Great stuff, these guys rocked. Like Blue Cheer, hugely influencial but not recognised enough today. I wanna hear some modern bands jam out instead of endless tattoo super compressed attitude crap. John Mayer and Bonnamassa should form a super acid rock group.
Less Than 2 Minutes into the song and i was Fuckin' Exhausted.......Just Amazing....Rock And Roll At Its " Never To Be Repeated EVER AGAIN " Finest.......
Now here's a tune you'll NEVER hear on those "Classic Rock" stations. Classic Rock my ass. How many times can you listen to "Oye Como Va", or "Stairway to Heaven"????????? Don't get me wrong, those are great tunes but there are so many others, and groups like Cactus who they will never play. Sad.
@MAIDENman80 Not even close, though Blue Cheer's is probably the most notorious re-imagination of this Mose Allison chestnut. John Mayall did a rip-snorting harp version on the "Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton" album, backed only by the rhythm section, two years before Blue Cheer unfurled their take.
@JimBozeman1956 I wish there was a DVD of the 70's line-up. There's a couple of DVDs of the new lineup that is out, but nothing with Rusty that I know of.
lol better than zeppelin ? you can't be serious, these guys are alright, I like strangler/one way or another and both sides of the street, but beyond that their material is terribly one dimensional, they remind me much more of zztop than zeppelin, what has cactus composed on the level of achilles last stand or kashmir, what variances do their songs have between each other such as trampled underfoot/no quarter/that's they way, do these guys even have any acoustic pieces ?...just saying
NO ONE has composed anything CLOSE to Achilles. 10 minutes of ass searing rock, trying recreating it. Its like scaling the MT EVEREST of songs, and THANK GOD somone ELSE even KNOWS the song. If you had to trust DISC JERKIES on FM (FRIGGIN MUD) You'd think Zeppelin cut three tunes and went home.
@LucasMarquesGHC , your a fuckin' idiot! Cactus isn't better than Led Zeppelin! People like you are always out here trying to be the one to say something that doesn't go with the masses, but your way off on saying Cactus is better than Led Zeppelin! Cactus was influenced heavily by Led Zeppelin. Bogart & Appice were on touring with Vanilla Fudge on that 1st Led Zeppelin tour of America. It's fact that Appice & Bogart wanted to sound like Led Zeppelin. Do your research B4 U talk stupid!
just because you're on your period you don't have to course me like this, its just my opnion, i'm sure you're just one these guys who don't know a thing about music and even life so i'm no going to waste too much of time discussing with you
@LucasMarquesGHC , it's CURSE, not COURSE! I don't know anything about music? I have everything by Cactus, & guess what? It's not much! They didn't last. I wonder why? Because they didn't cut it. I like cactus very much, but there is no way in hell they're better than Led Zepppelin! That's fact!
i'm brazilian so i not good at words in english,i have their discography too, and just because the band lasted for a short time doens't mean they're not good, is about a fact i was expressing my opnion, you can't change that, so calm down and stop treating people like shit just because they say something that you dont like
@LucasMarquesGHC , OK...Blink 182 is better than the Beatles. Would that be fact? No! Blink 182 sucks, & it would be ridiculous for me to think that! Same thing here. Cactus isn't better than Led Zeppelin! That's just not accurate.
better drummer=Bonham, better bassist=Jones, better guitarist=Page, better albums=Led Zeppelin, better live band=Led Zeppelin, more album sales=Led Zeppelin, longer career=Led Zeppelin, better songs=Led Zeppelin, more diverse=Led Zeppelin! These are facts!!!
i give up you're just too dumb to realize that i wasn't saying a fact, i was saying my opnion so fuck off, and compare blink 182 to beatles, you're twelve right?
@LucasMarquesGHC , you have yet to give me any really good reason why you think Cactus is better than Led Zeppelin, & I've given you plenty. Who's 12?
