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Disque 1:
1. Follow Me > Top Priority
2. Shinkicker > Photo Finish
3. Do You Read Me > Calling Card
4. Bought & Sold > Against The Grain
5. Loanshark Blues > Defender
6. In Your Town > Deuce
7. Calling Card > Calling Card
8. Million Miles Away > Tattoo
9. Walk on Hot Coals > Blueprint
10. I Fall Apart > Rory Gallagher
11. Tattoo'd Lady > Tattoo
12. Crest of a Wave > Deuce
Disque 2
1. Bad Penny > Top Priority
2. Overnight Bag > ?
3. Philby > Top Priority
4. Shadow Play > Top Priority
5. Moonchild > Calling Card
6. They Don't Make Them Like You Anymore > Tattoo
7. Edged in Blue > Calling card
8. Wheels Within Wheels > WWW
9. Out on the Western Plain > Against The Grain
10. Out of My Mind > Deuce
11. Barley and Grape Rag > Calling Card
12. Lonesome Highway > WWW
"Crest Of A Wave", sorti en août 2009 sur le label Eagle Rock, est le troisième Best-Of de Rory Gallagher sorti en moins de 5 ans, après "Big Guns - The Very Best of Rory Gallagher" et "The Essential Rory Gallagher"...
Les best-of peuvent être utiles pour découvrir un artiste, mais je pense que 3 best of en 5 ans, ça fait quand même beaucoup.
Evidemment, comme sur "Big Guns The Very Best of Rory Gallagher", un titre inédit est inclus pour faire passer le fan à la caisse: en l'espèce, il s'agit d'une version studio alternate de "Overnight Bag", intéressante au passage, sans doute issue des sessions de San Francisco de décembre 1977 en vue de l'album avorté.
De plus, la sélection des titres, pas fabuleuse de mon point de vue (mais c'est subjectif!) n'est pas très cohérente à mon avis: on constatera ainsi l'absence de titres de Taste, et ce double CD est essentiellement axé sur les années post 1974. Le CD1 est très électrique avec pour ouvrir les hostilités 2 titres issus des albums Top Priority et Photo-Finish.
On constatera ainsi que cet compilation est uniquement composée de titres studio, et qu'il n'y a carrément aucun aucun titre de Jinx ou de Fresh Evidence... Alors qu'il y a 4 titres provenant de l'album Top Priority et même 5 de Calling Card!
Alors si ce troisième (!) best-of sorti en peu de temps peut inciter à la découverte de la musique de Rory Gallagher, je dis tant mieux. Ceci dit, il serait temps que sorte enfin d'autres concerts du G-Man: pourquoi pas un Irish Tour '74 Deluxe en 2 CDs, ou la parution d'un ou plusieurs concerts inédits, plutôt qu'un énième Best-Of qui n'apporte rien?
Dernière édition par Chino le Ven 14 Mai 2010, 16:18, édité 1 fois
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Une review:
Crest of a Wave shows off the best of guitar hero Rory Gallagher
By Steve Newton
Rory Gallagher
Crest of a Wave: The Best of Rory Gallagher (Eagle Records)
I’m a sucker for guitar heroes. Check out my CD stash and you’ll find the biggest sections are reserved for Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, and Joe Satriani. But in recent years my main guitar-god focus has been on building up my Rory Gallagher collection. I’ve come to the realization that I should own everything the shockingly underrated Irish picker has ever recorded.
It’s not as if I just recently discovered Gallagher. I loved his only North American hit, “Tattoo’d Lady”, when it first came out in ’73, and I remember buying a used copy of 1972’s Live in Europe, which featured his concert standards like “Messin’ With the Kid” and “Goin’ to My Hometown”. But for some sad reason I never got around to following his career closely and scooping up the studio albums, 11 in total, that he recorded before his untimely 1995 death at the age of 47 from liver-transplant complications.
Just like 2005’s Big Guns, Crest of a Wave sports 24 songs on two discs, but, lucky for me, it includes 16 tracks that weren’t on the previous compilation. It kicks off with the rampaging rocker “Follow Me”, off 1979’s Top Priority, and is followed by “Shinkicker”, a prime example of Gallagher’s dynamic melding of rock and blues, off 1974’s Photo Finish. Both tunes feature his exhilarating guitar solos, which sometimes overshadow his skills as a songwriter. (All but one of the tunes on Crest were self-penned, the only non-original being Huddie Ledbetter’s “Out on the Western Plain”.) But a rock-guitar freak can’t ask for more than to hear Gallagher rip it up on his famously battered and worn-out ’61 Sunburst Stratocaster, the same one that spent days getting rained on in a ditch after it was stolen in Dublin in the ’60s.
