Well they did see Hendrix and The Who before they got their act together, The Beatles and Stones had been around awhile also. The initial reaction was a response to the airplay they got with Summertime Blues. Those who bought Vincebus Eruptum got the full BC treatment. If you weren't into long hair music you probably didn't buy the LP because of the cover. I bought it and I would say it took about a year to really get into it. As Hendrix asked, Are You Experienced? I wasn't at the time.
What about Jimi Hendrix (Voodoo Child (Slight Return)? Iron Butterfly (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida)? Steppenwolf (Born To Be Wild)? And these are the bands that were with Blue Cheer at the same period...
Hendrix early stuff was out, but not Voodoo Child. I think Iron Butterfly was put together to cover Blue Cheer. Steppenwolf came a little later. Blue Cheer was definitely early, but they saw Hendrix and The Who at Monterey. Of course Sgt Peppers was very popular then.
Hendrix new stuff was in, (well mostly in Britain), until Jimi played at Woodstock, he wasn't famous in America. Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, Fire and Voodoo Child (Slight Return) were all famous at that time... Iron Butterfly made their own song, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, and it was very famous, helped creating the raw rock sound...
Purple Haze, Foxy Lady & Fire were on the LP released in the US at the time BC came on. Electric Ladyland had Voodoo Chile and I doubt BC would have been aware of it before then, but who knows. In-a-Gadda-Da-Vidda was popular, but did not come out until after BC released Vincebus Eruptum. I was there buying the records as they came out but memory does get foggy. I am just saying BC predated most of the heavy sounds. I think I bought VE about time I bought Strawberry Alarm Clock, pretty early.
I just remember the one that was on Electric Ladyland. That came out in 69, I believe. BC was in Europe in 68, obviously from this video, so who knows what they heard from Hendrix. But they saw him in 67 at Monterey and released Summertime Blues in early 68. The point of this whole discussion from me is to say that BC was definitely early, but the music did not go from Herman's Hermits to Vincebus Eruptium in one step. They were influenced by other heavies including Hendrix, a power trio.
Lol, in Electric Ladyland there's the two songs: Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Child (Slight Return)... If you listened to Voodoo Chile, it's a soft blues song...
wow, how old are you? cuz I'm 16 and listening to this and it's awesome, also other types of music... I mean music for is awesome and changed my life...
Oh, about 59. I started college in the fall of 1967 when all the music started to get really good. It was quite a time, majoring in rock music and minoring in engineering.
"music started getting really good"... Music is all good, you meant when the revolution in music was happening... Because all music is good, there's no specific bad music... Except for the talentless who do it for the money and popularity...
I agree, but music does have its ups and downs. The 1950s saw the first generation of rock and was cooling off when the Beatles turned everything upside down. That culminated in 1970 when Jim, Janis and Jimi died. I would say that pulled the plug on the hippie era which unfortunately gave way to disco. I recently began looking at YouTube to see some of my favorites of that era. There were no videos then except TV so I never had a chance to see them unless I went to a concert & I did that often.
First of all... RIP! Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix! Led Zeppelin made another revolution in music too... I found out that the 3 most revolution bands were:
1: The Beatles
2: The Rolling Stones
3: Led Zeppelin
That's what I found out, but there was a lot of bands before to increase into these musical climaxes...
The Beatles and the Stones were pretty much concurrent in the early days. The Beatles wrote the Stones first hit and for the most part the Stones followed the Beatles lead. But the Stones introduced me to a lot of bluesy music I otherwise may not have found. And certainly the Stones are longer running than the Beatles. Led Zepelin did come on pretty strong. What about Cream, Hendrix, the Doors and Big Brother? I can't comment on what happened in the 70s because I turned to bluegrass music then!
I know all these bands, but out of the research I did, these were the top 3 bands said were the most revolutionary... Cream and Hendrix are almost my favorite! The Doors are great too! Love The End, but some people don't... I see you don't listen much to Led Zeppelin, because usually a fan wouldn't make a mistake like that when you spelled Led Zeppelin wrong... Lol... But still you could be a fan, but Led Zeppelin is an interesting band, because each song they did were always different.
Like I said, its been a long time. I did buy their first LPs and enjoyed them. With the Doors, I loved their first 3 especially the 2nd. Many of those bands had 2 or 3 great LPs and then seemed to fizzle out. I was a fan of County Joe & the Fish. Saw the Grateful Dead a few times too.
Hendrix was definitely famous in the US before Woodstock. I listened to his first LPs during 67 and 68. Knowing that he was at Woodstock is something I looked forward to. He may have not been known in the US before Monterey, but after that he was very popular. Also Iron Butterfly did have one hit, but there wasn't anything else on their LP I cared much for so they were quickly forgotten. On the other hand, BCs album was full of gems that became "cult favorites."
Summertime Blues was sanitary enough for the time to get a lot of air play, but the real heaviness was on the LP, tunes like Doctor Please, Parchman Farm, Second Time Around. This tune is just a teaser to get you inside.
You sir are 100% right Blue Cheer is one of the hardest rocking band I have ever listen to Its hard to beat Blue Cheer. best band on the Planet at least I thank so.
