Cactus - Ultrasonic Studios (2007)

English:
Cactus was initially conceived as early as late 1969 by the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section of bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice with guitarist Jeff Beck and Xylophone player Adele Smitchell acted as the counterpart and co-singer until singer Rod Stewart (also from the already dissolved Jeff Beck Group). However, Beck had an automobile accident and was out of the music scene for over a year and Stewart joined Ronnie Wood in Faces. Early 1970 Appice and Bogert brought in blues guitarist Jim McCarty from Mitch Ryder's Detroit Wheels and The Buddy Miles Express, and singer Rusty Day (born Russell Edward Davidson) from Amboy Dukes. This line-up managed three albums (Cactus, One Way…Or Another and Restrictions) before intraband troubles led to McCarty quitting at the end of 1971. Shortly afterwards Day was fired from the group. The fourth and last Cactus album ('Ot 'N' Sweaty) featured original rhythm section Bogert and Appice joined by Werner Fritzschings on guitar, Duane Hitchings on keyboards and Peter French (ex-Leaf Hound and Atomic Rooster) on vocals.
Beck, Bogert & Appice:
After Cactus' dissolution in 1972, Bogert and Appice joined with Beck to form Beck, Bogert & Appice. After one studio album (the self titled Beck, Bogert & Appice) and one live album (Live In Japan, released only in Japan) the band dissolved. Their second album remains unreleased to this day, along with recordings of the band's last concert at the Rainbow Theatre in London on January 26, 1974.
Post history:
The New Cactus Band, led by Duane Hitchings, released one album (Son Of Cactus) and featured nobody of the original Cactus. Mike Pinera, formerly of Blues Image and Iron Butterfly, came in on guitar, along with Roland Robinson on bass and Jerry Norris on drums. The band then toured live in the Midwest and on the East Coast in mid 1973 with Captain Beyond drummer Bobby Caldwell and former Gregg Allman bass player Charlie Souza. The New Cactus Band soon disbanded. In the late '70s Rusty Day formed another version of Cactus in Orlando, where he had relocated. This version of Cactus featured Steve Dansby on guitar, Dan Keylon and later John Sauter on bass, Frankie Robbins and later Gary Moffatt on drums. Frankie Robbins' brother Dennis along with Dan Keylon also played with the Rockets and Jim McCarty. There are no known studio recordings from this era, though live recordings do circulate. On March 6, 1982, Rusty Day died from gunshots as a victim of a drug deal gone bad.
After a long hiatus, Cactus re-emerged in June 2006 with two appearances in New York City: a radio appearance on The Radiochick Show, and their first show since 1972 at B.B. King's Blues Club in Times Square (on June 3, 2006). This show was a warm up for the gig which sparked the reunion, an appearance at the Sweden Rock Festival in Norje, Sweden on June 9, 2006. The 2006 version of Cactus sees original members Appice, Bogert and McCarty reunited and joined by former Savoy Brown frontman Jimmy Kunes on vocals. Randy Pratt joined the band in NYC and Sweden on harmonica. The group has also released a new album, Cactus V. ~From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Português:
Quando o grupo Vanilla Fudge terminou no final dos anos 60, o plano do baixista Tim Borgert e do baterista Carmine Appice era se juntar com Jeff Beck e Rod Steawart para formar uma super banda. No entanto, este plano teve que ser adiado depois que Beck sofreu um acidente de moto e teve que ficar “de molho” por 18 meses. Steawart se juntou a Ron Wood para formar o Faces (e mais tarde seguiu em uma lucrativa carreira solo). Frustrado o projeto inicial, a dupla Borgert e Appice partiu para um novo projeto e convidou o guitarrista Jim McCarty, que estava disponível com o fim do Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, e o vocalista Rusty Day, do Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes, para formar o Cactus. O primeiro disco teve uma boa aceitação, mas o grupo nunca alcançou um status maior do que o de uma banda de abertura e acabou se dissolvendo em 1972, tendo lançado quatro discos na praça. Esta é a história do Cactus contada no All Music Guide (por Jim Newsom), o mais importante site da indústria fonográfica americana. Apesar de não ter uma saga gloriosa, mais tarde o grupo acabou por influenciar um grande número de outras bandas, devido ao seu poderoso hard rock blues, para mim um dos melhores em sua categoria. Outro fator que contribuiu para aumentar a popularidade póstuma do Cactus, foi a realização do sonhado projeto junto com Jeff Beck na formação do Beck, Borgert & Appice, que deixou sua marca na biografia do rock mundial com apenas um álbum lançado, na verdade dois, mas o segundo foi um ao vivo gravado no Japão. Hoje o Cactus é uma banda mítica muito cultuada, o que levou seus integrantes a se reencontrarem em 2006 para o lançamento de um disco, chamado simplesmente de “V” (cinco). O disco que apresento aqui, Ultrasonic Studios 69-70, apesar de ser uma gravação em estúdio a condição sonora varia conforme a faixa, em termos convencionais para bootlegs, eu diria que essa variação está entre B-, para as piores, e A para as melhores. É um documento que registra o melhor momento desse grupo que foi considerado como o Led Zeppelin americano. ~By woody


Recorded at the Ultrasonic Studios
Hempstead, Long Island, New York-USA
1969-12-23 & 1970-02-10

01. Peace on Earth
02. Feel So Good
03. You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
04. vamp
05. Bro. Bill
06. Help Me
07. Oleo jam
08. You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover riff
09. Let Me Swim #1
10. Rumblin' Man (instrumental; intercut w/ Wipeout)
11. Let Me Swim #2
12. Let Me Swim #3
13. Parchman Farm

Band line-up:
Rusty Day - vocals, harmonica
Jim McCarty - guitar
Tim Bogert - bass
Carmine Appice - drums, percussion