Blue Cheer : Out Of Focus

[kedgwell]

It's great to find this here. Thank you.

[baldy1]

class

[RyDixon52]

Too bad music isn't like this today! I'd listen to this over today's bullshit any day

[sofistitedcdd]

I prefer the Smashing Pumpkins cover of this but still epic!

[d1sailer51]

if you were sittin in a room with a stereo system and a bong it seemed like you were sitttin ther with them

[Timothezzy]

@d1sailer51 best comment lol

[bassistdave109]

sounds like Cirith Ungol. Anyone into them?

[MrFerrango]

To bad they couldn't have recorded the Drums in stereo ! He's all on the right side, just think how big & loud he would have been if he had 2 tracks spread out on both sides !! must have been recorded on a 4 track recorder. Was this out on "Mono" also ? That would be Fat !

[Meatrockman]

Louder than god!

[oeyeyea]

no one creates anythin,its all there for the taking

[kidtexaus1]

The endless debate about who invented heavy metal will never be solved, but remember this: Blue Cheer came along in 1966, 3 years before Black Sabbath blipped onto the map. Try "Doctor Please" on for size and see why the Cheer invented heavy metal, Sabbath just made it a genre!

[CrazyBear65]

Damn, man. This fuckin record STILL kicks ass. You know they named themselves after a particular variety of blotter acid? I shit you not.

[friendlier]

@CrazyBear65 Which in turn had been named after a detergent.

[gluequestOFFICIAL]

Black Sabbath has been my favourite band for years. And only now I decided to check out bands they were listening to :S

[bwc3821]

It's badass is what is it.

[SupernalOne]

this is blues-rock just done at high volume so the feedback and overdriven guitar add to the sonic quality -- the tomtom drum work was presaged by Gene Krupa during the 40's - yes, there are specific drug lyrics here and there, but it's da blooz folks, just electrified and with some extended jams -- Truthfully, Cream did it first, and better in terms of musical improvisation -- but BC still has their own unique sound, sorta Cream, Hendrix, & Steppenwolf rolled into one maybe, and all US with it

[ktmpl]

My fav song of all time...the lyrics are the most honest thing you'll hear

[robin56]

Thhe best shit

[d1sailer]

and these boys were doin this in the 60's

[MsBucketHead]

are there some other bands like blue cheer? I'd like to know...

[deekante]

@MsBucketHead

The closest modern band is Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. Great band, not as well known as it should be.

[yugang08]

@MsBucketHead Look up Radio Moscow. Musicially they're like blue cheer and the jimi hendrix experience combined.

[rocknrolla81]

@MsBucketHead oh and also check out a band called Cactus.

[MrDylanskate]

@MsBucketHead u mean like other not so famous metal bands? there is the MC5

[bajt03]

Another underrated Band..the heaviest music, before Zep, Sabbath and Deep Purple

[Alithecomedian]

hendrix on shrooms

[supermemojo]

Oh ya,these guys were the outlaws.Too much for what are considered the heavyweights of that time.My 10th grade tunes & FTW.Oh forgot 9th Marines,2nd B,Echo & Hessians MC

[maceonenyc]

unreal..Great

[username420024]

@rushfreak95 It sounds amazing man

[bealtown]

My older sister had both BC albums. The cover of the other one used to upset me with its ugliness and 'bad vibes' – little kids are very sensitive to esthetic messages. The bitter dregs of the Haight-Ahsbury scene expressed in musical terms. That doesn't mean it's not cool. But in a gross way.

[MattHatter]

@bealtown Isn't that a SPOON on the back cover of "Outsideinside?" As in heroin?!

[morbidangelofdeath1]

@rushfreak95 lol i just ordered it i hope it comes in soon so i can annoy the neighbors 

[Chruhl1]

Great band..way too underplayed!!!

[ciadanixy]

Repotedly as THE Loudest Band in History...Bare Bone RAW as Yer Ass da Day Ter Born....Hail Hail Dicket Peters!!!!......PEACE

[ghoulrex]

Just started listening to these today!!! And there badass waaayyy better than todays music haha if you can call it that lol.

[able506]

read in a high times article about blue cheer that there writeing process consisted of buying a kilo of chronic pouring it on to a table and tokeing until something good came into there noodles these guys really knew how to party

[sergegrone]

Just bought Vincebus Eruptum and OutsideInside yesterday and I'm totally mad about them. I consider BC to be the exact complement of Iggy & the Stooges when talking about proto-punk-metal groups of the late 60s.

[bsufilms]

@sergegrone y u mad?



[brontosaurus25]

DOUBLE GUITAR SOLO!

[lucasaiosa]

A perfect song from a perfect album

[sb318aj]

the antithesis of bubblegum...

