Live at the Isle of Wight [Import, Live]

Taste | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 14, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B0000074CU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,469 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. What's Going On

2. Sugar Mama

3. Morning Sun

4. Sinner Boy

5. I Feel So Good

6. Catfish

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of live set from blues-rock act featuring Rory Gallagher. Originally released in 1992. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If it's the blues you want......, January 1, 2003

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William Wood (Sydney, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Isle of Wight (Audio CD)

For me this disc along with "Live Taste" is the high point of the late Rory Gallagher's recorded work and also sets the view that Rory Gallagher was taste on it's ear.Throughout this set the rhythm section of McCracken and Wilson support ,cajole and at times threaten to upstage one of the best blues guitarists ever to set foot on a stage. This is a no holds barred blues rage from start to finish, these guys play with a passion and commitment that no longer seems to exist in rock music.I have no idea who followed them onstage at the Isle of Wight, but I bet they took a long time to set up,this was no easy act to follow.Another reviewer has described this set as incendiary and I couldn't agree more.
The sound quality on this disc is fairly ordinary(mine came with a sticker claiming it had been re-mastered)but I still have to give it 5 stars.If it's the blues you want...look no further.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rory and Robin show Jimi the door ....., April 5, 2007

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Mr. Thomas Thatcher "Tom Thatcher" (Salisbury, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Isle of Wight (Audio CD)

You all know the score by now - fewer and fewer people are challenging the opinion that Rory Gallagher was perhaps the finest, most fiery and most consistent guitarist of the last 50 years and, thank God, he left lots and lots of proof.

Just before going on stage for the Isle of Wight set, Taste had their gear stolen and so had to play on borrowed kit - and just look what they achieved. Rory manages to produce bursts of speed and fire on the old Strat without ever entering the dreaded realms of widdly woo inhabited by such as Van Halen, Satriani and the whole ghastly lot of them, however good they may be technically.

What's Going on?, the opener for On the Boards (buy NOW), just steams and roars with the whole band's interlocked ability. Sinner Boy has the most staggering slide solo and Feel So Good has the most wonderful intro and outro - and Rory is at double speed on this. Catfish, by then their show stopper, is a true show stopper: but the whole set is really really good and full of class. McCraken on bass and John Wilson on kit are very good and often underestimated. They push Rory on and challenge him to new heights.

I know a lot of folk who went to this festival and they all talked with awe in their voices about Taste and Procol Harum, with Robbie Trower at that stage. They all agreed, too, that Hendrix was, sadly as often, out of tune, out of time, horribly stoned and uninspiring. Legend and fond memory has changed this view, but I saw Rory make Hendrix look very small at the Woburn Abbey festival in 68,with a pretty grim bass and drummer, so I believe it. Hendrix' live recordings are mostly quite unlistenable, Rory's are almost all fantastic. I think that posterity may have made the biggest error of all time in putting Hendrix on a pedestal and forgetting Rory G. He wouldn't have thought so, of course - far too modest and self effacing.

This is a very good and very exciting performance. Just remind yourself, or learn for the first time, who was the real blues guitarist and singer of the 60s and 70s. Yes indeed - and great vocals too. Remember also that these were young kids, all younger than the memnbers of, say, Fall Out Boy. There's a lesson there somewhere about "progress" .....

Indispensible - to redress the balance a little about who "got" the blues from the outset.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the finest rock/blues ever made, June 6, 2000

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This review is from: Live at the Isle of Wight (Audio CD)

It is impossible to convey to anyone who never heard "Taste" on stage how such totally opposed,combative,feuding,contentious, brawling,individually brilliant young musicians could blend into such a perfect gestalt of mind and music whose power,rage,and compassion was both anguish sheer unadulterated delight.the closest we may ever come to understanding and tracing the development of this unique three headed hydra-who became for me and many others one of the greatest live rock/blues in the late 60's-early 70's is here in this unprecedented live classic and previously unreleased work.however,for the six tracks recorded here,demonstrate a band at the peak of its abilities.gallagher's guitar is razor sharp,the bass and drums are interlocked in a perpetual rolling struggle,whilst gallagher's guitar particularly on "sinner boy" is simply stunning.get it on your cd' player and get wild with "Taste".