Taste-On The Boards (1970)

"The legend that was never confirmed," was the headline of a British newspaper when Taste was dissolved in 1970.
Founded in 1966 by guitarist Rory Gallagher in the Irish city of Cork, this group should have taken over from Cream, with its avant-garde blues of enormous strength and above all with a guitar that did mischief and was a genius with the six strings.
Its beginnings took place in England and Germany where the band formed by Eric Kitteringham on bass and Norman Damery on drums accompanying Gallagher, made a defined but inconsistent blues rock.
Back in Ireland Gallagher reformed the band with Richard McCracken on bass and John Wilson on drums.
With this new line-up they return to London but they are hardly lucky in the face of the competition that then prevailed in the British city, since John Mayall and his Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac and Ten Years After had a monopoly on the genre in those years.
For some time they performed at the mythical Star Club in Hamburg and were successful to the point that they were required in England where they began to gain some prestige on the English blues circuit.
After signing for the Polydor label, they published their first album Taste (69), which did not achieve the expected success.
The following months they toured the United States with Blind Faith to later do the same with John Mayall in Germany.
After a few months and working with stars like Clapton, Mayall or Winwood, this experience was captured in the band's next album "On The Boards" (70), one of the best white blues records in history.
Topics as basic as "On the Board", "Morning Sun", "What's Going on" or "It's happened before ..." place them at the same level as any leading blues rock band of the moment.
After a sensational performance at the Isle of Wight festival, sharing the bill with Jimi Hendrix and The Who, it is when Rory decides to continue his solo career thus ending an exciting story that had just begun.