{"id":577808,"date":"2026-02-09T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/577808\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:25:09","slug":"classic-rock-band-celebrating-60th-anniversary-with-central-ny-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/577808\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic rock band celebrating 60th anniversary with Central NY concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

A classic rock band is coming to Central New York on its 60th anniversary tour.<\/p>\n

Vanilla Fudge will perform live at the Capitol Theatre in Rome, N.Y., on April 24. Special guests The Psychometrics will open the concert at 7 p.m.; doors open at 6:15 p.m.<\/p>\n

Tickets are currently on sale at tix.com<\/a>. Prices start at $42.<\/p>\n

Vanilla Fudge is a New York-based rock band that released its first album in 1967. The group\u2019s blend of psychedelic, symphonic and hard rock on hits like \u201cSeason of the Witch\u201d and \u201cYou Keep Me Hangin\u2019 On\u201d is considered a pre-cursor to heavy metal and proto-prog, influencing artists like Deep Purple<\/a>, Yes, Styx<\/a>, Led Zeppelin<\/a>, and Uriah Heep.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were the first experimental band to have big commercial success. We were there at the birth of FM radio, and they would play all our efforts to the extreme, so we didn\u2019t have to rely on commercial AM radio. That\u2019s when the real creativity exploded,\u201d co-founding singer-organist Mark Stein told Goldmine magazine <\/a>in 2019.<\/p>\n

The Fudge\u2019s current lineup features original members Stein, Vince Martell (guitar\/vocals) and Carmine Appice (drums\/vocals), along with bassist Pete Bremy. Original bass player Tim Bogert retired in 2009 and died of cancer in 2021.<\/p>\n

Vanilla Fudge, originally known as the Pigeons, released five albums between 1967 and 1970. The group broke up in \u201870 as Bogert and Appice formed a new group, Cactus. Appice, Bogert and Martell reunited in 1999, then the original Fudge lineup reformed in 2005 with Stein.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people that don\u2019t think we ultimately got our due, because ultimately Vanilla Fudge is really a cult group,\u201d Stein told Goldmine. \u201cThere are a lot of people that think we should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of our influence. But it\u2019s about how much money you made or how many hits you had. It should be about the influence you had. It\u2019s so political. So many of the people that run that thing are so young, they can\u2019t relate to the history and that\u2019s what it should be about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A classic rock band is coming to Central New York on its 60th anniversary tour. Vanilla Fudge will…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":577809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,4084,975,10670,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-577808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-festival","tag-music","tag-pmcarc","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116041608514183756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}