If you’re the type of person who went nuts for a Strat master like SRV yet somehow got left out of the loop where Gallagher was concerned, now’s the time to make amends. After you score Crest of a Wave you might want to do like me and start sniffing around the used record shops for that precious Gallagher vinyl that got away. It’ll lessen the shame of missing out on his genius the first time around.
Crest of a Wave shows off the best of guitar hero Rory Gallagher
By Steve Newton
Rory Gallagher
Crest of a Wave: The Best of Rory Gallagher (Eagle Records)
I’m a sucker for guitar heroes. Check out my CD stash and you’ll find the biggest sections are reserved for Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, and Joe Satriani. But in recent years my main guitar-god focus has been on building up my Rory Gallagher collection. I’ve come to the realization that I should own everything the shockingly underrated Irish picker has ever recorded.
It’s not as if I just recently discovered Gallagher. I loved his only North American hit, “Tattoo’d Lady”, when it first came out in ’73, and I remember buying a used copy of 1972’s Live in Europe, which featured his concert standards like “Messin’ With the Kid” and “Goin’ to My Hometown”. But for some sad reason I never got around to following his career closely and scooping up the studio albums, 11 in total, that he recorded before his untimely 1995 death at the age of 47 from liver-transplant complications.
Just like 2005’s Big Guns, Crest of a Wave sports 24 songs on two discs, but, lucky for me, it includes 16 tracks that weren’t on the previous compilation. It kicks off with the rampaging rocker “Follow Me”, off 1979’s Top Priority, and is followed by “Shinkicker”, a prime example of Gallagher’s dynamic melding of rock and blues, off 1974’s Photo Finish. Both tunes feature his exhilarating guitar solos, which sometimes overshadow his skills as a songwriter. (All but one of the tunes on Crest were self-penned, the only non-original being Huddie Ledbetter’s “Out on the Western Plain”.) But a rock-guitar freak can’t ask for more than to hear Gallagher rip it up on his famously battered and worn-out ’61 Sunburst Stratocaster, the same one that spent days getting rained on in a ditch after it was stolen in Dublin in the ’60s.
If you’re the type of person who went nuts for a Strat master like SRV yet somehow got left out of the loop where Gallagher was concerned, now’s the time to make amends. After you score Crest of a Wave you might want to do like me and start sniffing around the used record shops for that precious Gallagher vinyl that got away. It’ll lessen the shame of missing out on his genius the first time around.
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
Autre excellente review:
Devoted followers of Sixties guitar gods always have a place in their prayer book for players like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and The Who’s Pete Townshend. It would be a sin if they forgot to turn the page to Rory Gallagher.
Like Hendrix, Gallagher left this world way too early, but his legacy doesn’t seem to be as fully appreciated. While Hendrix’s catalog continues to be explored (or exploited), Gallagher’s deep well of blues, folk, and rock material has yet to find its way into a box set.
Until it does, the recently released Crest of a Wave: The Best of Rory Gallagher (Eagle Rock Entertainment) answers some of his fans’ prayers. Years before U2’s explosion, as Billboard magazine’s Ed Christman points out in the album’s three-page career retrospective, it was Gallagher who put Ireland of the rock map. There was a bona fide, electrified style and grace as traditional Irish instruments like bagpipes and fiddles went temporarily back in the attic. Gallagher eventually played with blues legends such as Muddy Waters and Albert King, and was invited by the Rolling Stones to replace Mick Taylor. Talk about standing on holy ground.
Gallagher, 47 years old when he died in 1995 after years of excessive alcohol use, was not only a phenomenal player but an extraordinary performer. And while seemingly millions claim to have witnessed Hendrix, Townshend and Ten Years After’s Alvin Lee wreak havoc at Woodstock during the glorious summer of ’69, I was one of the few thousand who had the privilege of seeing two master musicians play it straight a few weeks earlier in Chicago. Gallagher invaded America for the first time as the frontman for a Cream-like powerhouse trio named Taste, and they opened the show for Clapton’s supergroup formation of Blind Faith that included Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker.
Gallagher was the wild card, though. After providing a brief Taste of what was to come, he left the group and served up a prominent and rewarding solo career that satisfied hungry customers worldwide. Looking back with regret, I would have traded in a few of those Clapton concerts for one more chance to see Gallagher play live again.
