Vanilla Fudge - Eleanor Rigby

[@mattmallecoccio8378]

Carmine Appice has got to be the most unique drummer I have ever seen POINT BLANK.

[@patrickcallahan1539]

Agree . Can't my eyes off him

[@DearWatson114]

Without a doubt the most under-recognized band to ever inspire GENERATIONS of musos all around the world !!! Starting with Led Zeppelin and working your way down to countless garage bands through the decades. And probably still inspiring. Loved them from the start ( 1969 for me) and their music, art, gift, is timeless. Fudge forever !!!

[@tannisdevign5189]

I just discovered them today and I couldn't agree more. How is this.possible, I am 34 years old and Pink Floyd is my favorite band, The Beatles - my sisters and I have never ever heard of this amazing, trail blazing band?!!

[@haraldhodl1979]

Carmine Appice is a GREAT drummer , I love his style.

[@GaZonk100]

he's an instrument in his own right

[@G-Man5272]

Carmine Appice: Highly revered by peers and fans alike. A strong drummer with showmanship and technique. Always enjoyed VF. A fun and talented band, that were at their best playing live performances in front of their audiences. R.I.P. Tim Bogart. He put the bass as an upfront face to his showmanship and talent. Thank you Thereyouhaveit for bringing the memories.

[@markrago2270]

Aging like fine wine. Not too many left from that era playing with this much energy

[@DrWolfman3]

Had the pleasure of seeing them back in 67 or 68 with Jimi Hendrix. The ONLY person who could have followed these guys. My brother and I sat with mouths open as they just blew us away. Tim Bogert was the most energetic bass player I have ever seen. So much energy and so tight they were. We heard their record but Live was a whole other experience. Just loved them!

[@photonotavailable7936]

DrWolfman3 With Mason Williams at the Golden Bear, Huntington Beach, Calif., 1967. Mind-blowing for a 16-year-old.

[@detlefvonkalben9577]

Wow great story best I have is The Monkees in Charlotte NC 1967 I was eight and wanted to be Micky

[@GhostRider_237]

damn cool, I can’t even imagine. golden age of Rock

[@DrWolfman3]

@@photonotavailable7936 Golden Bear was an awesome place to go. Loggin & Messina got their start there.

[@andrewbesso4257]

And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is the way to cover a song. Own it.

[@raymondruiz5839]

Love the Vanilla Fudge and their interpretation of songs. KEEP ME HANGING ON is one of my favs. Actually the whole album was great.

[@victormorgado5318]

This is so beautiful...People better realize that this band is one of the pioneers of Hard Rock still around with a fresh sound out of the late 60! with the muscles of decades of experience playing in the intimate environment of a club..wow...people this big usually play in stadiums

[@thomasalderuccio890]

The Fudge The Best Of the BEST.

[@MrAdriancooke]

Quite an influence on Deep Purple and Uriah Heep I think

[@charlottehill5185]

So refreshing to hear someone have the balls to do a cover with their own heart !!!

[@fuldagermany]

This is a trip back in time and a wonderful time it was .... miss the sixties and doing my best to be in and love the present. Good to see this group still making music .... does a soul good.

[@djroxanne4429]

Minahh your right! this is great!1 ty!

[@fuldagermany]

I had a feeling you might enjoy it. I am happy that you do.

[@robertlawton2187]

My favorite version of Eleanor Rigby! Have a great 2023.

[@molliestanton2869]

This version has to blow all the others out of the water! Ethereal, otherworldly- thankful to these musicians for asking the questions of the time through their music. Magnifique!

[@kathleensarachinsky1460]

This group is yummy. They have so much talent and artistry. They take a song and weave it into a work of art. Showy, classy and they give variety and 110% to their audience.

[@mickeymousebiker1]

Great - simply great. It's good to hear Carmine Appice again. Loved his work with Beck and Bogart.

[@slownezy69]

WOW!!! That was TIGHT!!! That took a lot guts to stray that far OUT with this tune, they definitely put THIER stamp on it. It's got some serious epic moments and amazing dynamics. Interesting vocal arrangement too, those harmonies were great.

[@gordonboyd6181]

This is some fantastic stuff. One of most underrated bands of all time.

[@annetteathanasatos1229]

Bravo, you are Great. I saw the Vanilla Fudge in person. They were terrific. I was at a club, a few feet away from the stage. This group I could't believe how magical they were. The singing, playing their instruments & the way they moved around. I always felt very lucky that I saw them in person. Thank you Vanilla Fudge for all the great music.

[@davestratton460]

I had the same experience with Eric Burden and the animals . Electresity in the air.

[@shirleydillard7127]

Vanilla Fudge is far out. I was 19 when I got thier first album.im 75 now ....so many years ago!!

