About Taste
Taste were formed in Cork, in August 1966 as a trio consisting of Rory Gallagher on guitars and vocals, Eric Kitteringham on bass, and Norman Damery on drums.In their early years Taste toured in Hamburg and Ireland before becoming regulars at Maritime Hotel, an R&B club in Belfast in the summer of 1967. In 1968 Taste began performing in the UK where the original lineup split up. The new lineup formed with Richard McCracken on bass and John Wilson on drums. The new Taste moved permanently to London where they signed with the record label Polydor. In November 1968, the band, along with Yes, opened at Cream's farewell concerts. While with Polydor, Taste began touring the United States and Canada with the English supergroup Blind Faith. In April 1969, Taste released the first of their two studio albums, the self-titled Taste, with On the Boards following in early 1970, the latter showing the band's jazz influences with Gallagher playing saxophone on two tracks. They performed at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970, alongside Jimi Hendrix and The Who. According to Donal Gallagher (Rory's brother who managed the band) filmmaker Murray Lerner had instructed his crew to shoot just two numbers from the new bands and to save the main film stock for Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Leonard Cohen and the other headliners, but Taste's performance prompted him to change his instructions: "Murray didn't know who Taste were but when he saw the spontaneity of the band and the audience and their interaction, he just told his guys keep filming and they just kept going and captured over an hour of the performance which was quite incredible." In the song "Sugar Mama", a photographer can be seen hurriedly bringing his camera up from a re-load to cover another camera angle. Later in 1970 Taste toured Europe, then disbanded due to managerial disputes, and tensions between Gallagher and the rest of the band. They performed their last show on New Year's Eve in Belfast.
Video
Taste performing Gambling Blues at the legendry Isle of Wight Festival in 1970
Blister On The Moon, Live at Bilzen Jazz Festival 1969
Taste performing Sugar Mama, Isle of Wight, 1970
Taste - If The Day Was Any Longer
It`s happened before - A jazz number from Taste featuring Rory on sax
Comments
paul wrote on 2015-02-10 00:00:00:What a band! Could turn goat-piss into gasoline!
John PETRIE wrote on 2007-02-16 00:00:00:
WHY DID GALLAGHER NEVER PLAY blister on the moon AFTER THEY SPLIT.
Jenn wrote on 2006-12-30 00:00:00:
YO waz up CHEEKY MONKEY YAY!!!!!!
"Jenny Callahan " wrote on 2006-05-24 00:00:00:
"On the Boards" is just one of the best albums of all time. Right up there with "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. They were better than MOST bands at that time and not just because Rory Gallagher was the frontman. They were ALL fantastic!
Barry Mc Cabe wrote on 2005-07-20 00:00:00:
It's one of my few regrets - not being old enough to have seen Taste play live!!
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