He was ranked number 98 on rolling stone magazines list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. In 2006 i wrote about the heavy metal pioneers in blue cheer being back in action. After working with two monstrously loud guitar heroes, leigh stephens and randy holden, blue cheer wanted to pursue a more subtle musical direction, and on their fourth album, simply titled blue cheer, they followed the path of the first half of 1969s new. Blue cheer leaders peterson, mcdonald and whaley tell their twisted tale. Blue cheer is an american blues rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s, who helped. The godlike genius of blue cheer julian cope presents. Blue cheer summertime blues american bandstand,1968 cac2. The three of us got together and wrote doctor please and auto focus for the first album, and it sold millions.
Complete song listing of blue cheer on blue cheer songs list covid19. Discussion in music corner started by bluesjazzman, jun 25, 2015. Blue cheers best songs as picked by the jam community, 20112015 summertime blues blue cheer. What a glorious image it is to think of blue cheer taking the stage at some outdoor summer of love festival and knocking all the hippies on their ass. Summertime blues climbed the charts, and blue cheer were the toast of the town. We must mention these three guys from san francisco because, i know there are millions of heavy metal fans, so lets at least acknowledge the existence of. Front man for the influential american power trio blue cheer. Theyre currently on tour and playing the knitting factory in nyc tonight nov 5, 2007. Pleasant hope april, 1971 before blue cheer broke up.
The godlike genius of blue cheer was invented by julian cope for the purposes of this eulogy. Dickie peterson listen here baby cause you outta time im so sorry its the end of the line i dont know what to say i dont know what to do all i know. Vincebus eruptum, blue cheers landmark 1968 debut, is widely regarded as. Blue cheer outsideinside full album free music streaming. Dickie peterson help me please, doctor doctor, wont you please i need your pain killer, doc shot inside of me well i aint got no money, child but i been here. Providence city skyline blinks in nightly ritual to cheer up sick kids.
This winter machine offer free download of debut album. First of all the track listing on the back states that summertime blues,out of focus and doctor please are live from the steve allen show 1968. A lot of people will frustratingly inform you that the genius of vincebus eruptum lies in its overlapping of blues riffs and heavy metal guitars. Based in san francisco, original personnel were singerbassist dickie peterson, guitarist leigh stephens, and drummer paul whaley. As with any revolutionary concept, blue cheer had its detractors.
At one time, blue cheer was hyped as the loudest rock band on the planet. Join songkick to track blue cheer and get concert alerts when they play near you. As rocknroll powermetal trios go, san franciscos blue cheer were the loudest the loudest in the universe as was claimed. San franciscobased blue cheer was what, in the late 60s, they used to call a power trio. Thanks for an article on blue cheer, but i must take exception to a central assumption here. Blue cheer summertime blues american bandstand,1968. Blitzkrieg over nuremberg live 1989 this feature is not available right now.
Blue cheer second time around lyrics genius lyrics. The last blue cheer release to feature the beloved lineup of stephens, peterson and whaley, outsideinside is a bracing orgy of volume, distortion and aggression, with such highlights as just a little bit, come and get it, the instrumental magnolia caboose babyfinger and the bands distinctive take on. Peterson, kellogg, mayell, and yoder then made the original human being september 1970, and oh. Its overwhelming popularity meant the rival soapmakers had to come up with some drastic changes in their laundry soap products. Duck quit, and was replaced with a german flash metal guitarist deiter saller. Released on january 16, 1968, the album features a heavythunderous blues sound, which would later be known as heavy metal. Havent played this one for a while, popped into my head so i thought i give it a go for old times sake.
