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.

Cactus is one of the all time best rock bands. They were simply fantastic!

i saw Jim McCarty play last night in Detroit (3-19-22). LEGEND.

Best live band ever. Carmine and Tim were ferocious.

Carmen appicie is a beast on drums !!

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.

rocking out big tme

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.

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.

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.

this is the best live recording of McCarty Ive ever heard......hes cuttin loose ..

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...

This is some serious guitar work, what a cut !

No shit this needs to be played on the daily!!!

Saw Cactus open for Redbone in 1971. All that remains are their albums still in near mint condition.

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.

This was in Memphis at The Shell. I was there. I think they opened for Johnny Winter. 🎸🎸🎸👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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 🎸🎸🥁🎹

My, my. Such a soulful bunch of cacti. Just got turned on to a new band, and THAT I love.

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 !!!!

Damn, this is some Top Shelf 70s jamming - the truth 💯

Very cool Doc!! Thanks for the heads up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👍

Great sound, true music that goes gets into your soul...

Jim McCarty - never heard of him till seeing your post. What a player. great band. Loving it.

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

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.....

Love them from my generation

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…

I saw Cactus open for Jethro Tull 1970 at the Fillmore East and nearly stole the show.

Saw Them. Cactus Steve Miller The Dead Jimi Hendrix Temple Stadium (Philly) April 1970 Woodstock in our old neighborhood.

Church of the High Holy Boogie!

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.

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.

Stone-cold, solid kick-ass Rock-and-Roll!!!! Sounds so damn good !!! Jeez, this takes me back !!! Thanks for the post !! Peace:-)

my band used to open for cactus.thanks for sharing this video.

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.:)

The song " Painter" with Cactus (1971 ) is bad ass! such a great song with a great band.

Extraordinary version!!!!!!!

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.

Ron Leejack RIP !!

WOW!

good ole blues . have all they ever made.

How sweet is this???????!!!!!!!!!!?????

This is when some of the fastest, heaviest rock was coming out of Detroit...asskickin rock

@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 . . .

THE BEST BAND EVER..PERIOD

good ole blues

This is just So So Good

That it is. I just wish they had a live version of "Hometown Bust" on it.

NO ONE JIVING HERE BABY!!! OOO HELL NAW!!!

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!

Put me down here for the rest of my life...cactus

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.

Hey marklizard1, the other guitarists name was Ron Leejack.

Tim Bogart is by far one of the best bass players ever!

Hey HowBrown, the other guitarists name was Ron Leejack. Great tune

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!

This is it!

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.

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!

use to listen this before GIGS OLD BRO AND THE ANCESTORS alvin lee jimi TODD

This cut is on...... Cactus-Fully Unleashed-The Live Gigs.-Vol # 2........make sure its volume # 2....its a yellow CD on ATCO Label.....

Who plays the other lead on Parchman Farm ? Is that Duane Hitchings ? Nice version by the way and thanks for sharing.

Very SWEET.... Jim can play better than Jimmy page did...... Thankyou.!!

@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. ; )

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.

Tim Bogert!

@GhostriderDuck - its even better on vinyl (opposed to CD) :)

Wait till John Mayall comes!!!

That's what I want to know...

that band is so amazing... im truly dissapointed cause for get some music its so difficult, well i live in mexico....

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.

I can hear how van halen were inspired by this song.

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

@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.......

@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.

Need airplay!

@amstell13 also, I just wanted to say that i understand where you are coming from, because I myself am a huge Zeppelin fan

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.

What tone of harmonica is Rusty using? :O Fucking awesome!!

Who was the other guitar player?

Who is the 2nd guitarist in the right channel?

Wait, let me get out my modeling amp and watch a tutorial...LMFAO! The REAL THING, kiddies!

Who’s the other guitarist on this cut?

so bad there are no films of cactus..... at least i never saw one ( i mean in the 70´s of course )

Jim McCarty was great way back with Mitch Ryder. He just stuck out.

@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'

Keep it between the ditches stay in the row

Dude, It's because the " suits " do the programming. I've got a buddy that works for a good sized radio station and says they fight about "programming" all the time.

Funny thing is this is about an addict living in a cabin trying to kick it

Skylar king Red here her

From which CD is this from? Fully Unleashed?

Who's playing the second guitar in this?

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