaves the remaining paint in the small patches on the body and the complete area under the pickguard. It doesn't look convincing close up.
Peak District, Derbyshire, England
No problem.
I'm a Rory fan too.
Got to see him once at "The Bottom Line" in NYC once.
That was nice!
About 200 people sitting 10 feet in front of him with the stage only 18 inches higher than the floor our table was at.
I got a good look at the original guitar then.
Wasn't much different from that time on as it was beat to crap already by then.
That was in '78.
Unfortunatley he died on my birthday in '95.
Rory Gallagher; one of the greats! Saw him at the Felt Forum in Madison Square Garden, March of 1973; blew the doors off Deep Purple as the opening act!
Rory was a heck of a Strat-Slinger. No question about it.
Never played one, but only because I haven't seen one up-close-and-personal, yet. Maybe someday.
I probably wouldn't get one, even if I could swing it. I have an old beat up Les Paul that I've reliced myself, and naturally, in the course of owning and playing her hard over the past 32 years. That's what makes that guitar personal to me.
But, hey -- if that guitar speaks to you, has the tone and feel you want, then go for it. It's no different than any other signature model, if it gives you what you want in sound. The important thing is to make it your own.
A very lovely guitar. I played one on a couple of occasions. But the look is for Rory, one needs to find ones own ID.
Last edited by Schtang; 10-26-2007 at 02:45 AM.
The funny thing (at least I find it amusing) is that his guitar got to look that way not through playing it, but rather the finish peeled off after the guitar had been stolen and left in a wet ditch for a few days.
Is that really "mojo"?
Rory may have been inadvertantly a pioneer of advanced relicing methods. If the copy isn't authentically "ditch reliced", then it's not a worthy copy imho...
-Mark
There's a semiotic truth in us calling this quality "mojo."
A shaman wields a talisman, one of his own devising that is therefore unique. He appears to summon and command magical forces through the use of it, and so naturally the other guys in the tribe want one for themselves.
So they go out in the bush and find the right feathers and berries, and they dry them and press them and tie together a mighty Attribute just like the witch doctor's. Funny, this one doesn't have any magic in it. Hmmmm.
Maybe if I get the same compressor he uses. Ooo-weee oooh ah-ah.
Everyone knows those reissue feathers and berries are crap compared to the originals.
-Mark
From what I've read, Rory's sweat was very acidic and he sweat profusely when he played. That is what wrecked the paint. As well as the hardware It was stolen but his brother claimed it was his sweat. Check out any of his videos' from the Irish Tour on up they're absolutely awesome.