Cactus No Need To Worry/Parchman Farm (Isle Of Wight Festival 8/28/70) 

Huge influence on Eddy Van Halen too!

Shades of Zeppelin, or maybe it’s the other way around.

I got to meet/breifly talk with Cactus in 2016ish, They were so cool. It was just like hanging out with any normal people. They signed my one way or another lp for me and a took a picture of Jim and another fan together. They killed it,best show I ever been too. In Sellersville, PA

People say they're underrated because nobody ever talks about them today. It's always Led Zeppelin this or Aerosmith that, but bands like Cactus and Captain Beyond deserve to be talked about just as much today, if not more so. But no! Most people today have never heard of them, and it's an absolute crime, shame, and sin. I hope to change that by spreading the word about bands like Cactus because they deserve far more recognition than what they've been getting for the pst couple of decades. They may've been big back then, but they should've at least stayed that big to this day, if not have become way bigger by now. The problem is they haven't, and it's up to us to do something about that. After all, if it weren't for Cactus, bands like Van Halen and AC/DC would've been VERY different musically.

@@heathinvaderstudios Plus, some critics unfairly dismissed Cactus as just a run-of-the-mill boogie band back in the day, so that's one way they were underrated.

It's simply because they never got the credit, airplay or accolades they rightly deserved especially considering that it's members both collectively or singularly performed with Mitch Ryder, Vanilla Fudge, Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart and Amboy Dukes to name a few/ but I agree with you that "underrated" is a hackneyed RU-vid term that I've tried to stop using myself !!!###

And Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels

In rock history, the more deaths/fatalities/disbanded of musicians, the more myth and legend for musicians; Cactus is an example.

Did you see Grand Funk?

Did you see/hear Paul Butterfield Blues Band with Buzzy Feiten? Or maybe that was at the Miami Pop Festival, a friend of mine from Montreal went and thats all he talked about,

you are missing sly & the family stone AND MILES DAVIS !!!!

@Keith Wisell Me too. It was a 3-LP set. I think only the original Woodstock release had 3 LPs before that in rock music. Been waiting and hoping for the CD for 2 or 3 decades now. I guess it ain't never gonna happen. Thankfully, some of the music has been released on other CDs by Cactus, Mountain, The Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, and maybe some others. Ten Years After's tune "I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes" (which I love) was also released on the "Message to Love" soundtrack, but they edited and chopped it up so much that I hate to listen to it.

@@jabu003 Yep. And The Chambers Brothers' "Love, Peace and Happiness" was also a favorite of mine. The entire Miles Davis set can be seen and heard on the great DVD "Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue" if you haven't already seen it. Great interviews too on that DVD.

@@bholaoates1542 it was the Album called Last great rock festival of the seventies, I think. Isle of wight and Atlanta rock festivals. I remember buying it from tower records in San Francisco. I have it and bought another down the line.

@@keithwisell8528 That's correct. I remember Tower Records in SF. I lived around 90 miles from SF but I went to Tower Records a couple of times. Good times. When the album came out I used to listen to it all the time at my friend's house since I couldn't afford to buy it. Now I have 3 copies from when I converted it to CD many years ago and had trouble finding one that didn't have any scratches or pops...lol I did the same thing with another out-of-print festival album (double album) called 'The Mar y Sol Pop Festival'.

Yes it was , there is short video recording

Did Hendricks Play with McCarty?

No

@@Mynamesalexa there is an unauthorized bootleg in which they jam together titled "the jimi-jimmy jam". it really was dipped in acid but there are some moments there.

@@jamesknight4784 Love to find that. Cactus came on hours before Hendrix.

Wow! What a lineup!!!!

Yeh it was Friday night I was there they were the last band on that night got off the stage very early in the morning amazing band live

@Tim Scott These two tunes by Cactus are available now on CD on their release "Fully Unleashed: The Live Gigs, Vol. 1".

wrong

Didn't Grand Funk play there.

These two tunes by Cactus are available on their release "Fully Unleashed: The Live Gigs, Vol. 1". Most of the rest of the original 3-LP set featuring other artists remains out of print except for tunes by Mountain, The Allman Brothers, Jimi Hendrix and maybe some others. Miles Davis' entire set can be seen and heard on the excellent DVD "Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue".