Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour '74 Blu-ray Review Reviewed by, April 14, 2011 Tony Palmer's excellent documentary film 'Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour '74' arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Eagle Rock Entertainment. The supplemental features on the disc include footage from Rory Gallagher's Japanese tour of the same year; audio commentary by Donal Gallagher and Gerry McAvoy; and a wonderful documentary produced for RTE (Irish Television Network) in 1972. In English, without optional English subtitles for the main feature.

Irish Tour '74 is the sixth album by Rory Gallagher, compiled from live recordings made at concerts on an Irish Tour in January 1974 at Belfast Ulster Hall, Dublin. Find a Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74 first pressing or reissue. Complete your Rory Gallagher collection. Shop Vinyl and CDs. To mark the 40th anniversary of its original release, Rory Gallagher’s greatest album, the Irish Tour ’74 “live double”, gets an Expanded Deluxe Edition.

Rory Gallagher I believe it was sometime during the early 80s when a good friend of mine, who was crazy about Humble Pie, introduced me to Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher. He had a tape with a recording of a live show Gallagher and his bandmates did somewhere in the United Kingdom. To be honest, however, the only thing I remember now is that we listened to the tape because earlier Gallagher had been voted Top Musician of the Year (top guitar player) by Melody Maker Magazine, ahead of Eric Clapton, which is how my friend had discovered him. Having just finished watching Tony Palmer's excellent documentary film Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour '74 - which contains a lot more than just footage from Gallagher's gigs in Ireland - it is obvious to me that I have been ignoring a truly exceptional artist, a man whose stage presence was electrifying and performances absolutely riveting. Gallagher's style could probably best be described as Irish blues rock - it is raw and notably expressive, blending hard and classic rock, blues, R&B, and even jazz, and spiced up with plenty of Irish folk. Naturally, in the live performances captured in Palmer's film Gallagher is just as impressive when performing various blues tunes ('As The Crow Flies') as he is when he does harder and faster tunes ('Cradle Rock').

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Cradle Rock 7. As The Crow Flies 8. Bullfrog Blues. Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080i transfer, Tony Palmer's Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour '74 arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Eagle Rock Entertainment. The majority of the footage has a tendency to look soft, especially during the live performances, where the camera isn't always positioned in a way that allows the viewer to get a good feel of what is happening on the stage.

Additionally, there are quite a few close-ups that certainly could have looked a lot better (it is quite obvious that plenty of the footage was shot with the understanding that later on it will be edited and shown on TV). Detail and clarity, however, are quite good. Contrast levels are also relatively stable.