Cactus / Ultra Sonic Boogie, Live 1971 (2010)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

An amazing Cactus concert from 1971. This is when Cactus was at his best musically.

Members

Carmine Appice (drums), Tim Bogert (bass, 1970-2008), Rusty Day (vocals, 1970-71), Peter French (vocals, 1971-72), Duane Hitchings (keyboards, 1971-72), Jim McCarty (guitar, 1970-71, 2006-08, 2011-present), Werner Fritzschings (guitar, 1971-72, 2008-11), Jimmy Kunes (vocals, 2006-present), Randy Pratt (harmonica, 2006-present), Elliot Dean Rubinson (bass, 2008-11), Pete Bremy (bass, 2011-present)

Track Listing

01 - Evil

02 - Band introductions

03 - Bro. Bill

04 - Oleo

05 - No Need to Worry

06 - Token Chokin'

07 - Big Mama Boogie Pt.1

08 - Big Mama Boogie Pt.2

09 - Outro

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Cactus / Fully Unleashed Live Gigs Vol. II 1971 (2007)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

Another live recording album. The recordings made in 1971 are pretty good.

Members

Carmine Appice (drums), Tim Bogert (bass, 1970-2008), Rusty Day (vocals, 1970-71), Peter French (vocals, 1971-72), Duane Hitchings (keyboards, 1971-72), Jim McCarty (guitar, 1970-71, 2006-08, 2011-present), Werner Fritzschings (guitar, 1971-72, 2008-11), Jimmy Kunes (vocals, 2006-present), Randy Pratt (harmonica, 2006-present), Elliot Dean Rubinson (bass, 2008-11), Pete Bremy (bass, 2011-present)

Track Listing

1.1 - Intro / Tuning

1.2 - Long Tall Sally

1.3 - Parchman Farm

1.4 - Mellow Down Easy

1.5 - Feel so Bad

1.6 - Walkin' Blues

1.7 - Scrambler / One Way ... Or Another

1.8 - Oleo

2.1 - Bro. Bill

2.2 - Token Chokin'

2.3 - Slow Blues (Medley)

2.4 - Heebie Jeebies / What'd I Say

2.5 - Evil

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Cactus / Cactus V (2006)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

It is Cactus' comeback 5th studio album after many years. It is indeed a very good album.

Members

Carmine Appice (drums), Tim Bogert (bass, 1970-2008), Rusty Day (vocals, 1970-71), Peter French (vocals, 1971-72), Duane Hitchings (keyboards, 1971-72), Jim McCarty (guitar, 1970-71, 2006-08, 2011-present), Werner Fritzschings (guitar, 1971-72, 2008-11), Jimmy Kunes (vocals, 2006-present), Randy Pratt (harmonica, 2006-present), Elliot Dean Rubinson (bass, 2008-11), Pete Bremy (bass, 2011-present)

Track Listing

01 - Doin' Time 4:49

02 - Muscle and Soul 5:40

03 - Cactus Music 4:35

04 - The Groover 4:48

05 - High in the City 4:12

06 - Day for Night 5:49

07 - Living for Today 2:59

08 - Shine 3:57

09 - Electric Blue 5:40

10 - Your Brother's Keeper 4:33

11 - Blues for Mr. Day 1:22

12 - Part of the Game 5:02

13 - Gone Train Gone 4:50

14 - Jazzed 4:43

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Cactus / Barely Contained: The Studio Sessions, 1972 (2004)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

Previously unreleased studio recordings. Different pre-recordings made for albums. Pretty good. One of the Cactus albums that should be in the archive.

Members

Carmine Appice (drums), Tim Bogert (bass, 1970-2008), Rusty Day (vocals, 1970-71), Peter French (vocals, 1971-72), Duane Hitchings (keyboards, 1971-72), Jim McCarty (guitar, 1970-71, 2006-08, 2011-present), Werner Fritzschings (guitar, 1971-72, 2008-11), Jimmy Kunes (vocals, 2006-present), Randy Pratt (harmonica, 2006-present), Elliot Dean Rubinson (bass, 2008-11), Pete Bremy (bass, 2011-present)

Track Listing

1.1 - Parchman Farm

1.2 - Bro Bill

1.3 - My Lady From South of Detroit

1.4 - You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover

1.5 - Let Me Swim

1.6 - No Need to Worry

1.7 - Oleo

1.8 - Feel So Good

1.9 - Sweet Little

1.10 - Rumblin' Man

1.11 - Sun Is Shining

1.12 - Long Tall Sally

1.13 - Rockout Whatever You Feel Like

1.14 - Rock 'n' Roll Children

1.15 - Big Mama Boogie (parts 1&2)

