Ok, as you can see from the time stamp on this contribution, I have too much time on my hands for thinking.
I have an early morning appointment where I am going to be monitored for sleep deprivation. Yes sleep deprivation. I have to stay up more or less all night and then go into the clinic and be hooked up and,… well, try to fall asleep.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about my last choice and should I go for the live album or not. Although I think it’s the perfect opening for a show and demonstrates perfectly what Rob expressed for the theme of the thread, perhaps it’s not in keeping with the spirit of the ‘competition’.
I’ll go for a studio album instead.
I’m going to go back to the seventies again. Rory Gallagher, from the time he went solo from Taste, put out some fabulous albums, a really great body of work in that decade. I was tempted to go with the debut, self named album at the start of the decade and the wonderful ‘Laundromat’ which signalled a new era for Rory. It really is a wonderful tune that has heavy rock, swing and jazz elements in it that really does signal the possibilities of where he may go. Where he may take you with him.
Instead though I’m going to the end of the seventies and the wonderful Top Priority album. Dave Fanning over here was like the Irish equivalent of John Peel and his show on Friday evening used to open with the intro of ‘Follow Me’.
At the end of the seventies and early eighties, we used to bring a radio out onto the street and listen to pirate radio. This intro always struck me as a brilliant opening to anything. Not just the radio show. The album, of course, which I hadn’t heard at the time, but live also, seems so exciting.
My choice: Follow Me - Top Priority-Rory Gallagher.
