€1 million For Rory Gallagher's Guitar . . . Or For Donal Gallagher's Lifestyle ?

How many of the 34k views are yours? Assuming people only view it once that's still not even 10% of the subscribers to that channel who have watched it! That channel has plenty of 1M+ view videos. 34k views is small beans.
 
Why do Leos always want preeminence ?

Only 34 k views on a specialist musician YT channel ? That's good for that category.
 
@trajan yes i made the exact same point myself, it was the advent of YouTube and the fact that so much footage of gallagher was done in high quality that has contributed to his growing legacy.
I saw a young English band playing some of his stuff in monaghan a month ago, and the quality and energy was outstanding obviously they learned it from his YouTube videos . Also the fact that he was never overly commercial is an extra thrill to these younger fans that they are discovering this great talent that nobody had heard of
 
trajan said:
Why do Leos always want preeminence ?
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We love the drama

trajan said:
Only 34 k views on a specialist musician YT channel ? That's good for that category.
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It's only 2% of the viewing figures of other videos on that same channel. The point I'm making is that Rory is a small niche within the music industry. Putting forward a video with low viewing figures only goes to to prove that points, not counter it as intended.
 
Purple said:
A a billion views on TikTok will earn around $7,000.
A billion streams on Spotify will earn around $45,000
A billion views on YouTube will earn north of a million dollars.
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These numbers look fairly optimistic to me, but awfully low royalty compensation whatever way you look at it.
 
They were talking about this on the wireless this morning. I just caught the end of it so I don't know what the substance of the conversation was.
 
A troop surge to their wallets might push funds raised via Sheena Crowley to over the €100,000 mark.

But they are hoping rather fondly that hard-nosed gaelgeoirs at the Heritage Department will 'break' on the day or else that the perfect stranger will pay them a compliment and buy the old Strat for the new museum. I'm inclined to doubt it. Rock music is a business. Collectables auctioning is a juicy business. And the rest of us are in business. Sort of, anyway.

I'm sticking my neck out for an expected €450,000 hammer price by Thursday afternoon.

Anyone else got a figure ?
 
It'll end up in a glass case in a Hard Rock Café somewhere under a sign saying "Rory who?". People will ask if he was in Oasis.
 
Purple said:
It'll end up in a glass case in a Hard Rock Café somewhere under a sign saying "Rory who?". People will ask if he was in Oasis.
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Maybe 30 years ago you could have said that, he actually has a very low profile in the last years of his life and was out of the mainstream limelight so many youngsters would have had no knowledge of him.

Now thanks to the Internet and YouTube he has a very wide following and is way better known than he was in 1994. Sure there are even young bands now playing his music and winning blues music awards for their interpretations of his music that weren't even born when he died in 1995. That is very extraordinary and unique
 
I'd be surprised if it fetched more than a couple of hundred grand on the open market. (Different story if "The State" steps in with that bottomless pit of a cheque-book of theirs. (If MIchael D was still Minister for the Arts it would be a certainty.)

Someone above mentioned the Hard Rock Cafes - but they've been closing down in droves in both the US and Europe recently so the market for that kind of memorabilia surely must be drying up a bit? (I remember about ten years go being in the Cardiff Hard Rock Cafe and spotting the bass guitar of The Who's John Entwistle up on the wall in a glass cage. I doubted whether the gaggle of young things drinking cocktails underneath it had a clue who he was...
 
Rory wasn't from Galway and wasn't a Po-et so probably not.
I passed a Hard Rock casino near Chicago the week before last so maybe they are diversifying...
 
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The auction is tomorrow lads. Is anyone else taking the afternoon off work to see how it goes?
 
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Probably all the publicity about the guitar needing to stay in Ireland and irish government stepping in potentially may have frightened away all those rich guys genuinely interested in it. They wouldn't want to fall fowl of the social media
 
joe sod said:
Probably all the publicity about the guitar needing to stay in Ireland and irish government stepping in potentially may have frightened away all those rich guys genuinely interested in it. They wouldn't want to fall fowl of the social media
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Really?
 
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