Vanilla Fudge
The Fillmore West
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
January 1, 1969
Excellent Soundboard Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included
CD 1:
01 - She's Not There (The Zombies)
02 - Shotgun (Junior Walker & the All Stars)
03 - People Get Ready (The Impressions)
04 - You Keep Me Hangin' On (The Supremes)
05 - Season Of The Witch (Donovan)
06 - Break Song
CD 2:
01 - Good Good Livin'
02 - Ticket To Ride (The Beatles)
03 - Medley a) Moonlight Sonata b) Fur Elise c) Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles)
04 - Take Me For A Little While (Evie Sands)
05 - Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
Mark Stein - organ
Vince Martell - guitar
Tim Bogert (R.I.P.) - bass
Carmine Appice - drums
I remember the first time I heard Vanilla Fudge. I was pretty young and my favorite Aunt gave me an 8-track tape of their first album. I popped it into my player and the first song I heard was their cover of "You Keep Me Hanging On". I was already a young Hard Rock fanatic after her gifts of The MC5 - Kick Out The Jams and Frijid Pink - Frijid Pink. I hadn't heard Black Sabbath yet but the experience would be the same as my 1st time hearing Vanilla Fudge. They had broken the song down to the riff, slowed it down to a dramatic crawl turning the vocal line into an anguished plea for mercy. The dire plea being made even more poignant by the cries of Mark Stein's Hammond screaming as he ripped the sadness from it's very core like some phantom player in the dead of night. A host of Hammond stranglers would arise in the wake. Ken Hensley and John Lord quickly come to mind. John Lord & Ritchie Blackmore were such fans of Vanilla Fudge that they copied the format for early Deep Purple. Recording dramatically changing songs from The Beatles, Donovan and Tina Turner on early releases. When Led Zeppelin opened for them in 1969 the audience screamed "You suck! Bring on The Fudge!" It was documented in The Hammer Of The Gods book. I laughed when I read that actually. I mean can you imagine telling your future friends "I once booed Led Zeppelin so I could hear Vanilla Fudge". Irony...
We lost Tim Bogart on January 13, 2021, from cancer. He was 76.
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