Ot 'n' Sweaty is the fourth album by the American rock band Cactus. It was released in 1972. Original members Jim McCarty and Rusty Day had left the group, so bass guitarist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine Appice were 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

Personnel

Cactus

Carmine Appice – drums, backing vocals, percussion

Tim Bogert – bass, backing vocals

Werner Fritzschings – guitar

Peter French – lead and backing vocals

Duane Hitchings – keyboards, organ, electric and acoustic pianos

Album credits

Andree Buchler – Re-release coordinator

Thierry Amsallem – Re-release coordinator

Michael Delugg – Engineer

Jimmy Douglass – Engineer

Geoffrey Haslam – Producer, remixing, mixing

Joel Kerr – Engineer

Bernie Kirsh – Assistant engineer

Claude Nobs – Re-release coordinator

David Palmer – Engineer

Buzz Richmond – Assistant engineer

Jean Ristori – Mastering

Tom Scott – Engineer

Ray Thompson – Engineer

James E. Vickers – Engineer

Charts

1972 albums

Cactus (American band) albums

Atco Records albums

'Ot 'n' Sweaty