THANK YOU BLUE CHEER!!! This particular version of this particular song really defines a paradigm shift (thank you Radio Baha'i) in and a prototype of the far-reaching potential created by some kids with too much unrequited testosterone who simply turned it up. BTW, enlightened listeners who haven't already done so will find themselves highly entertained by listening to the wide range of covers of this song available on YouTube.
Eddie Cochran would've goyt just as raunchy if hee hadn't had to go thhrough thayt terrible moytorcycle accident with Bob Dylan. They were working on something truyly mindbeyding.
Does anyone remember orange barrel acid? What a very cool time for music! Jimi, Clapton, and The Beatles, Iron Butterfly, Fridged Pink, and all the rest of the so called cutting edge bands. There were so many that were good that you can't list all of them. This all shaped what we listen to today. But none of these bands sounded alike. Very cool stuff!!!!!!!!
@Nefarioso According to wikipedia, it was also a popular variety of LSD. I've been readng about this legendary band for thirty years, finally hearing them is so not dissapointing.
This band was so heavy and even Jim Morrison himself said they were heavy. There band name is named after a batch of Owsley Stanley's acid called Blue Cheer
Shades of Darkness, Space Meat, respectively, Mountain (band), Josefus, Sir Lord Baltimore, The Koala, Blue Cheer, leslie west, frijid pink, Bang (U.S. Band) and Bedemon " pentagram " are The epiphany of Doom metal
Great news. Just saw on Amazon that Outsideinside is going to be released on 1/31 by Sundazed Records. Sundazed's compact disc edition is sourced from the original Philips Records reels, complete with the original cover design and features a new essay by Doug Sheppard of Ugly Things magazine.Roll me a fat one! Spread the word.
Can anyone tell me how to achieve the guitar effect that starts at 0:39? I initially thought that you would just slide up and down the neck of the guitar. However, after seeing the music video, it looks like Leigh is just bending the string up and down, but when I try it, I can't get such a wild shift in pitch. Am I just not bending hard enough?
@JAC1138 It´s not how HARD, it´s how fast... I suppose if you´re using string from 0.10 and up it becomes harder and harder to do it... I use 0.09 and my vibratos (that´s the name of the technique by the way) sound like a charm! HOWEVER, that´s a very intense vibrato, and I wouldn´t rule out the fact that this guy might have had a guitar with a whammy bar on it... I´d have to google into it!!!!!!!
Eddie Cochran smiles down from Heaven every time someone plays a version of this one. Love that drone! Like a squadron of low-flying B-17s! Heavy and devastating! BRUISIN'!
Blue Cheer was a rock band, pioneering the sound in the 90's became known as stoner rock by highly serious use of the tuning of their instruments and the strong volume used in their recordings. Emerged in the late 60's and early 70's. Originally from San Francisco, USA, is also regarded as a pioneer of heavy metal, punk and stoner
I'm with the ones who credit Black Sabbath with the title of the first authentic Heavy Metal band. They had enough darkness and heaviness to be called so, and even in their first albums they had true metal riffs, even in a modern point of view. But of course, they didn't pull the rabbit out of the hat. They had influences, that were more aggressive 60's rock bands. Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and of course some Beatles songs (Helter Skelter f.i.). But still, BS turned it into Metal.
If people put this music as heavy metal, i'm against it, because I have make a comment in a blues video "i prefer justin bieber than metal"! i thought metal is like iron maiden, judas priest, and those dog barking music, and for me those music is just as annoying as justin bieber, don't put blue cheer in the same genre with them, call it blues rock, stoner rock, acid rock or just rock and roll, i think it's more apporpiate. Cheers.. :D
Black Sabbath STILL had to be formed! In 1968; thus, Yardbirds & NEW Yardbirds to become Led Zeppelin, were indeed THE METAL band that started it all. Blue Cheer formed in 1966 and Yardbirds as did NEW Yardbirds were already doing Heavy Metal type of sounds, etc.
This is NO debating, guys, just to get the FACTS straight. Am muscician myself started playing guitar from 12 years old am now well in the mid 50ties.
Love Metal and all sorts of good music...Thanks guys.
