Jim McCarty is the most underrated Gibson/Marshall stack hard rockin' guitarist of his era...he worked it better than anybody. The feedback, the riffs, the pickin'...killer. Let's hear it for Detroit and Cactus.
john arduser Best American band period. Gotta have drums and bass or the band ain’t shit and the had a fantastic guitarist in Jim and wicked vocals in Rusty. 👍🏼
Saw them open for Ten Years After Good times. I wass so high after Cactus I was ready to leave. Then my buddies said There's another band. What a night.
The 2nd concert I attended at 14 years old was a triple bill at the old Boston Garden that included Ten Years After, Humble Pie and Cactus...these Unleashed recordings are a gift to treasure...smokin all the way.
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...
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I´ve heard they were a great live-band - now I know it´s true. I have two Cactus-vinyls, "Cactus" and "One Way...Or Another". Bought them in early 70´s, grew three children who have given me eight grand children...and still Cactus sounds as good as 40 years 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.
Damn I couldn't agree with you more. This is just balls to the wall, full tilt R&B at a hundred mph. This song has kicked serious butt for 50 years and virtually nobody knows it. A crying shame!
Classic rock stations are very low energy. They’re designed to be background noise for waiting rooms and job sites. It would be cool to get a high energy one
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.
Opened for Deep Purple,Memphis 1972 Overton Park Shell,.......almost stole the night away from DP......I was there. Beautiful night in May,outside venue with 3000 or so in stands....What a night...I havent been the same since.....
Proto Metal for sure…saw these guys twice in 71 & was tripping my ass off… A shame bands like this & Ten Years After & Mountain never were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame…Instead they inducted Bon Jovi , Go & Figure…They should put some Ten Years After up there…
At the time, 1966-1970, I didn`t realize some of the "great" bands & music I experienced but I`ll never forget Cactus. They screamed just like on this video !!!!
brotzmannsax I saw Cactus and ZZ Top play an open air concert on a pier in Corpus Christie about 1970 and was blown away by both. Great show,great memories! They desrved more recognition,success than they achieved IMO
saw them all live back in the day.....stones, cream, hendrix, zep. tull, purple, taste, winter,pre comercial g funk, cooper, s brown , original f mac, naz, faces, v fudge, w ash, cta , c heat, foghat etc etc etc and all were great shows but I have to say Cactus who I saw opening for Stewart (bad choice Rod) was thee best I've ever witnessed. To this day I've never seen a band get an audience moving in sync like that.
I also saw them way back when at the Fillmore West and they were 2nd billed behind Ten Years After and they stole the show. Best performance I think I ever saw there in 4 plus yrs.
Sorry for such a late response but I`ve been without a pc for like 6 mos. Yeah you`re right, it would have been crappy luck for anyone that followed them,,, even God !!
I agree with you 100% Ryan Reid...they "worked" a crowd....at one of the Memphis shows at Overton Park Shell,an outside venue where Elvis first played, a damn riot almost occurred...Memphis loved Cactus.....awesome band..I was all of 16 years old...
This is a very unique cut in the Cactus Collection. Toward the end of their existence, the original Cactus took on Ronnie Leejack on 2nd guitar. Ronnie had been with Wicked Lester, the band that eventually became Kiss.
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.
A lot of talk about McCarty, who was great, of course. But don't forget Tim Bogart on bass. He may not be in a class by himself, but whatever class he's in, it doesn't take long to call roll!
McCarty had it from the beginning; he was amazing with the Detroit Wheels when playing live. Heard them in August 1966 and he burned out two Fender Twin amps in the first four songs-had to play the rest of the night through a warm up band's Vox Super Beatle amp, He was smokin', unlike anything he ever recorded for the Wheels. The reformed recent Cactus thing? Not a great representation-ongoing income. Mystery Train band at places like Blue Goose Inn in Detroit 7-8 years ago...the real McCarty!
Thanks for that. I heard the second guitarist and had no idea what was going on. Was he with them long? Well they sounded great playing off of each other.
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.
@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. ; )
@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 . . .
@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.......
there are no dvds of the originl cactus! get the live woodstck and atlanta pop festival recordings for true cactus boogie. records is all we got. rusty is the man. listen to ted nugent's migration album to hear him sing right after the detroit wheels stuff! jim mccarty and tim bogert are bad ass and lets not forget carmine appice! jeff beck was supposed to be the guitar player but a car crash laid him up for 2 years so thay found jim.
@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.