Ain't it the f***ing truth.

I saw them in a club that couldn't legally hold 1,000 people.

They brought it those Marshall stacks and were the only group that made my ears sweat. I swear I couldn't hear for a couple of days. I was sitting about 15 feet from them and they kept asking us if they wanted to turn up the volume more.

[Raymondhow]

Always thought this should've been the A-side...

[spacepatrolman]

@Raymondhow It has a good guitar riff imagine if a big band jazz band did it

[ThePic1966]

my fav 60's band

[able506]

when you got this master piece blaring on the stereo people know you mean business

[scenefaith]

i was looking for this song everywhere! i heard they like recorded their music outside...with a wall of amps. this may just be hippie folklore but dang that sounds cool

[SupernalOne]

evidently so, Blue Cheer used three Marshall stacks for each instrument, they were the loudest band on the planet at the time - they recorded Vincebus Eruptum on a dock in NYC because a recording studio couldn't handle the volume - or so it was said. Everybody was impressed with power trios at the time (I still love 'em) - listening to the music, I see that they were doing blues progressions or one-chord jams - but that's what we loved, so basic & primitive, the antithesis of bubblegum

[nutella1ful]

One of the original "garage" bands before that term existed. We used to call it.."shit, man , their outtasite!".

[MrConsityis3]

This song is just bad ass to the fullest extent

[SupernalOne]

The did actually have a single on AM radio: Parchment Farm - it was funny to be driving down the avenue, listening to pop music, and hav ethat song come on the radio - the heavy tom-tom drumming and shrill guitar certainly were a totally different sound and feel - one could feel the generations changing

[zzy66613]

wow. one of the greatest, underrated, and genius Band!! perfect combination of Hard Rock, Blues, Psychedelic, Metal, and wildness.......Cheers for Blue Cheer!!

[EddieVH666]

Dude these guys rock this album has everything from just classic and acid rock to blues and early metal influence and it just grooooooves!

[nickelfixit]

Happy memories :)

[klaartje12345]

just heard about this band, man they are good !!

can´t believe this is made so long ago ..

[crowbs90]

i love it how they sound "loud" even when you have the volume down

[JohnnieBeer]

I'm old enough to remember Blue Cheer when Vincebus Eruptum first came out. I thought they were terrific back in the day, but what really amazes me is how well this stuff has held up & still sounds good today. A lot of music from that era sounds dated, but not this.

[MrWilliamSandoval]

I wouldn't call these guys metal, or blues. They were around in the '60s, when everything was experimental. You couldn't classify them as anything like you can with all this new music. Look at Cream for instance, they were a brand new sound. All the bands in the '60s were a combination of everything. You couldn't just call Bob Dylan Folk music, because he was much more than that. All those bands just played music for the sake of music; no genres.

[MrProgtuga]

@MrWilliamSandoval i can understand your point of view but to me these guys are a seminal stoner rock band

[bluesage10]

@MrWilliamSandoval That is the most insightful comment I've read on youtube regarding 60s music. That decade was ferment. Genres completely crossed over each other. Acid rock blended folk and blues with the harder sounds and offered a sound for later heavy metal bands to take up.

[BSUOSUlover]

I get kind of annoyed people constantly talking about these guy's influence. Sure, they had had a big impact on the music scene, but guess what, their MUSIC also kicks ass.

[triplettam]

@BSUOSUlover Yep!

[laylacalif]

The ending is a perfect musical representation of the death throes of our Civilization. Abraham, Martin, John, Bobby are all ***gone***.

[yarekhunt]

I cant get my speakers loud enough!!!!!!!

[able506]

first heard of these guys from an article in high times and the rest they say is history

[MrKirkenstein]

met Dickie, Duck and Paul in 2008 tour for "What doesn't kill you.."

nicest and coolest bunch of guys and still louder than god.

RIP Dickie !!

[andbanned]

Everyone in the world needs to listen to this band, right now.

[fabrikk60]

This song was the b-side to the 'Summertime Blues' single; I remember my older sister getting it in '68 with the picture sleeve - oh how I wish I still had it! Jeezus that low guitar feedback right at the end used to really scare me - so sinister sounding! Decades later, the first time I heard the wood chipper sound in the movie "Fargo", I was reminded of that very feedback note in this song.

[RoyFive]

@fabrikk60 There was a picture sleeve?

[fabrikk60]

@RoyFive

Yeah there was a picture sleeve in the US/Canada, and different variants of it in other countries. You can see them if you google rateyourmusic blue cheer, click, then scroll down to Singles and click on Summertime Blues. (Sorry I tried to post a direct link but the system here kept rejecting it.)