Crest of a Wave helps put Gallagher's career in context by highlighting some of his best work off solo albums like Blueprint (“Walk on Hot Coals”), Calling Card (“Do You Read Me”), Photo Finish (“Shadow Play”) and Tattoo (“A Million Miles Away”). Those original albums, along with releases like Taste’s On the Boards, the landmark Irish Tour '74 and Live in Europe, remain in my collection, but the record player was dismantled long ago.
Fortunately, the digital age keeps Gallagher’s legacy alive, with most of his solo handiwork available, along with significant compilations, at iTunes and other online services such as the UK’s hmv.com and play.com. Unfortunately, Crest of a Wave doesn’t delve deeper into long lost tracks, hidden treasures or blasts from his Stratocaster past to enhance certain Taste buds. And his powerful live performances with the brilliant guitar solos, as much a trademark as those plaid flannel shirts with the rolled-up, gotta-get-back-to-work sleeves, are also missing.
The packaging is lacking, too, with requisite shots of past album covers and only a couple of onstage photos. There is a brief but touching tribute by Gallagher’s nephew, Daniel. He recalls as a youngster witnessing his uncle perform a magic trick, then growing up to compile this collection “to show an often overlooked quality of Rory’s magic, his songwriting.”
He accomplishes this ambitious goal, with all but one of the 24 songs from the 11 studio albums represented on the two-disc CD written by Gallagher. The lone exception is Leadbelly’s “Out On The Western Plain,” which thankfully was included and exhibits Gallagher’s adroit acoustic skills. His dynamic slide shows also get their due on numbers like the scintillating title track.
By only focusing on his solo career, though, this modest compilation leaves any ardent admirer feeling like a Catholic boy who sat through an entire Mass without getting to go to communion. And it’s merely a baptism for first-time listeners.
This may be preaching to the converted, but hopefully the congregation will keep spreading the gospel according to Gallagher. Crest of a Wave is truly a testament to his achievements, but after listening to the sermon, you’ll want to hear the rest of the Rory story.
Devoted followers of Sixties guitar gods always have a place in their prayer book for players like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and The Who’s Pete Townshend. It would be a sin if they forgot to turn the page to Rory Gallagher.
Like Hendrix, Gallagher left this world way too early, but his legacy doesn’t seem to be as fully appreciated. While Hendrix’s catalog continues to be explored (or exploited), Gallagher’s deep well of blues, folk, and rock material has yet to find its way into a box set.
Until it does, the recently released Crest of a Wave: The Best of Rory Gallagher (Eagle Rock Entertainment) answers some of his fans’ prayers. Years before U2’s explosion, as Billboard magazine’s Ed Christman points out in the album’s three-page career retrospective, it was Gallagher who put Ireland of the rock map. There was a bona fide, electrified style and grace as traditional Irish instruments like bagpipes and fiddles went temporarily back in the attic. Gallagher eventually played with blues legends such as Muddy Waters and Albert King, and was invited by the Rolling Stones to replace Mick Taylor. Talk about standing on holy ground.
Gallagher, 47 years old when he died in 1995 after years of excessive alcohol use, was not only a phenomenal player but an extraordinary performer. And while seemingly millions claim to have witnessed Hendrix, Townshend and Ten Years After’s Alvin Lee wreak havoc at Woodstock during the glorious summer of ’69, I was one of the few thousand who had the privilege of seeing two master musicians play it straight a few weeks earlier in Chicago. Gallagher invaded America for the first time as the frontman for a Cream-like powerhouse trio named Taste, and they opened the show for Clapton’s supergroup formation of Blind Faith that included Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker.
Gallagher was the wild card, though. After providing a brief Taste of what was to come, he left the group and served up a prominent and rewarding solo career that satisfied hungry customers worldwide. Looking back with regret, I would have traded in a few of those Clapton concerts for one more chance to see Gallagher play live again.
Crest of a Wave helps put Gallagher's career in context by highlighting some of his best work off solo albums like Blueprint (“Walk on Hot Coals”), Calling Card (“Do You Read Me”), Photo Finish (“Shadow Play”) and Tattoo (“A Million Miles Away”). Those original albums, along with releases like Taste’s On the Boards, the landmark Irish Tour '74 and Live in Europe, remain in my collection, but the record player was dismantled long ago.
Fortunately, the digital age keeps Gallagher’s legacy alive, with most of his solo handiwork available, along with significant compilations, at iTunes and other online services such as the UK’s hmv.com and play.com. Unfortunately, Crest of a Wave doesn’t delve deeper into long lost tracks, hidden treasures or blasts from his Stratocaster past to enhance certain Taste buds. And his powerful live performances with the brilliant guitar solos, as much a trademark as those plaid flannel shirts with the rolled-up, gotta-get-back-to-work sleeves, are also missing.
