Cactus - Long Tall Sally (live in Memphis '71)

[@davidduvarney1807]

My First Concert!!! Cactus, Spirit , Blue Oyster Cult and Charlie Daniels at the Bayfront Center St Petersburg FLA.. I was 11 or 12. Long Live Rock & Roll!!!

[@Formula-602]

Charlie Daniels? How does he fit into the equation?..I met him once backstage..and I was high as a kite on some hash a friend sent back from Amsterdam!..Wonder if he could smell it?

[@robertwilcox4482]

Must have been a awesome show

[@SuperBluesman56]

R.I.P. Tim Bogert, one of the best bass player of all time. Period!!!

[@richardstaccone1927]

ABSOLUTELY!!!

[@magwamagwa45110]

@@richardstaccone1927 There is no doubt loved his playing...

[@MAMMANAGIUSEPPE]

RIP Tim Bogert

[@gogoyubari366]

I do agree!

[@harpar1028]

jack bruce paul mcartney james jamieson dave browne

[@sergemichel1686]

F.....g powerfull Rockband. I was infected from the first album. Reminds me of Humble Pie. 💖

[@lennarthallberg9918]

Humble Pie, Cactus, Mountain...they all belong to my "less known" all time favourites...but those who know them, really appreciate them.

[@GarryMcNew]

Absolutely.... 😊

[@ramonsanchez7961]

Super group played the Rock and Blues, from the 70s powerful single that Beat JPage airship English group 🎸🎸🥁🎹

[@lennarthallberg9918]

Cactus is one of my absolute all time favourite bands. And so is Mountain. They both had something extra special in their music and especially in their live performances. That extra special can`t be described with words, but one can feel it.

[@mechcavandy986]

I think Mountain was on that show that night. I was there!

[@lennarthallberg9918]

​ @MechCav ANDY One is already very lucky to have been able to see one of them live. I wish I would have been there too.

[@howlinwind]

@@mechcavandy986 Where in Memphis was this show?

[@raymondrodriguez6622]

Moutain/Cactus,the Rock Blues Brothers!

[@mechcavandy986]

I was there at The Shell. I bought their album that night! 🌵🌵🌵

[@tonyspada2744]

Cactus was like Zeppelin on STEROIDS !! Huge impact on me as a teen guitarist.

[@yellingelk]

To my ears, Cactus were a little more like 'FREE' on steroids. McCarty's guitar playing especially... it was like beefed up Paul Kossoff.

[@LeafsOracle]

I was born ‘74. I remember at a young age, being sent to bed on Friday nights early. The walls shaking with the thundering sounds of Cactus, Humble Pie, and others. And a (at the time) strange smell hung in the air. 😂 My parents, today, still hold this ritual every Friday night, just the two of them, unless my wife and I are there too. Good times always.

[@tonyspada2744]

@@yellingelk sort of but Rusty's voice kinda like a Plant Over all Cactus blew them away !!Zeppelin was like Cactus Lite lol

[@holdersteven]

For me growing up on Clapton Beck Page Hendrix We wondered where McCarthy came from. He was hot. Rusty Day and his son were killed in dope deal gone bad in Florida

[@tonyspada2744]

@@holdersteven they even killed his Dog. 😒

[@DanielLDees]

Jimmy McCarty is a guitar player's guitar player........... Rock on Jimmy!!!!!!!!

[@rl0008ify]

Jim McCarty one of the most underrated guitar players of the hard rock era 70s

[@timothyedsall9424]

I'm listening to them all the time. I must have been under a rock. I just learned about them recently, Sorry to say. I wish I found them sooner. I love all early 70s raw bands. This one is too of the list

[@kenmathews4522]

Better late than never! Enjoy!

[@johnniehh]

Biggest underrated band of all time!! I still talk to people that are supposed to be walking encyclopedias about early bands, I tell them, Cactus and they look at me like i'm crazy ... "Who is Cactus"??? They obviously don't know early rockers!!! Let me swim, Parchman farms, etc :)

[@faudmaxmillus3836]

great live. lps sucked. let's talk about ramatam and april lawton. what a woman! what a guitarist!

[@robertwilcox4482]

Cactus 🌵 ot’ n’ sweaty mar-y-sol concert great showing of 3 live songs the best bar band in rock &roll history

[@jamescabaniss5857]

I still listen to them all the time, Hometown Bust and Feel So Bad are still some of my favorite songs ever.