@amstell13 First of all (and i in know way am saying that this is the case with myself,) others would say that the beatles are toddlers compared to blink-182. again i'm not saying that's what i think, but when it comes to other people they don't give a shit about what YOU think they only care about what THEY think. I'm also not saying that Cactus is better than Led Zeppelin, but then again LucasMarques is entitled to his own opinion. So just let his opinion be, okay? Thank you.
@amstell13 I fuckin HATE Zepplin! One of the most OVERRATED bands EVER ! In my humble opinion . Talented as individuals but there songs are grating with those sissy vocals and just boring otherwise . Overplayed anyway . Who needs to hear "Stairway" or any of there songs again . Classic rock radio shoves it up your ass and expects a thank you card for it . There is plenty of reasons one band gets big and another doesn't .
@HellWolfsSwankyGrave ,your a fuckin' moron! Overrated my ass! Beatles & Stones are the ones that are overrated. Overplayed? I think not. If a song is good, a song is good. So by your theory, Led Zeppelin sucks because FM radio plays too much of Stairway? Should FM radio play songs like The Wanton Song, Tea For One or Royal Orleans? Absolutely! My solution...Don't listen to FM radio. I don't! My CD player in the car is "my" FM radio. Cactus is no way better than Led Zeppelin doofus!
@amstell13 Did I say anything about Cactus dipshit ? No I didn''t . Just because you are a brainwashed Zepplin worshipper doesn't mean I have to like them . Which is a good thing because I don't . Go ahead and love Robert Plant's lyrics about hobbits and gnomes . See if I care goofball .
@amstell13 Also , I don't know were you read that my "theory" was they sucked because fm radio played them too much . That was just an observation . I explained why I didn't like them .That was a different point genius . I got satellite radio for my car so I don't have to listen to the same shit like Zepplin and Queen over and over and over again by the way .
@amstell13 - Regarding your comparison of members of Zeppelin to Cactus - Bonham vs Appice = very close / Jones vs Bogert = coin toss / Page vs McCarty = McCarty hands down / Plant vs Day = difficult to compare as the styles are so different (if you want to enter boring or monotonus into the comparison Plant would win / more album sales may be because Zeppelin's career was longer (duh) - better songs = your personal opinion which doesn't equate to your statement 'these are the facts'
@amstell13 - Regarding your comparison of members of Zeppelin to Cactus - Bonham vs Appice = very close / Jones vs Bogert = coin toss / Page vs McCarty = McCarty hands down / Plant vs Day = difficult to compare as the styles are so different (if you want to enter boring or monotonus into the comparison Plant would win / more album sales may be because Zeppelin's career was longer (duh) - better songs = your personal opinion which doesn't equate to your statement 'these are the facts'
@amstell13 I was with you until you said Led Zeppelin was a better live band. Sure, when Zeppelin wanted to be good they would be but when they were just shooting the shit (which was a lot) they weren't.
@LucasMarquesGHC Your English is great and you're certainly entitled to your opinion. Just ignore the naysayers. I have never heard of these guys...but I am liking what I hear!
@amstell13 Actually, what Bogert & Appice wanted was to be playing with Jeff Beck---which was their original plan leaving Vanilla Fudge. ("Cactus" was actually the name the pair came up with for the band they'd hoped to form with Beck and Rod Stewart . . . before Beck's infamous auto accident put him out of action and the pair ended up forming a rather different Cactus.) Which they did in due course, to somewhat less than stellar results . . .
wow. i never knew that they added a second guitar. they were a trio when i saw them in 71. it does work, tho...the guy complements McCarty fine. but this lineup never recorded, did they? i know by the time the new cactus band came out, it was pretty awful.
I remember listening to Cactus with my friend as teenagers..... this is AS GOOD AS IT GETS!!! Great. Thank you for posting.. No one does music like this anymore...
