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CACTUS

CARMINE APPICE, TIM BOGERT, RUSTY DAY, JIM McCARTY

The plan was for the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section of bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice to join with guitar god Jeff Beck and his singer Rod Stewart in a supergroup of sorts. The plan was derailed when Beck had a motorcycle accident that incapacitated him for 18 months. Stewart then joined pal Ron Wood in the revamped Faces, leaving Bogert and Appice to find alternates for their dream band. They recruited guitarist Jim McCarty from Mitch Ryder's disassembling Detroit Wheels, and singer Rusty Day from Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes. One can only wonder what might have been

"CACTUS"

Produced by Cactus

1970     LP     ATLANTIC RECORDS      ATS-ST-06075

MADE IN ITALY    ORIGINAL PRESSING

LAMINATED (on the front) SINGLE COVER

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  ATLANTIC -  RED/BLACK LABEL with RED LOGO - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (front) SD 33-340     (rear)  ATS-ST-06075     

Catalog on labels: ATS ST 06075  (06075-A) / ATS ST 06075 (06075-B) 

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 06075-A

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 06075-B

On labels: rim text "Prodotto e Distribuito in Italia dalla RIFI Record su Licenza Esclusiva -Atlantic- Tutti i Diritti Riservati"

Arranged & Produced by Cactus

Rights Society: SIAE

On back cover: Tracklist + Credits

Recorded at Ultra-Sonic Recording Studios, Inc., Hempstead, N.Y.

©1970 Atlantic Recording Corporation       Printed in U.S.A.

This album should be played at "high" level

Thanks to: Phil Basile, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin............

Prodotto e distribuito in Italia dalla "Rifi Record" Milano, c.so Buenos Aires 77, su licenza esclusiva "Atlantic"

tracklisting

Side 1: PARCHMAN FARM - MY LADY FROM SOUTH OF DETROIT

BRO. BILL - YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY THE COVER

Side 2: LET ME SWIM - NO NEED TO WORRY

OLEO - FEEL SO GOOD

  grading

RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG but (please, see pictures and read above description)

 Cactus may have never amounted to anything more than a half-hearted, last-minute improvised supergroup, but that don't mean their eponymous 1970 debut didn't rock like a mofo. The already quasi-legendary Vanilla Fudge rhythm section of Bogert and Appice may have provided the backbone of the band's business cards, and soulful, ex-Amboy Duke Rusty Day brought the voice, but it was arguably former Detroit Wheels guitarist Jim McCarty who was the true star in the Cactus galaxy, spraying notes and shredding solos all over album highlights such as "You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover," "Let Me Swim," and, most notably, a manic, turbocharged version of "Parchman Farm." The fact that Cactus chose to tackle this classic blues song just a year after it'd been blasted into the fuzz-distortion stratosphere by Blue Cheer betrays -- at best -- a healthy competitive spirit within the early-'70s hard rock milieu, and at worst it suggests something of a mercenary nature to Cactus' motives, but that's an issue for the surviving bandmembers to duke it out over in the retirement home. And we digress -- for the blistering closing duo of "Oleo" and "Feel So Good" easily certifies the Cactus LP as one of the best hard rock albums of the then brand-new decade, bar none...(AllMusic)