MP3 | 320 kbps | 44 kHz | Heavy Power Blues | 92Mb
Cactus
1970
TrackList
1.Parchman Farm
2.My Lady From South Of detroit
3.Bro.Bill
4.You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
5.Let Me swim
6.No Need To worry
7.Oleo
8.Feel so Good
Gather the VFudge rythm section ( Carmine Appice - drums, Tim Bogert - BassG ) along with Jim McCarty ( Guitars @Buddy Miles ) and Rusty Day ( vocals and harp @Amboy Dukes ) and you end up with that super power hard blues band, project Cactus.
One LP is definitely worth a go ( imho ), here it is …
By this time, they didn't care to comply with radiocast standards : Hear the drum solo in 'Fell so good', or Bass solo in 'Oleo' …
As quoted by wee-wee-wee :
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" (complete with bass and drum solo slots) easily certifies the Cactus LP as one of the best hard rock albums of the then brand-new decade, bar none. Too bad the illustrious members of Cactus would quickly lose interest in this band project and deliver increasingly mediocre efforts in the years that followed
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 (and pursued a somewhat lucrative solo career), 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.
What was, was Cactus, a generic boogie band that never got beyond opening-act status and never sold many records. The band's first album, Cactus, was OK, with a speed-demon version of Mose Allison's "Parchman Farm," but their music never amounted to anything more than the formulaic on subsequent releases. The band had a short life.
After Cactus' dissolution in 1972, Bogert and Appice finally joined with Beck to form Beck, Bogert & Appice. However, that group's one release showed very little magic, and BB&A lasted little more than a year.
More Info :
Bogert :
http://www.answers.com/topic/tim-bogert
+ http://perso.orange.fr/hard-rockcity/bogert.htm
Appice :
http://www.answers.com/topic/carmine-appice
+ http://perso.orange.fr/hard-rockcity/appiceca.htm
Mc Carty :
http://www.answers.com/topic/jim-mccarty-2
+ http://perso.orange.fr/hard-rockcity/mccarty.htm
Day :
http://perso.orange.fr/hard-rockcity/day.htm
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For the sake of making this post nicer, here are some Download links …
MP3 | 320 kbps | 44 kHz | Heavy Power Blues | 92Mb
uncompressed : 96 952 165 bytes
compressed : 1x 50 000 000 + 1x 46 148 144 bytes
Passwd : www.AvaxHome.ru
Kept copy-paste friendly for convenience, you can mix hosts, parts are the same…
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@ RapidShare
http://rapidshare.de/files/24711853/cactus.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/24711696/cactus.part2.rar.html
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OR MegaUpload
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AWZXRB8D
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CVDQ2M39
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OR Badongo
http://www.badongo.com/file/994263
http://www.badongo.com/file/994084
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OR Store&Serve
http://storeandserve.com/download/303586/cactus.part1.rar.html
http://storeandserve.com/download/303585/cactus.part2.rar.html
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