Topic: Taste - Live at the Isle Wight 1970
Spent an enjoyable evening yesterday with a couple of mates watching the new DVD of this concert from 1970.
The live recording of the gig, just 6 tracks, has been a seminal album for me over the years. I was on holiday in Bembridge IOW in 1970 and my sister and I wanted to go. She was 16 and I was 12. Permission refused sadly, and the chance to see Taste, plus Free, The Who, Jimi and countless others was lost.
Nevertheless, the album got me through the years. I know every nuance and sound on every track so to have the chance to actually watch some of the gig with Rory in full technicolour was the realisation of a dream in a way.
The footage is close up most of the time and the sound excellent. With his little Vox AC30 standing on a little chair on the stage, his battered Strat never sounded so good.
My only gripe? is that my favourite track 'Feel So Good' isn't on the film and yet provides the soundtrack to the credits! Grrrr.
Interviews with Geldof, The Edge and Donal, plus the band members themselves. It fleshes out the story of the band, and Rory, and the sequence of events that led to them splitting up just before they went on stage.
It's great that this footage has been remastered and presented in this way. Rory's playing is spectacular and the whole band deliever a phenomenal performance. There is a fair bit of improv taking place, which I always suspected from the album, but from the film it is clear to see.
Marvellous!
