![]() The biggest impact on the pop charts came in 1967 with the old Supremes hit "You Keep me Hanging On," which sold millions of records in the United States, the United Kingdom and around the world. All four could sing and provide vocal harmonies, and all four were from the New York/New Jersey area, but based on Long Island. ![]() Vanilla Fudge began around 1966, with Mark Stein on keyboards, Tim Bogert on bass, Vince Martell on guitar, and Carmine Appice on drums. And they always had a certain flair for dynamics, that now-familiar way of going from quiet and soft to fiery and loud, so that even the simplest tune could become an operatic drama of raw emotion. There was a strong jazz element to their work, despite the loud volume and thunderous rhythms, as they extended and enhanced familiar melodies in creative ways. Vanilla Fudge also tended to do a lot of soul music, re-imagined as thunderous, jam-happy rock.īut the overriding feature of the quartet was simply that the four musicians were inventive and imaginative, concocting new ways to hear the most beloved hits. In keeping with their tradition, the bulk of Vanilla Fudge's setlist was covers of other people's hits, but covers done in their own unique style, which many consider a precursor to heavy metal and progressive "prog-rock" bands like Yes. ![]() As one of the first pioneering groups in that sub-genre of rock known as psychedelia, Vanilla Fudge became identified with the late 1960s counterculture, and by extension, its fascination with expanded consciousness and drugs.īut after hearing Saturday night's one hour, 50-minute romp back in time at The Narrows Center in Fall River, the only drug most fans probably wanted to investigate was whatever anti-aging potion the Vanilla Fudge guys are on. ![]()
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