[@motobikerable]

Yes, it's Jim McCarthy playing great guitar. I love Cactus, this is a real treat for all rock'n roll lovers. Bass is Tim Bogert (great) and the drummer is the great Carmine Appice. They are my absolute favorites-a great band!!!

[@robertwilcox4482]

☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️🎸

[@stevengoodman3498]

Can't believe I've never heard Cactus before and im 63! Thanks for posting what I've missed out on my whole life.😊

[@kenmathews4522]

Tim! My God! You were sooo great! My inspiration! So missed

[@DanielLDees]

It gets no better than Jimmy McCarty!!!! ,A guitarist's guitarist... Great feel and taste!

[@venividivicichannel]

It's so crazy how there are Zero live performances of these guys that were filmed. At least that I can find.

[@claudedalton8970]

THE ORIGINALS, I CAN'T FIND EITHER.

[@ckelley63]

You know I was just recently introduced to this band I swear I don't know how I had never heard of these guy WOW is all I can say!!

[@drlemmy4551]

Better late than never 😉

[@larryklawiter9168]

One Way or Another is one of those great, but just out of the mainstream, albums that was pure, unadulterated hard rock. They had it all.

[@michaelcrone2333]

I was present for this show. First saw them a year earlier in a tiny room at Univ of Memphis. When Jim McCarty came out alone and played a long opening solo with no introduction, it was just the beginning of a mind-blowing show.

[@bpivr]

In the student center ballroom on the second floor with folks sitting on the floor

[@wendyboothman294]

Ooo new band makes 🦉a happy person

[@mmusicmann]

i have never heard a band that could rock like these guys. No one even close

[@willisroth2871]

Humble Pie, J Geils.....

[@peterg.bassist]

Stellar performance by Jim McCarty, Tim Bogert on bass (nice double-stops, etc.) and superb drumming by Carmine!

[@jackcrane7853]

Wait a minute, is that the drummer of Vanilla Fudge?

[@ssssmeeee1]

@@jackcrane7853 and the bassist! RIP Tim Bogert.

[@matthewcumberland6877]

Rusty Day on the pipes, He was all in.

[@OscarGutierrez-vs7eg]

Chingonsisima banda incomprendida😢

[@unsoundly36]

I was at this show, and I can positively tell you, when they REALLY burned Memphis "to the ground"...was the summer of 70..Overton Park Shell...they kicked it like I've rarely seen! awesome band!!

[@uscsracing3240]

I was there too. They played a free one at someone s farm the next day. They did a song also "put the last clean shirt on my poor Brother Bill"

[@AndrewVOdom]

One of Elvis Presley’s first shows was at the Overton in 1955 or so-- Pre-RCA…

[@JackGuyton]

Most short lived Rock Roll blues ever. You will never realize as the were never rated or got radio. You simply must heat this! FIVE STARS

[@mikemarshall4653]

Jim McCarty is still active in Detroit he no longer will go on the road. You may not know that Jim started out playing drums and occasionally will get up and play drums at Jam's in Detroit, I always enjoy that part of him. I saw him play drums all night at a really rough dive on 3rd in Detroit with some friends blues band back after Cactus folded.

[@karinstorer4384]

And,again I miss those experiences. And all those fond great memories. A,LIFESTYLE of Rock!,with all consequences.that keeps one young.Karin!in love to all those memories.!

[@markcastillo2757]

McCarty will always be in the league with the greatest guitarists in rock

[@timothyvandyke9840]

Restrictions was good LP ...they were s kick ass band...I listen to them in was early Seventies ...there was.another super group Beck Bogart and Appice....they weren't together long ......but they kick butt.

[@kosycat1]

I can't believe I shook Jim and Carmine's hands and got to talk with them. Super cool hard working dudes and Unmistakeable sound. Absolute legends

[@joepipe1010]

Super band , very underrated.

[@keith_kar8166]

The bass lines are so cool! Wow, full throttle rock!

[@On_Dust]

What a guitar sound, wow

[@giannibiancocircus]

Good bye Tim, thank you ✌️💖

[@mikeadams2351]

Tim besides being one of the great bass players also one of the greatest singers, he had a amazing range and even put out a DVD on singing. not sure why he didn't sing with this group.

[@robertwilcox4482]

He should’ve got a chance to sing before he’s good with that Bogart -Appice

[@Bummel176]

that is music😎

[@rickyanderson228]

Im a jimi Hendrix lover see him in 1970 at isle of Wight grew up listing to him Eric and cream Cactus are without doubt the heaviest and brilliant rock of all time I also remember vanilla fudge Not many will. Cheers

[@davidburman451]

I do 👍😻 but then Im as old as dirt.....

