Thanks to our new member and Rory friend Woodeye2000 's topic in other section, I watched the Rockpalast Cologne 1990 gig. Which is the last gig on Disc 3 of The Complete Rockpalast Collection.
I did put another topic up here before about not watching to many of these later year concerts of Rory. As I find it difficult to see Rory in not too healthy a condition on stage. In contrast to what we used see him and as I always like to remember him. Seeing him so many times live in the peak of his health. Yet I must be mellowing these days and I don't find it quite so traumatic as I use to find watching these later concerts a few years back.
Saying that after finishing watching the 1990 gig. I started the disc from the beginning, at The Wiesbaden 1979 gig. This starts with Shinkicker which is the encore I just watched not long before on the Cologne 1990 gig also.
If you play the two Shinkickers one after the other. The differences IMHO are quite dramatic..
Even though Rory's playing in 1990 is terrific. He has not got IMHO the same electrifying stage presence and vitality as ten years previous.
Your thoughts Rory fans?
Rock On for Rory
Slainte, Jay Jay