{"id":143,"date":"2008-09-13T05:13:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T05:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2008-09-13T05:16:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T05:16:11","slug":"1971-latimes-whisky-a-go-go-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"1971 L.A.Times &#8216;Whisky A Go Go&#8217; review"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/?p=143\" data-text=\"1971 L.A.Times \\'Whisky A Go Go\\' review\" data-count=\"horizontal\">Tweet<\/a><p><center><\/p>\n<h2>New Trio Rocks, Rolls Down Whisky Chimney<\/h2>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:15px;text-align:justify;\">\nAll those folks planning to ask Santa for a sleek new powerhouse rock trio with fast lines and lightning trimmings got their wish 74 days early when Rory Gallagher and friends debuted at the Whisky a Go Go Wednesday, and ripped the place up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:15px;text-align:justify;\">\nGallagher, whose business is spreading sweet and often manic rock music, is a modest Irish lad with a round genial face, huge eyebrows, a metallic voice and an impressive style halfway between a rampaging steamroller and a spunky squirrel gone berserk.  He is the real thing.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<h3>Eager to Move<\/h3>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:15px;text-align:justify;\">\nThe music has nothing to do with dream, myth, metaphor or the subconscious.  It is usually loud and tough-fibered, and Gallagher hits you with it right between the eyes.  Best of all, it never takes itself quite seriously enough to lose its rather nice and believable aura of flash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:15px;text-align:justify;\">\nSome might dismiss Gallagher and company as warmed-over Cream.  but Gallagher never wears a gaudy wardrobe of old hats.  On songs like &#8220;Sinner Man (sic),&#8221; &#8220;Hands Up,&#8221; &#8220;Laundromat&#8221; and &#8220;I fall Apart&#8221; he shows a refreshing (and rare) eagerness to move the audience.  He does.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:15px;text-align:justify;\">\nThe other two thirds of his band are Wilgar Campbell (drums) and Gerry McAvoy (bass).  they have brains, taste and inventiveness, and they rock.  Gallagher, a whiz on lead guitar, plays with fierceness and the good taste to avoid the stock phrase.<\/p>\n<p><i>Michael Ross, Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1971<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet New Trio Rocks, Rolls Down Whisky Chimney All those folks planning to ask Santa for a sleek new powerhouse rock trio with fast lines and lightning trimmings got their wish 74 days early when Rory Gallagher and friends debuted at the Whisky a Go Go Wednesday, and ripped the place up. Gallagher, whose business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadowplays.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}