The packaging is lacking, too, with requisite shots of past album covers and only a couple of onstage photos. There is a brief but touching tribute by Gallagher’s nephew, Daniel. He recalls as a youngster witnessing his uncle perform a magic trick, then growing up to compile this collection “to show an often overlooked quality of Rory’s magic, his songwriting.”
He accomplishes this ambitious goal, with all but one of the 24 songs from the 11 studio albums represented on the two-disc CD written by Gallagher. The lone exception is Leadbelly’s “Out On The Western Plain,” which thankfully was included and exhibits Gallagher’s adroit acoustic skills. His dynamic slide shows also get their due on numbers like the scintillating title track.
By only focusing on his solo career, though, this modest compilation leaves any ardent admirer feeling like a Catholic boy who sat through an entire Mass without getting to go to communion. And it’s merely a baptism for first-time listeners.
This may be preaching to the converted, but hopefully the congregation will keep spreading the gospel according to Gallagher. Crest of a Wave is truly a testament to his achievements, but after listening to the sermon, you’ll want to hear the rest of the Rory story.
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
Encore une review:
Sadly, the death of blues-rock guitarist Rory Gallagher in 1995 robbed the talented musician not only of "elder statesman" status had he lived into the new century, but also his well-deserved share of the still-growing blues-rock marketplace. Once mentioned in the same reverent tones reserved for legends (and Gallagher contemporaries) like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, the Irish fretburner has largely slipped into obscurity in spite of vocal rock superstar fans like Queen's Brian May, U2's The Edge, and former Guns N' Roses' axeman Slash.
Crest of a Wave is a welcome attempt to reverse Gallagher's musical fortunes and revive interest in the guitarist's acclaimed and considerable body of work. With a career that spanned nearly three decades and resulted in better than a dozen studio and live albums, choosing "the best" of Rory Gallagher's many performances is a daunting task, indeed. Still, as chosen by brother Daniel Gallagher, the tracks included on Crest of a Wave represent some of the essential performances by the talented guitarist. Gallagher has been the subject of countless anthologies and career retrospectives before, but none have delivered the goods like Crest of a Wave.
Rory Gallagher's Crest of a Wave
So, you ask, what awaits my eager ears in the grooves of Crest of a Wave? Oh humble reader, multitudes of blues-rock cheap thrills, that's what. By way of example, "Follow Me" is an urgent flame-thrower of a rocka-roller, with an insistent riff, razor-sharp soloing, Gallagher's typical Irish soul vocals, and roller-coaster drumwork. The runaway diesel that is "Shinkicker" is a bluesy, boozy, Stones-influenced rip-roarer with a chooglin' locomotive rhythm and scorched-earth fretwork of the kind that Hound Dog Taylor used to call "houserockin' music."
With a little Delta grit messing up their nice clean amps, "Bought & Sold" provides a slinky three-card monte performance, a mid-tempo rocker that will singe your eardrums even if you can't quite identify all of the song's myriad of influences. The John Lee Hooker-inspired "Loanshark Blues" is a raucous example of classic boogie-rock that starts with John Lee, throws in a little Canned Heat, and finishes up with some stinging Big Joe Williams-styled guitar pickin'.
A Million Miles Away
"A Million Miles Away" and "Walk On Hot Coals" are two long-time Gallagher fan favorites, the former a moody, atmospheric, claustrophobic treatise on the performing life that features a stellar six-string performance; the latter is an epic rocker with barb-wire fretwork that scrapes and cuts deep while the thick blast of instrumentation, honky-tonk piano-pounding, and blustery drumwork blow you away. One of Gallagher's signature songs, "Tattoo'd Lady" builds from its subtle bluesy opening into a veritable barroom brawl with shocks of guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums.
If it had been released a decade later, "Bad Penny" would have cemented Gallagher's legacy as a guitar hero, the Irish thunderbolt shredding the strings with maniacal solos set against a muscular rhythmic backdrop. As both a guitarist and a songwriter, Gallagher was much more than just another blooze-rock stringbender, however. The exotic "They Don't Make Them Like You Anymore" is a jazzy romp that channels Rory's inner Al DiMeola with flamboyant guitar and a shuffling rhythm.
