Notes from San Francisco

Notes from San Francisco is a posthumous album by Irish musician Rory Gallagher. Released in 2011, It consists of two CDs. The first disc is a never released album that Gallagher recorded in San Francisco in December 1977. The album was to be a major shift for Gallagher. Rather than producing it himself he worked with Elliot Mazer a successful producer who had a long track record with artists such as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and The Band. At the last minute -- causing great distress to his manager and brother Donal and to his record company -- Gallagher decided to just pull the record. In an interview Gallagher stated "it wasn't because of the material or the musicians or anything like that. It was a song thing that I didn't think on the technical side everything worked. So I scrapped the thing" After scrapping the album Gallagher reworked his band firing all the musicians except the bass player and hiring a new drummer. This new Gallagher power trio re-recorded the San Francisco songs with Gallagher producing and released them as Photo-Finish. Shortly before his death, Gallagher reportedly gave Donal permission to eventually release the original San Francisco versions of the songs if they were remixed. Donal had his son Daniel remix the songs in 2011. The second disc is a live performance also recorded in San Francisco in December 1979.

Contents

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• Track listing
• Personnel
• Songs
• References