"A load of big names kicked us off tours. We frightened them": Cactus should have been huge but it never happened - so we asked them to tell us why

Cactus on a stairwell in London in 1970.

In the summer of 2013 Classic Rock spoke with Carmine Appice and the late Tim Bogert about the early days of their band Cactus. Formed as the indirect result of a car crash, Cactus's incendiary live shows were never matched by their album sales, and they may be the only band whose frontman was later machine-gunned to death. 

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