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| | Rory Gallagher |
 | | Taste were indeed 'taste', and an acquired one: one of the last great blues-rock bands, and certainly the last 'purist' blues-rock band with any significant importance (unless you count The Doobie Brothers, of course). |
 | | 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. |
 | | 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. |
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