The chemistry and certainly the chops are still in place here. I like the way they wind up the album with a snappy instrumental tune called "Jazzed," which lets everyone know why they were a great band when they first got together in the first place. "Electric Blue" is some heavy duty music, McCarty shows why he can still step out and play some great riffs that really grab you and Runes does a phenomenal job with the vocals on this one. "Muscle and Soul," the title pretty much says it all, it's a very steamy sexy hard rockin' number about some sweet young thang that has caught someone's eye.
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Highlights include the hook filled "Cactus Music," an old school anthem that ask you to "get your 45's together and put a record on the deck," which I am sure the digital download set will have no clue about, sad but true. The CD booklet includes lyrics and for the most part, you can actually understand what Runes is singing about during the course of the album but its still fun to have a look at the lyrics to sing along. All of these parts fit the bill for a fantastic Cactus album. I am a happy camper today, Cactus is back with a new album, and it smokes!īogert and Appice still have it and McCarty plays some scorching licks while Runes does more than an adequate job with his forceful and arousing pipes. Some you cannot find anymore or if you do its over in Europe for some outrageous price. For the most part, you have to go out and find the old LPs, CDs, or if you are lucky to land the reissued CDs then its music nirvana. Classic rock sounds, I mean original, not fabricated by some young upstarts, is hard to find these days. V is jam packed with great music-its boogie, funk, blues, and rock baby, 'Ot 'N' Sweaty just like it used to be. Ok I know you are already scratching your head and having doubts about a band getting back together after over 30 years to make a comeback album. Its funny how perceptions and priorities change as life goes by.Īll original members, Bogert, Appice, and guitarist Jim McCarty, are back with lead vocalist Jimmy Runes, who is a perfect fit for their blues based rock to burn down the house with. Now I am finding all the Cactus music I can get my hands on, I love it. Like many bands, I found an appreciation for them years later. As I recall their rough blues-rock and the wailing of lead vocalist Rusty Day did nothing for me. I remember how I discovered them, I was in a used bookstore that carried old scratched up LPs and I grabbed the Cactus album Restrictions, and that was my introduction. Cactus was one of those bands that came and went rather quickly with little notoriety, and unjustly I might add.
They helped to put Vanilla Fudge and countless other bands on the map over the last 40 years. Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice are one of the greatest rhythm sections in rock music history there is no denying that.
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