1.16 - Song for Aries

1.17 - Feel So Bad

2.1 - Hometown Bust

2.2 - One Way or Another

2.3 - Hound Dog Sniffin'

2.4 - Restrictions

2.5 - Token Chokin'

2.6 - Guiltless Glider

2.7 - Evil

2.8 - Alaska

2.9 - Sweet Sixteen

2.10 - Bag Drag

2.11 - Mean Night in Cleveland

2.12 - Bad Stuff

2.13 - Bringin Me Down

2.14 - Bedroom Mazurka

2.15 - Telling You

2.16 - Underneath the Arches

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Cactus / Fully Unleashed Live Gigs 1970 - 1971 (2004)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

Pure Dynamite from this Bluesrock Supergroup, one of the best of all time. Unstoppable energy of the Grar and forgotten Jim McCarthy in the Ax plus the most overwhelming rhythm section of the Genre, Boggert and Appice are devastating.

The ill-fated Rusty Day wasted away in a mad rush to Hell. He just burned out at Rock N Roll. On these live recordings (most of them) he is an undisputed prop, and at times becomes an Undeniable Leader.

Members

Carmine Appice (drums), Tim Bogert (bass, 1970-2008), Rusty Day (vocals, 1970-71), Peter French (vocals, 1971-72), Duane Hitchings (keyboards, 1971-72), Jim McCarty (guitar, 1970-71, 2006-08, 2011-present), Werner Fritzschings (guitar, 1971-72, 2008-11), Jimmy Kunes (vocals, 2006-present), Randy Pratt (harmonica, 2006-present), Elliot Dean Rubinson (bass, 2008-11), Pete Bremy (bass, 2011-present)

Track Listing

DISC 1

1.1 - Intro / Long Tall Sally 12:16

1.2 - Bag Drag 3:10

1.3 - Evil 16:11

1.4 - Parchman Farm 6:21

1.5 - Alaska 3:56

1.6 - Oleo 11:19

1.7 - No Need to Worry 20:18

1.8 - Let Me Swim 5:06

DISC 2

2.1 - Big Mama Boogie, Pts. 1-2 15:30

2.2 - Medley: Heeby Jeebies / Money / Hound Dog / What'd I Say 17:04

2.3 - No Need to Worry 5:08

2.4 - Parchman Farm 4:30

2.5 - One Way...Or Another 9:14

2.6 - Bro. Bill 6:11

2.7 - Swim 4:44

2.8 - Bad Mother Boogie 5:25

2.9 - Our Lil Rock-N-Roll Thing 6:59

2.10 - Bedroom Mazurka 4:58

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Cactus / 'Ot 'n' Sweaty (1972)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

With Carmine Appice on drums, Tim Bogert on bass, 2/3 of Beck, Bogert & Appice and singer Peter French is serious business. The latter has also officiated in a lot of groups of which Atomic Rooster is the best known and he still has another dimension than Noddy Holder (singer of Slade), just capable of making the ovaries of 15-year-old pisses shiver. English girls from the early 70s... His career was moreover limited to his group of hard-teens...

Here we are dealing with big heavy, raw boogie-hard-blues with incendiary guitars, a voice that tears well, rhythm and dynamite in almost every track.

The 1st part is live with "Swim", surprising of vitality whose rhythm accelerates at the end. This might be the best bit here. The rest is a bit lacking and the ballad "Bringing Me Down" is a bit nondescript.

"Bedroom Mazurka" swings well with a good piano part while "Telling You" begins on the organ in a slower tempo. It's rather mysterious; the guitar continues and the tempo accelerates with the piano. Very good piece.

Although this album is quite recommendable, it fails in the fact that no track is really essential or grandiose. It hits well, it's big, even very big sometimes, but it's not a masterpiece.

Members

Carmine Appice (drums), Tim Bogert (bass, 1970-2008), Rusty Day (vocals, 1970-71), Peter French (vocals, 1971-72), Duane Hitchings (keyboards, 1971-72), Jim McCarty (guitar, 1970-71, 2006-08, 2011-present), Werner Fritzschings (guitar, 1971-72, 2008-11), Jimmy Kunes (vocals, 2006-present), Randy Pratt (harmonica, 2006-present), Elliot Dean Rubinson (bass, 2008-11), Pete Bremy (bass, 2011-present)

Track Listing

01 - Swim 4:40

02 - Bad Mother Boogie 4:55

03 - Our Lil Rock-n-Roll Thing 6:25

04 - Bad Stuff 3:08

05 - Bringing Me Down 5:27

06 - Bedroom Mazurka 4:33

07 - Telling You 5:10

08 - Underneath the Arches 0:30

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Cactus / Restrictions (1971)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

An album with really good tracks. Especially Restrictions and Alaska are very good. 3rd studio album from Cactus.