@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'
+MarshallAmp Man ..I remember in my "haze" another guitar player,....and you surely can hear him on the tape but I have no idea who it was...Cactus was huge in Memphis...I saw them twice and this is the Shell concert I believe..The Overton Park Shell was an outside stage,awesome place and is still there...Elvis first paid gig was there...Saw many a concert back in the day there for a whopping $3.00 or an outrageous price of $5.00.....Best times of my life were at that Park.....
Cactus is one of the all time best rock bands. They were simply fantastic!
Cactus was one of the first albums I bought when I came back from Vietnam
Jim McCarty is the most underrated Gibson/Marshall stack hard rockin' guitarist of his era...he worked it better than anybody.
The feedback, the riffs, the pickin'...killer. Let's hear it for Detroit and Cactus.
He sure was....
Who is the other guitar player ?
Ronnie Lee Jack............
The Roooockets. Sadly, the band that never was.
john arduser Best American band period. Gotta have drums and bass or the band ain’t shit and the had a fantastic guitarist in Jim and wicked vocals in Rusty. 👍🏼
Saw them open for Ten Years After Good times. I wass so high after Cactus I was ready to leave. Then my buddies said There's another band. What a night.
i saw Jim McCarty play last night in Detroit (3-19-22). LEGEND.
Best live band ever. Carmine and Tim were ferocious.
VH has their DNA in this completely...same set up amped up boogie woogie...dang shame Cactus wasn't better known cuz they perfected that sound.
THEY HAD A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON E.V.H 🎸🙏. R. I. P. LEGENDS 🙏🙏🎸🎸🔊🔊💪
Carmen appicie is a beast on drums !!
Et son frère Vinny aussi !
The 2nd concert I attended at 14 years old was a triple bill at the old Boston Garden that included Ten Years After, Humble Pie and Cactus...these Unleashed recordings are a gift to treasure...smokin all the way.
I just love it when dudes reminisce about concerts they attended. Thanks. What a great time you musta had. PURE rock and roll. Peace brother.☮️🎸✌️😊
U have ....
GOT to be KIDDING.
MY 3 FAVOURITE BANDS ALL AT ONCE... 😭😭😭
Can U Email me half of your Memory bank.
CHEERS MATE .. 🍻🍻
KEEP ROCKIN' 🎸🔊🤘
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...
Me too !!! The best music ever ..what talent !
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I´ve heard they were a great live-band - now I know it´s true. I have two Cactus-vinyls, "Cactus" and "One Way...Or Another". Bought them in early 70´s, grew three children who have given me eight grand children...and still Cactus sounds as good as 40 years ago!
+Ilmo Salonen
They were a terrific live band.
The best ...the best..!!
saw them 2 times in Memphis.....absolute Rock Heaven...
I own the same 2 albums had em for decades
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.
Damn I couldn't agree with you more. This is just balls to the wall, full tilt R&B at a hundred mph. This song has kicked serious butt for 50 years and virtually nobody knows it. A crying shame!
I’m starting to get bored listening to Zeppelin on every classic rock station
@@precisionbrown6829 Yeah, I mean really how many times can you do a reaction on the same three Zeppelin songs?
Classic rock stations are very low energy. They’re designed to be background noise for waiting rooms and job sites. It would be cool to get a high energy one
Ever since the Cactu's firts álbum came out I was his faithful follower for Being something like The other Zeppelin ,the Cactus played more Blues 🎸🎸🥁🎹
this is the best live recording of McCarty Ive ever heard......hes cuttin loose ..
This is some serious guitar work, what a cut !
You bet it is......saw him play it live......best live band I think i ever saw.....and Ive seen 100,s...
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.
U R NOT ALONE MATE..
MUSIC IS MY LIFE BLOOD
💃💃 ROCK ON 💃💃💪🙏
Opened for Deep Purple,Memphis 1972 Overton Park Shell,.......almost stole the night away from DP......I was there. Beautiful night in May,outside venue with 3000 or so in stands....What a night...I havent been the same since.....
rocking out big tme
No shit this needs to be played on the daily!!!
Proto Metal for sure…saw these guys twice in 71 & was tripping my ass off… A shame bands like this & Ten Years After & Mountain never were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame…Instead they inducted Bon Jovi , Go & Figure…They should put some Ten Years After up there…
Ten Years After, Mountain, Humble Pie, & many many more are in my Top 10 Bands....
And there are Dozens of them.. 😎 💪🙏🤘✌️🙏
Saw Cactus open for Redbone in 1971. All that remains are their albums still in near mint condition.
Underrated is exactly right my friend. Listen to his intro on the fully unleashed. Off the charts.
At the time, 1966-1970, I didn`t realize some of the "great" bands & music I experienced but I`ll never forget Cactus. They screamed just like on this video !!!!
