Previously released, but not in this fully self contained form. The 4 CDs of live material comprise the band’s Fully Unleashed, The Live Gigs Volumes 1 and 2. Of the new tracks, only ‘Bedroom Mazurka’ and ‘Bad Stuff’ were genuine contenders. McCarty and Day, the duo who helped build a locomotive boogie sound onto Appice and Bogert’s bolted to the floor rhythm section, had both departed. In fairness, the band had undergone considerable line up surgery since Restrictions. Even the fact it’s flavoured with a distinct twist of Memphis doesn’t disguise its muddy, meat and potatoes’ blues. The band’s fourth and last studio album of the seventies, Ot’N'Sweaty, is exactly that. Third album, Restrictions, reinforces the band’s credentials as a bona fide, born on the Bayou Blues Rock band, with the stomping, wailing ‘Token Chokin’, ‘Evil’ and ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’ steamrollering over everything in their path. Those gems – ‘No Need To Worry’, ‘Let Me Swim’ and ‘Big Mama Boogie’ – stood tall in that company and all became popular components of the Cactus live set. Covers of Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ and Chuck Willis’s ‘I Feel So Bad’ are the glue that holds the band’s own blues rock gems tight. The same is true of follow up album, One Way Or Another. Covers of Mose Allison’s ‘Parchman Farm’ and ‘You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover’ – rock blues pioneer Willie Dixon’s infuential slice of street philosophy – are the album’s foundational tracks. Nugent’s erstwhile bandmate, Rusty Day became the Cactus vocalist just prior to the recording of the band’s self titled debut album.ĭay’s grainy, miles-on-the-clock vocals regularly wrapped themselves around some of the great blues rock songs from the pre-rock’n'roll era.
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It’s those big, full fat chords that drive the music. McCarty’s hollow bodied jazz guitar features large on these recordings, both studio and live. The line up was rounded out by revered guitarist Jim McCarty, ex of Buddy Miles Express and The Detroit Wheels.Īmboy Dukes/ Damn Yankees guitar man, Ted Nugent said of McCarty “Remember his name… he is as important as Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry… a god on guitar”. The band was formed by two ex Vanilla Fudge musicians, Carmen Appice on drums and Tim Bogert on bass. It contains the 4 studio albums recorded 1972-74, and 4 albums’ worth of live material, never before bundled together.
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