TOPS 1970 Orig = CACTUS 1st LP Hard BOOGIE BLUES JAMS VANILLA FUDGE McCARTY

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               USA - Atco Records - SD 33 340

NICE MINTY  Final COLLECTION KEEPER COPY ...

looks like it was just taken out of shrink wrapper ... totally mint clean 1970

Original 1970 first pressing vinyl of the first CACTUS, a wicked cool hard bluesrock cooker, about the best of the type America ever had to offer... the guitar work by underestimated Jim McCarty is outrageous, backed by the tight wired rhythm section of Bogert & Appice...

Cactus was initially conceived in late 1969 as a supergroup of the Vanilla Fudge rhythm section of bassist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice with guitarist Jeff Beck and singer Rod Stewart. However, Beck had an automobile accident and Stewart joined Ronnie Wood in the Faces. So Appice and Bogert brought in blues guitarist Jim McCarty from Mitch Ryder's Detroit Wheels and The Buddy Miles Express, and singer Rusty Day (born Russell Edward Davidson) from the Amboy Dukes. This line-up managed three albums (Cactus, One Way... Or Another and Restrictions) before interband troubles led to McCarty quitting at the end of 1971. Shortly afterwards Rusty Day was fired from the group.

Cactus may have been together a short 2+ years and were a 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. 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 their band.

• "Parchman Farm" - 3:06
• "My Lady From South Of Detroit" - 4:26
• "Bro. Bill" - 5:10
• "You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover" - 6:30
• "Let Me Swim" - 3:50
• "No Need To Worry" - 6:14
• "Oleo" - 4:51
• "Feel So Good" - 6:03

CONDITION: The cover: is very clean and solid all over; Mint looks like fresh out of cellophane wrapper ... sharp and clear everywhere -- has no seam splits, no bends, no writing, no delete marks... collectible look with careful visible handling over the last 45 years

The vinyl:  is clean and glossy all over, rated: M- TOP COPY, plays TOP level = there is NO distracting surface problems and with clean Atco labels  ...

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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