The Guitar Magazine – July 2019

“He liked P-90s for slide, so you can see this being a
slide guitar. With a lot of songs, such as Bullfrog Blues,
he liked to have one setup, as opposed to having
loads of controls and pickups to mess with. It was
like, ‘that’s the tone for that song’. So having just
the one pickup, he liked that there was no messing,
really direct, loads of attack – and having loads of
access at the upper frets would also be great for slide.
“I think he just got this because it was green,
for Ireland! The checking on it is amazing, and
the scratchplate is bowing, but it looks so cool –
I’d steal that!”

1967 VOX MARK XII SPECIAL
Without doubt the weightiest guitar on hand today
is a late-60s Vox 12-string that perhaps doesn’t fit
in with Rory’s general vibe, but was likely bought in
tribute to one of his guitar inspirations.
“He would have definitely got this because he was
a massive Brian Jones fan,” Daniel explains. “Brian
Jones was the first person he ever saw playing slide
guitar and that had a big, big impact on him. He’d
heard it on Muddy Waters records, but I don’t think
he’d actually seen anyone play it. He was over in
London with the showband, and he went to the

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RORY GALLAGHER

GUITAR MAGAZINE 47