Vanilla Fudge vs. Iron Butterfly

[snyprrr]

I know,... you can't do it, can you?

All that glitters IS gold!!!

[drogulus]

     I never saw VF despite living on Long Island at the time they were active. I did see Iron Butterfly in January 1969.  Unfortunately the opening act partially obliterated them from my memory...

     

     ...as you can imagine.

     

     

[Szykneij]

     ...as you can imagine.

Wow! Yes, Indeed!

Very Good

  Better


  Best

[snyprrr]

Wow! Yes, Indeed!

Very Good

  Better


  Best

Cactus?

Budgie?

     I never saw VF despite living on Long Island at the time they were active. I did see Iron Butterfly in January 1969.  Unfortunately the opening act partially obliterated them from my memory...

     

     ...as you can imagine.

     

     

Mudshark!

[drogulus]

     
     

Mudshark!

     Is that the secret word? Yes, I did go to that show, or one of them. And the Allman Bros. Altogether I went to 20+ shows from '68 to '71.

     How about this one? Spirit, The Kinks and The Bonzo Dog Band.

     

     I think we went to a different deli on 2nd Ave, not Ratners. I'd get a corned beef on rye with mustard and a Dr. Brown's Cream Soda. I did not get a Cel-Ray, I deny that and I have witnesses.

     

     I refused to listen to this album. The idea of Beck playing with those guys was not acceptable. Didn't we have Leslie West for that?

[snyprrr]

     
     
     Is that the secret word? Yes, I did go to that show, or one of them. And the Allman Bros. Altogether I went to 20+ shows from '68 to '71.

     How about this one? Spirit, The Kinks and The Bonzo Dog Band.

     

     I think we went to a different deli on 2nd Ave, not Ratners. I'd get a corned beef on rye with mustard and a Dr. Brown's Cream Soda. I did not get a Cel-Ray, I deny that and I have witnesses.

     

     I refused to listen to this album. The idea of Beck playing with those guys was not acceptable. Didn't we have Leslie West for that?

You went to the Mudshark show? Cool!



I agree with your BBA appraisal.

[The new erato]

The Fudge were wildly variable (nice alliteration) but the Renaissance album (in particular), as well as the VF debut, remains personal favorites. The other two ..... stunk.

[drogulus]

     I'll say this for the Vanilla Fudge. They were the first American band I saw on TV with giant amps. They were just like Hendrix and Cream except they were a bunch of shlubs from the neighborhood, in a manner of speaking. I was fascinated and repelled at the same time. So Billy Joel graduates from Hicksville H.S. in '67 and forms a rock band called the Hassles with Rascals-type wobbly vocals....yeah, a real horrorshow that was. Long Island had this awful sound which the Fudge and Leslie West "improved" immeasurably with heavy guitar at insane volume. A couple years later the plague reached Michigan and we got Grand Funk Railroad.

The Fudge were wildly variable (nice alliteration) but the Renaissance album (in particular), as well as the VF debut, remains personal favorites. The other two ..... stunk.

     They had negative taste, so listening to them drained the life out of you. Instead of the wide world opening up it turned into Suffolk Community College.

     But then we finally got something inspired (I mean after Felix Cavaliere and the Rascals, who really were great) out of all these pathetic kids and their rock fantasies, a parody act that made great music, the Ramones.

[snyprrr]

I was fascinated and repelled at the same time.

The secret to all good schlock!

[drogulus]

The secret to all good schlock!

     You have a point. Why am I thinking of Richard Strauss?