[@dan63uk]

I used to play this on the jukebox in Swansea University Union Bar over and over again(10+ times) until people were screaming to take it off. I still love it. This a great live version.

[@jimgleeson98]

Excellent Band I love their innovative interpretations of classic hits.

[@KSA-wr4er]

Great interpretation of the masterpiece.

[@kristianyrjola]

Yes it is!!!

[@reneecarter6702]

This is by far the best version of Eleanor Rigby I've ever heard... ❤

[@drummer17562]

Mark Stein's arranging skills really brought this song to a new level. Carmine's drum work is always great and this piece is simply indicative of one of his ground breaking works in 1967! Sadly, Tim is always missed in these performances. Tim is not only a phenomenal bassist... On a par with Carol Kaye is terms of innovation with the instrument, but a superb vocalist in his own right.

[@SteveEcksteinDouglasDrive]

SO TRUE> EACH MEMBER STANDS OUT < COMBINING SUPERB TALENTS TO CREATE THIS SUPER GROUP(YES)(LUCKY) ENOUGH TO CATCH " FUDGE" U MUST CONCUR< UNLESS ON " LIFE SUPPORT")EVEN IF THAT BECOMES MY FATE(THEY IGNORE MY " DNR"< OR CAN'T FIND IT)< I WILL "RISE" TO SALUTE & GROOVE ON " FUDGE" WHILE CHECKING OUT!!

[@w.rustylane5650]

I've always loved Vanilla Fudge when my sister brought home their first album and I listened to it over and over again; think that was back in 1968. I was a junior in HS. I always liked the Vanilla Fudge renditions of popular songs. I thought they did the song even better than the original. My favorite is still "People Get Ready." Cheers from eastern TN

[@garylester8621]

I first heard this in 1967-8 and still one of my favorite albums. Still one of my most played albums at 77 tears old.

[@georgebollard6300]

Saw this tremendously great band in 69 and several times in the past few years. Met them personally, great guys. Cannot get enough. Keep it going until you can’t.

[@MrSkinnn]

I've been a huge Fudge fan since the late 60s, with 1969 being the high water mark for psychedelic rock. Saw the Fudge twice, amazing stuff.

[@LarryNeie-lj7zc]

Two other favorite covers from that debut album are Ticket to Ride and Take Me for a Little While. Then on another album their interpretation of Season of the Witch.

[@TheYzzykrazy]

this is one of my favs ... from so many many years ago ... luv this band!

[@joanietaylor-mitchell8559]

Always Loved Their Music back then today 70th Birthday Celebration Still Amazingly Great to listen remembering those past years og greatness

[@AndMakrid]

It's really incredible how fresh and capable they sound. Absurdly undervalued group!

[@outthere9370]

Wow! So fantastic to hear that organ backed by living legends!!!!!

[@JohnnyNowhere]

My lord, what an excellent rendition after so many years! This is top shelf work.

[@joewood7225]

I am always amazed at these performers still having lovely full heads of hair all these years later !

[@garryiglesias4074]

Some of them might be fake, most of them must be colored :).

[@mattkaustickomments]

Mark’s hair has always been sus, even in the 60’s... lol. But who cares?

[@RubyBandUSA]

Mark Stein you're a God in the keyboard world. Fudge followed in the tradition of the Beatles having three lead singers, each one great!

[@livmurray1958]

Seen these guys live in Vancouver,B.C. Canada, back in 2004 still phenominal !!

[@hD-wt5cz]

"Most of the songs we did, we tried to take out of the realm they were in and try to put them where they were supposed to be in our eyes. 'Eleanor Rigby' was always a great song by The Beatles. It was done with the orchestra, but the way we did it, we put it into an eerie graveyard setting and made it spooky, the way the lyrics read"

[@glin805]

I loved this group when my older brother bought and they did their rendition of the Supremes while the Supreme version was still out and fresh, I was hooked. Then my brother played their version of Sunny..fan for life. My brother passed at 32, 1982 but the music he inspired me, priceless. Great job brother was 8 years older

[@timallbritton7329]

Appice did a clinic in my hometown when I was in high school. We were all blown away, and I couldn’t wait to get a set of one of those multi-Tom kits - he was playing the new Ludwig Octa-Plus!

[@jorgeestomba9888]

Best cover of a very difficult song !!!! What a great group They had a real nice mix of different rock genres Never received their proper dues of a great band !!!!!

[@tonybeards9153]

Just watched them do a brilliant version of bang bang on the beat club in 1968 and then this comes up 43years later wow they still have it. And look at the drummer,he hasn’t aged at all👍

[@HANKDOBIEMAN]

Unbelieveable arrangements, monster musicians, I've seen them maybe a half dozen times, LOVE THEM.