I think this was the first band and record that combined both the garage rock/proto-punk sound w/ the psychedelica and combined the angst coming out of all over the world in
the news of 1968 to come up w/ anything that finally sounded like the percursor of the actual punk rock sound that we would all hear by 1969 w/ MC5 & the Stooges into the 1970's w/ the Sex Pistols, Ramones, etc. into today.
Deep Purple may have been louder, but in 1968, the loudest was Blue Cheer. I saw them in Chicago and I thought my pants were crumbling off me from the sound. My teeth were jangling in my head. I had to keep my mouth wide open because my ears hurt so bad even with my fingers in them.
This was 1968. They are generally considered the first Heavy Metal group of note. And they were the loudest U.S. group playing live. The Who was considered to be the loudest rock bad. Hard to say because these groups were measured with sound level meters set at different weightings and set at various distances from the loud speakers.
This is Randy Holden on guitar, not Leigh Stevens, and the band was faking it at the Beat Club, as was common practice. I read about the Cream doing the same thing there. There was a video of Summertime Blues with Leigh Stevens that was just taken down, but he played the guitar quite differently from Randy Holden.
It is and I thought the same thing. I chatted by email with some knowledgable people and this is definitely Randy Holden. I thought it pretty amazing that they could fake a concert but apparently that's the way Beat Club operated. There was a great vid of Blue Cheer from American Bandstand, but it just got pulled. It showed Leigh playing in the true fashion, but even that may have been faked for TV. I didn't think that Randy could play completely differently and sound the same as Leigh.
If you ask me, both Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath had a hand in the creation of Heavy Metal. Blue Cheer came up with the heavy sound, the distortion in the guitars and boom in their drums. With Black Sabbath, it was the formation of Heavy Metal's image as the dark, sinister look we all know and love.
So in actuality, credit of Heavy Metal's birth goes to both bands. No question about it.
This style, in a hard rock setting, one could say it is the type of sound produced IN BETWEEN the phase of "Psychedelic/Acid" rock, and a style that would later come to be called "Heavy Metal" originated by Black Sabbath.
There ARE NO INFLUENCES in Heavy Metal without the talk of Leslie West and Tony Iommi. And even Iommi has said without the work of Leslie West, their would be no Sabbath as we have all known it. When Sabbath came to America for the first time they opened for Mountain. Leslie's trick was including the blues... call it southern rock, call it classic rock... its te part the current shredders of today forgot all about... the Blues. There aint no more soul in Rock n Roll.
Clapton was a great player, and a HUGE influence. But Leslie & Tony took a different path. They wanted to make the blues HEAVIER. They both succeeded and became 2 of the hardest rock n roll bands of all time. However Leslie to THIS DAY STILL preaches the blues, and noone plays quite like him. Check out my page for a few jams with Joe Satriani. YES Leslie played the blues with Joe Satriani.
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the first metal band will always be Judas Priest. but these guys along with Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Blue Oyster Cult are the main influences.
Well then how would you define a metal band? An entire metal album? A song? I can see your point with Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Blue Oyster Cult. Even coming from a speed/thrash metal fan would argue that the songs "Just a Little Bit" by Blue Cheer and Symptom of the Universe by Black Sabbath are truly metal.
well see a Judas Priest started in i believe 1975, they were the first to have brought in the duel guitars, the tone used by KK and Tipton is the definitive metal tone. i suppose its all in the opinion, but from where im standing Judas Priest was the first metal band, Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer were still very much blues bands at the time. not like its a bad thing though
True but you're forgetting that Black Sabbath guitarist would overdub himself giving a twin-like guitar effect in some parts. Besides that's a NWOBHM configuration. If you want to get techinal the MC5 and the Stooges used the twin guitar figuration. The Power trio started the Heavy metal thing because Cream started it and it progressed from Heavy Blues to Heavy metal with Blue cheer.
True but they weren't Thrash or NWOBHM-like back then. They only started becoming a heavy metal act somewhere in 75-76. The Misfits started in 1977 and they sounded nothing like what they would become in 79 and 80.
Mountain is Heavy as hell but there more like Blackfoot. I don't know what you would call it but it's like Southern Heavy Metal. True they have a heavy metal sound but there topics are more of that of southern rock and progressive rock. I wouldn't call them conventional metal. If that even makes sense lol.
saw these guy's play about every other week. they'd open for any headliner that came through town... and we'd get so stoned when they started that great drum beat ,,,,,,,
How obsessed am I with Blue Cheer? I ONLY buy Philips lightbulbs and video equipment, because BC was on the Philips record label--the same company that made all that other stuff!
how much for my original posters i have from the good old..Shrine Auditorium day's....but they played in the Exposition Hall part of the shrine......i have the pink floyd, jeff beck, blue cheer on me wall.....1968.
When I was 17 (1966) I worked for a band called the Driftwoods. They opened for these guys at Swing Aud. in San Berdo!! I haven't seen them since thanks for the post! Steppenwolf was the headliner! Backstage was ... well wild! Peace
When Blue Cheer came out with Summertime Blues, they set the record for the most decibels produced; Of course, it's been superseded, but man, for its time, 3 guys making that much noise! God bless the '60s and don't bogart that joint! WOOHOO!!!
