 
Welcome to independent tribute site to Rory Gallagher (1948-1995).
I like Rory Gallagher very much. I have been a fan of Rory since late 1970s. But I was a young and stupid girl, I missed all chances to see him in live in Japan. So I felt regret and guilty when I saw a news of his death. I realized what man we lost. Then I began to collect Rory's records, listen to his music more intently than before, as if I try to fill the lack of my live experience of Rory.
Now I've got some records, CD/DVD and memorabilia of Rory, just because I want to enjoy hearing or seeing Rory more and more. Good friends of mine have supported me from Europe, North America and in Japan.
Being a great collector of Rory Gallagher? No, it is not my goal. I would be able to collect most of those things with money. But I can never purchase friends who share items, information, and people who talk to me their own stories of Rory. I want to share with those Roryfans. Because Rory gave us what he had without putting aside anything in his short life.
I am looking forward to contact from Roryfans all over the world.
-- Megumi (m.m) --
Pages in this site are English/Japanese bilingual.
Forgive me for my poor English.
About pictures.
Pictures in my site are mostly snapshots taken with normal camera,
not directly scanned, and downsized to GIF files.
If you want to see more, I recommend a site with plenty of beautiful pictures.
Click here for Rory Gallagher and Taste (www.reurie.nl)
"We never see Rory Gallagher performing in poor quality show. He always presented excellent and perfect guitar especially in live"... It's a same old story of reviewing Rory Gallagher or Taste, at least in Japan.
I don't think so... Ya, I believe it's true, in 1970s Rory came to Japan and surprised Japanese audience and review writers with more than 150% perfect beautiful concerts and his faithful behavior. But if "always excellent" or "always perfect" was true, I would get tired and stop to hear Rory before I collected 100 titles of his shows. After I heard more than hundred of his live recordings, I came up to know, occasionally he played in bad condition or made failure, very rare but even he confused us, and he was yelled at by young audience in his later years. He was not a guitar machine or ageless superman, not much less a "god". He was a mortal man who loved guitar too much. Nevertheless, he always made us wild with passionate guitar and thrilling voice. It was always his top priority to entertain us. He gave us all he had. He played as if he would die tomorrow so he should play all tonight. So, I love him, I am driven to hear more and more of his music.
Most people who knew him personally have been saying, Rory was a nice guy, polite and kind, good to weakers and losers. He was an angel ! But we have read in some biographical books to know how Rory suffered from physical and mental problems, holding dark side in himself. However, that is what a man should be, having positive side and negative side. If someone like a god who had positive side only, then God would not need to have mercy on him. Rory was a mortal man so he got old, declined and died. Beyond our inquisitiveness, some serious and sad stories in his biography remind us how the life should be lived. (Still we regret he died too young.)
God would bless and accept such guy, allow him to play guitar in Heaven - Rory Gallagher band live show that never ends! Don't you think so?
  
Please contact
megumimanzaki@m.email.ne.jp
Please put or do not remove the words 'Rory Gallagher' on your mail subject.
By 'Rory Gallagher' subject, I will be able to distinguish your mail from spam.
Thank you for all Roryfans' cooperation.
Megumi
world links
RoryON!!
John Boyle's home page (from Scotland)
You can find everything about Rory (from Netherlands)
Rory Gallagher and Taste (from Netherlands)
TOP-PRIORITY (from Germany)
Rory Gallagher Home Page (from Finland)
They Don't Make 'em Like You Anymore (from Greece)
Rory Gallagher Ukraine (from Ukraine)
Rory Gallagher & Rock N Roll (from France)
Shadowplays (from U.S.A.)
A Tribute to Rory Gallagher (from U.S.A.)
muew's Rory Gallagher Web Site (from Japan)
Japanese Rory Gallagher tribute site "maybe i will..." (from Japan)
guitarist site
Daniel Wherrett Guitar Tuition (from England)
Daniel appears in Rory's video as young audience at the Marquee London 1972!
portraitist site
Theo Reijnders (from Netherlands)
Painting Rory Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards and more blues, jazz, rock musicians.
photographer sites
fin Costello (from Ireland)
Pat Comer (from Ireland)
Pat will be creating page for Rory shortly.
McLoughlin's Irish Bar & Restaurant (Kyoto Japan)
You must visit and talk to chef Tadg who saw Rory/Taste live in Limerick when he was a boy!
Japanese sites
Rory Gallagher Live in JAPAN
Japanese Rory Gallagher tribute site "maybe i will..."
my tribute to Rory Gallagher
muew's Rory Gallagher Web Site
shinolez's blog "Rory na mainichi"
flickr megumi_'s photostream 
 
Rory Gallagher relic guitar (private custom made) courtesy of h.h. Photo copyright (C) 2007/2009 m.m.
Special appearance Murphy (basset hound).
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Rory Gallagher independent tribute site by Japanese Rory fan
downloadable toonpaint pictures
the first London convention, Hammersmith Nov-2003
"Legendary musician and songwriter played here." Ulster Hall, Belfast 2009
"He lived on this street." snapshots in Cork Jan-2009, part 1
visiting Rory's grave: snapshots in and out of Cork Jan-2009, part 2
Rory in Manchester 08-Oct-1987
Rory in Manchester 20-Nov-1988
snapshots at music shop town Ochanomizu Tokyo Jan-2009
snapshots at comic and PC game town Akihabara Tokyo Jan-2009
Rory in Liverpool 05-Dec-1988 etc.
photo gallery: IRELAND 1994-2004
memorabilia 1969-1978 in North America
a rock bar at Akihabara, Tokyo Mar-2008
rare photo of Taste's final gig, Belfast, 24-Oct-1970
Rory live in Novi Sad, Serbia, 18-Jan-1985
donation to The Rory Gallagher Music Library, Cork 2007
RockChic exhibition, Dublin Jan-2007
74/01/23 Tokyo 
75/01/26 Tokyo 
77/10/25 Nagoya 
91/02/19 Kawasaki 
