Taste Sours
LONDON — Taste has split over bread hassles. Bassist Richie McCracken and drummer John Wilson have refused to work with leader Rory Gallagher, who wished to pay each of them a salary. The split came, “Wilson said, “just before the start of last month’s tour, when Rory demanded that he be given all tour earnings, so he could pay us — seemingly what he felt like paying us.”
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Taste Sours
LONDON — Taste has split over bread hassles. Bassist Richie McCracken and drummer John Wilson have refused to work with leader Rory Gallagher, who wished to pay each of them a salary. The split came, “Wilson said, “just before the start of last month’s tour, when Rory demanded that he be given all tour earnings, so he could pay us — seemingly what he felt like paying us.”
The band had been storming the continent and had got excellent reviews on their two albums released in Amerika. Over $70,000 worth of bookings had to be cancelled as a result of the split. McCracken and Wilson will form a new group, Stud, almost immediately. Gallagher is uncertain as to what his next move is.
No one actually seemed pleased about the split but that’s just about the way the rock and roll game goes now a days.