An Underrated Songwriter & Guitarist
The rocker "Philby" displays the guitarist's ability to throw over-the-top licks up against an infectious, radio-friendly melody worthy of an AOR chart-topper like Foreigner. A cover of Leadbelly's "Out On The Western Plain" and Gallagher's original "Out Of My Mind" bring country-blues and folk themes to work, subtle fretwork set against subdued arrangements that, for the latter, heighten the impact of Gallagher's imaginative lyrics. "Out Of My Mind" eagerly draws upon a British folk tradition with a spry performance and lively acoustic guitarplay while the collection's lone cover builds upon the country-blues tradition with a high lonesome vibe and eerie guitar strum.
Then again, although Gallagher might have been an underrated songwriter and guitarist, he certainly wasn't afraid to crank out lughead rockers either, albeit often times with whipsmart guitar filigree. "Moonchild" offers up a rollicking beat and some fine six-string noodling, but for sheer strutting six-string pyrotechnics, you can't beat the soaring chords and wall-of-sound chaos of "Overnight Bag." Gallagher also had a humorous side, as shown by the slightly tongue-in-cheek "Barley & Grape Rag," a throwback ragtime drinking song worthy of Tampa Red, or maybe Big Bill Broonzy.
The Reverend's Bottom Line
Really, if you're a fan of blues-rock guitar, how could you go wrong here? You get two discs and two dozen of Gallagher's best songs and performances as well as an illustrated CD booklet with liner notes, all for a price less than what you'd pay for a single album from most any other artist.
If you're unfamiliar with Gallagher's impressive six-string skills and songwriting talents, Crest of a Wave will provide the perfect introduction. On the other hand, if you're already enamored of Gallagher's considerable instrumental prowess, consider that Crest of a Wave collects your favorite songs from eleven albums onto one easy-to-use package. Either way, you come out a winner.... (Eagle Rock Entertainment, released August 25, 2009)
Sadly, the death of blues-rock guitarist Rory Gallagher in 1995 robbed the talented musician not only of "elder statesman" status had he lived into the new century, but also his well-deserved share of the still-growing blues-rock marketplace. Once mentioned in the same reverent tones reserved for legends (and Gallagher contemporaries) like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, the Irish fretburner has largely slipped into obscurity in spite of vocal rock superstar fans like Queen's Brian May, U2's The Edge, and former Guns N' Roses' axeman Slash.
Crest of a Wave is a welcome attempt to reverse Gallagher's musical fortunes and revive interest in the guitarist's acclaimed and considerable body of work. With a career that spanned nearly three decades and resulted in better than a dozen studio and live albums, choosing "the best" of Rory Gallagher's many performances is a daunting task, indeed. Still, as chosen by brother Daniel Gallagher, the tracks included on Crest of a Wave represent some of the essential performances by the talented guitarist. Gallagher has been the subject of countless anthologies and career retrospectives before, but none have delivered the goods like Crest of a Wave.
Rory Gallagher's Crest of a Wave
So, you ask, what awaits my eager ears in the grooves of Crest of a Wave? Oh humble reader, multitudes of blues-rock cheap thrills, that's what. By way of example, "Follow Me" is an urgent flame-thrower of a rocka-roller, with an insistent riff, razor-sharp soloing, Gallagher's typical Irish soul vocals, and roller-coaster drumwork. The runaway diesel that is "Shinkicker" is a bluesy, boozy, Stones-influenced rip-roarer with a chooglin' locomotive rhythm and scorched-earth fretwork of the kind that Hound Dog Taylor used to call "houserockin' music."
With a little Delta grit messing up their nice clean amps, "Bought & Sold" provides a slinky three-card monte performance, a mid-tempo rocker that will singe your eardrums even if you can't quite identify all of the song's myriad of influences. The John Lee Hooker-inspired "Loanshark Blues" is a raucous example of classic boogie-rock that starts with John Lee, throws in a little Canned Heat, and finishes up with some stinging Big Joe Williams-styled guitar pickin'.
A Million Miles Away
"A Million Miles Away" and "Walk On Hot Coals" are two long-time Gallagher fan favorites, the former a moody, atmospheric, claustrophobic treatise on the performing life that features a stellar six-string performance; the latter is an epic rocker with barb-wire fretwork that scrapes and cuts deep while the thick blast of instrumentation, honky-tonk piano-pounding, and blustery drumwork blow you away. One of Gallagher's signature songs, "Tattoo'd Lady" builds from its subtle bluesy opening into a veritable barroom brawl with shocks of guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums.