Hi guys, Led Zeppelin were playing Whole Lotta Love way before 1968, touring as the New Yardbirds, as well: later to be Led Zeppelin. So, Summertime Blues as well as Whole Lotta Love kinda 'crossed paths' at the same time. Love BOTH bands. Yardbirds back in mid 60s...already did what Led Zeppelin and Cheer were doing (only they had SHORT hair...;-)! Thus:
Yardbirds were quite AHEAD in that sort of Heavy METAL style.
Why I wasn't born in the 50's? Then, when I was 10 years old to 40 years old I had gone to concerts of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, The Animals, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, AC / DC, Scorpions, KISS, Mötley Crüe, Slade, Motörhead, Diamond Head, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Queen, and of course, Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blue cheer was just trying to mix up a bit of hendrix/iron butterfly/who and turn it up a little for good measure.. .pretty much the formula for "metal" music in the early days.
I have loved this song since buying the album in 1968...but Leigh's guitar isn't mixed as high in the upload as the original recording. It's down about 30 percent from the original mix.
And the DC5? Heavy Metal? Give me some of the drugs YOU take, man. I'm old. I need something like that to bend my mind THAT far.
Yeah, I really like Cream and still own their records and play them but my heart was with 60's Californian/San Francisco Acid, Garage & Punk bands like Blue Cheer, Love, Clear Light, Kak and and and ...
Blue Cheer is without any doubt the MOTHER of Heavy Metal. One year before Black Sabbath and two years before Led Zeppelin. How come anybody say the first Led Zep is Metal? Crap. Must be out of his/her mind. It's pure Blues Rock or call it Acid Blues, inspired by US bands like Blue Cheer and Spirit and some more. Cream and Yardbirds HEAVIER than Blue Cheer? You must be nuts!
@rockHollie if you don't think that cream can't be compared with blue cheer check out cream " Live at Grande Ballroom Detroit 1967" this album is extremely heavy more like you must imagine anyways thanks for comment!
@rockHollie Black sabbath are the first to DEFINE heavy metal music.... not Zeppelin though they have a part in it... after Led Zep first album Tony said to Ozzy, "we'll be heavier" and with the Black Sabbath song... defines what heavy metal music is. no doubt Blue Cheer took big part in Black Sabbath's playing style. @ Great song btw! Cannot stop listenning to it!
@rockHollie - Who were the lightest band at the time? Love all the above bands. Do the Who and Deep Purple feature. Once the term Heavy Metal came out it was all over for me..
Lucky enough to see Blue Cheer in The Brook at Southampton in the late 90s.One of my Best Gigs. Only 60 people attended. The uninformed....
@kirkmancometh both bands got their start at the same time black sabbath represented the grimy dirgy side of metal and led zeppelin represented the good time feel uplift of heavy metal but overall both bands are killer and awesome
This actually 1960s garage band music! Cream,the Yardbirds and Jimi Hendrix were heavier than this. Real heavy metal didn't start until Led Zeppelin came along and inspired bands like Deep Purple,Uriah Heep and Black Sabbath to make heavier yet.
@Freistaat1918 of course that blue cheer is 100% blues, the point is that Leigh Stephens played heavy bluesy riffs with some fuzz and raw distortion and this isn't logically metal it's just heavy psych
@Freistaat1918 While this is a R&B cover, what makes this Heavy Metal is their attitude, the crushing, lumbering tempo, massive distortion and deathless delivery. They take a light-hearted teen song and crush it like a flower in their chain mail grip. That it is the attitude and Blue Cheer was the first with the attitude. Sabbath followed a few years later.
@MojoMouton Most definitely, just keep the bass relatively low, also a vintage style fuzz for some of the more dirty tones Leigh uses, hope I've helped.
Is actually Leigh Stephens playing on this song ? Is he playing an SG ? In a Marshall amp ? Could anybody tell me how to get an alike sound with an SG ?
@MojoMouton Basically I think it's about keeping every knob dimed.They were famous for their volume after all.No pedals,no effects.Just volume and lot's of it. When this came out I was 14.Me and my friends were bouncing off the walls playing air guitar.Finally we bought instruments and bought in.Saw them just a little before Dickie died. Still absolutely killing it.This is not your incense and peppermints kind of psychedelia.This is peaking energy.Threating chaos but keeping the groove.
This is a really cool version of Summertime Blues. This is, by far, the best version of Summertime Blues ever recorded. Although I do like The Who's version.
