Photo Finish

Its Rory Gallagher, its brilliant, I can't praise this man highly enough, I have all his CD's and listen to them almost constantly, I haven't heard a bad song, haven't heard anything I don't like, I only "discovered" Rory in April 2012 and am now most firmly and irrevocably hooked. The man was a genius, taken much much too soon. No two songs are the same, they can't be pigeonholed as from a certain year or even decade, there are surprises on every album. If you like Rock/blues/acoustic/bit of jazz - then buy Photo Finish, buy anything by Rory and enjoy - especially LOUD, magic, brilliant, awesome, wonderful

On this lo he was on top form,good to revisit it.

I been a fan of rory for years so i decided to get him albums great guitarist and singer and song writer and play the blues big fan

My Dad had this on vinyl LP when it was originally released. I liked it then (even thought I was 6 years of age). Then I flirted with dance music and rap, and pop as I grew up. Started getting back into PROPER music when I took up the guitar, and was starting to buy on cd all those decent rock-albums my dad had previously had on LP. I bought this one in the early part of the year...its now October, and it has not been out of my car, and now I am quickly purchasing all I can of Rory Gallagher's back catalogue. This is one of his rockier albums, and I for one do not believe there is a bad track on here, including many different styles, from straight forward rock, to his more bluesy stuff, and his great slide guitar sound is also on here. It's only since I have been playing guitar that I realised what an absolutely fantastic guitarist Rory was, had his own sound completely, and I now think I would recognise his sound anywhere. My particular favourite on here is the first track "shin-kicker", but only just...too many great ones to really say for sure. The rest of his band are playing tight, and its one album that benefits from really playing loud. Its a shame that Rory is no longer with us, and I really wish I just could have been that bit older to have seen him perform live. I am just glad I have discovered him now. I can thouroughly recommend this cd, sounding a lot fresher than its 27 years of age. Shame a lot of todays music doesnt sound this good even after a year! After you have bought this cd...I am sure you will (like me) want to find out more about Rory's music.

For completists only grab Taste albums and earlier Rory’s single albums,always a fantastic live performer gives his heart out live concerts lasted over 1,5 hours without any rest

This is a monster album. Never heard Rory before other than what crops up on compilation albums. Wow, I was well impressed. Very gritty sounding guitar but not over the top. Not a dud song on this album, I'm in the process of now, collecting his back catalogue.

24 bit High Resolution re-mastering from the original 1/4 master tape by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham at Wired Masters in 2017. All of the 2018 CD studio remasters released by UMC contain updated sleeve insert photos and track comments. There is no remix meddling this time; these are as the original releases. All have bonus track(s) except Deuce. Excellent sound quality throughout and the content needs no further comment other than it is Rory Gallagher doing what only he and his co-musicians could; a unique sound and a massive influence on many players that have followed.

This must be my fourth copy of this fantastic album by the late great Rory Gallagher. Bought this for a family member, who is now hooked on this legendary guitarist.

L'avete mai ascoltato un disco insufficiente di Rory ? Io no. Ha suonato sempre le sue cose alla stessa (grande) maniera, non delude mai...se piace il genere , e' roba DOCG.

This is another GREAT CD from Rory Gallagher, it took a great deal of time to produce this one, almost twice the amount of time that it usually took Rory to cut his usual Discs. That is because he fired his Producer and started all over again from scratch. He swore that Producers were a waste of time and money, that he always ended up teaching them what he could do for himself and in his very talented case I am quite sure that was true, it isn't always that way. Photo-Finish is a real Coup de Gras for Rory as he managed to prove his ability as a producer and he also came up with a very HOT CD for the record company. So while it took all the extra time the end product was a huge success and hard for the company to fault him for. Again this is a 5 Star disc I have been taking extra time in putting the orders together these days and the result is a far higher success rate as far as the quality of CD's is concerned so far in this batch I have not come across a single weak piece. If you are into the Blues Photo-Finish is a Disc for you, it is easy to say that about Rory Gallagher, while some of his CD's are stronger than others most are acceptable, this one is very strong and worthy of your attention. I would have preferred a hard shell case for the packaging but hey this is the new way of doing things and I will need to get on board with this even if I think it a mistake. I will need to find some way to protect these paper jackets in some way but as of yet I have not seen anything on the market which will do the job....Spigomars

Most Rory fans rank this as one of his lesser albums which I could never understand. I just love this one. I also love the back story: he recorded most of these songs previously and then literally at the last minute -- the album had been pressed and was just about to ship -- he demanded of his record company that they pull it and not release it. Which naturally drove them nuts. From a business perspective that was an insane thing to do but that was Rory, it was always about the music first last and always. He re-recorded the songs and this was the result. When I'm down and just want to get away from everything I put this on and crank it up. BTW, the original versions of the songs were posthumously released as the album Notes from San Francisco. Not a bad album either but this one is clearly better. I feel as if I should say more but really what else can I say this is IMO one of the greatest blues rock albums ever by one of the greatest blues rock guitarists ever. Technically there are better guitar players but no one had the feeling and emotion of the blues better than Rory. Why do the good always die young? Miss you dude.

Photo Finish ist das siebte Studioalbum des William Rory Gallagher und gilt zu Recht als eines seiner besten Alben. Jeder der Songs ist ein Ohrenschmaus für einen Rock- und Bluesliebhaber. Keines der Stücke dürfte fehlen, da das Album dadurch sehr abwechslungsreich geworden ist. Sofort der erste Song "Shin Kicker" geht so richtig ab. Dann folgt einer meiner Lieblingssongs von Photo Finish, nämlich "Brute Force & Ignorance". Einfach nur traumhaft. Meinem Dafürhalten ist allerdings "Shadow Play" der absolute Kracher des Albums. Und wer die tolle Live Fassung dieses Songs von dem Konzert "Live In Montreaux" aus dem Jahre 1979 kennt, der weiß, was ich meine. Aber auch die Songs "Overnight Bag", "Cloak & Dagger" und besonders das tolle Bluesstück "Fuel To The Fire" sind absolut hörenswert. Wie bereits oben erwähnt gehört "Photo Finish" zu Rory Gallagher's Topalben. Wer etwas für sehr gute Rock- und Bluesmusik übrig hat, der sollte sich dieses Album besorgen. Fans haben dieses geniale Album sowieso schon in ihrem Regal als LP und CD stehen. Übrigens, die remasterte Fassung ist meinem Erachten nach sehr gelungen

Rory Gallagher とてもパワフルでものすごくカッコイイです Rory Gallagher 聴くのわ初めてなんですこんなに良いとわしらなかったです