99 and a half
on their myspace thingy, blood of the sun have a cool cover of "99 and a half," the last wilson pickett song i can stand to hear. (sorry, wicked one; yrs of playing in shitty barbands have ruined my appreciation of "mustang sally" and "midnight hour" FO-EV-AH.) when i asked richard hurley if he'd ever heard the version by houston psychsters fever tree (of "san francisco girls" fame), he allowed that he'd never heard that 'un; rather, b.o.t.s.'s version is a note-for-note cover of one by boomerang, the band formed by organist-singer mark stein after the wheels came off the vanilla fudge. while i never heard boomerang back in the day, i do remember reading an article about 'em in circus, part of the thing of which was that in this new band, stein was no longer sporting the wig he'd worn while fronting da fudge. (apparently that didn't last for long, tho.)
back in my german-irish-italian 'hood on lawn guyland, da fudge were, in their day, bigger 'n the beatles (as were the young rascals and four seasons before them, and for precisely the same reason: the preponderance of italo-american musos in the lineup). they even played at my future high school back in '68, but i was too young to really be interested. (around the same time, the rascals played at the high school one town over; a glance at stein's website reveals that a reunited fudge just played there a coupla months ago. jeez.) later on, every idiot drummer on da island musta taken drum lessons from carmine appice (as in "i take from cawwwmie"), but it'd be no exaggeration to say the fudge were a crucial influence on the birth of heavy rawk, largely because led zeppelin opened so many shows for 'em on their early 'meercun tours (back when page & co. had to resort to playing their whole first alb twice when crowds demanded more and the zep boys didn't have any other material). listen to the early ("hush"/"kentucky woman" era) deep purple albs side by side with the fudge and it'll become clear whose thunder _they_ were copping.
richard sez the new b.o.t.s. alb should be out by the end of the yr. we live in hope.
back in my german-irish-italian 'hood on lawn guyland, da fudge were, in their day, bigger 'n the beatles (as were the young rascals and four seasons before them, and for precisely the same reason: the preponderance of italo-american musos in the lineup). they even played at my future high school back in '68, but i was too young to really be interested. (around the same time, the rascals played at the high school one town over; a glance at stein's website reveals that a reunited fudge just played there a coupla months ago. jeez.) later on, every idiot drummer on da island musta taken drum lessons from carmine appice (as in "i take from cawwwmie"), but it'd be no exaggeration to say the fudge were a crucial influence on the birth of heavy rawk, largely because led zeppelin opened so many shows for 'em on their early 'meercun tours (back when page & co. had to resort to playing their whole first alb twice when crowds demanded more and the zep boys didn't have any other material). listen to the early ("hush"/"kentucky woman" era) deep purple albs side by side with the fudge and it'll become clear whose thunder _they_ were copping.
richard sez the new b.o.t.s. alb should be out by the end of the yr. we live in hope.
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