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The self-titled debut album from Cactus, CACTUS features eight tracks including "You Can't Judge A Book By," "Let Me Swim," and "No Need To Worry."
Cactus may have never amounted to anything more than a half-hearted, last-minute improvised supergroup, but that don't mean their eponymous 1970 debut didn't rock like a mofo. The already quasi-legendary Vanilla Fudge rhythm section of Bogert and Appice may have provided the backbone of the band's business cards, and soulful, ex-Amboy Duke Rusty Day brought the voice, but it was arguably former Detroit Wheels guitarist Jim McCarty who was the true star in the Cactus galaxy, spraying notes and shredding solos all over album highlights such as "You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover," "Let Me Swim," and, most notably, a manic, turbocharged version of "Parchman Farm." The fact that Cactus chose to tackle this classic blues song just a year after it'd been blasted into the fuzz-distortion stratosphere by Blue Cheer betrays -- at best -- a healthy competitive spirit within the early-'70s hard rock milieu, and at worst it suggests something of a mercenary nature to Cactus' motives, but that's an issue for the surviving bandmembers to duke it out over in the retirement home. And we digress -- for the blistering closing duo of "Oleo" and "Feel So Good" (complete with bass and drum solo slots) easily certifies the Cactus LP as one of the best hard rock albums of the then brand-new decade, bar none. Too bad the illustrious members of Cactus would quickly lose interest in this band project and deliver increasingly mediocre efforts in the years that followed. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia
Mid-priced pressing of 1977 album for Atlantic by this rockquartet featuring Jim McCarty of the Yardbirds and drummerCarmine Appice. Eight tracks, including covers of MoseAllison's 'Parchman Farm' & Willie Dixon's 'You Can't JudgeA Book By The Cover'. Cactus Music Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   One of the best rock albums of all time
Known as THE Cactus Album, it is a legend among "all" musicians in rock, and will blow the minds of any pure, hard/classic rock fans who have yet to experience it. If you have ever heard the expression "plug it in and play," this album defines it. All four members virtousos. "Parchman Farm" defies description and "No need to worry" is blues at its absolute purest.
The labels "classic" and "legend" are thrown around today until they mean nothing. This is the real deal friends.
Submitted by Jim (Nashville, Tn, USA)
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Great boogie & blues
Buy this one for guitarist Jim McCarty. The former Detroit Wheel is unbelievable on "Parchman Farm". Also , the rhthym section of Appice and Bogert speak for themselves. Highly recommended.
Submitted by a reviewer (Princess Anne Md USA) 
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Like Rusty says at the beginning of Oleo, "This is the one, guys." Whether you're a fan of the band or not, this is the essential rock album of the 70's. Ex Vanilla Fudge alumni Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert join forces with Detroit's Jim McCarty (Rockets) and Rusty Day (Amboy Dukes) For a sonic boogie blast so frenzied and energetic that bands like Zeppelin and Ten Years After pale by comparison. Every track a masterpiece. The versions of "Parchman Farm" and "Can't Judge a Book" are by far the best ever recorded. BOOGIE CHILLUN!!!
Submitted by Rudi Protrudi (South of DEE-TROIT!!)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  A Mind Blower of an Album
Remember this group as being the "Next Big Thing". Too bad they weren't. Still a great guitar album with enough "blooze" to satisfy ya all...
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On its third album, Wishbone Ash doesn't mess with its formula--as before, this long running British rock institution purveys a mix of blues, folk, and Yes- style riffs mated to endearingly cosmic lyrics. The songs here, ...
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A surprise best-seller when it was first released, this mostly improvised pairing of singer/keyboardist/producer Al Kooper with two major guitar heroes of the day sounds fascinating all these years later precisely because of the distance of time--nobody makes records like this any more. The material runs the gamut from folk pop (covers of Donovan and Dylan), to blues ("Albert's Shuffle," "You Don't Love Me"), to heady jams ("His Holy Modal Majesty"), to big-band jazz ("Harvey's Tune").
All the tunes make effective templates for the kind off-the-cuff music-making that in less capable hands might have resulted in simple noodling. In fact, although Bloomfield and Stills don't play together on any of the cuts (Bloomfield played on one side of the original LP, Stills on the other), all three principals get off lots of good licks and producer Kooper has some interesting tricks up his sleeve, as in the over-the-top phasing he lavishes on "You Don't Love Me." The only real disappointment here is that Stills, a far better singer than Kooper, never opens his mouth.
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