'Ot 'n' Sweaty

'Ot 'N' Sweaty
Studio album (some live tracks) by Cactus
Released August 28, 1972
Recorded 1972
Genre Hard rock, Blues-rock
Length 35:53
Label Atco
Cactus chronology

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(1971)		 'Ot 'n' Sweaty
(1972)		 Cactus V
(2006)
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'Ot 'n' Sweaty is an album by the second lineup of American rock band Cactus released in 1972. Original members Jim McCarty and Rusty Day already were absent, and former bass guitarist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice joined by Werner Fritzschings on guitar, Duane Hitchings on keyboards and Peter French (ex-Leaf Hound and Atomic Rooster) on vocals. This was the band's final album before their long hiatus that lasted until 2006. The first three songs (filled up the first side of the original LP) were recorded live on April 3, 1972 in Puerto Rico at the Mar Y Sol Pop Festival, and the rest (the second side of the LP) were recorded in studio (so on the album's front cover is pointed after the band's name: On Stage In Puerto Rico And In The Studio). The pinnacle tracks for this album are "Bad Stuff", "Bringing Me Down", "Bedroom Mazurka", "Telling You", and a live recording of Let Me Swim, which was a song by the original Cactus on their 1970 debut album.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Swim (Let Me Swim)" (Appice, Bogert, Day, McCarty) 4:42
2. "Bad Mother Boogie" (Appice, Bogert, French, Fritzschings, Hitchings) 5:21
3. "Our Lil Rock 'n' Roll Thing" (Appice, Bogert, French, Fritzschings, Hitchings) 7:01
4. "Bad Stuff" (French, Johnson) 3:11
5. "Bringing Me Down" (Appice, Bogert, French, Fritzschings, Hitchings) 5:25
6. "Bedroom Mazurka" (French, Hitchings) 4:38
7. "Telling You" (French, Hitchings) 5:09
8. "Underneath the Arches" (Connelly, Flanagan, McCarty) 0:26

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