[fabrikk60]

@RoyFive

Yep, it was the same graphic as the album but had the song title substituted. I wanted to include a link so you could see it, but YouTube isn't letting me. So go to the website RateYourMusic, enter Blue Cheer into its search box, scroll down to Singles, then click on Summertime Blues.

[dukowski1965]

red kross does a cool cover of this with dez from black flag

[zelix10]

blew my mind!

[RICARDO45961]

muito, muito ótimo, não conhecia!

[Leadhead444]

Jimi Hendrix guitar playing and Who type rhythm section very groovy track!

[LeDevil79]

YEAH!!!

[ogunonjo]

badasssssss

[Lew130]

I remember when this came out.......no way to describe it out of this world.

[mondo56]

@Lew130 I remember when it came out too, I played the hell out of it !!

[dantelliott]

This is possibly my favorite song of the day. Certainly my favorite Blue Cheer song. I remember seeing Blue Cheer on our black and white TV on one Saturday evening in Cedar Grove, Georgia, just as the family was sitting down to dinner, I drooled out of the dining room back to the living room where the TV was located. I remember an awesome bank of amplifiers behind the band. and lots of hair.

[gerdg3755]

Great!!!!

[neilus]

one of the dirtiest, most brutal band of all time...and what a wild, lysergic solo from Leigh Stephens, possibly the most under rated guitarists of all time who still has a huge influence to this day

[rwcuser]

Gotta love good ooold Blue Cheer (:

[nwonknueht]

I thought these dudes rocked when first heard them.

That was like 68 maybe.....I'm a little fuzzy...... about that. Heard them on WABX FM out of Detroit ! Great rock station. That's where I first heard there versions of "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" and "Summertime Blues". They used to be the opening band for Led Zepplin, early on. Rock On !

[matthewme23]

@DANizDAN -Indeed! Sleep and High on Fire are a direct descendant of this band! Yes, a very under rated band, kick ass raw and rough, heavy 'stoner' feedback rock!

[Jimihendrix6699]

id say sleep more so than high on fire. high on fire has a lot of motorhead in them.

[jimflicks2]

@matthewme23 No offense brother Rocker, but fuck all that, check out Amplified Heat! bare bones no frills loud as fuck blues based phsychedelic heavy rock n roll! no modern about them at all, not even tryin to be classic! not revivalists, just preservers of the lost art of loud Rock N Roll!  check them out!

[MattHatter]

@jimflicks2 A band called Amplified Heat?! Could they have possibly taken their name from the one line in Cream's song "Pressed Rat And Warthog?"

[Triumph72]

@MattHatter Good call!

[spacepatrolman]

@MattHatter What are atonal apples anyway atonal music has no particular key

[jimflicks2]

@matthewme23

[MultiFunkmeister]

Bloody heavy.What are they on, Blue Cheer?

[tessjazz]

This song makes my dad go wild!

There is nothing like it today and will never be, unfortunately. Wish I was born a few decades earlier, really.

Now, Rock has Rolled away.

[Zepplica911]

The first ever full-time HEAVY METAL band . Without this monster , there wouldn't be anything called Black Sabbath , Sir Lord Baltimore , Deep Purple's (70s proto-metal era) ...etc. Greetings to all of you from a Blue Cheer fan from Saudi Arabia ...

[hitlerfromhell]

they have rock music in saudi arabia?

[arizonaresident1]

This is a very underrated band. My neighbors were playing this song in their stereo system a few weeks ago during a party. I was going to go over there but it was 3 am and I was messed up from the party I was already at, and didn't think much about it until the next day... that they were playing Blue Cheer! What's the likelihood of that!?! I'll have to meet them.

[vinyljunie1980]

@arizonaresident1 I'd want to meet them, too!!!

[MIKEYROCKPORT]

@arizonaresident1 only if you are close to 50,It is still A LIKLIHOOD.... : )

[BjornTuroc]

@arizonaresident1  Dude, I gotta party in your neighborhood.

[ManilaSyndicate]

Can't get enough of this. Sheesh, these guys must have started at least 2-3 genres with their debut. Absolutely amazing.

[eragon2121]

I lol'd.

[CAS1xtz]

@ManilaSyndicate - unfortunately BANNED from radio is one of those genre

hope the libtards never hear 'Parchment Farm' it'll be banned from the PLANET!

[infosword]

What happened to Augustis Owlesy "BEAR"

[GreyGhostSr]

Owlsey got stoned on acid and moved to Queensland, Australia

[Destino68]

He died? Man, that's a bummer...

[kyuss2922]

Rest In Peace Dickie

[PhillipThunderGrunge]

well alright!!

[jeffthrow6892]

Just awesome. Period.