So what about the good things we owe to religion? Architecture. Painting. Atheism. But especially music. I happen to be especially partial to Bach's B-minor Mass, but what follows isn't exactly chopped liver. Rory Gallagher was an Irish blues guitarist who lived hard and died hard, at age 47 of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Here he is, age 24, at The Marquee Club in London, April 1972:
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Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: I Could've had Religion
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Posted on: November 1, 2009 6:35 AM, by revere
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Or clostridium difficile.
Posted by: JD | November 1, 2009 11:37 AM
Is there a video (or something) that is supposed to be in the white space below the text of your message? Maybe its just me (Windows Vista, IE8) but I don't see it.
Posted by: Divalent
| November 1, 2009 1:46 PM
Divalent: Hmm. I got a white space just now, too, but as I was replying via this comment the video appeared. If you wait, does it show up?
Just checked. It looks like YouTube is intermittently borked. Try again later?
Posted by: revere
| November 1, 2009 2:01 PM
The YouTube clip shows up fine for me.
I saw Rory play on several occasions in Ireland and he was always a class act. I'm not sure that "lived hard and died hard" is the best description for his life - at least not in comparison to other musicians who died prematurely. Rory was known for being an intensely shy individual off stage and wasn't renowned for the partying excesses of many of his peers. His brother claims that, while he didn't drink so much, alcohol probably contributed, along with several medications he was taking for anxiety attacks, to the liver damage that necessitated the liver transplant. He picked up the infection that led to his death during this operation.
Posted by: Sigmund | November 2, 2009 1:42 AM