If it had been released a decade later, "Bad Penny" would have cemented Gallagher's legacy as a guitar hero, the Irish thunderbolt shredding the strings with maniacal solos set against a muscular rhythmic backdrop. As both a guitarist and a songwriter, Gallagher was much more than just another blooze-rock stringbender, however. The exotic "They Don't Make Them Like You Anymore" is a jazzy romp that channels Rory's inner Al DiMeola with flamboyant guitar and a shuffling rhythm.
An Underrated Songwriter & Guitarist
The rocker "Philby" displays the guitarist's ability to throw over-the-top licks up against an infectious, radio-friendly melody worthy of an AOR chart-topper like Foreigner. A cover of Leadbelly's "Out On The Western Plain" and Gallagher's original "Out Of My Mind" bring country-blues and folk themes to work, subtle fretwork set against subdued arrangements that, for the latter, heighten the impact of Gallagher's imaginative lyrics. "Out Of My Mind" eagerly draws upon a British folk tradition with a spry performance and lively acoustic guitarplay while the collection's lone cover builds upon the country-blues tradition with a high lonesome vibe and eerie guitar strum.
Then again, although Gallagher might have been an underrated songwriter and guitarist, he certainly wasn't afraid to crank out lughead rockers either, albeit often times with whipsmart guitar filigree. "Moonchild" offers up a rollicking beat and some fine six-string noodling, but for sheer strutting six-string pyrotechnics, you can't beat the soaring chords and wall-of-sound chaos of "Overnight Bag." Gallagher also had a humorous side, as shown by the slightly tongue-in-cheek "Barley & Grape Rag," a throwback ragtime drinking song worthy of Tampa Red, or maybe Big Bill Broonzy.
The Reverend's Bottom Line
Really, if you're a fan of blues-rock guitar, how could you go wrong here? You get two discs and two dozen of Gallagher's best songs and performances as well as an illustrated CD booklet with liner notes, all for a price less than what you'd pay for a single album from most any other artist.
If you're unfamiliar with Gallagher's impressive six-string skills and songwriting talents, Crest of a Wave will provide the perfect introduction. On the other hand, if you're already enamored of Gallagher's considerable instrumental prowess, consider that Crest of a Wave collects your favorite songs from eleven albums onto one easy-to-use package. Either way, you come out a winner.... (Eagle Rock Entertainment, released August 25, 2009)
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
Concernant la version inédite d'"Overnight Bag": les liner notes stipulent que ce titre serait extrait d'un album intitulé "Out On The Western Plain", album... Qui n'existe pas!!! Ce titre est réellement inédit, il ne circulait même pas en bootleg.
Quelques précisions cependant: sur la version (différente) de ce titre sortie en 1978 sur l'album Photo-Finish, c'est Ted McKenna qui officie à la batterie. Or, sur la version de ce best-of, non seulement il y a un piano (Lou Martin?), mais le batteur me semble différent: je pencherai pour Rod De'Ath.
En d'autres termes, s'il y a un piano et un batteur différent (et si c'est Rod De'Ath), cette version d'Overnight Bag pourrait être tirée des sessions effectuées fin 1977 à San Francisco, sessions qui devaient aboutir à la réalisation d'un nouvel album avec le quartette, et produit par Eliott Mazer.
Mais l'histoire en a décidé autrement: Rory a ainsi mis l'album (pourtant finalisé et prêt à sortir) à la poubelle, car il n'était pas satisfait. Puis en 1978, il a changé de groupe au profit d'un trio: Lou Martin et Rod De'Ath ont en effet été plus ou moins "virés".
Seul Gerry McAvoy était resté, avec Ted McKenna désormais aux baguettes, et Rory a réenregistré avec ce trio environ la moitié des titres prévus pour l'album avorté. Et il composera spécialement de nouveaux titres pour l'album qui sortira sous le titre "Photo-Finish".
Donc on peut considérer (même si ça reste à confirmer) que cette version inédite d'"Overnight Bag" provient des sessions de l'album avorté effectuées à San Francisco en 1977, d'autant que cette version est plus "produite" que la version de l'album "Photo-Finish".
Quelques précisions cependant: sur la version (différente) de ce titre sortie en 1978 sur l'album Photo-Finish, c'est Ted McKenna qui officie à la batterie. Or, sur la version de ce best-of, non seulement il y a un piano (Lou Martin?), mais le batteur me semble différent: je pencherai pour Rod De'Ath.
En d'autres termes, s'il y a un piano et un batteur différent (et si c'est Rod De'Ath), cette version d'Overnight Bag pourrait être tirée des sessions effectuées fin 1977 à San Francisco, sessions qui devaient aboutir à la réalisation d'un nouvel album avec le quartette, et produit par Eliott Mazer.
