Vanilla Fudge is an American rock band known predominantly for their slow extended heavy rock arrangements of contemporary hit songs, most notably "You Keep Me Hangin' On". The band's original line–up was vocalist and organist Mark Stein, bassist and vocalist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist/vocalist Vince Martell, and drummer and vocalist Carmine Appice recorded five albums during the years 1967–69, before disbanding in 1970.
The band has been cited as one of the few American links between psychedelia and what soon became heavy metal. Vanilla Fudge also is known to have influenced other major bands such as The Nice, Deep Purple, Yes, Styx, Led Zeppelin, and Uriah Heep.
'Box Of Fudge' is a 4CD set, and was released in 2010 on Rhino Handmade label. It includes mono and stereo versions of their first two albums, three more studio albums from that period ('Renaissance', 'Near the Beginning' and 'Rock & Roll'), and two discs of live recordings from the Fillmore West in San Francisco on December 31, 1968, plus various bonus tracks, including edited 45s. There's also a very nice booklet (included in the download)
CD 1
1. All In Your Mind
2. Take Me For A Little While
3. Ticket To Ride
4. People Get Ready
5. She’s Not There
6. You Keep Me Hanging On
7. Where Is My Mind
8. The Look Of Love
9. Sketch
10. The Beat Goes On
11. Come By Day, Come By Night
12. The Sky Cried – When I Was A Boy
13. That’s What Makes A Man
14. Faceless People
15. Season Of The Witch
CD2
1. Shotgun
2. Some Velvet Morning
3. You Can’t Do That
4. People
5. Good Good Livin’ (Long Version)
6. Heartache Jam
7. Need Love
8. Lord In The Country
9. Street Walking Woman
10. The Windmills Of Your Mind
11. Jealousy
12. My World Is Empty
CD3
1. She’s Not There (Live)
2. Shotgun (Live)
3. People Get Ready (Live)
4. You Keep Me Hanging On (Live)
5. Season Of The Witch (Live)
6. Break Song (Live)
CD 4
1. Good Good Livin’ (Live)
2. Ticket To Ride (Live)
3. Medley (Live)
a) Moonlight Sonata
b) Fur Elise
c) Eleanor Rigby
4. Take Me For A Little While (Live)
5. Like A Rolling Stone (Live)
6. Love Jam
7. Movin’ On
8. VF Studio Jam
When I was ripping these CDs, my grandson stopped by. He listened to the Vanilla Fudge, and in bemusement, he said, "I guess you had to be there", I laughed and told him, "You should have been there, it was quite a time". He shook his head in agreement, and said, "If I had a time machine, the 1960s would be my first stop."
So, for the freeload, if you had a time machine, what would be your first stop?
Hi Babs, thank you so much for thinking of Vanilla Fudge. I'm already looking forward to hearing it. If I had a time machine, the first thing I'd do is stop at the early days of my childhood, when I was happy and had no "grown-up problems."
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I like the idea, of visiting one's self as a child!
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I'd like to see some of the long-demolished architectural wonders of the ancient world- especially to see how the construction process. For a shorter trip in the Wayback machine, I'd settle for a trip to NYC's Penn Station or Frank Lloyd Wright's Tokyo Imperial Hotel or Buffalo, NY Larkin Building.
ReplyDeleteI think I set the time machine for the mountain speech of jesus only to find out it never happened, and I can just get out before it exploded
ReplyDelete"First stop" suggests this machine can be commanded in any direction, so should I find myself in some hellscape, I can get the hell out of there with a twist of the date knob, right? That being the case, my first stop would be the relatively near future where today's various forms of madness will have had time to play out.
ReplyDeleteThe Globe Theatre -- the real Globe, not the one that's there now, in the wrong location and incorrectly orientated --for the first production of Hamlet, with Shakespeare playing the Ghost.
ReplyDeleteANON RF: By the way, it's me. I forgot to identify me-self.
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DeleteANON RF: "You're not wrong.". - Twelfth Night Act V sc ii
DeleteSherman, grab some White Durban, and set the Wayback Machine to Manhattan in September 1948. We’re seeing Bird and Miles at the Royal Roost tonight!
ReplyDeleteAaah yes ...Mr Peabody & Sherman's Wayback machine - would love to see the pyramids at Giza in their original condition before the limestone facing was removed.
ReplyDeleteIf I had a working time machine and access to the necessary equipment with the ability to make multiple trips then the first time I'd go to is the Triassic period followed by the Jurassic and check out the first dinosaurs and their successors and then I'd work my way back to the current day stopping wherever I fancy checking out various events that catch my interest, for example, I'd check out the 7 wonders of the world when they were constructed, as well as Ancient Rome and the Incas and Aztecs at their height all the way forward to the present day. I might also pop in on myself once or twice and give me a bit of sage advice on things I should have done differently...
ReplyDeleteOf course I would have to get practical at some point and would stop off in the days before the 5 Grand Nationals that were won by horses with odds of 100-1 and make myself a tidy fortune on them (pity I couldn't do it as a 5-way accumulator!) or something like that. You get the drift.
I'd spend a week in NY at the 1939 World's Fair. --Muzak McMusics
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I'd get me a big gun and lots of ammunition, set the machine for about 500,000 years before K–Pg boundary, and shoot dinosaurs.
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ReplyDeleteAre you such a bad shot, you need the biggest animals?
I am a TERRIBLE shot. But it's guilt-free; they're already dead, their species go extinct, so...plus there's the big unanswered question bedeviling paleontology: do they taste like chicken?
Delete1791. Coming from the future, I'd like to tell the Founding Fathers
ReplyDelete(oops) that one day weapons wouldn't take a half a minute to reload, and that the definition of "militia" would take a bad turn. Or maybe that taxation or licensure wasn't abridging a person's legal right to own a gun.
ReplyDeleteHi, Babs, sorry for getting back to you so late. I've been away for a few days. Thank you so much for Vanilla Fudge and for thinking of it. I think, in terms of talent, those guys could have competed with the Beatles, just like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, even though they were doing something completely different. Sometimes life takes its own course. Thank you so much for your effort and all the great music. Kind regards, Mike
ReplyDeleteEither the Grande Ballroom in Detroit on October 31, 1968 (one of the two shows that MC5's "Kick Out The Jams" was culled from) or the Monterey Pop Festival on the evening of Sunday, June 18.
ReplyDeleteI would go back into recent past and save John Lennon's life. And if I had three trips (wishes?) I would also save Jimi Hendrix and Prince and Tom Petty.
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