![]() “Evil” absolutely crushes one can only imagine the force of frontman Rusty Day contained in this tiny room. The master tapes showed up at a swap meet in Austin now restored and remastered it’s out there for all to enjoy. ![]() ![]() (When I mentioned this to Carmine, he was unaware that the bootlegs existed at all.) Given the technology of the day, anyone prescient enough to tape the show had a pedestrian copy at best, and when bootleg versions started showing up years after the band’s demise they were anything but pristine. In 1971, prior to the release of what would be their third and final studio album Restrictions, Cactus commandeered Ultrasonic Studios in Hempstead New York for small, by-invitation-only gig that was simulcast on WLIR, Long Island’s premier rock radio station. It’s an even bigger shame that forty years later, people still have to explain who they were. It’s a shame that their flame only burned brightly for a few years. ![]() Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert were the pulse of the Vanilla Fudge, a Long Island legend made good, while Jim McCarty and Rusty Day made their bones in Detroit.Īt a time when album rock and FM radio were forming an unholy alliance, bands that could go deeper and heavier were prowling stages like panthers, and Cactus was capable of blowing anyone off the stage with thundering hard rock and boogie (and often, they did). Growing up in the NYC area I was a lot closer to the flame, but as time passes on more people realize that these guys were monsters. I’ve certainly waxed poetic about Cactus before. ![]()
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