Mais l'histoire en a décidé autrement: Rory a ainsi mis l'album (pourtant finalisé et prêt à sortir) à la poubelle, car il n'était pas satisfait. Puis en 1978, il a changé de groupe au profit d'un trio: Lou Martin et Rod De'Ath ont en effet été plus ou moins "virés".
Seul Gerry McAvoy était resté, avec Ted McKenna désormais aux baguettes, et Rory a réenregistré avec ce trio environ la moitié des titres prévus pour l'album avorté. Et il composera spécialement de nouveaux titres pour l'album qui sortira sous le titre "Photo-Finish".
Donc on peut considérer (même si ça reste à confirmer) que cette version inédite d'"Overnight Bag" provient des sessions de l'album avorté effectuées à San Francisco en 1977, d'autant que cette version est plus "produite" que la version de l'album "Photo-Finish".
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
Face au Best of "Big Guns" et au "The Essentiel Rory Gallagher" ce best of n'offre finalement que très peu (voir aucun) intérêt. D'autant plus que l'ordre des titres est purement aléatoire sans aucune véritable cohérence ou soucis d'ordre chronologique.
Et je parle même pas de la pochette plutôt gratinée, certaines photos ne mettant pas Rory en valeur.
Et je parle même pas de la pochette plutôt gratinée, certaines photos ne mettant pas Rory en valeur.
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
Tout à fait, c'est encore un Best-of de plus, qui propose malgré tout une version inédite d'Overnight Bag"... Ce qui oblige le fan à passer la caisse!Garbage Man a écrit:Face au Best of "Big Guns" et au "The Essentiel Rory Gallagher" ce best of n'offre finalement que très peu (voir aucun) intérêt. D'autant plus que l'ordre des titres est purement aléatoire sans aucune véritable cohérence ou soucis d'ordre chronologique.
Et je parle même pas de la pochette plutôt gratinée, certaines photos ne mettant pas Rory en valeur.
Le même procédé a été utilisé pour Big Guns, un Best Of avec un son exécrable (lié à des choix de mixs totalement ratés), best of qui proposait selon la version (simple ou double CD) un ou deux titres lives inédits (excellents en revanche), issus du concert donné au Dome de Brighton le 11 décembre 1974.
Au passage, ces 2 titres (Bullfrog Blues" & "Messin With The Kid"), montre qu'il existe d'autres concerts qui ont été enregsitrés professionnellement. Ne serait-il donc pas plus intéressant de sortir l'intégralit" de ce live à Brighton (s'il existe), plutôt qu'une énième compile?
Il est à noter qu'on a vu en effet en peu de temps la sortie de 4 best-of de Rory Gallagher sans compter le Best-Of de Taste):
- The Essential Rory Gallagher (2 CD)
- Big Guns (1 ou 2 CD)
- Crest Of A Wave (2 CD)
Et le dernier en date, "Greatest Hits" qui est en fait la compile Edged In Blue sous une autre pochette):
Dernière édition par Chino le Sam 10 Juil 2010, 19:43, édité 1 fois
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
Oui le best of "Big Guns" n'est pas non plus très intéressant, d'ailleurs la plupart des titres ont subis une remasterisation étrange, un titre comme "I'm not awake yet" perd toute sa profondeur par exemple à cause d'un echo moins prononcé et des aigus beaucoup cristallin.
The essential Rory Gallagher reste pour moi la meilleure compile faite à ce jour.
The essential Rory Gallagher reste pour moi la meilleure compile faite à ce jour.
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
Absolument. J'ai Big Guns, et les mixs sont épouvantables, on dirait que les titres de Rory ont été enregistrés dans un garage avec le micro d'un walkman... Avoir sorti ça est une vraie faute.Garbage Man a écrit:Oui le best of "Big Guns" n'est pas non plus très intéressant, d'ailleurs la plupart des titres ont subis une remasterisation étrange, un titre comme "I'm not awake yet" perd toute sa profondeur par exemple à cause d'un echo moins prononcé et des aigus beaucoup cristallin.
The essential Rory Gallagher reste pour moi la meilleure compile faite à ce jour.
En compile "Best-Of", et même si j'en écoute rarement désormais, j'aime surtout Edged In Blue et A Blue Day For The Blues.
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
très intéressantChino a écrit:Concernant la version inédite d'"Overnight Bag": les liner notes stipulent que ce titre serait extrait d'un album intitulé "Out On The Western Plain", album... Qui n'existe pas!!! Ce titre est réellement inédit, il ne circulait même pas en bootleg.