@GhostriderDuck You have great taste but I have to say-Cactus on "CD" seems almost sacrilegious.This band needs to be heard on a beat up 8 track in a '71 Challenger heading for Vegas at about 97 miles an hour. ; )
... Bez teksta ... :-D
zuletadic 1 week ago
THE BEST BAND EVER..PERIOD
6070rockhard 1 week ago in playlist cactus-live audio 1971
If this song doesnt kikk your arse what can???
TheBorjamz 2 weeks ago
From which CD is this from? Fully Unleashed?
tharsiskenobi2 1 month ago
No shit this needs to be played on the daily!!!
nathanoman1 3 months ago
The song " Painter" with Cactus (1971 ) is bad ass! such a great song with a great band.
FantomasMXss 5 months ago
@amstell13 McCarty hands down over Page? Not quite sure about that one...
junkpot17 6 months ago
Great stuff, these guys rocked. Like Blue Cheer, hugely influencial but not recognised enough today. I wanna hear some modern bands jam out instead of endless tattoo super compressed attitude crap. John Mayer and Bonnamassa should form a super acid rock group.
paulscape72 9 months ago
Less Than 2 Minutes into the song and i was Fuckin' Exhausted.......Just Amazing....Rock And Roll At Its " Never To Be Repeated EVER AGAIN " Finest.......
It Helps Me Survive.
fart813 10 months ago
Now here's a tune you'll NEVER hear on those "Classic Rock" stations. Classic Rock my ass. How many times can you listen to "Oye Como Va", or "Stairway to Heaven"????????? Don't get me wrong, those are great tunes but there are so many others, and groups like Cactus who they will never play. Sad.
gjk12345 10 months ago 11
@gjk12345
THAT is exactly why i have become a youtube addict and turned off the radio.....there is so much more out here.
Cactus, Quicksilver, Rory, Moby Grape, MC5......it just goes on and on...have u seen the Jeff Beck blue screen videos?
Whats the difference between oldies radio and classic rock anymore? U never hear Country Joe yelling Gimme an F.......
1like2rock 6 months ago
ｶｰﾏｲﾝ･ｱﾋﾟｽ､ﾃｨﾑ･ﾎﾞｶﾞｰﾄﾞ､ｼﾞﾑ･ﾏｯｶｰﾃｨｰ､ THIS IS CACTUS!
blackandtanful 11 months ago
What tone of harmonica is Rusty using? :O
Fucking awesome!!
FireAssasin 1 year ago
there's one person who doesn't know what the internet was made for.
This is fukcin great music
AcidAbsinthe 1 year ago
The whole band sounds awesome, but Rusty Day sounds positively ON FIRE!!!
rodentcafeteria 1 year ago
Think I like Blue Cheer's cover better this is good though I just like Blue Cheer's cover better
bigguy4570 1 year ago
good ole blues . have all they ever made.
johnbofindy58 1 year ago
good ole blues
johnbofindy58 1 year ago
If anybody thinks that this wasn`t a monster band, !Well! think of this !three words!
BECK_ APPICE_BOGERT a lot of history just right there
javichuification 1 year ago
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javichuification 1 year ago
Stone-cold, solid kick-ass Rock-and-Roll!!!! Sounds so damn good !!! Jeez, this takes me back !!! Thanks for the post !! Peace:-)
binnyman 1 year ago
Tim Bogerts new band The McGrath Project is on sale on itunes
gbrecordsinc 1 year ago
My, my. Such a soulful bunch of cacti. Just got turned on to a new band, and THAT I love.
TheJedgeworth 1 year ago
One load.. You cain't come up here without a truckload.. Or sure sure as shit I'll send you Straight back- and flat broke as that
anandanaga999 1 year ago
didn't blue cheer do this first
MAIDENman80 1 year ago
@MAIDENman80 Not even close, though Blue Cheer's is probably the most notorious re-imagination of this Mose Allison chestnut. John Mayall did a rip-snorting harp version on the "Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton" album, backed only by the rhythm section, two years before Blue Cheer unfurled their take.