[@billsenior213]

Saw them at MSG in '69......loved them then, love them now.

[@drummer17562]

I always loved this version of the song and still listen to it. Nothing beats a Hammond B-3 with a Lesley 147 or 910. Just getting the vocals that tight takes some real effort... there aren't many three-part harmonies anymore as no one wants to put the time in practice. It's explosive and the emotion conveyed really gets to you. I miss TIM and feel that Jeff Beck's Aussie bassist is about the only person to come close to Tim's improv. on stage.

[@raywite6665]

How do you ever come up with this absolute brilliance.

[@rufus566]

The band has reunited in various configurations over the years, and is currently operating with three of the four original members, Mark Stein, Vince Martell, and Carmine Appice with Pete Bremy on bass for Tim Bogert who has retired from touring.

[@limomangeno]

These are Still great playing the songs the way they recorded them back in the 60`s .

[@davidjamesmusic7007]

one of the GREATEST guitar players Vince Martell... he's so under-rated in the music community but made history with the licks he played.. MARK is my HERO! what can anyone say about Carmine? that hasn't been said... 2018 they still ROCK!! Pete is a welcome addition..

[@robertroman2949]

I'm young without this band would probably be no Black Sabbath or Deep Purple

[@thomasalderuccio890]

I agree Vince Martel is greatly underrated. Martel is a Top Shelf Guitarist.

[@robertcubinelli4961]

The greatest version of the Fab 4 classic I've ever witnessed!!! Awesome is an understatement.

[@kathleensarachinsky1460]

This is one ambitious band. Their artistic and variety they give the listener is GREAT !

[@charlotterouillon5919]

Love it, great interpretations!

[@darlenesmith765]

Bought this album when it 1st came out!! LOVED entire playlist!! FAVE version of Eleanore Rigby!!! Have no idea where it is, now!😢

[@mickeymousebiker1]

Sedate, very soulful, a bit surreal, and very sublime. Great all around.

[@telsport]

You are a sophisticated musical consumer.

[@PaulRuddell]

Been a fan of the "Fudge" since 1967, how is it that this is the first time I've heard this? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@billsenior213]

Saw them last year November in Old Saybrook, CT........before that the last time I saw them it was 50 years....What an experience to see them live

[@LouKodge]

If you like this version, try Eleanor Rigby by australian group from the 60s Zoot. Its a killer.

[@crazgeo]

I met the guitarist a few years back at a record show in oaks Pa. I think he will be there again this year 2023 thanx giving weekend Vinny Martel is a cool dude, reminds me of a friend who was a navy guy too

[@lorrainebabbitt6593]

Great band and music saw them At the Filmore w Yardbirds

[@PaulGruendlerBeau]

Freaking SYMPHONIC! OPERATIC! Stood in awe before this band at Aaron Russo's Kinetic Playground, Chicago, 1969 ... Baby it was Cold outside, but hot and gooey on the inside ....

[@davidgeorgemenard1082]

Excellent performance by the VANILLA FUDGE! DGM/

[@bluesangel75]

Wish I were there ... They're still amazing :)

[@MrMarkstyles]

Their albums were amazing for 3 guys.

[@finylvinyl66]

Four guys.

[@barstow_]

A lot of love in the comments, this is what fudge is all about!!

[@sharonmacias671]

Saw Vanilla Fudge, Spirit and Led Zeppelin in Denver, Colorado in 1971. Led Zeppelin's first concert in the United States

[@jonblackers4339]

Saw them doing this @ De Boerderij in Zoetermeer. So cool.

[@RASmith-gt9mm]

Nothing like a Hammond pushed through Leslie speakers!

[@jacktaylor1030]

A Hammond with a stack of Leslie Tone Cabinets makes the sound of Heaven!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@stephenhensley5631]

AMEN.

[@Aswaguespack]

@@stephenhensley5631 I second that opinion

[@finylvinyl66]

Without Vanilla Fudge, there might not have been a Deep Purple. Discuss amongst yourselves.

[@hectorgonzalez9170]

Deep Purple was a Vanilla Fudge tribute band. The organ sound. Love this song. Thnx for posting.

[@wayneblanchard97]

I did an interview with Ian Paice, and he (a longtime friend of Carmine's) stated that Deep Purple (originally called Roundabout) wanted to be the British Vanilla Fudge.

[@Picato75]

No Led Zeppelin, No Hendricks, no british hard rock without them. They all admired the Fudge!

[@joeb1433]

Agreed 100%

[@garryiglesias4074]

Deep Purple's "Help" rendition feels like that indeed.

