Oldish Psych and Prog

genre: heavy blues

country: us

quality : lossless (ape, cue, log, scans)

time: 35'58" size: 228 mb

Fuzz Acid & Flowers:

When Vanilla Fudge split, Appice and Bogert formed Cactus with Jim McCarty, the former Mitch Ryder guitarist, and Rusty Day, a singer and harmonica player. Their albums were well received by hard rock fans and may interest some readers in search of loud and heavy rock. For the third album, a keyboard player was added to the line-up and in 1972 McCarty and Day left. They were replaced by Werner Fritzschings and Peter French for the final album, recorded partly live at the Mar Y Sol Festival in Purto Rico. Their records were produced by Geoffrey Haslam, who also worked with the J.Geils Band.

Appice and Bogert then joined Jeff Beck and the group disbanded. Hitchings formed the imaginarily named New Cactus Band with two ex Blues Image members, Mike Pinera and Manuel Bertematti, and recorded Son Of Cactus (Atlantic ) 1973. After it flopped, Hitchings and Pinera formed Thee Image and released two better avoided albums for Manticore in 1975.

"Swim" (Appice, Bogert, Day, McCarty) – 4:42
"Bad Mother Boogie" (Appice, Bogert, French, Fritzchings, Hitchings) – 5:21
"Our Lil Rock-n-Roll Thing" (Appice, Bogert, French, Fritzchings, Hitchings) – 7:01
"Bad Stuff" (French, Johnson) – 3:11
"Bringing Me Down" (Appice, Bogert, French, Fritzchings, Hitchings) – 5:25
"Bedroom Mazurka" (French, Hitchings) – 4:38
"Telling You" (French, Hitchings) – 5:09
"Underneath The Arches" (Connelly, Flanagan, McCarty) – 0:26

Carmine Appice – Percussion, Drums, Backing Vocals
Tim Bogert – Bass, Backing Vocals
Werner Fritzsching – Guitar
Peter Finch – Vocals
Peter French – Vocals

Duane Hitchings – Organ, Piano, Electric Piano, Keyboards

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