EasyAce 1 year ago
Who is the second guitarist?
marklizard1 1 year ago
Can their live recordings be had in DVD format? Or just audio? Jim McCarty is one badass guitarist!
JimBozeman1956 1 year ago 5
@JimBozeman1956 I wish there was a DVD of the 70's line-up. There's a couple of DVDs of the new lineup that is out, but nothing with Rusty that I know of.
Circuit7Active 1 year ago
oh my fuck!
Teutonic1250 1 year ago
lol better than zeppelin ? you can't be serious, these guys are alright, I like strangler/one way or another and both sides of the street, but beyond that their material is terribly one dimensional, they remind me much more of zztop than zeppelin, what has cactus composed on the level of achilles last stand or kashmir, what variances do their songs have between each other such as trampled underfoot/no quarter/that's they way, do these guys even have any acoustic pieces ?...just saying
goongacortinas 1 year ago
NO ONE has composed anything CLOSE to Achilles. 10 minutes of ass searing rock, trying recreating it. Its like scaling the MT EVEREST of songs, and THANK GOD somone ELSE even KNOWS the song. If you had to trust DISC JERKIES on FM (FRIGGIN MUD) You'd think Zeppelin cut three tunes and went home.
rf396 1 year ago
THAT being said Cactus WAS an AWESOME band AND the best vehicle to date for Carmine Appice. It truly showed how good he actually is.
rf396 1 year ago
esxelente................very very good
programatrilhadorock 1 year ago
Hottest, most overlooked band going back in the day---their 1st 3 albums are masterpieces!
Bix12 1 year ago 2
that guitar is so amazing.better than Zeppelin?I think so!!Zeppelin was a product of the mass marketing,Cactus was pure and absolute ROCK!!
pepetrueno1967 1 year ago 2
where can i get this? is that on a cd or something?
LucasMarquesGHC 1 year ago
they're better than zeppelin
LucasMarquesGHC 1 year ago 3
@LucasMarquesGHC , your a fuckin' idiot! Cactus isn't better than Led Zeppelin! People like you are always out here trying to be the one to say something that doesn't go with the masses, but your way off on saying Cactus is better than Led Zeppelin! Cactus was influenced heavily by Led Zeppelin. Bogart & Appice were on touring with Vanilla Fudge on that 1st Led Zeppelin tour of America. It's fact that Appice & Bogart wanted to sound like Led Zeppelin. Do your research B4 U talk stupid!
amstell13 1 year ago
@amstell13
just because you're on your period you don't have to course me like this, its just my opnion, i'm sure you're just one these guys who don't know a thing about music and even life so i'm no going to waste too much of time discussing with you
LucasMarquesGHC 1 year ago 5
@LucasMarquesGHC , it's CURSE, not COURSE! I don't know anything about music? I have everything by Cactus, & guess what? It's not much! They didn't last. I wonder why? Because they didn't cut it. I like cactus very much, but there is no way in hell they're better than Led Zepppelin! That's fact!
Get educated, learn music!
amstell13 1 year ago
@amstell13
i'm brazilian so i not good at words in english,i have their discography too, and just because the band lasted for a short time doens't mean they're not good, is about a fact i was expressing my opnion, you can't change that, so calm down and stop treating people like shit just because they say something that you dont like
LucasMarquesGHC 1 year ago
@LucasMarquesGHC , say something I don't like? No, saying something that just isn't true!
amstell13 1 year ago
@amstell13
for god sake its a opnion ,its not about if is true or not, its about someone thinks, its a interpretation of one fact
LucasMarquesGHC 1 year ago
@LucasMarquesGHC , OK...Blink 182 is better than the Beatles. Would that be fact? No! Blink 182 sucks, & it would be ridiculous for me to think that! Same thing here. Cactus isn't better than Led Zeppelin! That's just not accurate.
better drummer=Bonham, better bassist=Jones, better guitarist=Page, better albums=Led Zeppelin, better live band=Led Zeppelin, more album sales=Led Zeppelin, longer career=Led Zeppelin, better songs=Led Zeppelin, more diverse=Led Zeppelin! These are facts!!!
amstell13 1 year ago
@amstell13
i give up you're just too dumb to realize that i wasn't saying a fact, i was saying my opnion so fuck off, and compare blink 182 to beatles, you're twelve right?
