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VARIATIONS

"They were beautiful, they were young, they were fashionable. "

VARIATIONS "Nador" 1970

is writing the column on Little Bob Story, I rethought the Variations. Variations ... Or how to make Led Zeppelin to Chateauroux ... Something like that eventually. They were beautiful, they were young, they were fashionable. We talked about them in magazines like the band of the moment in France, the most rebellious, most rock'n'roll. And yet ... We forgot
especially since they were the first to attempt to implement a true rock sound in France, avoiding clichés and pop music of Otis Redding version occasions Eddy Mitchell and Nicoletta. And it probably also why they turned a lot in Holland and Denmark, where their first single "Mustang Sally" in 1968 had gone well. For now, the Variations were as good as the English-speaking groups, and was a first.
The band signed with Pathé-Marconi late 1968 and released three simple sounding, whose excellent "Come Along" and "What's Happening" in 1969. The end of the road is the first album, "Nador". Dice
the brutal "What A Mess Again, we understand that we are dealing with a group inspired by Zep and the Stones, but not only. There is a raging garage something both blues and punk that makes the whole property in time, and almost quirky, like the Flamin 'Groovies example. And then there is the charisma in music. Admittedly, Lebbe Jo on vocals, Mark on guitar Tobaly, Jacques "Petit Pois" Grande on bass and Jacky Bitton on drums owe their success to concerts in thunderous balls, MJC and Golf Drouot. Everything is linked
impeccably, with very heavy as "Waiting For The Pope", heavy as hell, the rocks "Generations" and "Free Me", but also influences arabisantes on "Nador". Because the four are from North Africa. They grow is this vein on "Moroccan Roll" in 1974, which is neither more nor less than the alloy of a group of hard-rock with an Arab orchestra or that Page and Plant will twenty years later. Meanwhile, this first disc is filled with such raw energy. I would strongly advise you cd version, which includes every single of 1969, is the quintessence of what rock'n'rollienne formidable quartet, who tried to defend a certain idea of rock in France, a proud and rebellious rock, worthy of English or American.
Waste of time, the disc is an oven. The group scum France during one and a half before fleeing the U.S.. They recorded "Take It Or Leave It" in 1973 as a producer with Don Nix, and turn in the company of Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult, or the Doobie Brothers. They sefont a reputation there, earning praise from the U.S. Billboard. But this will not prevent the group to return, the farting Jo Lebbe shot before fleeing in 1974. Music of Changes was so Americanized, and though very good, has become more professional.
"Nador" remains a work so seminal a French rock finally live up to the competition, flawless gem of a group that ran after chimeras, which seemed to have scratched.
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TASTE

" this means the first hard blows of amplifiers, feedback, change of tone on the guitars, snoring opaque, dull, bass. "