[@23igna]

TRUE ARTISTS. YOU WONT SEE MANY OF THEM AROUND NOW

[@markstein5947]

👍

[@salmunizzi54]

I saw them play at the Action House on Long Island way back in the Sixties one of my Favorite bands,

[@laskartrece]

Brilliant!

[@joselares9031]

STUNNING VERSION...¡¡¡ FULL PROGRESSIVE ROCK...

[@davidh2136]

My first LSD experience was a Fudge Concert in 1968..I was never the same after that..

[@jurajbublik9498]

Could you tell me if it was more good as bad for you?

[@hanspeterraatz4928]

Yes, this band is psychedelic pure, Just listened to the Renaissance album.

[@HippieDavid61]

Fudge will go on forever. Briliant. Rip Tim😊

[@nippegmt]

Happy Birthday Mark Stein !

[@hiljab]

These kind of gigs are very often not so good. But it is easy to hear the greatnes of this band still comes to life here and there. Indead. Tim Bogert is not to be replaced - among the very best bassplayers.

[@jkisling2110]

Under rated.

[@elmarp11]

hello !! ....this was the band in the 67th+ who played Acid-rock on student-parties....strange sounds_light-shows_performances....which where beyond everything before....that made them great.... 72y-old-Hippie-and-Yogi from Austria....Love, Peace-&-Happiness ☮~el~🕉~mar~✝

[@jameslujack2034]

they were at or near their best here..thanks for posting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@richardmurphy9006]

Awesome Band

[@fstued]

I saw them in Newport RI when they were the Pigens theey were awesome a few weeks later they were Vanilla Fudge

[@TUBULETD46]

Genius unleashed in honor of Lennon - McCartney. Happy birthday, Paul!

[@markwilliams5606]

This is what we called heavy metal. But we just watched.

[@mikegould4039]

Wow..superb..thank you KZbin...

[@tomitstube]

nice version, very creative. sounds a bit like manhattan transfer... reminds me of 5th grade, i'm in this class and this vietnam vet (he made sure we all knew it) is teaching the class, (the war is still going on, we're in japan) i don't remember what the class was, but it was on a military base and there were many vietnam vets running around against the war. anyway, he breaks out "eleanor rigby" on a phonograph and starts breaking down the lyrics and meaning of the song, i'm doing my usual thing (not paying attention) and he calls on me to explain a passage in the song, (that he had just explained) i don't remember what it was but he was coaching me trying to get me to say something, but i'm not getting it, i don't understand what it means, the vietnam vet is getting a little flustered and continues to push me to get it, and i don't, i'm looking around and other students are trying to mouth the answer but i don't know what they're saying, he's getting red in the face and kind of half yells at me. at this point i freeze up and can't think at all, all i can think is why is this guy wigging on me...?! finally he gives up on me and moves on... looking back on it i have no doubt this guy had ptsd long before it had been diagnosed as such. funny tho, his trauma laid a trauma on me that i remember decades later.

[@BesameTease]

I really dig how they don't wait for the measure to end to begin the next but overlap the two. To me, a cover should not sound like the original...what's the point ? Way to go Vanilla Fudge..

[@craigking4880]

No

[@thenostromo1362]

Yes

[@GaZonk100]

kind of 'syncopating' the bars

[@willymccabe6602]

What's the point of it NOT sounding like the original version? Seems kinda pointless to do the song at all.

[@davidgeorgemenard1082]

Vanilla Fudge is a great R&R band! DGM/

[@astrophotonics9470]

Vinny lived 3 houses away from me in Ronkonkoma on long island long ago, jammed with him a few times, his house got robbed then he moved away.

[@bbopdlux]

I was at this show & Yes that is Mark Stein. Last I heard of Bill he was in FLA w/ the New Rascals

[@mibeatleman6767]

Any resemblance between this and the original version is purely coincidental. 😂

[@photonotavailable7936]

Incredible.

[@108grog]

Jeeez! How many intro sections can you have ?!

[@allsaunders317]

Interested cover glad i heard it checking out other music from the early days of this group big country did a great cover if this song

[@redtoenails2909]

Soulful is a direct solemn song that they did so well with this song.

[@LeGridStudios]

total cool they still had it.

[@fortybelownj]

that was epic!

[@59nobby59]

Haunting and a bit scary in ways it caputures the essence of the song better than the original Beatles hit

[@duxberry1958]

this is very good

[@sst3d]

My brother was in a band, Magic Carousel, backed these guys up at Indiana Beach ....I’m. Guessing ‘71

[@mattkaustickomments]

RIP original bassist Tim Bogert

[@jwcinc12]

V Fudge are the Kings of Covers. Can't wait to get their full album of Led Zeppelin songs.