VANILLA FUDGE / ヴァニラ・ファッジ / BOX OF FUDGE (4CD BOX) / CD

サイケデリックの全盛期に誕生し、ティム・ボガートにカーマイン・アピスも在籍した伝説の米国ロック・バンド、ヴァニラ・ファッジの4枚組ボックスがライノ・ハンドメイドから登場!! 67年にATCOからリリースしたデビュー・シングル“Take Me For A Little While.”を始め、ジェフ・ベックを迎えた84年の再結成まで彼等の活動の歴史を総括した選曲に、絶頂期69年フィルモアでのライヴ音源や同年の隠されたスタジオ録音“Heartache Jam”などマニアも唸る未発表音源15曲を収録!! その独自性から“アート・ロック”と称されたバンドの真の姿が明らかに!! コンサートポスターから引用されたジャケット・デザインもグレイト!! しかもなんとも最高なサイケデリック・ミニポスター付き!! グレイト!!

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* Features 15 previously unreleased tracks
* Features the previously unreleased 1969 recording from The Fudge's New Year's Eve concert at the Fillmore West
* Elaborate, foil-wrapped package includes re-creation of a vintage Fudge concert poster designed by Family Dog
* 41 tracks, 4 discs


For a brief moment in 1967, Vanilla Fudge stood at the swirling center of the pop-music universe, satisfying fans searching for transformative musical experiences with its symphonic psychedelic rock. Sweetened by intricate vocal harmonies and classical flourishes, The Fudge’s innovative mix of rhythm and blues shone brightly as a new era of heavy music was dawning at the start of the 1970s.

Organist Mark Stein, bassist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist Vince Martell, and drummer Carmine Appice recorded five albums in two years. They toured relentlessly, winning converts with radical reworkings of hits like The Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hanging On” while “raising” the bar for after-show escapades. Rhino Handmade devotes equal time to The Fudge’s influential studio and live legacies with a four-disc boxed set that combines album tracks and rare singles with unreleased recordings. Presented in an elaborately designed, foil wrapped package, the set also comes with an 11x17 replica Family Dog poster from one of the band’s shows.

The first two discs flow mostly in chronological order, beginning with Vanilla Fudge’s earliest recordings, including the band’s first single with Atco, “Take Me For A Little While.” It continues with selections from the group’s self-titled debut, The Beat Goes On (1968), Renaissance (1968), Near The Beginning (1969) and Rock And Roll (1969), plus two songs from Mystery, the band’s brief 1984 reunion. Along with gathering a number of singles, the collection also marks the debut of the previously unreleased “Heartache Jam,” originally recorded in 1969.

The final two discs spotlight Vanilla Fudge on stage in its prime with an unreleased recording of the band welcoming the arrival of 1969 with a New Year’s concert at the Fillmore West. Recorded shortly before the quartet’s fourth album was released, the show draws on The Fudge’s early days for “People Get Ready” and “Ticket To Ride” as well as its forthcoming album Near The Beginning with “Shotgun” and an epic version -- more than 20 minutes -- of “Break Song.”

The collection concludes with “Love Jam,” “Movin’On” and “VF Studio Jam,” a trio of previously unreleased tracks recorded in New York at Atlantic Recording Studio just months before the original quartet splintered.-Read Less



(DISC 1)
1.All In Your Mind
2.Take Me For A Little While
3.Ticket To Ride
4.People Get Ready
5.She's Not There
6.You Keep Me Hangin' On
7.Where Is My Mind
8.The Look Of Love
9.Sketch
10.The Beat Goes On
11.Come By Day, Come By Night
12.The Sky Cried - When I Was A Boy
13.That's What Makes A Man
14.Faceless People
15.Season Of The Witch

(DISC 2)
1.Shotgun
2.Some Velvet Morning
3.You Can't Do That
4.People
5.Good Good Livin'
6.Heartache Jam
7.Need Love
8.Lord In The Country
9.Street Walking Woman
10.The WIndmills Of Your Mind
11.Jealousy
12.My World Is Empty Without You

(DISC 3)
1.She's Not There
2.Shotgun
3.People Get Ready
4.You Keep Me Hangin' On
5.Season Of The Witch
6.Break Song

(DISC 4)
1.Good Good Livin'
2.Ticket To Ride
3.Medley: Moonlight Sonota /Fur Elise /Eleanor Rigby
4.Take Me For A Little While
5.Like A Rolling Stone
6.Need Love
7.Movin' On
8.VF Studio Jam