Come Taste the Band 35th Anniversary Kevin Shirley Remix

[uwe]

Shirley did a good job on this, staying faithful to the (still good today) Come Taste the Band sound, but adding ooomph and bringing out the vocals, keyboards and of course Tommy Bolin's thousandfold overtracked, yet still organic sounding guitar. Bolin really was a wizard at playing random things, yet making them fit in the overall context and layering his guitar sounds everywhere without sounding obnoxious, Echoplex and all. Ignore the visuals, they are a homemade hack job by an over-zealeous fan, well-meant is not the same as well-executed. 

Hughes was AWOL with his cocaine habit when they recorded this track, so the bass is played by Bolin (whose drug habit did not impair his ability in the studio, but hit the fan in live situations) and the backing vocals are Bolin and even Master Lord. That was a cracker of a track when CTTB came out. I was aghast initially, because they sounded so ... American all of the sudden, in vibe this was closer to a hypercharged Doobie Brothers track than to, say, Burn or Mistreated. But after a while I really loved that album and it is one of my three DP favorites to this day (the other two being Machine Head and Burn).

[Hornisse]

I noticed Classic Rock Magazine gave the reissue a perfect 10 rating.

[Denis]

Totally reminds me of Grand Funk's "We're An American Band"!

[hieronymous]

Looking forward to getting this!

[Barklessdog]

Wow, sounds great.

[OldManC]

That intro makes me think QOSA must have listened to some Purple at some point. 

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Time to finally get this album.

It may surprise you, Uwe, but this is the one Coverdale album I've never bought.

[Highlander]

Outstanding...

When he did a stand-up solo at Wembley he futzed about with his echoplex that just did not go down well with the Blackmoreites but I have good memories of the show - I was having a dig around to find some stuff and found the tour badge yesterday... I was always more into an "American" sound and had been a big GFR fan (fist LP was WAAB shortly after release and worked forward/backwards to get all the rest) and kind of fell into DP stuff late, so this was my first "new" DP...

I think I may have to indulge my habit and buy this one - I've not bought any of the re-issues, except MIJ and the triple of the same gigs...

[jumbodbassman]

I will have to buy this again!!!!  (lp, cd and now remaster.)  At the time i never really liked the band after Burn, and even Burn at first didn't seem right , but it is probably my favorite DP disk after In Rock.  I never saw them after the  burn tour until about 4 years ago.  Just missed Ian but my mistake as DC has a great voice and he was fine especially early whitesnake.


Why is it that most of my favorite bands can never just get along.....the hell with their egos,  they should just do it for the fans.....

[uwe]

Yes, that does surprise me, Ter, because Coverdale's songwriting together with Bolin was the blueprint for his eaarly Whitesake stuff years later. There is stuff on WS Trouble debut that could have been on CTTB and vice versa. Songs like Dealer, Drifter, I need love and Lady Luck could grace any WS album. Lady Luck, a CTTB song, was actually was a staple of the WS early live set. Plus, of all the DP albums, DC's vocals are clearest and have the most authority in CTTB. It was the third album in his career as a professional musician. It's a. vital piece of work in Coverdale's canon. And the Hughes tracks (Gettin' Tighter and This time around are ace too).