LucasMarquesGHC 1 year ago
@LucasMarquesGHC , Apparently your 12 because you can't have an intelligent disagreement without telling me to fuck off.
& yes, comparing Cactus to Led Zeppelin is like comparing Blink 182 to the Beatles!
Although Cactus is very good, where Blink 182 sucks ass!
amstell13 1 year ago
@LucasMarquesGHC , you have yet to give me any really good reason why you think Cactus is better than Led Zeppelin, & I've given you plenty. Who's 12?
amstell13 1 year ago
@amstell13
and you can't have an intelligent disagreement without telling me that i'm a fuckin idiot, so i guess you're the twelve year old ,dumbass
LucasMarquesGHC 1 year ago 2
@amstell13 First of all (and i in know way am saying that this is the case with myself,) others would say that the beatles are toddlers compared to blink-182. again i'm not saying that's what i think, but when it comes to other people they don't give a shit about what YOU think they only care about what THEY think. I'm also not saying that Cactus is better than Led Zeppelin, but then again LucasMarques is entitled to his own opinion. So just let his opinion be, okay? Thank you.
Fender574 1 year ago
@amstell13
also, I just wanted to say that i understand where you are coming from, because I myself am a huge Zeppelin fan
Fender574 1 year ago
@amstell13 I fuckin HATE Zepplin! One of the most OVERRATED bands EVER ! In my humble opinion . Talented as individuals but there songs are grating with those sissy vocals and just boring otherwise . Overplayed anyway . Who needs to hear "Stairway" or any of there songs again . Classic rock radio shoves it up your ass and expects a thank you card for it . There is plenty of reasons one band gets big and another doesn't .
HellWolfsSwankyGrave 1 year ago
@HellWolfsSwankyGrave ,your a fuckin' moron! Overrated my ass! Beatles & Stones are the ones that are overrated. Overplayed? I think not. If a song is good, a song is good. So by your theory, Led Zeppelin sucks because FM radio plays too much of Stairway? Should FM radio play songs like The Wanton Song, Tea For One or Royal Orleans? Absolutely! My solution...Don't listen to FM radio. I don't! My CD player in the car is "my" FM radio. Cactus is no way better than Led Zeppelin doofus!
amstell13 1 year ago
@amstell13 Did I say anything about Cactus dipshit ? No I didn''t . Just because you are a brainwashed Zepplin worshipper doesn't mean I have to like them . Which is a good thing because I don't . Go ahead and love Robert Plant's lyrics about hobbits and gnomes . See if I care goofball .
HellWolfsSwankyGrave 1 year ago
@amstell13 Also , I don't know were you read that my "theory" was they sucked because fm radio played them too much . That was just an observation . I explained why I didn't like them .That was a different point genius . I got satellite radio for my car so I don't have to listen to the same shit like Zepplin and Queen over and over and over again by the way .
