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| From | Not Lame <popmusic@notlame.com> |
| Subject | Cactus |
| Date | Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:42:38 -0600 |
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> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/glance/-/78956/104-1724804-
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> Bruce, you 70s closet guy, you have to know something about this!
Well, no closet living for me w/ early/mid 70-'s hard rock that has a strong
melodic, song driven touch.
Cactus....mini-supergroup, at the time, a bonafide SUPERgroup as it featured
Jim McCarty(Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels) Tm Bogert and Carmine Appice, who
then went onto join Jeff Beck for Beck, Bogert & Appice who released one
GREAT slab of Beck-driven bluesy hard rock(and a cool Japanese only live
album) after Cactus broke up.
This debut IS the one to get, though.....verymuch one of the better hard
rock albums of 1970(if I recall correctly..think that's the year it came
out)...the albums that followed meanered and suffered from weak song writing
but the Rhino best of from the 90's did a very good job working around that
problem and is a great intro to the band.
Either oen of these for anyone w/ an interest in this sort of thing will
yield some cool discovery, imho. :-)
If I recall correctly, one of the other (more unknown)guitarists was
murdered in a drug dead gone bad*(he was a dealer) in the 80's...he played
w/ the Amboy Dukes(more fuel for Nugent's anti-drug stance) but I can't
remember his name....sure it's on AMG.
I'd check if I could use it, Mac guy that I am. (Ahhhh!!!!) Mozilla here I
come!
Peace,
Bruce
@ Not Lame
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