My, my. Such a soulful bunch of cacti. Just got turned on to a new band, and THAT I love.
Saw Cactus when they opened for Jimi Hendrix at the Sic's Seattle Stadium and I recognized the former members of Vanilla Fudge Bogart and Appice
Damn, this is some Top Shelf 70s jamming - the truth 💯
Great sound, true music that goes gets into your soul...
My thoughts exactly...
I was just talking to a girlfriend about Music & our Soul a couple of hours ago... 🙏💪💃💃💃
Saw Them.
Cactus
Steve Miller
The Dead
Jimi Hendrix
Temple Stadium (Philly) April 1970
Woodstock in our old neighborhood.
This was in Memphis at The Shell. I was there. I think they opened for Johnny Winter. 🎸🎸🎸👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
this was at Gilligans in Detroit.....I saw that Shell concert it was amazing Killer concert..They were on fire that nite in Memphis
Last time they opened for winter.
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.
Church of the High Holy Boogie!
I saw Cactus open for Jethro Tull 1970 at the Fillmore East and nearly stole the show.
I would hate to follow Cactus...oh God !!
what do you mean nearly
brotzmannsax I saw Cactus and ZZ Top play an open air concert on a pier in Corpus Christie about 1970 and was blown away by both. Great show,great memories! They desrved more recognition,success than they achieved IMO
I was at that show (to see Tull...) and they DID steal that show (imho...)!
Love them from my generation
saw them all live back in the day.....stones, cream, hendrix, zep. tull, purple, taste, winter,pre comercial g funk, cooper, s brown , original f mac, naz, faces, v fudge, w ash, cta , c heat, foghat etc etc etc and all were great shows but I have to say Cactus who I saw opening for Stewart (bad choice Rod) was thee best I've ever witnessed. To this day I've never seen a band get an audience moving in sync like that.
I also saw them way back when at the Fillmore West and they were 2nd billed behind Ten Years After and they stole the show. Best performance I think I ever saw there in 4 plus yrs.
+Charles Simkovich ..wouldnt you hate to follow them .....hahahahahaha
Sorry for such a late response but I`ve been without a pc for like 6 mos. Yeah you`re right, it would have been crappy luck for anyone that followed them,,, even God !!
I agree with you 100% Ryan Reid...they "worked" a crowd....at one of the Memphis shows at Overton Park Shell,an outside venue where Elvis first played, a damn riot almost occurred...Memphis loved Cactus.....awesome band..I was all of 16 years old...
Very cool Doc!! Thanks for the heads up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👍
McCarty is/was filthy, wicked, badass hot !! He didn`t sound like this when playin on the Detroit Wheels, musta been playin a lot on the side.:)
Jim McCarty - never heard of him till seeing your post. What a player. great band. Loving it.
Stone-cold, solid kick-ass Rock-and-Roll!!!! Sounds so damn good !!! Jeez, this takes me back !!! Thanks for the post !! Peace:-)
E.A.R.G.A.S.M.I.C
🔊🎧🔊
MUSIC IN DEEEEED. 🙏
Extraordinary version!!!!!!!
Ron Leejack RIP !!
This is when some of the fastest, heaviest rock was coming out of Detroit...asskickin rock
Understand this song to have played a major influence in the style of some unknown youngster named Edward Van Halen
This is a very unique cut in the Cactus Collection. Toward the end of their existence, the original Cactus took on Ronnie Leejack on 2nd guitar. Ronnie had been with Wicked Lester, the band that eventually became Kiss.
my band used to open for cactus.thanks for sharing this video.
good ole blues . have all they ever made.
THE BEST BAND EVER..PERIOD
The song " Painter" with Cactus (1971 ) is bad ass! such a great song with a great band.
WOW!
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.
How sweet is this???????!!!!!!!!!!?????
This is just So So Good
good ole blues
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!
use to listen this before GIGS OLD BRO AND THE ANCESTORS alvin lee jimi TODD
Put me down here for the rest of my life...cactus
That it is. I just wish they had a live version of "Hometown Bust" on it.
NO ONE JIVING HERE BABY!!! OOO HELL NAW!!!
A lot of talk about McCarty, who was great, of course. But don't forget Tim Bogart on bass. He may not be in a class by himself, but whatever class he's in, it doesn't take long to call roll!
RIP🎶😭
McCarty had it from the beginning; he was amazing with the Detroit Wheels when playing live. Heard them in August 1966 and he burned out two Fender Twin amps in the first four songs-had to play the rest of the night through a warm up band's Vox Super Beatle amp, He was smokin', unlike anything he ever recorded for the Wheels. The reformed recent Cactus thing? Not a great representation-ongoing income. Mystery Train band at places like Blue Goose Inn in Detroit 7-8 years ago...the real McCarty!
ditto......saw them in Memphis twice........just amazing
Tim Bogart is by far one of the best bass players ever!
