its the label area and matrix etchings is where it gets strange.īoth labels have the same printed catalog numbers of SD 33-340 and ST-C-70195/6 on them, but the matrix numbers are machine stamped and are as follows. Its obviously an original 1970 pressing as the jacket is identical to my white label pressing from the Monarch plant even has the same cut-out hole on the upper left corner. More information and links at our radio website where you can listen again to shows via the presenter pages: getreadytorockradio.Just found a random copy this morning at one of my local second-hand shops, and its a variant that i cant find here. Listen in via the Tunein app and search for “Get Ready to ROCK!” and save as favourite. Get Ready to ROCK! Radio is also in iTunes under Internet Radio/Classic Rock This show was first broadcast 28 February 2023.Ĭlick the programming image at the top of the page (top right of page if using desktop) The show is repeated on Wednesdays at 22:00, Fridays at 20:00). UK Blues Broadcaster of the Year (20 Finalist) Pete Feenstra presents his weekly Rock & Blues Show on Tuesday at 19:00 GMT as part of a five hour blues rock marathon “Tuesday is Bluesday at GRTR!”. The show signposts forthcoming gigs and tours and latest additions at. You can hear the session in our ‘New to GRTR!’ show (Tuesday 7th March, 16:00 and Thursday 9th, 21:00 GMT or via our Facebook page.ĭavid Randall presents a weekly show on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, Sundays at 22:00 GMT, repeated on Mondays and Fridays), when he invites listeners to ‘Assume The Position’. And we certainly might not expect such an impressive update. We have no right to expect a new album from a band with such legendary credentials. An extended piece – ‘Suite 1 and 2′ – evokes the band’s post-1960s origins and influences. There’s even a cover of ‘Papa Was A Rolling Stone’ whilst ‘Poison In Paradise’ is a tasty slow-blues. New guitarist and co-producer Paul Warren (Rod Stewart, Richard Marx) adds purpose to songs like ‘Tightrope’, the Zeppelin-esque ‘Primitive Touch’ and ‘Elevation’. Historically Cactus were a blues-based hard rock band and ‘Tightrope’ is a minor revelation with the band firing on at least three of all four cylinders. Who would have ever thought that in 2021 we get a new album from hard rockers Cactus? The band originally formed out of the remnants of Vanilla Fudge – psychedelic heavy rockers of the late 1960s and the original line-up included that band’s Tim Bogert (bass) and Carmine Appice (drums).īogert sadly died in January this year but the last man standing Appice is here together with Jim McCarty (on two tracks) and long-term members Jimmy Kunes (vocals) and Randy Pratt (harmonica). If this tribute has us all reaching for the band’s original albums, job done.
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It may be said that these Beatle protegees never realised their full potential but now some fifty years later they can be re-evaluated.
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One of the highlights of my TV music diet in the early 1970s was Badfinger performing this piece as an extended jam on the regional ITV show ‘Set Of Six’. Straight Up also yielded ‘Suitcase’ (here performed by Sonny Landreth). (Rungren, by the way, co-produced the band’s ‘Straight Up’ album). ‘Without You’ – here performed by a somewhat subdued Todd Rundgren – was a major hit for Harry Nillsson in 1970 but sadly the success of the song contributed to Tom Evans’ suicide in 1983 as he battled for songwriting royalties. One of the band’s biggest hits – the George Harrison-produced ‘Day After Day’ – is given empathic treatment by Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson with Terry Reid and a string quartet. Vanilla Fudge’s Mark Stein opens shop with ‘No Matter What’ whilst Rick Wakeman contributes to ‘Come And Get it’. The latest is perhaps long overdue, a collection of the band’s most popular songs performed by Molland with a bunch of rock A-Listers. Since that time Joey Molland (vocals, guitar) has carried the torch for the band whilst also releasing solo works in his own right. Share the post "Quick plays: BADFINGER, CACTUS"īADFINGER No Matter What Revisiting The HitsĬleopatra Records īadfinger were one of our greatest pop rock bands with a criminally short life-span, not least due to the sad demise of the band’s two main movers and shakers Tom Evans and Pete Ham.
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