This ain't no heavy metal to my mind... Obviously one of the inspirations of the genre, but it lacks that feeling you can find in Black Sabbath (the song). But let's not bitch about what genre it is and just enjoy the music !!!
@mason6554 Dude, thanks for the recommendation, i just checked out that album and its fucking awesome! The singer sounds alot like Jim Morrison. Recommend any other heavy psychedelic rock with fuzzed out guitars?
Be sure to check out there second album which is just called High Tide. Its different but very good though. Another one of my favourite bands is Hawkwind. I just discovered a band called Salem Mass, they have a pretty good album called Witchburning. If your as big a fan as I am of Jim Morrison you should check out Danzig's first 2 albums, especially the first. What other bands are you into? I can recommend a couple others if you'd like.
@mason6554 Awesome dude. Yeah i know about Salem Mass' Witchburning. And The Doors kick ass! I listen to somewhat Danzig, lately I've been really into heavy psychedelic rock from the 60's/70's (Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, ect.). Blue Cheer is actually my favorite at the moment. I havnt heard of Hawkwind, and I havnt checked out High Tide's second album but i will defenatly check them out! Recommend any other psychedelic bands with fuzzed out guitars and trippy solos?
A band called Bitter Creek have this song called Plastic Thunder which is great but I can't find any other stuff by them. Bands like The Electric Prunes and Strawberry Alarmclock are good but not too heavy though. Deep Purple did come crazy stuff back then too. Theres also Steppenwolf, they're not too psychodelic but they have a heavier sound. The Byrds are good too.
By FAR, my favorite version of the song. I kinda hate the original from Eddie Cochrane, mostly because of the cartoonish spoken word parts and 'circus organ'. I love that Blue Cheer replaced those parts with drum fills and distortion. The Who version is cool, and Rush did a fantastic version, inspired by the Blue Cheer and Who versions combined.
Blue Cheer rules them all on this one, in my opinion.
the inner sleeve shows em in front of a wall of marshalls...the best stage imaginable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...and only a 3 piece group...allways been 1 of my favs....considering i remember buyin the album back then!!!
the inner sleeve shows em in front of a wall of marshalls...the best stage imaginable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...and only a 3 piece group...allways been 1 of my favs....considering i remember buyin the album back then!!!
Sabbath is gr8 but for my money these guys are the godfathers of heavy metal.
jelisa46 3 days ago
I remember seeing them on Dick Clark's American Bandstand... yes.. Blue Cheer. Still have the LP .
MrAndyman777 5 days ago
LSD music rules!!! Hahaha I love this song
heavymarwan97 1 week ago
THANK YOU BLUE CHEER!!! This particular version of this particular song really defines a paradigm shift (thank you Radio Baha'i) in and a prototype of the far-reaching potential created by some kids with too much unrequited testosterone who simply turned it up. BTW, enlightened listeners who haven't already done so will find themselves highly entertained by listening to the wide range of covers of this song available on YouTube.
CrazyRayHimself 1 week ago
Eddie Cochran would've goyt just as raunchy if hee hadn't had to go thhrough thayt terrible moytorcycle accident with Bob Dylan. They were working on something truyly mindbeyding.
pettibonnotginn 1 week ago
this sounds like hendrix
rochabeatlesfan 1 week ago
This song is widely accepted as the first ever heavy metal recording.
ProudAtheist90 2 weeks ago
THE FIRST... ¡¡HEAVY METAL!! OF WORLD
Antireggaeton1 2 weeks ago
Does anyone remember orange barrel acid? What a very cool time for music! Jimi, Clapton, and The Beatles, Iron Butterfly, Fridged Pink, and all the rest of the so called cutting edge bands. There were so many that were good that you can't list all of them. This all shaped what we listen to today. But none of these bands sounded alike. Very cool stuff!!!!!!!!
guitarman82656 3 weeks ago 4
Wow that guitar sound that guitar sound just got no words for it
SymptomaticF1end 3 weeks ago
hate to say this but it kinda sounds like zeppelin copied these guys :(
jonism1971 3 weeks ago
@jonism1971 are you joking?
RealOutOfSight 3 weeks ago
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@jonism1971 are you joking?
RealOutOfSight 3 weeks ago
@jonism1971 That makes absolutely no sense. Zep sound completely different.
becausehorse 1 week ago
Blue Cheer was actually the name of a popular laundry detergent.
