Vanilla Fudge w/Rust Belt

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VANILLA FUDGE

More than 50 years after the group turned heads with their jammy, psychedelic reworkings of songs by The Beatles and Curtis Mayfield on their self-titled debut album, the Long Island hard-rock band Vanilla Fudge continues to tour with original members Mark Stein, Carmine Appice and Vinny Martell, as well as bassist Pete Bremy. The group’s records from the late ’60s remain fascinating oddities: 1968’s The Beat Goes On consisted almost entirely of sound collages, with dreamy snippets of covers forming then evaporating just as quickly. The group returned to the studio for 2015’s for The Spirit of ’67, which featured heavy reworkings of hits from that year, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “I’m a Believer” and “Gimme Some Lovin’” among them.