Taste - Taste (1969)
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Taste - Taste (1969)
01. Blister On The Moon
02. Leaving Blues
03. Sugar Mama
04. Hail
05. Born On The Wrong Side Of Time
06. Dual Carriageway Pain
07. Same Old Story
08. Catfish
09. I'm Moving On
Taste, est le premier album sur lequel apparaît Rory Gallagher. Enregistré en août 1968 à l'Emerald Studio de Belfast, Rory a 20 ans, et pour un premier album, il est bon et plein d'énergie.
C'est la seconde formation de Taste qui l'accompagne, et l'album débute avec un titre composé par Rory et enregistré auparavant en 1967 avec Taste Mk 1, Blister On The Moon. Cette version, réenregistrée avec la nouvelle mouture de Taste, est meilleure, plus agressive, et la section rythmique (Richard McCracken à la basse et John Wilson à la batterie) est beaucoup moins rigide que la paire Eric Kittringham/Norman Damery.
C'est donc une excellent titre rock qu'a composé Rory, dans lequel sa guitare est bien présente et agressive. La ligne de chant est quant à elle plus anecdotique, plus datée, mais le son de guitare est très moderne, pré-hard-rock, et il y a un vrai effort de composition.
Leaving Blues est une compo de Leadbelly jouée ici à la slide, sur un rythme jazzy emmené par John Wilson. Rory n' est pas encore le fabuleux joueur de slide qu'il va devenir, mais c'est un excellent titre, inspiré par la version qu'à donné de ce titre Davy Graham. .
Sugar Mama est une reprise d'Howlin Wolf (époque Chess), mais assez méconnaissable par la relecture assez hard et agressive qui en est faite, tant dans la musique que dans le chant. Le feeling blues est là, mais la rythmique lourde renforce le côté pré-hard-rock de de cette reprise, qui sera un standard des concerts de Taste, et dans lequel Rory montre son énorme potentiel.
Preuve que l'amour de Rory pour la guitare acoustique est ancien, Hail est une composition originale jouée en solo, avec un chant de Rory faisant une harmonie originale avec la ligne mélodique de la guitare.
La face B de l'album s'ouvrait avec la face B du single sorti (contre la volonté de Rory) en 1967: Born On The Wrong Side Of Time. Mais là encore, à l'instar de Blister On The Moon, c'est dans une version réenregistrée par Taste Mk 2. C'est une excellente composition (mais un peu datée je trouve), mêlant guitares acoustique et électrique,avec une partie centrale évoquant la musique Elisabéthaine. Et la guitare de Rory est mordante à souhait.
Dual Carriageway Pain est un titre qui avait été composé (et enregistré) par Taste Mk 1. C'est pour moi le point faible de l'album, c'est une compo anecdotique malgré de bonnes parties de guitare. Remplissage? Ce titre (sous le titre Worried Man) avait en tout cas déjà été enregistré en 67 par Taste Mk1, dans le cadre des démos qui sortiront en LP dans les années 70, et il sera également enregistré pour la BBC (sous le titre "Dual Carriageway Pain" cette fois) juste avant le split de Taste Mk1.
En revanche, le titre suivant, Same Old Story est peut-être mon titre préféré de l'album: riff efficace et accrocheur, soli brillants qui a déjà toutes les caractéristiques du jeu de Rory, bon chant, progression du morceau, rythmique solide bref, c'est un excellent titre (qui était égalment interprété avec Taste Mk1).
Catfish, reprise du standard blues popularidsé par Muddy Waters (sous le titre "Still A Fool"), sera un standard live, et est traité comme "Sugar Mama" de façon assez hard: influence des reprises Blues de Cream? La rythmique lourde évoque le futur "Since I've Been Loving You" de Led Zeppelin mais en bien moins impressionnant.
L'album s'achève sur I'm Moving On, une reprise du standard country de Hank Snow popularisé par Ray Charles sur The Genius Sings The Blues;. Avec sa partie de slide, le jeu léger de John Wilson et l'excellent solo de guitare acoustique de Rory, c'est une excellente reprise, qui clôt parfaitement ce premier album en apportant une respiration.
