Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
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Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
01.Sugar Mama 8:10
02.Gamblin' Blues 6:18
03.I Feel So Good (Part 1) 3:39
04.I Feel So Good (Part 2) 4:00
05. Catfish 9:30
06. Same Old Story 5:42
"Taste Live" est le premier album live officiel de Taste (il s'agit de la formation MK2, aucun live officiel n'existant pour Taste Mk 1). Taste avait une excellente réputation sur scène, un album live était donc indispensable, mais il est sorti pourtant en 1971, soit après le split du trio (sans l'accord de Rory au passage...).
Cet album a été enregistré le 31 juillet 1970 à Montreux, et comprend 5 titres ("I Feel So Good" a été splité en deux pour rentrer sur le LP), mais une seule composition de Rory: "Same Old Story", le reste des titres n'étant que des reprises.
Il ne s'agit vraisemblablement pas du concert complet qui est présenté ici.
L'album s'ouvre directement sur les premières notes du riff de Sugar Mama, reprise du blues de Tampa Red (interprété aussi par Howlin' Wolf) parue sur le premier album du trio.
Le public réagit aussitôt en marquant le rythme, et cette version est excellente et sauvage. Rory est en verve, ses impros sont inspirées, et la section rythmique composée de Richard McCracken à la basse et de John Wilson à la batterie soutient parfaitement Rory dans ses impros. On peut entendre les progrès réalisés depuis 1968, tant dans le jeu de Rory (qui est très volubile) que dans la cohésion du groupe (et ce malgré les tensions qui y règnent: Taste splitera en effet moins de 2 mois plus tard).
Un bémol: la basse est mixée trop en avant.
L'album se poursuit avec Gamblin' Blues, une reprise de Lil'Son Jackson jouée à la slide et en solo par Rory avec sa Fender Telecaster. Sa version est pleine de feeling, a 22 ans il possède déjà parfaitement les codes et le feeling du blues, et son chant est bon. Un grand moment.
I Feel So Good (Part 1 & 2) est une reprise d'un blues d'une des premières idoles de Rory, le bluesman Big Bill Broonzy. La version de Taste est pleine d'énergie, très rock, mais aussi pleine de feeling. Ce titre est l'occasion pour McCracken et Wilson de faire chacun un solo.
Sans doute pour remplir l'album, le titre a été splité en 2 en plein milieu du solo de batterie, et la seconde partie a été mise sur la face 2 du LP (alors qu'il aurait pu sans problème tenir en entier sur la Face 1)...
La version CD a heureusement permis de réunir le titre.
Rory annonce Catfish et son riff légendaire. Comme sur la version studio du premier album, la rythmique se fait lourde, mais le drumming de Wilson est plus varié. La basse de McCracken manque un peu de subtilité à mon goût, mais le morceau se veut un support à une musique de type "blues progressif".
L'album s'achève avec la seule composition de Rory du disque: Same Old Story, titre paru également sur le premier album.
Un très bon live donc, mais trop court. Je le préfère néanmoins au Live at The Isle De Wight (qui va paraître peu après celui-ci, en 1972). Il serait intéressant d'écouter d'autres morceaux de ce concert (s'il en existe).
Dernière édition par Chino le Mar 17 Jan 2012, 15:52, édité 1 fois
Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
Une chronique mitigée de l'album:
LIVE TASTE
Rocks as hard as the studio albums, but not too different.
Best song: GAMBLIN' BLUES
Track listing: 1) Sugar Mama; 2) Gamblin' Blues; 3) I Feel So Good (part 1); 4) I Feel So Good (part 2); 5) Catfish; 6) Same Old Story.
Taste have had three different live albums out (a bizarre record for a band that's only had two studio albums and lasted for about a couple of years - sure they had a good live reputation, but hey, they ain't no Grateful Dead), and, perversely enough, the one I have is arguably the hardest to find. Therefore, I doubt if anybody will ever find a suitable use for this here review, but at least I'll boast a review that no other record review site will ever have! Tee hee hee! If you find another site that reviews Live Taste, feel free to E-mail me! Tell me my site is no longer special! Trample on me and push me into the dirt! Go on, willya?
Oh, I suppose I'm just filling Web space here so as to make this review seem longer than it actually will be. Well, that's no big surprise.
