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Tim Bogert

#21
He also was part of a trio called Char, Bogert, and Appice.
Char is apparently a Beck clone from Japan, but I haven't been able to locate any of their music. Has anyone here ever heard any of the Char, Bogert, and Appice?

Edit: Ok, maybe Char isn't a Beck clone (I just heard some of his playing on YouTube, though not with Bogert/Appice), but I did read somewhere that he's referred to as 'the Jeff Beck of Japan', that's why I said that. I still want to hear some C, B, & A.
 
#22
Wow! I am really gratified. I just recently met the cat that plays bass for the US Navy Seventh Fleet Band, we were exchangeing ideas and I happened to mention Tim and this young bass player gave me a blank stare. I of course told him that he really needed to check out Tim and Carmine as soon as possible. Nothing against some of the new guys out there, but many of these guys are riding on paths that were blazed by guys like Tim.:D
 
#23
.......my three early influences:

1. Larry Graham
2. Rocco Prestia
3. Tim Bogert

.......all originals, one of a kind with a sound all their own.

My favorite Cactus tune is "Rock out Whatever you Feel Like".........Tim sings on this one too!
 
#24
Check out Vanilla Fudge's "Take Me For A Little While."
We opened for Cactus and Ten Years After at the old Capitol Theater in Portchester NY in the 70's and Tim was very friendly to the "kid" bassist in the opening band...Tim and Carmine were a unique, NY partnership for years.
 
#25
What amp did Tim use to get that distorted tone? Sunn? West?

Wore out my copies of the Vanilla Fudge self titled album (loved the trippy 'lil interludes -- where's my stash, man) and Near the Beginning. What a GREAT band!

A band I was in covered the Fudge version of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and half way though we'd break into the bippier Supremes arrangement. Tons o' fun!
 
#27
tim was one of my first influences vanilla fudge you keep me hangin on,some velvet morning, take me for a little while. great bass player, he went to my high school in NJ, his picture is in my sisters yearbook, for me a local bass hero,:D
 
#30
We first saw Tim in Newport RI. The band was called the Pigeons later became the fudge. I had been playing bass a couple of years and and was so blown away i wasn't sure i if should run home and practice or run home and burn my gear. I think he played a fender jazz bass thru a dual showman with two bottoms. A big rig back in the day. Man he could play
 
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#33
"Grease me down, Timmy!"
TB was probably the first bassist to really explore fuzz bass(as opposed to Jack Bruce's incidental amp distortion). Although McCartney and Wyman had dabbled with it a couple of years earlier, Bogert and The Soft Machine's Hugh Hopper(although HIS playing was a bit too 'polite')were the first guys to really use it as a tonal tool. Bogert was trying to get into Hendrix territory. He, like Entwistle, was originally a horn player, which I think inspired him to have more of a lead voice. His rig with the Fudge was a bunch of Fender Showman heads and 2x15" cabs; in Cactus, I'm not entirely sure, very likely Sunn solid state Colisseum gear which is what he used later with BBA(along with some of that 'shower curtain' Univox stuff mixed in). Here's my favorite VF album...



The bass solo at the end of their cover of "Shotgun" was always hilarious, the fuzz on "Some Velvet Morning" is heavy and gothic, and the second half of the album is a live track that is for the most part a blues/jam/collection of solos, but Bogert really starts to kick it out at 25:55.
 
#34
Cant really say enough about Tim. He has been my one enduring influence. Just the way he approaches the instrument. I heard Jim McCarty wasnt too fond of Tim's 'lead bass' style, but I dont think Tim ever played a note that didnt belong as part of the song, always added to the groove. I recently sent him a quick facebook message and he was really nice and appreciative. I think Cactus might be one of the best bands of all time IMHO.
 

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