Nefarioso 3 weeks ago
@Nefarioso According to wikipedia, it was also a popular variety of LSD. I've been readng about this legendary band for thirty years, finally hearing them is so not dissapointing.
noboxxydolatry 3 weeks ago
These DUDES lived just a few doors away from me in bluebird canyon lane in Laguna beach Ca. Those days were AWESOME!
Mike2008and2008 4 weeks ago
I GOT THIS 45 MINT
geeza1964 4 weeks ago
This band was so heavy and even Jim Morrison himself said they were heavy. There band name is named after a batch of Owsley Stanley's acid called Blue Cheer
94ddare 1 month ago in playlist BLUE CHEER
The first stoner band ever
gnr147 1 month ago
that tone is so seeexxxy man..
godalful 1 month ago
killer version!
sonicsteev 1 month ago
Shades of Darkness, Space Meat, respectively, Mountain (band), Josefus, Sir Lord Baltimore, The Koala, Blue Cheer, leslie west, frijid pink, Bang (U.S. Band) and Bedemon " pentagram " are The epiphany of Doom metal
EricSHinton 1 month ago
i got this t-shirt.
ddirtydave 1 month ago
they know how to use the bass !!!!!!
JimMorrisonHungary 1 month ago
I saw them in 1968 the loudest band to ever take the fu..ing stage
securitycat11 1 month ago
@securitycat11 damn you lucky i only heard this song in 6th grade on the radio
flyinv1967 1 month ago
@securitycat11 dang man ur lucky.
94ddare 1 month ago
Hey! I'm segure the best version The Who live in Woodstock 69 please.
estoesesto4 1 month ago
lol everytime i hear this song, i think of Cheech and Chong..
MrsClippit 1 month ago
They were Metallica before Metallica was Metallica!
jayz3772 1 month ago
@jayz3772 NO...they where Blue Cheer, after Blue Cheer!!!
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dvd1man 2 months ago
absolut goil!!!
berholdschmidt01 2 months ago
Can anyone tell me how to achieve the guitar effect that starts at 0:39? I initially thought that you would just slide up and down the neck of the guitar. However, after seeing the music video, it looks like Leigh is just bending the string up and down, but when I try it, I can't get such a wild shift in pitch. Am I just not bending hard enough?
JAC1138 2 months ago
@JAC1138 I just rapidly bend the note up and back with the middle finger...thru my Germanium Fuzz Face of course!
Silvertone58 2 months ago in playlist Later 60's Coolness
@JAC1138 It´s not how HARD, it´s how fast... I suppose if you´re using string from 0.10 and up it becomes harder and harder to do it... I use 0.09 and my vibratos (that´s the name of the technique by the way) sound like a charm! HOWEVER, that´s a very intense vibrato, and I wouldn´t rule out the fact that this guy might have had a guitar with a whammy bar on it... I´d have to google into it!!!!!!!
bubblezen 2 months ago
Very good lml
TheEstrellitadejojoe 2 months ago
Eddie Cochran smiles down from Heaven every time someone plays a version of this one. Love that drone! Like a squadron of low-flying B-17s! Heavy and devastating! BRUISIN'!
mickeymousebiker1 2 months ago
All due respect to Eddie Cocoran, great song! This is one of the All Time GREAT Covers, Cheers to Blue Cheer!!!
1beamer11 2 months ago
Blue Cheer is the Original Metallica Master of Puppets - And I secretly think this destroys the Who !! And I Love the Who ,....more than anything
GreenhouseEffectGE 3 months ago
Well Lord I got to raise a fuss, Lord I got to raise a holler
Well I been working all summer just to try and earn a dollar
Well Lord I tried to call my baby, I tried to get a date......
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
Lord there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
mjhulshorst 3 months ago
You know my mom and papa told me, "Son you gotta make some money"
(Of course I do. I should, I work like a dog)
"Well if you wanna to use the car go riding next Sunday"
Well Lord I didn't go to work I told the boss I was sick
He said......
mjhulshorst 3 months ago
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
Lord there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
I gotta take three weeks, I gotta have a fun vacation
I gotta take my problem to the United Nations
I done told my congressman and he said quote
"Dig this, boy......"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
Lord there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
OW!
mjhulshorst 3 months ago
I gotta take three weeks, I gotta have a fun vacation
I gotta take my problem to the United Nations
I done told my congressman and he said quote
"Dig this, boy......"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
Lord there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
Whoa no, there ain't no cure.