This live album only has five songs on it (and one is broken in two parts, as if they couldn't fit it together on one side of the LP, although, if you check the running times, you'll see they were just trying to cover the fact that the album was so shamelessly short). Three of these are taken from the band's debut album, and two are old-time live favourites culled, well, from expertise. Now the big rub lies in the fact that, while Taste were a really cookin' live band, they also managed to get most of that gritty, sloppy live sound on their studio albums (Taste, for instance, has at max one rhythm guitar overdub on a couple of tracks), which kinda renders this live experience superfluous. All the songs are slightly extended, usually with bits and pieces of Rory soloing, but that's no big difference, and if you're not a researcher, you simply won't be able to tell which is the original and which is the live version. Thus, 'Catfish' sucks just like it sucked on the original, and no amount of soloing or screaming can save it; and 'Sugar Mama' rules just like it ruled on the original, so they might even have done away with those impressive wall-of-sound passages Rory gives out from time to time, it would still rule. 'Same Old Story' gets a somewhat more erratic and violent treatment, plus the solos are really desperate, but I'm pretty sure many will prefer the more tight, restrained studio original with the overdubbed rhythm guitar.
After all, Taste are not the Who or Cream: their bass player is competent, but not as flashy or steady, and Rory just couldn't take off the ground completely on the fast numbers. Also, he overdoes it a bit with the screaming thing on the lengthy blues numbers - sometimes it seems to me that he's just blabbering away the lyrics as fast as possible to concentrate on the guitar playing. It feels rather irritating - maybe blurting out the lyrics in such a frenzy and without minding the actual articulation is a blues trademark accepted among some of the Delta public, but Rory's similar deliveries don't feel authentic. He should better stick to a careful singing style.
Anyway, that leaves us with just two numbers that didn't make it onto Taste or On The Boards (as a matter of fact, none of the Boards tracks made it to here, and I'm a bit puzzled as to why - maybe they wanted to preserve their blues purist image on stage?), which are the ragged slide blues 'Gamblin' Blues', and the speeded-up, turned-rockabilly version of Big Bill Broonzy's 'I Feel So Good'. Together with 'Same Old Story', the latter is the fastest song on the album, and in a certain way reminds me of all those intoxicating show openers by Ten Years After, like 'I May Be Wrong'. Not that Rory got the chops of Alvin Lee, of course: he's not so gimmicky or fast-fingered. Where Alvin was able to get away with fast blues as fun, almost comedy numbers, Gallagher is more heavy-handed and serious, and the results are just not as breathtaking. And, of course, the singing is so-so too; if you want to hear a good white boys' version of this number, be sure to check out the Faces' Long Player with Rod Stewart ripping the tune to shreds. Plus, 'I Feel So Good' is also the polygon for the other band members to display their, er, 'talents', with mercifully short drum and bass solos; competent, but just as good as billions of solos by billions of bands. Beh. So my bet, yeah, my bet is on 'Gamblin' Blues', a superb, stripped-down number that really shows how much of an inborn guitar player Rory Gallagher really was. I've always been of opinion that true guitar talent manifests itself in its full form only on acoustic guitar, or, at least, on undistorted, clear electric guitar, where you can't mask the lack of technique by any weird gimmicks, and this slide fiesta works out just fine, not boring at all. Oh, and while we're on the subject, be sure to check the 'Villanova Junction' part of Hendrix's improvisations on the Live At Woodstock album. Beats many of his distorted chaotic rave-ups to hell.
But that's about it. While I do enjoy the album as a whole, what with my crazy Taste fetish and all (pullin' your leg, of course, but in case you haven't noticed, I do have a spot soft for the band somewhere in one of my trusty ventricles), I can't really say it is 'recommended only for diehard blues-rock fans', because, on one side, it is understood, on the other, how can you recommend a record that's about as easy to find as a latest copy of Homer's memoirs to anybody? Just thank me for providing you with an interesting, intriguing and highly humoristic review. Or curse me for boring you with an overlong, annoying and deadly dull review, it's all up to you. Get on wid' ya, woncha?
http://starling.rinet.ru/music/rory.htm#Live
LIVE TASTE
Rocks as hard as the studio albums, but not too different.
Best song: GAMBLIN' BLUES
Track listing: 1) Sugar Mama; 2) Gamblin' Blues; 3) I Feel So Good (part 1); 4) I Feel So Good (part 2); 5) Catfish; 6) Same Old Story.
Taste have had three different live albums out (a bizarre record for a band that's only had two studio albums and lasted for about a couple of years - sure they had a good live reputation, but hey, they ain't no Grateful Dead), and, perversely enough, the one I have is arguably the hardest to find. Therefore, I doubt if anybody will ever find a suitable use for this here review, but at least I'll boast a review that no other record review site will ever have! Tee hee hee! If you find another site that reviews Live Taste, feel free to E-mail me! Tell me my site is no longer special! Trample on me and push me into the dirt! Go on, willya?
Oh, I suppose I'm just filling Web space here so as to make this review seem longer than it actually will be. Well, that's no big surprise.