[@jeffthrow6892]

These guys were simply amazing.......

[@thomashernandez1605]

cactus is indeed is very much underrated. the band is very talented.

[@MAMMANAGIUSEPPE]

Yes the Band is very Talented? just after the woodstock Rock Festival

[@eerovalkonen]

This is the rockn roll of my generation.

[@richardstaccone1927]

My favorite band of all time.

[@patrickfarley8036]

I learned to play the drums to Cactus, Uriah Heep, Mountain, James Gang, Deep Purple, Sabbath cause they were all new bands the same time I was a new drummer. I was 10 when this album came out. Ah...what wonderful memories! Thanks for posting!

[@ClearSoulProductions]

Back in the early '70s, the 2 bands I played bass with, "Armageddon" & "Oblivion" blew away SO MANY theater & outdoor crowds with Cactus version of this song! . . . I played the bass pretty damn close to the way Tim Bogert played it INCLUDING THE COOL BASS SOLO much like Cactus' studio version . . . & I STILL play it to this very day! . . . Tim was a HUGE influence on my bass playing . . .

[@DanielLDees]

Rusty Day, Rest in Peace..

[@johncrace911]

My band opened up for Cactus.Our music career was over that night. We got humbled that night

[@RD851000]

best version of this song I ever heard

[@thematchedmaple1942]

That's the same thing I've always said.

[@doughelms558]

Saw them live somewhere in Chicago shortly after they formed. I think there were only 3 of them that night...lead guitar, drummer and bassist - all outstanding! (Wish I could remember more, but, you know...)

[@maureendillon3734]

saw them at ritz theater staten island with the james gang tim bogert had to play bass for the james gang their bass player was out of it.

[@GChemist1]

One of the Best Bands Ever!!!

[@matthewcumberland6877]

Long.live sonic music

[@pdxbuckeye]

I saw them at the old State Theatre in Toledo,Ohio during the summer of 71. It was a great rock n roll show!

[@billmelc]

I saw these guys live (my first concert) with Atomic Rooster back around '69 or '70 in the UB Bulls football stadium. I've been a rocker ever since. Peace.

[@VICTOCHA]

Always wished I was not "ten years after" but before instead. Missed all fun!

[@Trifixion22]

You lucky bastard!

[@lynnejones862]

May sound odd, but Cactus makes me feel safe, homely and protected.

[@Declare57]

Without these guys rock and roll wouldn't have been the same. Godfathers of so many bands! Big ones too.

[@petepal55]

Oh my tender li'l ears!

[@holdersteven]

I saw these guys at the Fiillmore San Francisco with Toefat and Ten Years After in 69.They tore the place up!

[@chrisguygeezer]

ha, I remember Tied at from my youth club days. Don't think they make 🎸 based bands these days. 😢

[@keithcoleman5990]

I was there as well. Didn't Ten Years After close the show? I thought I'd pass out!

[@holdersteven]

Yes Keith Coleman !Ten years after" was the top billed band. Thats who I was there to see, I'd heard of Toe -fat but not Cactus. What an unexpected ass kicking I they were! Cactus was a favorite of mine from then on! I was 14 years old and getting experienced for the first time on an Owsley product!

[@yesterway]

Owsley? You must also be a Blue Cheer fan!

[@SanFranciscoFatboy]

where the hell did ToeFat go, anyways?

[@LatifahBani]

The real good music!!

[@bgore12]

I wore all three albums out. We called Cactus back out during the Deep Purple show and they gave us a free concert the next day at Johnson Farms. Was a mini Woodstock.

[@mapdude1955]

Yep. I remember that....

[@roberthall3301]

Yes. I was there at that outdoor concert too. They were fantastic!

[@karinstorer4384]

GREAT. Would have liked to be there.love Karin

[@halbutler4059]

I was at this concert. They opened Deep Purple. Richy Blackmore got so pissed off he kicked his Marshal stack & they WALKED OFF. Cactus was On. They rocked the Overton Park Shell like it ain't never been rocked. Thanks for the memories!!

[@rodentcafeteria]

Those are some sick tones Jim McCarty is getting in the intro!! One of the best band ever!!!

[@DetVen]

***** Fucking eh right! Sick just sick!

[@jeffloucks2120]

Octave fuzz and some volume induced feedback. Works every time.