Quelques précisions cependant: sur la version (différente) de ce titre sortie en 1978 sur l'album Photo-Finish, c'est Ted McKenna qui officie à la batterie. Or, sur la version de ce best-of, non seulement il y a un piano (Lou Martin?), mais le batteur me semble différent: je pencherai pour Rod De'Ath.
En d'autres termes, s'il y a un piano et un batteur différent (et si c'est Rod De'Ath), cette version d'Overnight Bag pourrait être tirée des sessions effectuées fin 1977 à San Francisco, sessions qui devaient aboutir à la réalisation d'un nouvel album avec le quartette, et produit par Eliott Mazer.
Mais l'histoire en a décidé autrement: Rory a ainsi mis l'album (pourtant finalisé et prêt à sortir) à la poubelle, car il n'était pas satisfait. Puis en 1978, il a changé de groupe au profit d'un trio: Lou Martin et Rod De'Ath ont en effet été plus ou moins "virés".
Seul Gerry McAvoy était resté, avec Ted McKenna désormais aux baguettes, et Rory a réenregistré avec ce trio environ la moitié des titres prévus pour l'album avorté. Et il composera spécialement de nouveaux titres pour l'album qui sortira sous le titre "Photo-Finish".
Donc on peut considérer (même si ça reste à confirmer) que cette version inédite d'"Overnight Bag" provient des sessions de l'album avorté effectuées à San Francisco en 1977, d'autant que cette version est plus "produite" que la version de l'album "Photo-Finish".
on peut l'écouter où cette version? je la trouve pas sur le net
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Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
fabrice a écrit:très intéressantChino a écrit:Concernant la version inédite d'"Overnight Bag": les liner notes stipulent que ce titre serait extrait d'un album intitulé "Out On The Western Plain", album... Qui n'existe pas!!! Ce titre est réellement inédit, il ne circulait même pas en bootleg.
Quelques précisions cependant: sur la version (différente) de ce titre sortie en 1978 sur l'album Photo-Finish, c'est Ted McKenna qui officie à la batterie. Or, sur la version de ce best-of, non seulement il y a un piano (Lou Martin?), mais le batteur me semble différent: je pencherai pour Rod De'Ath.
En d'autres termes, s'il y a un piano et un batteur différent (et si c'est Rod De'Ath), cette version d'Overnight Bag pourrait être tirée des sessions effectuées fin 1977 à San Francisco, sessions qui devaient aboutir à la réalisation d'un nouvel album avec le quartette, et produit par Eliott Mazer.
Mais l'histoire en a décidé autrement: Rory a ainsi mis l'album (pourtant finalisé et prêt à sortir) à la poubelle, car il n'était pas satisfait. Puis en 1978, il a changé de groupe au profit d'un trio: Lou Martin et Rod De'Ath ont en effet été plus ou moins "virés".
Seul Gerry McAvoy était resté, avec Ted McKenna désormais aux baguettes, et Rory a réenregistré avec ce trio environ la moitié des titres prévus pour l'album avorté. Et il composera spécialement de nouveaux titres pour l'album qui sortira sous le titre "Photo-Finish".
Donc on peut considérer (même si ça reste à confirmer) que cette version inédite d'"Overnight Bag" provient des sessions de l'album avorté effectuées à San Francisco en 1977, d'autant que cette version est plus "produite" que la version de l'album "Photo-Finish".
on peut l'écouter où cette version? je la trouve pas sur le net
On peut en entendre quelques secondes vers ce lien:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B002HWUU6I/ref=pd_krex_dp_002_002?ie=UTF8&track=002&disc=002
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
Pour ceux qui cherchaient la version de Overnight Bag de 1977:
Et pour comparer:
Et pour comparer:
Dernière édition par Garbage Man le Mer 20 Oct 2010, 18:59, édité 1 fois
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
A l'écoute de la version de 1977 (avec Lou Martin et Rod De Ath' donc) on arrive à comprendre pourquoi Rory estimait qu'il était étouffé par les claviers. Dans cette version la guitare a bien du mal à exister au milieu de cette montagne de claviers.
Re: Crest Of A Wave - The Best Of Rory Gallagher (2009)
Ouais, y'a pas photo(finish) entre les deux, il a bien fait de balancer çà à la poubelle.
Quant à l'intérêt de sortir çà sur une énième compile après sa mort...je ne préfère pas m'étendre
Quant à l'intérêt de sortir çà sur une énième compile après sa mort...je ne préfère pas m'étendre
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