However, Cactus fully understood the nuances of musical dynamics, and the following ’My Lady From South Of Detroit’ is the calm after the storm and rocks a Neil Young vibe. It all adds up to an intense listening experience, and one that had rarely been surpassed at that juncture. It’s a high-octane, no-holds-barred slab of rhythm and blues which pushes all the needles into the red as Rusty Day supplements his raspy vocals with some swirling harmonica. I’m sure that opening cut ‘Parchman Farm’ had many a rocker spilling their cans of Party Seven when Carmine Appice’s thunderous drum roll appeared alongside Jim McCarty’s dexterous fretwork. Nowadays we’ve become desensitised to heavy music, so it’s hard to emphasise just how ground-breaking (quite literally) Cactus’ eponymous debut was. ![]() ![]() Those albums have been collected (many with bonus cuts) along with four live discs and compiled as Evil Going On: The Atco Albums 1970-1972, a mammoth eight disc set that demands some long overdue re-evaluation. Like many pioneers they never got due credit, but the four studio albums released during their original tenure still sound fresh and exciting, five decades later. Formed from the ashes of Vanilla Fudge in 1969, this New York quartet were the inspiration for heavy metal, stoner, psych rock, and pretty much any band who played scuzzy riffs through a Marshall amp. There are some bands whose influence stretches far beyond record sales and other such measures of “success”, and Cactus are one such band.
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