Blue Cheer's "Vincebus Eruptum" which means "Controlled Chaos" was & always will be the heaviest album up to that time. It is just plain RAW! I've loved this album for 40yrs. & counting. You just had to be there & then you know. I couldn't care less if one calls it metal or polka. It simply assaulted the sense's at the time. Power trio is an understatement. This album weighed tons!!!
Fucking awesome head kicking start of the hard rock thing that's been moving like an insane dinosaur ever since, except for the last few years of mind numbing rap and the dead dreams of overcast skies.
the who weren't heavy metal.and zep,sabbath,cream and hendrix too.noone was heavy metal like judas priest,iron maiden or metallica.thay were heavy rock'n'roll.they played loud and heavy music but still quallity.for me that's the dif between rock and metal(or punk);rock is quality
Proper respect should be given to the rebel who wrote not only this song, but also "Something Else", "C'mon Everybody", and the original "Communication Breakdown".
Thank you Eddie Cochran for helping fuel the fires of Blue Cheer, The Who, UFO, Humble Pie, Led Zeppelin, and the Sex Pistols, who all covered your songs! You did more for heavy metal than Elvis, Jerry Lee, Chuck Berry, or even Little Richard!
You really can't compare Cream and Blue Cheer they were two different bands. Cream was more blues and rock Blue Cheer was Hard rock from the word go. Don't get pissed because i said this. I love Cream as well. these bands are not even alike in music style, But I love them both.
These bands from 1959-1974 are the founders of Heavy Metal. Some were blues, some were rock, some were folk, but all contributed to the birth of Metal.
Some other bands you should check out that helped shape metal: Sir Lord Baltimore Budgie Buffalo Nazareth (the EARLY stuff) Grand Funk Railroad (all pre-1973 stuff) High Tide Jethro Tull The Frost Highway Robbery Gun Lucifier's Friend Edgar Broughton Band
First Hard Rockin' song I ever heard as a kid - I was 9 or 10 years old. There wasn't anything on the AM dial that even came close at the time. I bought this 45 disc and played the SH!t out of it !!!
Doctor Please should've been their first single instead of this, then no-one would mistake Sabbath as the first metal band. They would've been a bigger hit too, as that song is dripping with so much more awesome.
Alvin Lee and a wall of Marshall Amps was really a ticket to not being able to hear if your car started after the concert-even if you had Thrush mufflers :):):)
sorry to all you kids out there, but i saw so many times at the shrine in LA, that after they did summertime blues, most of us would get up off the floor, and go find some quite place to get high, before the next band came on,,,like jeff beck, or the who, or ......
I think the original trio might have survived if they had followed Alice Cooper to Detroit in '69, where they would have fit in better with the likes of the MC5, the Stooges, and Ted Nugent, and greeted by a more supportive group of fans who would have better appreciated, and were used to their aggressive style.
The peer-presure of the wimpy "Dead head" scene in Frisco was too much for bassist Dickie Petersen, and he gave into it musically. And that's when Randy and Paul split.
Good points. I never thought of it that way. Blue Cheer most definitely would have fit in more with the Detroit scene. With their music, image, innovation and attitude Blue Cheer should have been a much bigger band. Maybe they were too far ahead of their time.
To all the soldiers who at one time or another "strummed" in the Gibson SG army, I salute you: Leigh Stephens, Randy Holden, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Tony Iommi, Steve Marriott, Gary Rossington, Mark Farner, Angus Young.
Thanks all of you chaps for making such legendary music with one of the greatest rock and roll guitars EVER!
You're right! I almost forgot about the Gibson SG that Townshend played at Woodstock-in my opinion, that was the best "sounding" guitar that he ever played and I was MAD when he slammed it and threw it into the crowd! I didn't care about any of the other guitars he slammed, but I was angry about that one!
I also forgot to mention two other Gibson SG'ers--Glenn Buxton and Michael Bruce from Alice Cooper.
I might as well honour Jack Black from the movie "School of Rock", as well, just for fun
These guys did this song better than anyone back then
They really rocked the cochran original
The WHO copied Blue Cheer on this one
1234uz 3 years ago
The drummer is so metal. I can seriously see how metal was influenced by these classic bands.
SGTNumpty 3 years ago
WOW IT'S FUCKING HOT!!!!!
Suchahama 3 years ago
this is good
patu47 3 years ago
great song!!!
jusediar 3 years ago
this is such a dirty sound even sabbath would wish for it ...!! i love it !!!!
stathiseg 3 years ago
una completa demencia el trio mas ruidoso y escandaloso de la epoca!!!
ArischenInfernal 3 years ago
These guys were the first raw sounding
Rock Band.. When they showed up the other
bands were Beach Boys, Herman's Hermits,
Sugar coated music ...I love the way
they miked the drums..
gizzard4455 3 years ago 2
Well they did see Hendrix and The Who before they got their act together, The Beatles and Stones had been around awhile also. The initial reaction was a response to the airplay they got with Summertime Blues. Those who bought Vincebus Eruptum got the full BC treatment. If you weren't into long hair music you probably didn't buy the LP because of the cover. I bought it and I would say it took about a year to really get into it. As Hendrix asked, Are You Experienced? I wasn't at the time.
warehambr 3 years ago
What about Jimi Hendrix (Voodoo Child (Slight Return)? Iron Butterfly (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida)? Steppenwolf (Born To Be Wild)? And these are the bands that were with Blue Cheer at the same period...
