Vanilla Fudge: Classic or Dud?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Saw this on a Sullivan clip show last night...the band's other appearance on the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yl8u2vGuwc

I am petrified that I am about to perpetrate bad ILX etiquette, in that I seem to think that there is no thread for Cactus, but it could be that the search I initiated was bad…so… I just listened to the first two records, Cactus and One way or Another, and (here I wonder if the following ever occurred to the departed Scott S) man does Rusty Day ever sound like Damo Suzuki, and Jim McCarty occasionally puts me in the mind of Karoli…but do Appice and Bogert sound like Liebezeit and Czukay? Nope!

I think it's within the bounds of reason to use Vanilla Fudge threads for Cactus posts.

I'm not hearing the Can similarities; to me they're trying to be an American Humble Pie, throwing all the early 70s rock cliches together without having to write any memorable songs.

I don't think there was a '70s Rock band whose covers were more jacked-up than those by Cactus (not for nothing that their Rhino comp is front-loaded with them).

Rusty Day also had perhaps the most Rock'n'Roll death EVAH.

There's this guy that does the local record shows that I always buy from because almost all his stuff is priced to move. However his quality control can be iffy sometimes, which leads to dice-rolling when purchasing and the knowledge that if he's got something cheap that's been in his crates for awhile, something's definitely wrong with it. On that tip, last time around I was checking out this copy of One Way... that's been around; the price tag mentions that it has the poster, and it does indeed come with a poster...

...of James Taylor.

Rusty Day also had perhaps the most Rock'n'Roll death EVAH.

Killed in a triple homicide(?)

Yup. Machinegunned in drug deal gone bad...in Florida!

Saw the Fudge last weekend playing a free lawn show here in sunny Rochester. They were pretty good! About half the set was anyway, not a bad ratio for a heritage act. Two original members as well, also a bonus.

Carmen Appice couldn't be there due to health issues, his replacement has apparently played with Dream Theater and it showed, never mind. Mark Stein still uses an actual Hammond rather than some digital recreation so it sounded amazing. Vince Martell has a pleasingly 60s fuzz guitar sound too rather than the 80s Knopfler-isms most players of his generation seem to saddle themselves with.

Highlights: You Keep Me Hangin' On, Season of the Witch, People Get Ready, She's Not There.
Lowlights: Vince quoting from Corinthians in one song intro (guess he's born again), Mark's shitty synth patches when he wasn't rockin' the Hammond.

And thus concludes the Minnesota scene report. This Sunday in the same concert series: En Vogue!

hurrah! love these posts

I guess Vince Martell has been born again for a long time bc I remember him saying some unsettling Christian stuff back circa 2008 when I saw the original lineup Fudge.

Vince quoting from Corinthians

Was it Two Corinthians? That's my favorite.

I'm in St. Paul, I might have driven south for a free Vanilla Fudge show had I known.

1,2,3 here I come with Corinthians