![]() … I was 24 years old at that point, and I was just a fireball, ya know… “Parchman Farm” on our record was pretty fast, and this one is faster than that. It was kind of really a cool gig, and we hung out backstage with Jimi. And it was at a small stadium called Temple Stadium, in Philadelphia, and Jimi Hendrix was the headliner and we were all friends with Jimi, and Grateful Dead – we knew them, and Steve Miller, and you gotta remember The Grateful Dead and Steve Miller weren’t big yet, so the only one that was sort of big was Jimi Hendrix, and even he wasn’t the icon he is today. Ya know, it’s our first gig, but the energy’s flying off that performance like crazy. so he finds collectables, and he found that, I guess on a cassette tape that somebody had and he said that he could get that released on Cleopatra, because he said they were interested….So I listened to it initially, and I said ‘wow, the energy on that record is unbelievable’. He’s not only our manager, but he’s also a really big Cactus fan. Well, basically what it was our manager found that somewhere, I don’t know where the heck he found it. That was your first show – who thought to record it and where was it all these years that it was able to come out now? I want to talk about the new Cactus album. I’m sure my conversation does not cover all that he has on the go, so check out the links below. He’s also working on a number of new projects. More recently he’s seen the release of the latest Cactus studio album (last year) and currently the Cactus live release – The Birth Of Cactus. For over 50 years he has been one of the busiest, in-demand, and best known drummers in the rock world. ![]() The guy has done so much from bands VANILLA FUDGE and CACTUS to playing with Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, and hundreds more. Legendary drummer Carmine Appice really needs no introduction. ![]()
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