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
Hendrix early stuff was out, but not Voodoo Child. I think Iron Butterfly was put together to cover Blue Cheer. Steppenwolf came a little later. Blue Cheer was definitely early, but they saw Hendrix and The Who at Monterey. Of course Sgt Peppers was very popular then.
warehambr 3 years ago
Hendrix new stuff was in, (well mostly in Britain), until Jimi played at Woodstock, he wasn't famous in America. Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, Fire and Voodoo Child (Slight Return) were all famous at that time... Iron Butterfly made their own song, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, and it was very famous, helped creating the raw rock sound...
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
Purple Haze, Foxy Lady & Fire were on the LP released in the US at the time BC came on. Electric Ladyland had Voodoo Chile and I doubt BC would have been aware of it before then, but who knows. In-a-Gadda-Da-Vidda was popular, but did not come out until after BC released Vincebus Eruptum. I was there buying the records as they came out but memory does get foggy. I am just saying BC predated most of the heavy sounds. I think I bought VE about time I bought Strawberry Alarm Clock, pretty early.
warehambr 3 years ago
Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Child (Slight Return) are completely different songs, the song that got famous was Voodoo Child (Slight Return)...
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
I just remember the one that was on Electric Ladyland. That came out in 69, I believe. BC was in Europe in 68, obviously from this video, so who knows what they heard from Hendrix. But they saw him in 67 at Monterey and released Summertime Blues in early 68. The point of this whole discussion from me is to say that BC was definitely early, but the music did not go from Herman's Hermits to Vincebus Eruptium in one step. They were influenced by other heavies including Hendrix, a power trio.
warehambr 3 years ago
Lol, in Electric Ladyland there's the two songs: Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Child (Slight Return)... If you listened to Voodoo Chile, it's a soft blues song...
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
I don't think I've listened to it in 35 years so I don't recall, but Revisited has a ring to it.
warehambr 3 years ago
wow, how old are you? cuz I'm 16 and listening to this and it's awesome, also other types of music... I mean music for is awesome and changed my life...
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
Oh, about 59. I started college in the fall of 1967 when all the music started to get really good. It was quite a time, majoring in rock music and minoring in engineering.
warehambr 3 years ago
"music started getting really good"... Music is all good, you meant when the revolution in music was happening... Because all music is good, there's no specific bad music... Except for the talentless who do it for the money and popularity...
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
I agree, but music does have its ups and downs. The 1950s saw the first generation of rock and was cooling off when the Beatles turned everything upside down. That culminated in 1970 when Jim, Janis and Jimi died. I would say that pulled the plug on the hippie era which unfortunately gave way to disco. I recently began looking at YouTube to see some of my favorites of that era. There were no videos then except TV so I never had a chance to see them unless I went to a concert & I did that often.
warehambr 3 years ago
First of all... RIP! Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix! Led Zeppelin made another revolution in music too... I found out that the 3 most revolution bands were:
1: The Beatles
2: The Rolling Stones
3: Led Zeppelin
That's what I found out, but there was a lot of bands before to increase into these musical climaxes...
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
The Beatles and the Stones were pretty much concurrent in the early days. The Beatles wrote the Stones first hit and for the most part the Stones followed the Beatles lead. But the Stones introduced me to a lot of bluesy music I otherwise may not have found. And certainly the Stones are longer running than the Beatles. Led Zepelin did come on pretty strong. What about Cream, Hendrix, the Doors and Big Brother? I can't comment on what happened in the 70s because I turned to bluegrass music then!
warehambr 3 years ago
I know all these bands, but out of the research I did, these were the top 3 bands said were the most revolutionary... Cream and Hendrix are almost my favorite! The Doors are great too! Love The End, but some people don't... I see you don't listen much to Led Zeppelin, because usually a fan wouldn't make a mistake like that when you spelled Led Zeppelin wrong... Lol... But still you could be a fan, but Led Zeppelin is an interesting band, because each song they did were always different.
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
Like I said, its been a long time. I did buy their first LPs and enjoyed them. With the Doors, I loved their first 3 especially the 2nd. Many of those bands had 2 or 3 great LPs and then seemed to fizzle out. I was a fan of County Joe & the Fish. Saw the Grateful Dead a few times too.
warehambr 3 years ago
Hendrix was definitely famous in the US before Woodstock. I listened to his first LPs during 67 and 68. Knowing that he was at Woodstock is something I looked forward to. He may have not been known in the US before Monterey, but after that he was very popular. Also Iron Butterfly did have one hit, but there wasn't anything else on their LP I cared much for so they were quickly forgotten. On the other hand, BCs album was full of gems that became "cult favorites."
warehambr 3 years ago
and also Steppenwolf came soon after this song...