TASTE: "Taste" 1969

If my discovery of Rory Gallagher passed by the legendary "Irish Tour" of 1974, I discovered Taste, his first real band, the night of his death. That was in June 1995. I remember that night, I listened to the show "Classic Rock" on RTL. It was a Saturday night, it was 22:30. I was 15, but I did not go out. Booms, dance, mopeds, all this does not interest me. Girls if, of course, but I was too awkward, too introverted, too frustrated to be able to start the conversation. Anyway, the prettiest girls in school, that all boys covet, had nothing to do with a loser like me.
So that night, as usual, I was alone in my room with my radio and my cassette tapes to copy what I liked best. I found Rory through a television show called "Rock Culture", which featured music by the year 1975. There were a few tens of seconds devastating power, delivered by a little man in jeans and checked shirt, sweaty, long hair. was an excerpt from a concert in this year 1975, where all megalomaniacal delusions rock, whether progressive or hard, are permitted concerts giants, cocaine, dual or triple albums, light shows and costumes demented. Amid
, Rory Gallagher was the simplicity, the proletarian Rock, Blues, nervous, angry, inspired, as expressing the street as the Gaelic poetry. This boy was magic, and intelligence made, so I bought the "Irish Tour", which I found very famous.
And this evening in June 1995, there was a moving tribute. Of course, it was 22:30 on RTL, among amateurs. Rory's death, it was not the 20h. Yet that night, I cried. Although not familiar with the man or his music, I discovered all the sympathy he inspired, either with or without George Lang. What I had seen during those few seconds on TV was true: Rory Gallagher was a humble and passionate kind, who sacrificed his life to music, and art that was both its pinnacle and his tomb.
Rory's career was then seeded, but it is George Lang, who drew Taste. He had discovered the disc in 1969. So young presenter on Radio Luxembourg, he spent "Blister On The Moon's debut album" like crazy "in his own words. I
procured this first album a few weeks later and was floored by the whole disc.
Recall that Taste was the first professional group of Rory. Formed in 1966, he was then a group of friends. Furthermore Gallagher on guitar and vocals, it was Norman Damery on drums, and Eric Kitteringham on bass. The group scoured all the clubs in Ireland, before landing in London in 1968. Taste recorded a demo of eight career titles, but these songs remained unknown until 1972, output under the name "In The Beginning".
The group's potential is impressive for its time. Taste is truly despite his original blues-rock repertoire. Indeed, it does not fall into the trap psychedelic virtuosos of Cream or Jimi Hendrix, and even less in the next British Blues Boom-friendly sound to the black decal maniac.
Taste offers a powerful blues-rock, no frills and no effect of race, coming straight from the fishermen's pubs. The sound is rough, it is hard work. When
sign Taste Polydor in 1968, he strongly suggests Rory turning his companions certainly nice, but too modest of musicians to go tease or Cream Experience. Two Irish
Belfast (remember that Rory is the South, Cork) took the bass and battery, respectively, Richard MacCracken and John Wilson.
The directory is already well established, and the two new first need to merge with the world of Rory. The latter knows what he wants, the songs, whether compositions or covers have all the personality of the guitarist.
In 1969, psychedelia gave way to the top of progressive rock, early-Hard Rock with Led Zeppelin, or a form of so-called Progressive Blues with Free, Spooky Tooth or Fleetwood Mac. Jimi Hendrix is in bad shape after three phenomenal albums, touring endlessly and drugs as if it rained. Cream is dead time. The funeral of First Class is held at the Royal Albert Hall in November 1968, Taste and the opening act, breaking the trio heavy-pschédélique tired.
The eponymous debut album arrived in 1969. His wallet, magic, summarizes the point: the sweat, tears, and electricity. Taste plays a Blues violent, harsh, recorded live in studio. The black and orange Rory, showing him in action, hairy, sweaty, is a dazzling oxymoron at this time. One seeks the intellectualization of the subject, to ensure that Rock be taken seriously. Although many masterpieces emerged, such as "Tommy" or "Aqualung" Taste recalls how the Blues and Rock have to do with some working-class culture and proletarian.
importantly, the incredible energy, totally unclassifiable and indescribable at the time, both rythm'n'blues outcome of the mid 60's and Rock the 50s, but with a virtuoso of words totally modern surprises .
Taste clears the ground at the Hard Rock in the late 70s, both totally exuberant and deeply romantic. It is the breeding ground for UFO, Thin Lizzy Aerosmith or the first time. We hear about
that first breath of the disk amplifiers, feedback, changes tone on the guitars, snoring opaque, dull, bass. Skins and cymbals seem to crackle in your lounge, the blues is there, alive.
This disc is irreparably symbol of what the new generation does not understand. The kids want the overproduced, 3D, HD, Blue-Ray, the hype. With Taste refers to the three musicians exchange. It shreds, it blows, it blows the whistle, in short, it breathes. Whatever the shortcomings, the music lives here. You feel the energy of live, there in the London studio. The Blues
scrapes the floor. After dazzling "Blister On The Moon", thunder raging riffs on a maintaining a rhythmic tension exacerbated found one of my favorite songs: "Leaving Blues". The slide drift, Gallagher's voice is magical. The battery returned to jazz. This is another aspect of Rory that everyone does not care: his love of jazz. The second disc of the Taste will move towards this trend, and the man is a brilliant saxophonist. I like this slide into any agreements bitten. I like this feeling fantastic mix of joy and freedom feeling of abandonment or betrayal.
Suit "Sugar Mama". I do not like the Blues slow. Kind of firefighter and clumsy, that were capable of producing Eric Clapton, BB King and other supporters of the Blues with sequins.
However, there is a heightened rage that is only found in Humble Pie. There are real balls man who suffered life as a loser. It's funny, but interpreted as the Sugar Mama, she has an interest in keeping a low profile. Because it is shit, and for real. Everything is heightened, the guitar rhythm. It includes the beginnings of Doom, with this ultra-slow pace, pachyderm, these riffs with lead, which foreshadows the heavy metal, much more than Led Zeppelin.
be found on this art " Catfish ", a piece of the same metal, but it says" Whole Lotta Love "Led Zeppelin riff by its heady, from the darkest of blues, epidermal speaking.
"Wrong Side Of Time" is a rock song heroic typical Irish influence which is found in sublimated Thin Lizzy.
"Same Old Story" is the title effective par excellence, with its boogie riff unstoppable, and his heartfelt chorus. This song should have known a more attractive destination in the charts.
And then there are the acoustic tracks, "Hail" and "I'm Moving On," which are far from negligible. More than just breathing in the blaze, they demonstrate the deep love of Gallagher for country-blues. Besides the human remains in my opinion one of the best performers, with energy and liveliness that inspires them.
Taste becomes a scenic attraction in the whole country, and the second album, "On The Boards," published in 1970 among the Top 20 in English. Subsequently, it will be a triumphant tour, including the Isle of Wight. While dying hippie hero, Jimi Hendrix to the Doors, there on the festival stage, new heroes appear and heavy blues, including Taste and Free. The trio of Gallagher and will make five encores after a brilliant performance, immortalized disk.
Can Taste explode in flight in early 1971, Wilson and MacCracken wanting to be more involved in the composition. Is grafted over the inevitable political conflicts between Northern Irish and South. Rory it buffers, but these two friends soon become too difficult for man to Cork support this any longer.
The dissolution of Taste remains for him a huge wound, but a brilliant start to his solo career, almost all discs are miracles of sound.
Finally, his death will prevent him finishing in obese totally blues festivals and jazz to an audience far too remote from his real proletarians public and his native Ireland.

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