Le premier opus de Taste est donc plein de promesses: l'album sortira en 1969, et reste moderne, surtout au niveau du son. L'album est vite enregistré, sur un 8 pistes et avec peu d'overdubs. Le groupe sonne live, le son est brut.
Le trio montre déjà sa cohésion, mais semble parfois hésiter sur la voie à suivre. Blues? Rock hard? Blues progressif? En tout cas, il permet à Rory d'exprimer d'emblée tout son potentiel de guitariste, mais aussi de chanteur et de compositeur.
Et on reconnaît déjà son style, qui est affirmé, ainsi que ses goûts: blues, rock, folk, country, jazz, styles qui vont s'affirmer sur le second (et dernier) album du groupe.
Dernière édition par Chino le Lun 02 Aoû 2010, 14:21, édité 2 fois
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Oui, il a déjà un style, un son tranchant et agressif, montrant si besoin que c'était tôt un guitariste original et en effet en avance sur beaucoup.jack17 a écrit:étonnant le son bien "hard" de cet enregistrement, si c'est bien 1967 , il est en avance sur beaucoup d'autres guitaristes!
Mais l'album a été enregistré en août 1968, non en 1967, et il est sorti en 1969 (Rory a alors 20 ans),
Et en live, c'était vraiment du brutal, en témoigne le live au Marquee du 25 octobre 1968.
Taste peut être considéré comme un groupe précurseur du Hard-Rock.
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Ma chronique de l'album: http://bluesyrootsandfruits.blogspot.com/2010/07/taste-1969.html
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Garbage Man a écrit:Ma chronique de l'album: http://bluesyrootsandfruits.blogspot.com/2010/07/taste-1969.html
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Une chronique de l'album:
TASTE (1969)
A simple, enjoyable blues-rock album: not quite up to Led Zeppelin, but a bit more 'arousing' than the Cream stuff. Less talented, though.
Best song: SAME OLD STORY
Track listing: 1) Blister On The Moon; 2) Leaving Blues; 3) Sugar Mama; 4) Hail; 5) Born On The Wrong Side Of Time; 6) Dual Carriageway Pain; 7) Same Old Story; Catfish; 9) I'm Moving On.
All right now, let's deal with the records themselves. This is their debut album, and it hardly made any definite impact anywhere, which is sad, since it's arguably their best record - maybe On The Boards is more creative, but it certainly lacks the kick-butt energy that Rory delivers in spades on this album. About half of it is traditional blues covers, and the other half is penned by Gallagher himself. And all of it is highly entertaining and delivered with enough ferocity to make you go wow! Because Rory doesn't go treading the blues with reverence - he plays it as dirty, loud and (sometimes) fast as possible: if there is such a thing as blues-punk, this is it. The only serious misstep, in fact, is a dull, plodding, metallic version of 'Catfish' that bleeds for a painful eight minutes - a slow, annoying bore that desperately needs some unusual atmospherics to it but gets none. Not that it's Rory's or the band's fault, the song's traditional rhythm is dull by its nature (a similar, and also boring version, can be found on Hendrix's Blues); no matter how much feedback you pull out or how loud and proud you scream out the lyrics, it's still not convincing. Although the roar 'I WISH I WAS YOUR CATFISH' at the end goes off quite fine.
But otherwise, there's quite a bit of fast, speedy numbers on this record. There's the rip-roarin' 'Blister On The Moon', a song that sounds completely in the vein of the bluesier numbers on Fresh Cream, except that it's even harder and dirtier-sounding - apparently, on some of the songs Rory was leaning more towards the Zeppelinish style of play than Cream's; there's some excellent riffage on 'Born On The Wrong Side Of Time' and 'Dual Carriageway Pain'; and, most of all, there's the great Taste trademark - Rory's 'Same Old Story', a song usually used as an encore to their shows. It might be seen as Taste's answer to Cream's 'Crossroads' - a fast blues-rocker, also built on an unforgettable six-note riff and serving as a launching pad for some of Gallagher's most impressive solos. Add to this that in 1969 Rory was a much more accomplished singer than Clapton, and you got yourself a worthy contender.