LinkBulletBill 3 years ago
Summertime Blues was sanitary enough for the time to get a lot of air play, but the real heaviness was on the LP, tunes like Doctor Please, Parchman Farm, Second Time Around. This tune is just a teaser to get you inside.
warehambr 3 years ago
You sir are 100% right Blue Cheer is one of the hardest rocking band I have ever listen to Its hard to beat Blue Cheer. best band on the Planet at least I thank so.
bigguy4570 3 years ago
They were the original hippie hate band! Just awesome!
Weissmenchland 3 years ago
I think this was the first band and record that combined both the garage rock/proto-punk sound w/ the psychedelica and combined the angst coming out of all over the world in
the news of 1968 to come up w/ anything that finally sounded like the percursor of the actual punk rock sound that we would all hear by 1969 w/ MC5 & the Stooges into the 1970's w/ the Sex Pistols, Ramones, etc. into today.
Yesimustbestupid 3 years ago
Yeah, there's no way he was doing those dives on a guitar with a hardtail bridge.
SolidShroom 3 years ago
that isnt a hard tail... look again you may see a vibrola tail piece thanks fot being ignorant!
Metalrocks5150 3 years ago
Doesn't matter what kind of bridge he had, he wasn't playing.
warehambr 3 years ago
Oh, I can see it now.
SolidShroom 3 years ago
true rocker and pioneers way light years ahead of time. must have been the tystick.
GRILLBUOY101 3 years ago
Deep Purple may have been louder, but in 1968, the loudest was Blue Cheer. I saw them in Chicago and I thought my pants were crumbling off me from the sound. My teeth were jangling in my head. I had to keep my mouth wide open because my ears hurt so bad even with my fingers in them.
Moose4Choice 3 years ago 2
anybody know their line-up here?
1dudeman2 3 years ago
Yeah, Dickie Peterson, vocals, bass
Leigh Stevens, guitar extroardinaire
Paul Whaley, great drums
This was 1968. They are generally considered the first Heavy Metal group of note. And they were the loudest U.S. group playing live. The Who was considered to be the loudest rock bad. Hard to say because these groups were measured with sound level meters set at different weightings and set at various distances from the loud speakers.
Moose4Choice 3 years ago
This is Randy Holden on guitar, not Leigh Stevens, and the band was faking it at the Beat Club, as was common practice. I read about the Cream doing the same thing there. There was a video of Summertime Blues with Leigh Stevens that was just taken down, but he played the guitar quite differently from Randy Holden.
warehambr 3 years ago
Since this is the version from "Vincebus Eruptum", I assumed that was Leigh Stevens playing guitar.
Moose4Choice 3 years ago
It is and I thought the same thing. I chatted by email with some knowledgable people and this is definitely Randy Holden. I thought it pretty amazing that they could fake a concert but apparently that's the way Beat Club operated. There was a great vid of Blue Cheer from American Bandstand, but it just got pulled. It showed Leigh playing in the true fashion, but even that may have been faked for TV. I didn't think that Randy could play completely differently and sound the same as Leigh.
warehambr 3 years ago
I thought Deep Purple was the loudest...
stopthrm 3 years ago
blue cheer------->stoner rock
emptyheadbrokenbones 3 years ago
Agreed..
The rhythm section shares alot of similar sound with Sabbath. You can almost hear the intro to "Children of the Grave" here.
cheyanqui 3 years ago 2
Blue Cheer's cover>>>>>>>>>>>>>Who's cover
¡Viva Blue Cheer!
trabazoss 3 years ago 2
this song sure rocks! The Who's Live at Leeds version is also great, but I like this one slightly more because of its demented, disorienting groove.
marcfedak 3 years ago
If you ask me, both Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath had a hand in the creation of Heavy Metal. Blue Cheer came up with the heavy sound, the distortion in the guitars and boom in their drums. With Black Sabbath, it was the formation of Heavy Metal's image as the dark, sinister look we all know and love.
So in actuality, credit of Heavy Metal's birth goes to both bands. No question about it.
spicy64 3 years ago 3
Also Sir Lord Baltimore, they were the first band in print at least to be described as 'heavy metal'. Similar to this, but not quite as good.
Comus89 3 years ago 2
This style, in a hard rock setting, one could say it is the type of sound produced IN BETWEEN the phase of "Psychedelic/Acid" rock, and a style that would later come to be called "Heavy Metal" originated by Black Sabbath.
mfh2kdw210 3 years ago 2
A transition, so to speak.
mfh2kdw210 3 years ago
they were before black sabbath they invented heavy metal lol and there named after lsd :)
Lildrummerboy50 3 years ago
Nirvana anyone?
Guedingen 3 years ago
The heaviest of their times along MC5
RnR will never die...
siralbarrett 3 years ago
Cream is good but Blue Cheer kicks the crap out of them!
DoomMetalSludge 3 years ago
What amps?
NFNitro 3 years ago
Could be Orange or Green.
DoomMetalSludge 3 years ago
Cheers!
Btw, do they still make green? Or what is the actual key to their heavy sound? Linked trebleboosters with mods?
NFNitro 3 years ago
Im not entirely sure, I just took a educated guess on that one sorry.
