I was fortunate to see these guys 5 times back in the day. This tune is explosive in every way. Just listen to the lines by Tim Bogart in the solo, freakin' awesome!!! One of the best bands to emerge from the 70's in my book. The only thing I wish is that they would of stayed with the sound and music like this, Parchment Farm, Evil, and such. Regardless they were always great live.
Rusty Day and Ronnie VanZant are what I like to call the Big Two, as in the two best band frontman ever in my opinion. No one can compare them to any other rock band frontman. Instead, every rock band frontman should be compared to them!
R.I.P. Russell E. "Rusty Day" Davidson (1945-1982), the original singer, harmonica player, and percussionist of Cactus
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER lyrics
One way or another you go through life
You live alone you keep a wife
You beat the law you leave your hometown
Finding out it's hard when you're all alone and brought down
Sisters and Brothers on everything you do one way or another
The choice is up to you.
Fathers and Mothers you'll see the dawn
Or sleep forever excepting wrong
Disguising fear something strong
Your Bleeding hearts just can't go on
Today your fears your weakness
Tomorrow it's a pain
I can't go on explaining all the
Troubles in your brains.
You can't begin to love until you understand
The values of the trust you give or take from fellow-man
One way or another you go through life
Sisters and Brothers you come to love
Fathers and Mothers we go through time
One way or another we're all the same .... allll the same .
One way or another we're all the same
The glowing ring, inside your brain
That makes you laugh when things are right
That makes you cry in the middle of the night
Sisters and Brothers your life goes on
One way or another! right or wrong.
During the 1960s the cops raided my home looking for drugs. The had me and my two friends sit at the dining room table while they searched. After they searched the living room; I asked them if we could move into there and play some music while the continued their search. They agreed, so I thought I'm gonna play Hometown Bust... quite appropriate I thought. They didn't find anything and left bewildered. I and my friends had a good laugh. Just before they cops arrived my friends had a tip they were coming and did the Mescaline