The record's other 'big time' tune is a seven-minute version of 'Sugar Mama', ooh, there goes some traditional Delta cotton-field-brown-sugar-Civil war old-style blues for you... nah. It's given quite a hard-rockin' arrangement, too, and even if the song would really only be truly lifted up in concert, it's wonderful nevertheless. And don't forget that silly scat singing near the end! Generic as hell, yes, but also fun as hell. I tell you.
Plus, if you really need to witness Gallagher's guitar talents, you're welcome to take a look at 'Leaving Blues'. Now the 'metallic' tracks on this album might be good, but this one is the kind of stuff you'll never find on a Cream record, because Clapton never messed around with slide guitar. 'Leaving Blues' features some of the best, most 'taste'-ful slide guitarwork I ever witnessed! Ragged, choppy, and even a little weird, it's even better than 'Gamblin' Blues', Rory's famous slide guitar spotlight at their show. And he's good on acoustic, too: the two acoustic numbers here are pretty and not a little bit boring. 'Hail' is the more speedy one, with Rory displaying his excellent finger-flashing skills and aptly singing in unison with the guitar, but Clarence Snow's 'I'm Moving On' is the more well-known: in fact, any hardcore Rolling Stones fanatic is sure to know it by heart from the band's version on December's Children. However, that one was featured in a garage-rock rearrangement; the version here is much more close to the original (I guess, since I never heard the original), with a primitive country-blues arrangement, yet it works for me.
Come to think of it, this record is not really that good - what really brings it down is that the band is really painfully limited in style. They're probably imitating that mark of Cream which Clapton was hoping he'd be able to establish before they released Fresh Cream and started moving into the psycho blues-pop direction instead, namely, the mark of Cream that was supposed to happen but never did happen. The lack of success for Taste certainly shows us that, if not for Bruce's painfully researched fresh songwriting style, Cream would have shared the same fate. And yet, like I said, this album is still much, much better than most other blues-based bands could pull off at the time.
For comparison, take Fleetwood Mac's debut album and tell me which one's more enjoyable. At least Taste rocks. Peter Green and company just tried to prove that white boys could play the blues as faithfully as old black dudes - maybe they did, but their motto mostly was 'I can do the same' while Taste's motto seemed to be 'I can do better'. It rests to be proven, of course, but, once again, I'll tell you I'm not bored at all by this record, and just go look at the ratings for all those early Fleetwood Mac records... There's quite a bit of personality, too: these songs all sound like Gallagher is taking them right to his heart, with a deeper passion for blues than just a wish of copying it by the book. For some exquisite personal moments, check out the dirgey middle eight on the introspective 'Born On The Wrong Side Of Time', for instance - proof irresistible that Rory was so much more than just a formulaic blues player.
Okay, I give, so he was a formulaic blues player. I still love the sucker.
http://starling.rinet.ru/music/rory.htm
TASTE (1969)
A simple, enjoyable blues-rock album: not quite up to Led Zeppelin, but a bit more 'arousing' than the Cream stuff. Less talented, though.
Best song: SAME OLD STORY
Track listing: 1) Blister On The Moon; 2) Leaving Blues; 3) Sugar Mama; 4) Hail; 5) Born On The Wrong Side Of Time; 6) Dual Carriageway Pain; 7) Same Old Story; Catfish; 9) I'm Moving On.
All right now, let's deal with the records themselves. This is their debut album, and it hardly made any definite impact anywhere, which is sad, since it's arguably their best record - maybe On The Boards is more creative, but it certainly lacks the kick-butt energy that Rory delivers in spades on this album. About half of it is traditional blues covers, and the other half is penned by Gallagher himself. And all of it is highly entertaining and delivered with enough ferocity to make you go wow! Because Rory doesn't go treading the blues with reverence - he plays it as dirty, loud and (sometimes) fast as possible: if there is such a thing as blues-punk, this is it. The only serious misstep, in fact, is a dull, plodding, metallic version of 'Catfish' that bleeds for a painful eight minutes - a slow, annoying bore that desperately needs some unusual atmospherics to it but gets none. Not that it's Rory's or the band's fault, the song's traditional rhythm is dull by its nature (a similar, and also boring version, can be found on Hendrix's Blues); no matter how much feedback you pull out or how loud and proud you scream out the lyrics, it's still not convincing. Although the roar 'I WISH I WAS YOUR CATFISH' at the end goes off quite fine.
