Vanilla Fudge's Where Is My Mind - The Atco Recordings 1967-1969 is a nine-CD box set featuring the complete ATCO recordings, newly remastered from the original tapes. The set includes the albums Vanilla
Fudge (Mono & Stereo Versions), The Beat Goes On (Mono & Stereo
Versions), Renaissance, Near The Beginning And Rock & Roll, Along with the double live recording At The Fillmore West In 1969, plus sessions, outtakes and rare singles. It's all rounded out with an
illustrated booklet featuring a new essay and exclusive band interviews.
Vanilla Fudge members inclue Mark Stein (vocals, organ), Vincent Martell (guitar, vocals), Tim Bogert (bass, vocals) and Carmine Appice (drums, vocals). The band were originally known as The Pigeons and gained notoriety thanks to their radical, slowed down and heavy interpretations of current hits. They signed to Atco Records, a division of Atlantic in April 1967 and changed their name at the insistence of Atlantic founder Ahmet Ertegun to Vanilla Fudge. Their radical cover version of The Supremes’ hit “You Keep Me Hanging On” was issued as a single in June 1967. Dominated by the hard-hitting approach of their rhythm section and the powerful Hammond organ playing of Mark Stein it became a US top 10 hit.
The band’s self-titled debut album was released in August 1967 and was a psychedelic rock tour-de-force, featuring a seven-minute version of ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’, it also featured imaginative cover versions of compositions by The Beatles, The Zombies and Curtis Mayfield among others. Over the next two years, the Fudge would record a series of albums that would evolve from psychedelic rock to heavy rock and influence many emerging bands, among them Deep Purple, before disbanding in 1970.
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