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Free Music Notes for Taste
Free Music Review: Great Raw Blues Rock
Hit: 5 Stars
The debut of the great Rory Gallagher !! If you love his work you have to check out Taste, his first band. The recording is raw, probably live to 4 track in the studio with little if any overdubbing, and not much in the way of any real production, not unlike the first couple Groundhogs albums, both in style and recording technique. "Blister On The Moon" reminds me of something Cream would have done around the time of Disraeli Gears. Rory did all the writing with the exception of a Leadbelly cover and one other traditional blues. As always, the guitar playing smokes.Free Music Review: Raw Electric Blues Rock
Hit: 5 Stars
I first saw Taste in England 1969 in a small club loved them bought this album as soon as it came out in the US. The recording is simple power trio no tricks just bare naked music if you like fluffy overmixed productions stay away you'll hear the squeak of the string as Rory plays but it works for my ears 2LP's and a CD later it is still a must have album for me. This is early work but I listen to it more than any other Taste or Rory Gallagher album that I have.Free Music Review: Blind Faith/ Delaney, Bonnie and friends/ Taste/ Chicago Amphiteater, 1969
Hit: 5 Stars
Rory blew Clapton -away- when they all jammed at the end, and I didn't even know who he was at the time, so no prejudice.Free Music Review: A major debut from the guitarist's teenaged guitarist
Hit: 4 Stars
Like other reviewers, I saw Rory at a festival and was hooked. It was Woburn Abbey in 1968 and we had already had our ears reamed by a quite dreadful performance by Hendrix - out of tune (horribly), out of time (woefully), perfunctory, noisy, uninspired. In fact, I wonder if the Great God was like this on stage more often than not. Anyway, on the Sunday evening on came Taste and just blew Hendrix and his foul noise away - and I was very far from the only one to think that although few would admit it today since Hendrix has been canonised.
I went to see the band at the Marquee very shortly after that (Rory, Norman Damery and Eric Kitteringham) and Rory told me that they had done a few sessions and had one single on the Irish Major Minor label - Blister on the Moon c/w Born on the Wrong Side of Time. After a long hunt I tracked it down and played it to death.
After more gigs than people realise in this line-up, Gallagher formed the band that plays on this, the first "real" Taste album. The two Major Minor tracks are repeated and show an already good feel for composition. The epic "Sugar Mama", which was a tour de force on stage and used to include Summertime and also a Chim-chiminee riff, comes off well here, very raw and basic, although recorded in the back of a Mini, I guess. "Hail" is a very odd acoustic song with wierd words, with a small quote from Bach in the instrumental section. "Leaving Blues" is good, well played and thoughtful, and shows Gallagher's love of country blues artists such as Blind Boy Fuller, Scrapper Blackwell and the composer of Polk Salad Annie, the hugely impressive Tony Joe White. Dual Carriageway Pain starts with a searing riff and a good punchy rock song follows. To avoid track listing, the whole album is a canny mix of acoustic, blues and almost rock songs that showed Rory's ability in all fields as well as pretty good support from Ritchie McKraken and John Wilson, playing a lovely snappy Rogers kit. Movin' On is a lovely country shuffle with a nice elctro acoustic solo, very well sung.
"On the Boards" followed this which was a real groundbreaker and featured the solo of solos on "What's going On?", as well as Rory's first foray into alto sax, because "nobody can make it sound how I want" he told me.
Taste is a very good debut from three young lads and shows that Rory was to become a major force, which he did. The new live DVDs available from Amazon remind us that he becaame arguably the most exciting player in a basic no effects, no pedals format. He was never ever boring and this CD is worth every penny.
Later he went on to record with Muddy in "The London Sessions" which for him was like meting God. For the record, his contributions to the album are light years ahead of all the other usual suspects. Even from the early days, Rory "got" the blues.
My son watches the DVDs all the time. He manges to resist Green Day, Yellowcard, Fall Out Boy and all these other noise merchants. There's hope.
Free Music Review: Not quite, but close
Hit: 4 Stars
This is the first official recording of Rory Gallagher. At the time of this recording, I get the impression that he still needed to do some housecleaning in regards to his guitar playing, but he goes for it all over the place just the same. Very ragged production by Tony Colton, of Head's Hands and Feet fame. Sometimes the long guitar improvs seem meandering, or out of tune, but that raw soul comes through. What a HUGE difference between this and their second album, "On the Boards", which is great as well, but far more experimental. Upon my first listening, many years ago, I actually didn't care for this album at all. Just the other day, I listened to it with headphones on, and despite all that I just said, I still found it very enjoyable. A good find, but by no means should anyone let this be their introduction to Rory's guitar work. His advancement between this and his first solo album is astonishing. But, there's still many moments of greatness here.
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