But otherwise, there's quite a bit of fast, speedy numbers on this record. There's the rip-roarin' 'Blister On The Moon', a song that sounds completely in the vein of the bluesier numbers on Fresh Cream, except that it's even harder and dirtier-sounding - apparently, on some of the songs Rory was leaning more towards the Zeppelinish style of play than Cream's; there's some excellent riffage on 'Born On The Wrong Side Of Time' and 'Dual Carriageway Pain'; and, most of all, there's the great Taste trademark - Rory's 'Same Old Story', a song usually used as an encore to their shows. It might be seen as Taste's answer to Cream's 'Crossroads' - a fast blues-rocker, also built on an unforgettable six-note riff and serving as a launching pad for some of Gallagher's most impressive solos. Add to this that in 1969 Rory was a much more accomplished singer than Clapton, and you got yourself a worthy contender.
The record's other 'big time' tune is a seven-minute version of 'Sugar Mama', ooh, there goes some traditional Delta cotton-field-brown-sugar-Civil war old-style blues for you... nah. It's given quite a hard-rockin' arrangement, too, and even if the song would really only be truly lifted up in concert, it's wonderful nevertheless. And don't forget that silly scat singing near the end! Generic as hell, yes, but also fun as hell. I tell you.
Plus, if you really need to witness Gallagher's guitar talents, you're welcome to take a look at 'Leaving Blues'. Now the 'metallic' tracks on this album might be good, but this one is the kind of stuff you'll never find on a Cream record, because Clapton never messed around with slide guitar. 'Leaving Blues' features some of the best, most 'taste'-ful slide guitarwork I ever witnessed! Ragged, choppy, and even a little weird, it's even better than 'Gamblin' Blues', Rory's famous slide guitar spotlight at their show. And he's good on acoustic, too: the two acoustic numbers here are pretty and not a little bit boring. 'Hail' is the more speedy one, with Rory displaying his excellent finger-flashing skills and aptly singing in unison with the guitar, but Clarence Snow's 'I'm Moving On' is the more well-known: in fact, any hardcore Rolling Stones fanatic is sure to know it by heart from the band's version on December's Children. However, that one was featured in a garage-rock rearrangement; the version here is much more close to the original (I guess, since I never heard the original), with a primitive country-blues arrangement, yet it works for me.
Come to think of it, this record is not really that good - what really brings it down is that the band is really painfully limited in style. They're probably imitating that mark of Cream which Clapton was hoping he'd be able to establish before they released Fresh Cream and started moving into the psycho blues-pop direction instead, namely, the mark of Cream that was supposed to happen but never did happen. The lack of success for Taste certainly shows us that, if not for Bruce's painfully researched fresh songwriting style, Cream would have shared the same fate. And yet, like I said, this album is still much, much better than most other blues-based bands could pull off at the time.
For comparison, take Fleetwood Mac's debut album and tell me which one's more enjoyable. At least Taste rocks. Peter Green and company just tried to prove that white boys could play the blues as faithfully as old black dudes - maybe they did, but their motto mostly was 'I can do the same' while Taste's motto seemed to be 'I can do better'. It rests to be proven, of course, but, once again, I'll tell you I'm not bored at all by this record, and just go look at the ratings for all those early Fleetwood Mac records... There's quite a bit of personality, too: these songs all sound like Gallagher is taking them right to his heart, with a deeper passion for blues than just a wish of copying it by the book. For some exquisite personal moments, check out the dirgey middle eight on the introspective 'Born On The Wrong Side Of Time', for instance - proof irresistible that Rory was so much more than just a formulaic blues player.
Okay, I give, so he was a formulaic blues player. I still love the sucker.
http://starling.rinet.ru/music/rory.htm
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Une photo qui provient vraisemblablement de l'enregistrement du premier album de Taste:
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Rare photo de Rory jouant avec une Gibson SG. Cette guitare appartenait au bassiste de Taste mk II: Richard McCracken, et elle a visiblement servi pendant l'enregistrement du premier LP de Taste. Mais sur quel titre peut-on l'entendre ? Mystère...
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