DoomMetalSludge 3 years ago
They still make Green amps, but there's a damn long wait. Search google for green amps and click the first link.
JacoThe2nd 3 years ago
Old school Marshalls with an Arbiter Fuzz Face.
JacoThe2nd 3 years ago
Cheers man, hope to one day get a rig like that ^^
A lot of the incredible sound is probably in his fingers too though!
Thanks a lot =)
NFNitro 3 years ago
This cover is the best cover of the song Summertime Blues, original Eddie Cochran !
SummertimeBlues5 3 years ago
great number, really outstanding
novogrande 3 years ago 2
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The Who's version is like 4 million times better.
pyroseed13 3 years ago
Sabbs great blue cheer greatest!!!
Izzy94bg 3 years ago 5
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fuckin shite this band are crap
streetnorth 3 years ago
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ROFLROFLROFL
you speak the truth my son.
ShitMovies2000 3 years ago
wow
talk about having no taste
st0wnerer 3 years ago 4
There ARE NO INFLUENCES in Heavy Metal without the talk of Leslie West and Tony Iommi. And even Iommi has said without the work of Leslie West, their would be no Sabbath as we have all known it. When Sabbath came to America for the first time they opened for Mountain. Leslie's trick was including the blues... call it southern rock, call it classic rock... its te part the current shredders of today forgot all about... the Blues. There aint no more soul in Rock n Roll.
depper 3 years ago 5
bro
i totaly agre
but ur missing 1 think
eric claptan
cream
st0wnerer 3 years ago 2
Clapton was a great player, and a HUGE influence. But Leslie & Tony took a different path. They wanted to make the blues HEAVIER. They both succeeded and became 2 of the hardest rock n roll bands of all time. However Leslie to THIS DAY STILL preaches the blues, and noone plays quite like him. Check out my page for a few jams with Joe Satriani. YES Leslie played the blues with Joe Satriani.
depper 3 years ago 2
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the first metal band will always be Judas Priest. but these guys along with Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Blue Oyster Cult are the main influences.
LPH69 3 years ago
judas priest??? lol
brabon1 3 years ago 4
Well then how would you define a metal band? An entire metal album? A song? I can see your point with Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Blue Oyster Cult. Even coming from a speed/thrash metal fan would argue that the songs "Just a Little Bit" by Blue Cheer and Symptom of the Universe by Black Sabbath are truly metal.
jsmurley1289 3 years ago 2
well see a Judas Priest started in i believe 1975, they were the first to have brought in the duel guitars, the tone used by KK and Tipton is the definitive metal tone. i suppose its all in the opinion, but from where im standing Judas Priest was the first metal band, Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer were still very much blues bands at the time. not like its a bad thing though
LPH69 3 years ago 2
True but you're forgetting that Black Sabbath guitarist would overdub himself giving a twin-like guitar effect in some parts. Besides that's a NWOBHM configuration. If you want to get techinal the MC5 and the Stooges used the twin guitar figuration. The Power trio started the Heavy metal thing because Cream started it and it progressed from Heavy Blues to Heavy metal with Blue cheer.
jsmurley1289 3 years ago 2
well not to troll anyone but,
Judas Priest started in 1970
bigmoneyhat 3 years ago
True but they weren't Thrash or NWOBHM-like back then. They only started becoming a heavy metal act somewhere in 75-76. The Misfits started in 1977 and they sounded nothing like what they would become in 79 and 80.
jsmurley1289 3 years ago
THIS SHIT IS FUCKING BR00TAL
Ace213243 3 years ago 4
so totally KVLT
imajuggalo666 3 years ago 2
isnt this the first heavy metal band? this is the band that influenced the heavy bands?
gutterspout 3 years ago 2
no, that would be Black Sabbath, but these guys are pretty fucking heavy too.
hess925 3 years ago
No. Mountain and Black Sabbath.
I LOVE Blue Cheer, but if you want to hear the birth of Heavy Metal, listen to Leslie West.
depper 3 years ago
Mountain is Heavy as hell but there more like Blackfoot. I don't know what you would call it but it's like Southern Heavy Metal. True they have a heavy metal sound but there topics are more of that of southern rock and progressive rock. I wouldn't call them conventional metal. If that even makes sense lol.
jsmurley1289 3 years ago 2
yes this is the first heavy metal band
ironclad2 3 years ago 2
This is a REAL COOL version of the original one ! I´m a hardcore punk rocker, but this really kick ass.
aivopark 3 years ago
Increible para la epoca
MarioApocal 3 years ago
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99th worst guitar solo of all time, according to Guitar World.
Debatist 3 years ago
Strange, i thought all Dragonforce solos were in that top 100...
Alphamage2007 3 years ago
Obviously guitar world doesn't know shit
Vhorhees 3 years ago
They do have a point.
Debatist 3 years ago
saw these guy's play about every other week. they'd open for any headliner that came through town... and we'd get so stoned when they started that great drum beat ,,,,,,,
remember boy....you're to young to vote.
chunk1969 3 years ago
This song is heavy as hell!