You got to live with this for the rest of your life!
mjhulshorst 3 months ago
Blue Cheer was a rock band, pioneering the sound in the 90's became known as stoner rock by highly serious use of the tuning of their instruments and the strong volume used in their recordings. Emerged in the late 60's and early 70's. Originally from San Francisco, USA, is also regarded as a pioneer of heavy metal, punk and stoner
freemasones 3 months ago
Blue Cheer....would split your eardrums...you younger kids take note...this is how you play....LOUDER THAN SHIT!!!! BLUEFUCKINCHEER!!!!!
stewgotz1 4 months ago
I'm with the ones who credit Black Sabbath with the title of the first authentic Heavy Metal band. They had enough darkness and heaviness to be called so, and even in their first albums they had true metal riffs, even in a modern point of view. But of course, they didn't pull the rabbit out of the hat. They had influences, that were more aggressive 60's rock bands. Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and of course some Beatles songs (Helter Skelter f.i.). But still, BS turned it into Metal.
Qodaet 4 months ago
If people put this music as heavy metal, i'm against it, because I have make a comment in a blues video "i prefer justin bieber than metal"! i thought metal is like iron maiden, judas priest, and those dog barking music, and for me those music is just as annoying as justin bieber, don't put blue cheer in the same genre with them, call it blues rock, stoner rock, acid rock or just rock and roll, i think it's more apporpiate. Cheers.. :D
AlternativeBT 4 months ago
Unless you're tone deaf, you'd be able to tell Black Sabbath laid down the foundation. Lyrical context, riffs, look, it all fit.
Granted, Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, yadda yadda all had heavy rock elements, but Sabbath were legit.
Sammysification 4 months ago
Metal at its infancy.
POPACHELLI 4 months ago
intro riff is metal. rest of the song is fuzzrock.
mikexlong 5 months ago
Black Sabbath STILL had to be formed! In 1968; thus, Yardbirds & NEW Yardbirds to become Led Zeppelin, were indeed THE METAL band that started it all. Blue Cheer formed in 1966 and Yardbirds as did NEW Yardbirds were already doing Heavy Metal type of sounds, etc.
This is NO debating, guys, just to get the FACTS straight. Am muscician myself started playing guitar from 12 years old am now well in the mid 50ties.
Love Metal and all sorts of good music...Thanks guys.
dulady 5 months ago
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Josh Homme from QOTSA guitar sound is really similar to this
mentalfeed70 5 months ago
Here we go again debating to which band belongs to what genre. Is that really necessary? Cant we just enjoy the music?
chichaaayy 5 months ago
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chichaaayy 5 months ago
Hi guys, Led Zeppelin were playing Whole Lotta Love way before 1968, touring as the New Yardbirds, as well: later to be Led Zeppelin. So, Summertime Blues as well as Whole Lotta Love kinda 'crossed paths' at the same time. Love BOTH bands. Yardbirds back in mid 60s...already did what Led Zeppelin and Cheer were doing (only they had SHORT hair...;-)! Thus:
Yardbirds were quite AHEAD in that sort of Heavy METAL style.
dulady 5 months ago
Remember hearing this for the first time on the old Steve Allen Show
doricat205 5 months ago
Yesterday was the first time I heard this song: Eargasm.
DanAndHoe 5 months ago
Who the hell cares if you call it heavy metal/blues rock/heavy psych/"stoner rock" whatever? Just listen to the music!
DLWJohn 6 months ago
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USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!
Rosieisapunk1200 6 months ago
Heavy metal of the stone age
NFSMostWantedKing 6 months ago
THE ORIGINAL STONER ROCK/METAL BAND!!!!!
Guitarbro221 6 months ago
This is a fierce song!! Classic!!
Starskylina87 6 months ago
2 people had to make some money
bluestar1y 6 months ago
Still, of the songs i hear from BlueCheer this one is the only 60s psycadelic thrash sounding whatever? Am i wrong?
dannyhood66 6 months ago
wtf the boss said what . (that just a joke i've heard the original)
professionaltroller1 6 months ago
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Why I wasn't born in the 50's? Then, when I was 10 years old to 40 years old I had gone to concerts of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, The Animals, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, AC / DC, Scorpions, KISS, Mötley Crüe, