Tim Bogert

Check out the website: http://www.vanillafudge.com/

Incidentally Billy Sheehan lists Tim as an influence. that's what got me turned on to them

 

Beck, Bogert & Appice

Jeff Beck, that is...

 

jeff becks "BECK BOGERT AND APICE" (SP) is great

 

GREASE me up, Timmy......

Cactus was a decent band too, at least for the first couple albums. Vanilla Fudge had some dang good songs, even if most of them were covers. Shotgun (the non-single version) had a pretty cool bass solo.

Tim also sang lead a lot while playing, too.

And you know, for how he's still going and everything and taught at BIT or whatever it was for so long, you wonder why Bass Player and all don't give him more attention....he got a short write-up last year or sometime, but that's about it.

 

Check out Beck, Bogert & Appice.

 

Bogert was on the Advsisory Board for either/both Guitar Player or Bass Player...back in the earlier daze, IIRC.

iTunes actually has the debut BBA album(minus "Black Cat Moan")...my vinyl copy is pretty shot & I was wanting "Superstition", so I indulged for that one tune.

Some cool video of Vanilla Fudge at youtube.

 

If you can find a live version of Oleo by Cactus, check it out. He always soloed on that one, same with Break Song by Vanilla Fudge. Growing up around NYC I got to see Tim a lot when I was growing up, huge influence on me. He was the reason I got a maple neck on my first bass that was a P-bass.
I saw him just last year with a reunited VF, and he was still tearing it up, but with a six string. Bogert was one of the big innovators of electric rock bass IMHO. I'm always stoked to see him mentioned here!!

 

http://www.timbogert.com/

the most recent Fudge album (2002) has a bunch of amusing covers on it-- "I want it that way," "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy," that sort of thing. Failing all else, it's good for a laugh.

 

I was fortunate enough to study with Tim at BIT in the early '80's, and led a minor student revolt when Pat Hicks tried to fire him over some B.S. - 'No Tim, no tuition, bay-beh'.

IMO, there are three bassists from that era in the Rock field that truly matter...Entwistle, Bruce, and "...Tim Bogert, on the Fender bass!"

I saw him with VF on last year's Strange Days Festival, and reminisced briefly with him backstage...Definitely a player who deserves more recognition.

 

He's done some pretty neat stuff over the years. I like him, but not to the point where I'd say I was a real fan.