SlabBastid 3 years ago 2
How obsessed am I with Blue Cheer? I ONLY buy Philips lightbulbs and video equipment, because BC was on the Philips record label--the same company that made all that other stuff!
notfragile33 3 years ago
how much for my original posters i have from the good old..Shrine Auditorium day's....but they played in the Exposition Hall part of the shrine......i have the pink floyd, jeff beck, blue cheer on me wall.....1968.
chunk1969 3 years ago
ja ozcar seguro te graduaste de un conservatorio o que???? al menos ellos hicieron algo en cambio usted solo para criticar sirve por lo visto
magamu 3 years ago
This blows me away...
When I was 17 (1966) I worked for a band called the Driftwoods. They opened for these guys at Swing Aud. in San Berdo!! I haven't seen them since thanks for the post! Steppenwolf was the headliner! Backstage was ... well wild! Peace
bigdavelittle 3 years ago
que solo mas malo!!!! hahahaha
ozcar30000 3 years ago
When Blue Cheer came out with Summertime Blues, they set the record for the most decibels produced; Of course, it's been superseded, but man, for its time, 3 guys making that much noise! God bless the '60s and don't bogart that joint! WOOHOO!!!
SenorSpode 3 years ago
awesome
kenvorland 3 years ago
definitely not metal. the beatles meet the mc5
hungus5000tron 3 years ago
Wow....So brutal!
scerary 3 years ago
Blue Cheer's "Vincebus Eruptum" which means "Controlled Chaos" was & always will be the heaviest album up to that time. It is just plain RAW! I've loved this album for 40yrs. & counting. You just had to be there & then you know. I couldn't care less if one calls it metal or polka. It simply assaulted the sense's at the time. Power trio is an understatement. This album weighed tons!!!
rack5150 3 years ago 3
i'd call this early metal, i mean listen to the drums.
omen1089 3 years ago
great song
789pequignot 3 years ago
en algun momento de los 60's fueron catalogados como la banda mas ruidosa del mundo!
rafaelislas 3 years ago
Here in Brazil, in the begining of 80s, any Rock with distorted guitar was called heavy metal.
queenpadilha 3 years ago
60's headbang!!!! \m/_
metaliommimetal 3 years ago
Loudest live band at the time.I mean they were earbleeding loud. It was great.
jblacktree 3 years ago 3
They still rock it live...
DesertSoundgardenia 3 years ago
amazing, one of the firsts heavy metal songs
isramaguire 3 years ago
how the hell does he play the guitar??
thats crazy, what a vibrato(?) or is it feedback(?)
Camicente 3 years ago
Watch Leigh Stephens on the other YouTube version of this song.
warehambr 3 years ago
LOVE IT
NearingZero 3 years ago
Fucking awesome head kicking start of the hard rock thing that's been moving like an insane dinosaur ever since, except for the last few years of mind numbing rap and the dead dreams of overcast skies.
anhacus 3 years ago
One of my favorites!!!
funperson164 3 years ago
This was and is still great. Heavy without the metal.
deathray76 3 years ago
one of the first heavy metal bands right up there with the who black sabbathled zepplin and hendix
copedipper667 3 years ago
the who weren't really metal just Hard Classic rock
jninja12 3 years ago
the who weren't heavy metal.and zep,sabbath,cream and hendrix too.noone was heavy metal like judas priest,iron maiden or metallica.thay were heavy rock'n'roll.they played loud and heavy music but still quallity.for me that's the dif between rock and metal(or punk);rock is quality
LetSocratesDie 3 years ago
Ignorant elitist. Open your fuckin' mind before you spread your slander.
deathlightning92 3 years ago
This track never bothers me.
Of all really old music Blue cheer sounds best.
They don't sound dated so much as others.
(Still playing the Outsideinside album once in a while up here :)
Barbaricfellow 3 years ago
The drumer is so aggressive! Awesome
halla1110 3 years ago 2
Proper respect should be given to the rebel who wrote not only this song, but also "Something Else", "C'mon Everybody", and the original "Communication Breakdown".
Thank you Eddie Cochran for helping fuel the fires of Blue Cheer, The Who, UFO, Humble Pie, Led Zeppelin, and the Sex Pistols, who all covered your songs! You did more for heavy metal than Elvis, Jerry Lee, Chuck Berry, or even Little Richard!
notfragile33 3 years ago
They are great but not better then Cream.
LoveMarriott 3 years ago 2
You really can't compare Cream and Blue Cheer they were two different bands. Cream was more blues and rock Blue Cheer was Hard rock from the word go. Don't get pissed because i said this. I love Cream as well. these bands are not even alike in music style, But I love them both.
bigguy4570 3 years ago
I totally agree. I like them both too.
LoveMarriott 3 years ago
This Kicks fuckin ass
noobyms 3 years ago
To see the real deal look at the other version of Summertime Blues on YouTube featuring Leigh Stevens.
warehambr 3 years ago
how COULD they sound this way?? did they have fuckin' jesus christ on guitar?
emptyheadbrokenbones 3 years ago
R0CK & ROLL!!!!!!!!
Hectorschizoidman 3 years ago
These bands from 1959-1974 are the founders of Heavy Metal. Some were blues, some were rock, some were folk, but all contributed to the birth of Metal.
