Taste | 
 enlarge | Artist: Taste
Label: Polydor
Category: Music
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 6882
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 841600
UPC: 766486120228
EAN: 0422841600254
ASIN: B0000074CX
Release Date: August 21, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Blister On The Moon | | • | Leavin' Blues | | • | Sugar Mama | | • | Hail | | • | Born On The Wrong Side Of Time | | • | Dual Carriageway Pain | | • | Same Old Story | | • | Catfish | | • | I'm Movin' On |
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 A beguiling debut for the teenager from Co. Donegal December 30, 2006
Mr. Thomas Thatcher (Salisbury, UK)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
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.
"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 peadls 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 Babyshambles, Maximo Park and all the others. There's hope.
 The Main Man April 13, 2006
Jeffrey Atkins (Potters Bar, Herts United Kingdom)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I saw Rory play live (Taste) at a free concert in Parliament Hill Fields. I went and and bought this album the next day. No one I knew had heard of Taste. I followed Rory on the road until he died. He will be greatly missed. This Album captures the raw feel of Taste. Also check out On The Boards.
Impressive debut album October 27, 2001
connoisseur (Wellington New Zealand)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
Not only was Rory Gallagher a great guitar player but he was also a good songwriter. Too often noteworthy guitar players strut their stuff on what are really boring compositions (modern day examples being Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen) but the material on this and the follow up album "On the Boards" is generally memorable in its own right. In all it sounds fresh and innovative, with plenty of variety from the quiet, reflective "Leaving Blues" (played acoustic style on electric guitar) to the savage powerful rythyms of "Sugar Mama" featuring some blistering guitar work.
Who is God! I Wonder? August 28, 2001
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
If you always thought of Eric Clapton as God and Jimi Hendrix brilliant then listen to Taste. Here in the first album by Taste there is Rory Gallagher's masterful guitar playing, not only electric but acoustic and bottleneck,John Wilson and Richard McCracken lay a good solid base for Rory's playing and vocals. If you like Cream or Hendrix you will love Taste. Six out of the nine tracks are written by Rory who was only nineteen at the time. Once you have heard this Taste album you will want to hear the others. Rory Gallagher was not only a great guitarist but was equally at home with harmonica and saxaphone. I happened on Taste for the first time in 1970 on one of those days when you have decided to buy an album but don't know what, and it was the first one I looked at on the rack so I took a gamble and it paid off. Standout tracks are Blister on the Moon ,I'm moving on and Same Old Story. A CD to put on at the beginning and listen till it ends with nothing to skip over. So where guitarists are concered who is God I wonder?
Good stuff! August 22, 2000
Mr. Colin Rankin (Braintree, essex United Kingdom)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Believe it or not this is a fine album.Rory Gallagher should have pursued some of the ideas in this album further rather than reverting to type.There is a solid musical foundation here that promises so much.Alas,it was not to be.
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