HellWolfsSwankyGrave 1 year ago
@amstell13 - Regarding your comparison of members of Zeppelin to Cactus - Bonham vs Appice = very close / Jones vs Bogert = coin toss / Page vs McCarty = McCarty hands down / Plant vs Day = difficult to compare as the styles are so different (if you want to enter boring or monotonus into the comparison Plant would win / more album sales may be because Zeppelin's career was longer (duh) - better songs = your personal opinion which doesn't equate to your statement 'these are the facts'
bevep12 9 months ago
@amstell13 - Regarding your comparison of members of Zeppelin to Cactus - Bonham vs Appice = very close / Jones vs Bogert = coin toss / Page vs McCarty = McCarty hands down / Plant vs Day = difficult to compare as the styles are so different (if you want to enter boring or monotonus into the comparison Plant would win / more album sales may be because Zeppelin's career was longer (duh) - better songs = your personal opinion which doesn't equate to your statement 'these are the facts'
bevep12 9 months ago
@amstell13 I was with you until you said Led Zeppelin was a better live band. Sure, when Zeppelin wanted to be good they would be but when they were just shooting the shit (which was a lot) they weren't.
Kals33 3 months ago
@LucasMarquesGHC Your English is great and you're certainly entitled to your opinion. Just ignore the naysayers. I have never heard of these guys...but I am liking what I hear!
shep79 1 year ago
@shep79
thanks man, aprecciate it, yeah they sure are great
LucasMarquesGHC 1 year ago
@amstell13 Actually, what Bogert & Appice wanted was to be playing with Jeff Beck---which was their original plan leaving Vanilla Fudge. ("Cactus" was actually the name the pair came up with for the band they'd hoped to form with Beck and Rod Stewart . . . before Beck's infamous auto accident put him out of action and the pair ended up forming a rather different Cactus.) Which they did in due course, to somewhat less than stellar results . . .
EasyAce 1 year ago
@LucasMarquesGHC Isn't everybody?
GonzoGuyy 11 months ago
what happened to rock n roll ?
yeahyeahyesok 1 year ago
wow. i never knew that they added a second guitar. they were a trio when i saw them in 71. it does work, tho...the guy complements McCarty fine. but this lineup never recorded, did they? i know by the time the new cactus band came out, it was pretty awful.
murphstrings 1 year ago
holy hot damn !!! awesome
66KITT66 1 year ago
rarest music ever. thank you!
91Lizardking 1 year ago
use to listen this before GIGS OLD BRO AND THE ANCESTORS alvin lee jimi TODD
oldbroancestor 2 years ago
I remember listening to Cactus with my friend as teenagers..... this is AS GOOD AS IT GETS!!! Great. Thank you for posting.. No one does music like this anymore...
ognir47 2 years ago
that band is so amazing... im truly dissapointed cause for get some music its so difficult, well i live in mexico....
sopione 2 years ago
my band used to open for cactus.thanks for sharing this video.
tommyandtammy1 2 years ago
Seen them Fillmore West rocked my socks off!!Should have stayed together one of the best live....
superkhatt 2 years ago
How sweet is this???????!!!!!!!!!!?????
Straydogger 2 years ago
Who plays the other lead on Parchman Farm ? Is that Duane Hitchings ?
Nice version by the way and thanks for sharing.
HowBrownPhiladelphia 2 years ago
The second guitarist would be Ron Leejack. Duane Hitchings didnt play guitar he was a keyboard player.
AstralPlane1951 2 years ago
Great sound, true music that goes gets into your soul...
DirkjeA 2 years ago
Lovin' this! Rockin' at Parchman Farm I'd say! Excellent rock n roll!
10 stars.
rosesredvioletsblue 2 years ago 2
Great cd i listen to it very often!!!!
GhostriderDuck 2 years ago 3
That it is. I just wish they had a live version of "Hometown Bust" on it.
Circuit7Active 2 years ago
@GhostriderDuck You have great taste but I have to say-Cactus on "CD" seems almost sacrilegious.This band needs to be heard on a beat up 8 track in a '71 Challenger heading for Vegas at about 97 miles an hour. ; )
bluesborn 1 year ago 2
@GhostriderDuck - its even better on vinyl (opposed to CD) :)
upgrader99 1 year ago
What cd is this from? I've never heard it and Cactus is my favorite band. If you could tell me i would truly appreciate it.
-Dan
cactus54 2 years ago