Blue Cheer
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Mountain
Steppenwolf
The Sex Pistols
Jimi Hendrix
The Stooges
CRYPTKILLER97 3 years ago
sex pistols = punk
theMEGAPOPE 3 years ago
They were punk but they helped create Metal
CRYPTKILLER97 3 years ago 3
I would say the forerunner to all punk bands was the Troggs, who had one hit, Wild Thing.
warehambr 3 years ago
i wouldnt say punk, like heavy grunge....or hippie grunge:P lol
6dark6jester6 3 years ago
MattHatter 3 years ago
Oh and I almost forgot Uriah Heep!
MattHatter 3 years ago
amazing
cxhxrxixsishere 3 years ago
They do the best version of summertime blues, they were also the first metal band. In my books.
Mandatory 3 years ago
Totally f-ing rad.
xopowo69 3 years ago
ANIMAL! ANIMAL! BANG DRUM1
legendofsource 3 years ago
First Hard Rockin' song I ever heard as a kid - I was 9 or 10 years old. There wasn't anything on the AM dial that even came close at the time. I bought this 45 disc and played the SH!t out of it !!!
pontiacpapa 3 years ago
yeah, fucking NOISE!!!
yogsothoth88 3 years ago
Doctor Please should've been their first single instead of this, then no-one would mistake Sabbath as the first metal band. They would've been a bigger hit too, as that song is dripping with so much more awesome.
Drmofothegreat 3 years ago
This version of the song is the best
Horaciow14 3 years ago
love the drums, so powerful :D
Alphamage2007 3 years ago
These guys were the first Stoner-Metal band. A complete wall of FUZZ GUITAR so LOUD as to DESTROY all hearing.
DrumTent 3 years ago
Alvin Lee and a wall of Marshall Amps was really a ticket to not being able to hear if your car started after the concert-even if you had Thrush mufflers :):):)
TheRealInvaderZim 3 years ago
I agree. TYA were also a great loud ass band. Too bad I never saw them live (although I do have a poster autographed by them).
DrumTent 3 years ago
<3!
123xmixdayla 3 years ago
yeahhhh rrrock! they had there own brand of LSD.
rocknrolla81 3 years ago
sorry to all you kids out there, but i saw so many times at the shrine in LA, that after they did summertime blues, most of us would get up off the floor, and go find some quite place to get high, before the next band came on,,,like jeff beck, or the who, or ......
chunk1969 3 years ago
Then you missed out on some good jams.
DrumTent 3 years ago
The first metal song.Thanks for that...
c4st323 3 years ago
Blue Cheer is great and so are those "corpse paint wearing Scandinavian faggots"
TheDorkCheese 3 years ago
So fucking sludgy...
Juawp 3 years ago
That's 60's Metal for ya
HereticMocculta 3 years ago
Awesome, and very much ahead of its time!
onehundredthree 3 years ago 2
I think the original trio might have survived if they had followed Alice Cooper to Detroit in '69, where they would have fit in better with the likes of the MC5, the Stooges, and Ted Nugent, and greeted by a more supportive group of fans who would have better appreciated, and were used to their aggressive style.
The peer-presure of the wimpy "Dead head" scene in Frisco was too much for bassist Dickie Petersen, and he gave into it musically. And that's when Randy and Paul split.
notfragile33 3 years ago
Good points. I never thought of it that way. Blue Cheer most definitely would have fit in more with the Detroit scene. With their music, image, innovation and attitude Blue Cheer should have been a much bigger band. Maybe they were too far ahead of their time.
DrumTent 3 years ago
That didn't come out right. This band is great; but like it or not they are part of the evolution of rock that would one day become metal.
tentwo70 3 years ago
The Beatles Helter Skelter was harder than this
Dntexerville 3 years ago
I think this is heavier than helter skelter, but I think helter skelter was faster and more like what heavy metal was in 70`s and
80`s
kristikk92 3 years ago
Blue Cheer's music is a thousand times heavier than the poppy Helter Skelter.
DrumTent 3 years ago
sure it is
Dntexerville 3 years ago
To all the soldiers who at one time or another "strummed" in the Gibson SG army, I salute you: Leigh Stephens, Randy Holden, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Tony Iommi, Steve Marriott, Gary Rossington, Mark Farner, Angus Young.
Thanks all of you chaps for making such legendary music with one of the greatest rock and roll guitars EVER!
notfragile33 3 years ago
You forgot Pete Townsend, apart from Iommi I recognize the Gibson as Pete Townsends guitar the most.
smellyoldplopnamedfr 3 years ago
You're right! I almost forgot about the Gibson SG that Townshend played at Woodstock-in my opinion, that was the best "sounding" guitar that he ever played and I was MAD when he slammed it and threw it into the crowd! I didn't care about any of the other guitars he slammed, but I was angry about that one!
I also forgot to mention two other Gibson SG'ers--Glenn Buxton and Michael Bruce from Alice Cooper.
I might as well honour Jack Black from the movie "School of Rock", as well, just for fun
notfragile33 3 years ago
And Jimmy Page twin neck 6/12
12stringsforme 3 years ago
Songs like this definitely inspired what would become metal just a few years later. Killer cover!