Very SWEET.... Jim can play better than Jimmy page did...... Thankyou.!!
Jim was his own bluesy self
This is it!
Hey HowBrown, the other guitarists name was Ron Leejack. Great tune
Thanks for that. I heard the second guitarist and had no idea what was going on. Was he with them long? Well they sounded great playing off of each other.
Hey marklizard1, the other guitarists name was Ron Leejack.
Who plays the other lead on Parchman Farm ? Is that Duane Hitchings ?
Nice version by the way and thanks for sharing.
Good question
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 wonder if that was Rusty on rhythm guitar? I have no knowledge of a 2nd guitar. Or possibly an overdub after the fact, though I don’t know why.
its not Rusty...no@@toddmoney8921
@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. ; )
This cut is on...... Cactus-Fully Unleashed-The Live Gigs.-Vol # 2........make sure its volume # 2....its a yellow CD on ATCO Label.....
feel like I`ve been workin on Parchmans Farm for the past 13 fukin yrs. sux, no music, no money, no friends,,,, nothin
Carmine!!!!!
Yer so right dude.
@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 . . .
@GhostriderDuck - its even better on vinyl (opposed to CD) :)
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
Wait till John Mayall comes!!!
@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.......
there are no dvds of the originl cactus! get the live woodstck and atlanta pop festival recordings for true cactus boogie. records is all we got. rusty is the man. listen to ted nugent's migration album to hear him sing right after the detroit wheels stuff! jim mccarty and tim bogert are bad ass and lets not forget carmine appice! jeff beck was supposed to be the guitar player but a car crash laid him up for 2 years so thay found jim.
Too bad there's no vintage live footage of the band. Carmine would know if there is.
that band is so amazing... im truly dissapointed cause for get some music its so difficult, well i live in mexico....
Anybody know who the 2nd guitarist on the right channel is? Gotta be pretty rare that McCarty ever had someone else on stage with him.
Ronnie LeeJack
he didn't have anyone else-sounds like it but nope
It's his pedel he's the only one playing guitar
Ron Leejack
Tim Bogert!
Who is the 2nd guitarist in the right channel?
That's what I want to know...
Wait, let me get out my modeling amp and watch a tutorial...LMFAO! The REAL THING, kiddies!
What tone of harmonica is Rusty using? :O
Fucking awesome!!
@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.
I can hear how van halen were inspired by this song.
Who’s the other guitarist on this cut?
Who was the other guitar player?
Jim McCarty was great way back with Mitch Ryder. He just stuck out.
@amstell13
also, I just wanted to say that i understand where you are coming from, because I myself am a huge Zeppelin fan
Who's playing the second guitar in this?
Ron LeeJack
Ron Leejack
so bad there are no films of cactus..... at least i never saw one ( i mean in the 70´s of course )
Need airplay!
@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'
Hmmmm no Bogert way over Jones.....my opinion as a Bassist
Yes saw most of the Heavy bands during the time but Cactus was the dirtiest meanest bad as band I have even seen
+Frank Campbell ,,,,,,,ditto......
I was at this show......superb......
I couldn't have said it any better!
From which CD is this from? Fully Unleashed?
Cactus-Fully Unleashed-The Live Gigs.-Vol # 2........make sure its volume # 2....its a yellow CD on ATCO Label.
Keep it between the ditches stay in the row
Yikes!! I'd hate to be the band that had to step on stage after these guys got through crushing it. They obviously didn't come to fuck around.
they were the best live band Ive ever seen.....Memphis loved them.....they played before Deep Purple in 1971 ....stole the show
Hendrix had his work cut out for him after they opend for him in 1970 in Baltimore. They were crazy freakin' bad ass!
Still no answer to your question? I want ot know the answer too......
who played the other guitar? I thought it was Jimmy McCarty in the band
+Arjan Hulsebos I guess it's Werner Fritzsching.
+Arjan Hulsebos Then I guess you're right.
+MarshallAmp Man ..I remember in my "haze" another guitar player,....and you surely can hear him on the tape but I have no idea who it was...Cactus was huge in Memphis...I saw them twice and this is the Shell concert I believe..The Overton Park Shell was an outside stage,awesome place and is still there...Elvis first paid gig was there...Saw many a concert back in the day there for a whopping $3.00 or an outrageous price of $5.00.....Best times of my life were at that Park.....
Ron Leejack
@@gibson3524 I liked Werner on "ot and sweaty." Still love that record.