Members

Carmine Appice (drums), Tim Bogert (bass, 1970-2008), Rusty Day (vocals, 1970-71), Peter French (vocals, 1971-72), Duane Hitchings (keyboards, 1971-72), Jim McCarty (guitar, 1970-71, 2006-08, 2011-present), Werner Fritzschings (guitar, 1971-72, 2008-11), Jimmy Kunes (vocals, 2006-present), Randy Pratt (harmonica, 2006-present), Elliot Dean Rubinson (bass, 2008-11), Pete Bremy (bass, 2011-present)

Track Listing

01 - Restrictions 6:17

02 - Token Chokin' 3:07

03 - Guiltless Glider 8:45

04 - Evil 3:14

05 - Alaska 3:38

06 - Sweet Sixteen 3:17

07 - Bag Drag 5:11

08 - Mean Night in Cleveland 2:10

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Cactus / One Way... or Another (1971)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

Cactus' best album. He is very good at Blues Rock and Hard Rock. Appice and Bogert can be considered the pinnacle of their talent.

Members

Carmine Appice (drums), Tim Bogert (bass, 1970-2008), Rusty Day (vocals, 1970-71), Peter French (vocals, 1971-72), Duane Hitchings (keyboards, 1971-72), Jim McCarty (guitar, 1970-71, 2006-08, 2011-present), Werner Fritzschings (guitar, 1971-72, 2008-11), Jimmy Kunes (vocals, 2006-present), Randy Pratt (harmonica, 2006-present), Elliot Dean Rubinson (bass, 2008-11), Pete Bremy (bass, 2011-present)

Track Listing

01 - Long Tall Sally 6:27

02 - Rockout, Whatever You Feel Like 3:56

03 - Rock 'n' Roll Children 5:40

04 - Big Mama Boogie, Pts. 1-2 4:59

05 - Feel So Bad 5:30

06 - Song for Aries 3:05

07 - Hometown Bust 6:38

08 - One Way...Or Another 5:05

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Cactus / Cactus (1970)

USA

Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Boogie Rock

After Vannilla Fudge, Appice and Bogert were looking to form a new band. They tried forming bands with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart. But they couldn't form the group because of Jeff Back's car accident. Instead, they formed a new group, Cactus. They produced a successful record on the first album.

Members

Carmine Appice (drums), Tim Bogert (bass, 1970-2008), Rusty Day (vocals, 1970-71), Peter French (vocals, 1971-72), Duane Hitchings (keyboards, 1971-72), Jim McCarty (guitar, 1970-71, 2006-08, 2011-present), Werner Fritzschings (guitar, 1971-72, 2008-11), Jimmy Kunes (vocals, 2006-present), Randy Pratt (harmonica, 2006-present), Elliot Dean Rubinson (bass, 2008-11), Pete Bremy (bass, 2011-present)

Track Listing

01 - Parchman Farm 3:05

02 - My Lady From South of Detroit 4:20

03 - Bro. Bill 5:10

04 - You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover 6:44

05 - Let Me Swim 3:50

06 - No Need to Worry 6:00

07 - Oleo 4:49

08 - Feel So Good 6:00

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13th Floor Elevators / Live Evolution Lost, 1967 (2014)

USA

Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock

A recording of their concert at the Houston Music Theater in 1967. Exceedingly good. It is a pity that it has been 47 years since it was published.

Members

Stacy Sutherland (guitar, vocals), Roky Erickson (vocals, guitar, 1965-68), Tommy Hall (jug, guitar, 1965-68), Benny Thurman (bass, violin, 1965-66), John Ike Walton (drums, 1965-67), Ronnie Leatherman (bass, 1966-67, 1968-69), Danny Galindo (bass, 1967-68), Danny Thomas (drums, vocals, 1967-69), Duke Davis (bass, 1968)