[@benbowers73]

I wish I could of seen them play. Rusty became a good friend of mine a couple of years before his death. We went to many concerts together he always claimed I was his bodyguard. LOL RIP my old friend

[@MetamorphosisYa]

How was rusty back then? Did he still have his big beard and did he seem to be in good shape? And more importantly, was he still making music or performing live or anything?

[@taimeuppe6174]

@@MetamorphosisYa Rusty got into coke

[@MetamorphosisYa]

@@taimeuppe6174 safe to assume that since that is how he died in a way, but not entirely answering my question.

[@taimeuppe6174]

@@MetamorphosisYa Very sad Rusty passed the way he did, loved his style and attitude

[@MetamorphosisYa]

@@taimeuppe6174 yeah agreed he was a top notch front man

[@robertonesty4125]

I saw them in July or early August of '71 at an elegant old theater in Louisville KY.. They were even more intense when you were tripping.

[@capricosm8086]

We loved this band in Australia back in 1970

[@stevemann3080]

Listening to em now in Melbourne .. 🔊🎧🔊 🎸🎸 💃💃 🙏

[@gastonlopez8547]

Nacì en el rock con Cactus. Tenìa 13 años y escuchaba Rock progresivo en una radio pequeña a pilas sentado en la cuneta en una calle donde transitaban 10 autos al dìa. Vida tranquila!!!

[@karinstorer4384]

Always love Cactus. They're name is program.best early rock.in all the time so many got forgotten lost in the underground. A true shame.we were young had some fun but the olden establishment funked us.Revolution is more necessary than ever.+no more war,hate,retrebution pandemie,dictators born to be free.what have we all done?? Sugar& lies that is the world's spice.fight for your rights.!!!! Never give up/in!! Love Karin

[@karinstorer4384]

NOT FUNKED BUT FUCKED US KARIN +stop that wordplay and write,down as,I wish.Karin

[@mayegs49]

Amo su musica.Por siempre 🌵 Cactus🌵💯💯💯❤🥰 .

[@heathinvaderstudios]

we've just GOTTA get someone to make a documentary on this AWESOME band!!!!! VH1, i'm talkin' to you!

[@smuffman40]

vocalboy1....rusty was also a friend of mine in junior high and high school...here in michigan...and no, him and his son didnt deserve that even if he was dealin'....rusty was a great guy and quite a character here...he had alot of talent, not just in music but other ways too !...... AND Jim McCarty is one of the most underrated guitar players in the world !

[@kittylover7ful]

First concert I ever went to was in summer of 1971 at University of Buffalo football stadium. Cactus was the headliner and played in a thunderstorm. When they took the stage Rusty Day said, "It is fucking raining but we is gonna play anyway!" The lead player almost got electrocuted and the bass player improvised and played a 10 minute solo.

[@Ole440]

GREAT !!!

[@johnpayne6860]

And I'm so missing this! 2019, all of this crapper rapper and other BS, This was where, I'm a musician, was really true.

[@steinarpedersen181]

Have all their albums,greate fun!!

[@starratlarry]

I saw them once. They opened for Rod Stewart at the International Ampitheater in Chicago. Through a strange sequence of events, Me and a friend, drummer Bob Mellin (RIP), were roadies for Cactus at that show. One of my all time favorite bands. Too bad what happened to Rusty.

[@pjt30]

I saw them in 71 at Suffern high school here in NY & was blown away! Jim Mcarty rules! They were hard & heavy! Never wonder that Carmine & Tim would go on to be Beck, Bogart & Appice

[@sgusty]

Don't forget Bogart & Appice came from Vanilla Fudge!

[@johnpayne6860]

Really pisses me off , didn't buy the album, just now, reminded of that! After all these years!

[@kittylover7ful]

My first live concert ever at at Uiniversity Buffalo Rotary Field, A nasty thunderstorm hit as they took stage. Rusty Day said, "It is fucking raining but we is gonna play anyway!" When the lead guitarist almost got electrocuted McCarty played an incredible bass solo

[@MRJIMIHNDRX]

GOOD INFO HERE DUDE. THESE GUYS ARE WHERE AMERICAN RnR WAS FORMED. NO MUSIC LIKE THAT ANYMORE SADLY

[@frankt994]

Saw Cactus at the Sunshine Inn , Asbury Park NJ. Awesome! Tim Bogert fell into a stairwell , stage left, got up and kicked his monitor off the stage! 😀

[@marcgambell2767]

Saw them in Bangor Maine '71.