This live album only has five songs on it (and one is broken in two parts, as if they couldn't fit it together on one side of the LP, although, if you check the running times, you'll see they were just trying to cover the fact that the album was so shamelessly short). Three of these are taken from the band's debut album, and two are old-time live favourites culled, well, from expertise. Now the big rub lies in the fact that, while Taste were a really cookin' live band, they also managed to get most of that gritty, sloppy live sound on their studio albums (Taste, for instance, has at max one rhythm guitar overdub on a couple of tracks), which kinda renders this live experience superfluous. All the songs are slightly extended, usually with bits and pieces of Rory soloing, but that's no big difference, and if you're not a researcher, you simply won't be able to tell which is the original and which is the live version. Thus, 'Catfish' sucks just like it sucked on the original, and no amount of soloing or screaming can save it; and 'Sugar Mama' rules just like it ruled on the original, so they might even have done away with those impressive wall-of-sound passages Rory gives out from time to time, it would still rule. 'Same Old Story' gets a somewhat more erratic and violent treatment, plus the solos are really desperate, but I'm pretty sure many will prefer the more tight, restrained studio original with the overdubbed rhythm guitar.
After all, Taste are not the Who or Cream: their bass player is competent, but not as flashy or steady, and Rory just couldn't take off the ground completely on the fast numbers. Also, he overdoes it a bit with the screaming thing on the lengthy blues numbers - sometimes it seems to me that he's just blabbering away the lyrics as fast as possible to concentrate on the guitar playing. It feels rather irritating - maybe blurting out the lyrics in such a frenzy and without minding the actual articulation is a blues trademark accepted among some of the Delta public, but Rory's similar deliveries don't feel authentic. He should better stick to a careful singing style.
Anyway, that leaves us with just two numbers that didn't make it onto Taste or On The Boards (as a matter of fact, none of the Boards tracks made it to here, and I'm a bit puzzled as to why - maybe they wanted to preserve their blues purist image on stage?), which are the ragged slide blues 'Gamblin' Blues', and the speeded-up, turned-rockabilly version of Big Bill Broonzy's 'I Feel So Good'. Together with 'Same Old Story', the latter is the fastest song on the album, and in a certain way reminds me of all those intoxicating show openers by Ten Years After, like 'I May Be Wrong'. Not that Rory got the chops of Alvin Lee, of course: he's not so gimmicky or fast-fingered. Where Alvin was able to get away with fast blues as fun, almost comedy numbers, Gallagher is more heavy-handed and serious, and the results are just not as breathtaking. And, of course, the singing is so-so too; if you want to hear a good white boys' version of this number, be sure to check out the Faces' Long Player with Rod Stewart ripping the tune to shreds. Plus, 'I Feel So Good' is also the polygon for the other band members to display their, er, 'talents', with mercifully short drum and bass solos; competent, but just as good as billions of solos by billions of bands. Beh. So my bet, yeah, my bet is on 'Gamblin' Blues', a superb, stripped-down number that really shows how much of an inborn guitar player Rory Gallagher really was. I've always been of opinion that true guitar talent manifests itself in its full form only on acoustic guitar, or, at least, on undistorted, clear electric guitar, where you can't mask the lack of technique by any weird gimmicks, and this slide fiesta works out just fine, not boring at all. Oh, and while we're on the subject, be sure to check the 'Villanova Junction' part of Hendrix's improvisations on the Live At Woodstock album. Beats many of his distorted chaotic rave-ups to hell.
But that's about it. While I do enjoy the album as a whole, what with my crazy Taste fetish and all (pullin' your leg, of course, but in case you haven't noticed, I do have a spot soft for the band somewhere in one of my trusty ventricles), I can't really say it is 'recommended only for diehard blues-rock fans', because, on one side, it is understood, on the other, how can you recommend a record that's about as easy to find as a latest copy of Homer's memoirs to anybody? Just thank me for providing you with an interesting, intriguing and highly humoristic review. Or curse me for boring you with an overlong, annoying and deadly dull review, it's all up to you. Get on wid' ya, woncha?
http://starling.rinet.ru/music/rory.htm#Live
Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
Le concert aurait été filmé, mais Claude Nobs (le boss du festival de Montreux) aurait dit en interview que le master aurait été détruit suite à une inondation.
Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
A ma grande honte j'ai découvert ce live assez récemment. C'est vrai que c'est autre chose que le live de l'île de Wight. La prise de son est assez bonne en comparaison de la plupart des concerts du trio qui circulent. Reste que la tracklist aurait gagné a être un peu plus étoffée. Deux ou trois compos de Rory et ça aurait été parfait !
Vu sa date de parution j'imagine que ça a du déplaire à Rory qui se lançait en solo pile la même année.
Vu sa date de parution j'imagine que ça a du déplaire à Rory qui se lançait en solo pile la même année.
Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
Un live moins connu que le live à Wight (l'aura du mythique festival étant pour beaucoup dans la renommée de l'album), mais le Taste Live est musicalement bien meilleur selon moi: le trio joue ici en indoor, et avec son propre matos (ce qui n'était aps le cas à Wight), et joue plus en interactivité.Garbage Man a écrit:A ma grande honte j'ai découvert ce live assez récemment. C'est vrai que c'est autre chose que le live de l'île de Wight. La prise de son est assez bonne en comparaison de la plupart des concerts du trio qui circulent. Reste que la tracklist aurait gagné a être un peu plus étoffée. Deux ou trois compos de Rory et ça aurait été parfait !
Vu sa date de parution j'imagine que ça a du déplaire à Rory qui se lançait en solo pile la même année.
L'écoute de ce live à Montreux confirme en tout cas les propos de John Wilson qui disait que malgré les dissensions, le groupe a tâché de jouer le mieux possible jusqu'au bout (et y est parvenu).
Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
Dommage tout de même que le concert ne soit pas entier, ça donne à l'ensemble un côté bricolé, fait à la va-vite. Parfaitement illustré par la pochette (assez moche au passage) avec une insertion de Richard McCracken à droite complètement ridicule. C'est à peine si on remarque Rory à gauche lui aussi inséré à partir d'une autre photo.
Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
C'est vrai qu'elle est moche, la photo de Wilson utilisée est celle-ci:Garbage Man a écrit:Dommage tout de même que le concert ne soit pas entier, ça donne à l'ensemble un côté bricolé, fait à la va-vite. Parfaitement illustré par la pochette (assez moche au passage) avec une insertion de Richard McCracken à droite complètement ridicule. C'est à peine si on remarque Rory à gauche lui aussi inséré à partir d'une autre photo.
Le pressage nippon:
Il existe une autre pochette pour un pressage allemand:
Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
bonne chronique il n'y a que ce passe qui me gêne :
"D'autant plus dommage car Live Taste demeure quarante ans après sa sortie, l'unique album live de qualité du trio dans la catalogue officielle."
Le Live à Wight à des bons moments. Live Taste est peut être le meilleur, mais incomplet.
Moi je dis, sortir le Live à Bâle, Donal & Danile, ils vous faut.
"D'autant plus dommage car Live Taste demeure quarante ans après sa sortie, l'unique album live de qualité du trio dans la catalogue officielle."
Le Live à Wight à des bons moments. Live Taste est peut être le meilleur, mais incomplet.
Moi je dis, sortir le Live à Bâle, Donal & Danile, ils vous faut.
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Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
Pour ma chronique du live à l'île de Wight il va falloir attendre. En attendant tu peux aller là:
https://rory-gallagher.forumactif.org/t89p25-taste-live-at-the-isle-of-wight-1970-paru-en-1972
J'ai résumé mon sentiment sur le live.
https://rory-gallagher.forumactif.org/t89p25-taste-live-at-the-isle-of-wight-1970-paru-en-1972
J'ai résumé mon sentiment sur le live.
Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
Sache que je comprend et moi aussi, je préfère ce Live à celui de Wight. Mais le Live Taste est loin d'être parfait
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Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
Tiger a écrit:Sache que je comprend et moi aussi, je préfère ce Live à celui de Wight. Mais le Live Taste est loin d'être parfait
Jamais je n'ai dit qu'il était parfait. Seulement c'est le meilleur live par défaut.
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Je ne voulais pas dire que c'était ça que tu avais dit
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Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
Réédition en LP de ce live en version audiophile 180g sur le label Music On Vinyl (MOVLP713):
Tracklisting:
Side 1
1 Sugar Mama
2 Gamblin' Blues
3 Feel So Good Part 1
Side 2
1 Feel So Good Part 2
2 Catfish
3 Same Old Story
Une chronique de Paul Charles parue fin 1970:
http://www.musiconvinyl.com/releases/Taste/Live_Taste
Tracklisting:
Side 1
1 Sugar Mama
2 Gamblin' Blues
3 Feel So Good Part 1
Side 2
1 Feel So Good Part 2
2 Catfish
3 Same Old Story
Une chronique de Paul Charles parue fin 1970:
"To many thousands of people, Taste meant hours of enjoyment in small-packed sweaty clubs up and down the country. They meant that three piece group from Ireland, who did what few groups ever do by making the top on merit of their music. Taste meant three brilliant soloists who, together, formed one of the tightest groups around. But above all, they simply meant Taste the magic of whom it was impossible to catch with words.
When Taste split we all lost part of ourselves. As we have to learn to live with it, this album is going to make living without Taste easier. Take this piece of black plastic, put it on your player, close your eyes and let your imagination run.
This, their third best album, is what Taste were all about. THIS IS TASTE.
http://www.musiconvinyl.com/releases/Taste/Live_Taste
Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
Bel hommage et bonne nouvelle pour les amoureux du vinyl !!!
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Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
Une rare photo de Taste lors de son passage à Montreux en 1970:
Re: Taste - Taste Live (1970 - paru en 1971)
La scène est vraiment réduite !!!
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