Track Listing

01 - (I've Got) Levitation 3:33

02 - Roller Coaster 5:31

03 - Fire Engine 3:28

04 - Reverberation (Doubt) 4:10

05 - Don't Fall Down 3:38

06 - Tried to Hide 4:12

07 - Splash 4:49

08 - You're Gonna Miss Me 4:26

09 - Monkey Island 3:20

10 - Kingdom of Heaven 4:19

11 - She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) 3:28

12 - Intro 1:18 feat. The Conqueroo

13 - Jam #1: Roll Over Blue Suede Shoes Jam 7:08 feat. The Conqueroo

14 - Jam #2: Backwards Evolution Jam 4:49 feat. The Conqueroo

15 - Jam #3: Ed's Esoteric Jazz Jam 10:06 feat. The Conqueroo

16 - Jam #4: (It's All Over Now) Baby Blue Jam 6:47 feat. The Conqueroo

17 - Jam #5: She Lives Jam 5:28 feat. The Conqueroo

18 - Jam #6: Hamburgers & Acid 4:13 feat. The Conqueroo

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Roky Erickson & 13th Floor Elevators / The 1966 1967 Unreleased Masters Collection (1994)

USA

Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock

It's not a very good album. It's not even a live album. The producer company collected the recordings and published them as concert recordings.

Members

Stacy Sutherland (guitar, vocals), Roky Erickson (vocals, guitar, 1965-68), Tommy Hall (jug, guitar, 1965-68), Benny Thurman (bass, violin, 1965-66), John Ike Walton (drums, 1965-67), Ronnie Leatherman (bass, 1966-67, 1968-69), Danny Galindo (bass, 1967-68), Danny Thomas (drums, vocals, 1967-69), Duke Davis (bass, 1968)

Track Listing

DISC 1

01 - Dust (alternate take) 3:58

02 - You Don't Know (How Young You Are) (alternate mix) 2:56

03 - Thru the Rhythm (alternate mix) 3:14

04 - Roller Coaster (alternate mix) 5:07

05 - Monkey Island (alternate mix) 2:47

06 - Fire Engine (alternate mix) 3:20

07 - Tried to Hide (alternate mix) 2:53

08 - Fire in My Bones (alternate mix) 2:05

09 - Don't Fall Down (alternate mix) 3:20

10 - You're Gonna Miss Me 2:07

11 - She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) 2:41

12 - I've Got Levitation 2:32

13 - Reverberation 2:39

14 - Roller Coaster 3:46

15 - Don't Fall Down 3:06

16 - You Don't Know (How Young You Are) 2:47

17 - Levitation Blues (take #1) 3:09

18 - Levitation Blues (take #2) 4:15

DISC 2

01 - Levitation 3:36

02 - Roller Coaster 5:34

03 - Fire Engine 3:23

04 - Reverberation (Doubt) 4:10

05 - Don't Fall Down 3:53

06 - Tried to Hide 4:17

07 - Splash 1 4:49

08 - You're Gonna Miss Me 4:27

09 - Monkey Island 3:33

10 - Kingdom of Heaven 4:16

11 - She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) 3:27

DISC 3

01 - The Ballad of Hattie Carroll 4:51

02 - The Chimes of Freedom 7:43

03 - Catch the Wind 3:47

04 - Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 2:38

05 - Colors 2:33

06 -  Honey, Give Me One More Chance 2:00

07 - One Too Many Mornings 4:00

08 - I'll Sing for You 2:56

09 - Lay Down Your Weary Tune 2:21

10 - I'm Gonna Free Her 2:26

11 - Bermuda 2:45

12 - Splash 1 2:19

13 - May the Circle Remain Unbroken 0:47

14 - The Right Track Now 2:11

15 - For Brian Jones 1:18

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13th Floor Elevators / Live (1968)

USA

Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock

It's not a very good album. It's not even a live album. The producer company collected the recordings and published them as concert recordings.

Members

Stacy Sutherland (guitar, vocals), Roky Erickson (vocals, guitar, 1965-68), Tommy Hall (jug, guitar, 1965-68), Benny Thurman (bass, violin, 1965-66), John Ike Walton (drums, 1965-67), Ronnie Leatherman (bass, 1966-67, 1968-69), Danny Galindo (bass, 1967-68), Danny Thomas (drums, vocals, 1967-69), Duke Davis (bass, 1968)

Track Listing

01 - Before You Accuse Me 3:55

02 - She Lives in a Time of Her Own 3:08

03 - Tried to Hide 3:07

04 - You Gotta Take That Girl 3:15

05 - I'm Gonna Love You Too 2:15

06 - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love 4:03

07 - I've Got Levitation 2:52

08 - You Can't Hurt Me Anymore 3:55

09 - Roller Coaster 5:09

10 - You're Gonna Miss Me 2:30

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