Cactus

Blues Hard Rock Rock 

Carmine Appice: Still Kicking Against the Pricks with Cactus

June 27, 2024June 27, 2024 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Billy Sheehan, Blue Murder, Cactus, Carmine Appice, Cleopatra Records, Dee Snider, Fernando Perdomo, Jim McCarty, Joe Bonamassa, Mark Stein, Pat Travers, Randy Jackson, Rudy Sarzo, Ted Nugent, Temple of Blues: Influences and Friends, Vanilla Fudge, Vernon Reid, Warren Haynes

Talking with the legendary drummer about his longtime band’s guest-heavy new album, Blue Murder, King Kobra and more

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Rock 

Blue Öyster Cult’s New/Old Ghost Stories: Meh 262

April 2, 2024April 2, 2024 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2024, Albert Bouchard, Allen Lanier, Blue Oyster Cult, Buck Dharma, Cactus, Desmond Child, Eric Bloom, Frontiers Music Srl, Ghost Stories, The Good Rats

Why we’d rather hear the BÖC reissues in our imagination

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Hard Rock Rock 

The Unstoppable Power of Beck, Bogert & Appice

September 20, 2023September 20, 2023 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Atco Records, Cactus, Carmine Appice, Jeff Beck, Jeff Beck Group, Live in Japan 1973, Live in London 1974, Rhino, Tim Bogert, Vanilla Fudge

A fantastic new live box set cements the legacy of an unforgettable hard rock trio

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Hard Rock Psychedelics Remembrance 

Tim Bogert, Influential Hard Rock Bassist, Dead at 76

January 17, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Alice in Chains, Beck Bogert & Appice, Cactus, Carmine Appice, Earth, Fu Manchu, Green River, Jeff Beck, Kyuss, Mark Stein, Mastodon, MUDHONEY, Queens of the Stone Age, Sleep, Soundgarden, Tim Bogert, Vanilla Fudge, Vince Martell

How his time in Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and Beck, Bogert & Appice set the scene for sludge rock and stoner metal

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Rock Southern Rock 

The Allman Brothers Band: A Half Century of Southern Solidarity

June 1, 2020June 23, 2023 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments Alice Cooper, Allman Brothers Band, B.B. King, Berry Oakley Jr, Black Cat Bones, Brownsville Station, Butch Trucks, Cactus, Canned Heat, Capricorn Records, Cream, Dickey Betts, Duane Allman, Fleetwood Mac (1967-1969), Gary Moore’s Skid Row, Gregg Allman, Humble Pie, Jamoie, Killing Floor, Leaf Hound, Nitzinger, Pot Liquor, Savoy Brown, Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack, Status Quo, Tear Gas, Ten Years After, the Groundhogs, Trouble No More, Vinegar Joe, Warren Haynes

A definitive new box set looks back at a career that defied the racial divide in America

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