First Taste 1970 Album

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This seemingly motley crew were actually an offshoot of a long running cover band in Baton Rouge, Louisiana called The Basement Wall, and their name was a local culinary reference. First Taste was a sludgy, swampy, bushwackin' affair which adeptly blended both the regional flavor of the Bayou with hard, organ-driven rock of the Vanilla Fudge and Deep Purple variety. "Riverboat" and "Toballby" typify the album in different ways; both are frenetic, loud, and cover odd topics - even though the former track has lots of starts, stops, and changes, and the latter is essentially one long jam broken up by a bizarre drum solo. If there is a fault, it's that they are a bit over-exuberant.