It also contains elements of acid rock, experimental rock, blues rock, stoner rock, and. Discover top playlists and videos from your favorite artists on shazam. Dickie peterson help me please, doctor doctor, wont you please i need your pain killer, doc shot inside of me well i aint got no. This was announced on another wellestablished music forum by a pretty reliable source. Take a look at whats made our list and see if you agree with our pick of the best guitar solos ever. Please excuse sloppy mpeg2 picture quality though ia. The three of us got together and wrote doctor please and auto focus for the first album. Summertime blues blue cheer were the loudest, heaviest. This album shows blue cheer as much out of their time as they. A woman waits for a blue line train at the mbta government center. On doctor please in particular, peterson explained that when i wrote the song in. Needles to say that for most of the dirty rocker boys, being blue cheer savvy was a must in your dialogue and in your stereo or youd be shit out of luck. But it was the middle band, blue cheer, who really opened my eyes.
And if you were a rocker chick in the scene, then the blue cheer bus was the one to hitch a ride on because the band had all the hot groupies trying to really check them out on a deeper level. That vincebus eruptum album has brought us to this point. This video contains content from umg, who has blocked it in your country on grounds. Vincebus eruptum is the debut album of american rock band blue cheer.
In that year blue cheer released two albums with a terrifying sound that staked it all on deafening amplification of the guitar riffs of leigh stephens and the bass riffs dickie peterson. Blue cheer, featuring guitarist bruce stephens and keyboard man ralph burns kellogg, instead of the power trio format they. Kings rock me baby and mose allisons parchment farm, along with originals like doctor please and the single bside, the equally fine out of focus. I dont know the exact date, though it appears to be from the early 1950s, circa december. Blue cheer was hardrocking power trio that played heavy metal before there was a name for it. Blue cheer was the name of a variety of lsd made by chemist and grateful dead patron owsley stanley and the band was probably named after that, although the name existed earlier, as the name of a laundry detergent after which the lsd variety itself was named. Of course, their 1967 debut, vincebus eruptum, enjoys permanent essential status as well, but the 1968 followup, outsideinside, is more cohesive, and you can just hear that by the time the san francisco threepiece got around to making it, they. Blue cheer was an american rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009. Blue cheers second album, outsideinside, fully matches its predecessors primal power. They played what later was called heavy metal, and when they debuted in january 1968 with the album vincebus eruptum and a top 40 cover of eddie cochrans hit summertime blues, they sounded.
Dg the creation of tide began a new era in washing the laundry. Psychedelic rock was more of a time magazine phrase than a hip one at the time, so it makes little sense to try and fit the sf sound into that box. This product was marketed for use on both clothes and dishes. Veteran guitarist leigh stephens talks about blue cheer. The 67 demos by blue cheer, released 04 january 2019 1. The group belonged to the psychedelic platoon blue cheer was a name for lsd and played out its acid trip with a vengeance. Blue cheer vincebus eruptum sacd audio sacd february 24, 2017 label. Rock guitarist leigh stephens was a founding member of the power trio blue cheer, a hard rock band based in san francisco, along with dickie peterson and paul whaley. Blue cheer itunes tracks blue cheer official website blue cheer. Bruce stephens quit during the recording of the fourth album, blue cheer december, 1969, and gary l. Rampant personnel changes stunted their progress but the bands first three albums remain essential listening for devotees of all music that is heavy. Blue cheer were the loudest band ever music aficionado. A crazy singularity, blue cheers debut album flows with a relentless feeling and attitude from the guts thrown as hard as possible against the studio wall and was captured as the double vulgar non sequitur trippedout, biker pig latinentitled vinyl slab, vincebus eruptum.
Blue cheer concert setlists sign in to get statistics for your attended concerts. Track future tour dates join 16,578 fans getting concert alerts for this artist or. Audio fidelity i searched here and elsewhere for this. Nextupcontainer though we were sitting in the next to the last row of the upper balcony, about as far away from the stage as was possible and still be in the audience, blue cheer was, quite simply, louder than any band id ever heard before. This group was one of the pioneers of a music type that i dislike called heavy metal. Based in san francisco, blue cheer played in a psychedelic blues rock or acid rock style, and are also credited as being some of the earliest pioneers of heavy metal, with their cover of.
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