[@backinthedayhippie609]

WOW!!! Fantastic, how come I never heard of this band back in the day! Great band and that killer guitar intro had me begging for more. I'm listening to more of their stuff.

[@objuan2]

I recall that they performed at Auditorium South Hall. Bogart was quite animated with legs thrown in the air. He was about the best player I had heard at that point in time. God they were a fantastic band. Bogart and Appice went on to play with Jeff Beck. Wow!

[@peterpandemonium3336]

Bogart and Appice were original to Vanilla Fudge. They did a classic version of "You Keep Me hanging ON." kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGSmmYelftt_iK8si=9hZWsR8KAWahnXFm

[@bobbymars403]

this is awesome....i agree..underrated...great musicians here.

[@yki11able]

Guys make good rock'n roll...nice sounds.

[@destroythenarrative9034]

This sounds like a modem heavy blues jam, great audio remastering. Here's another group (which weren't given much recognizition) I discovered on youtube that upstages the beatles and sends em back to elementary music lessons. Floptops...this is the way to play Sally live 😎

[@karinstorer2855]

Best of right on one of my favorites. Better than at if recognised more as with so many then.Ace love Karin

[@karinstorer2855]

Such times are where part of my life as their music just great ❤Karin

[@JoePadovano]

Saw these guys open for johnny winter and in fox theater hackensack, nj a lifetime ago. fuckin' awesome show.

[@willisroth2871]

Killer live bar band Rock and Roll!!! Humble Pie, J. Geils, Pat Travers....

[@oughtabefishin]

I was there, This was in the Auditorium South Hall. No video was needed of this performance. They didn't hardly move during the whole night, except for Carmine. About half-way through their set, some guy hops up on stage and was just dancing. Roadies asked him to get off peaceably at first, then aobut 4 of them jumped him and beat him up pretty good. That was the most exciting thing visually seen all night. However, the music was one of the best musical performances I have ever heard.

[@YolandaParkeryloils4u]

Interesting. Never heard of them, but my friend shared with me. Reminds me of the great days of rock n' stoned!

[@44027]

Did not know a guitar could make sounds like the opening..........

[@joepittman3892]

What a show and TYA did not let us down that night either

[@karinstorer2855]

One band I loved a lot Love Karin

[@rickyshipman7412]

1973 in LITTLE ROCK Ar wow,it's why I play.

[@thematchedmaple1942]

This band was most excellent live! The albums, while great, aren't as good as their live stuff. I was lucky. I knew about Cactus all along, saw them live at an outdoor show about 1970.

[@keith_kar8166]

Loud and proud, turn it up!

[@cbh2976]

One of the very best rock n" Rill band ever really under rated

[@Manuel1199j]

Sublime. Únicos

[@motobikerable]

You are dead wrong, Tim Bogert (on bass) supported Jim very nicely with hot bass playing and there was no need for a second guitar ever. Cactus rocked like hell-very fat sound!

[@Bass-n-Boom]

Fuckin' A! TRIO is where it's At IF those 3 on each instrument, knows 'em like a body part!! E'erbody Can Stretch Wings & FLY!!!!... without anybody too close ta interrupt "Wingspans"... 👊🏻 🤷🏻‍♂️...Two guitars are cool for some shit, occasionally necessary, But, if ya wanna "Stomp!!" and miss toes, TRIO!!! 😎🤘🏻

[@Garystrat1263]

Cactus was the headliner after LIttle Richard backed out of the very first concert I ever saw in Cleveland in 1968 maybe 69 not sure the only other act I remember is McKendry Spring, I think there were 2 more in all. but Cactus rocked I have been a fan since

[@wrmyers]

Was Mountain also there? Saw Cactus and Mountain in Cleveland, but thought it was early 70s. And Little Richard showed up and jammed with them. Incredible!

[@ramonsanchez7527]

Great Song Cactus group Rock & Blues 🎸

[@drummer17562]

I never knew how Rusty Davidson (Day) passed away. Thanks for sharing in this forum, I know it must have been painful just to write it out and remember it, once again. Life's a bitch!

[@ClifHaley]

Damn this fucking great.

[@freethinktherefore]

All praise to the guitarist, Not many can match him. At one point Ritchie Blackmore wanted Phil Lynot and Ian Paice to form a power trio. Can't tell me there wouldn't have been some shakin' goin' on there. All props to Cactus.

[@sergiovene1848]

Coooool.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!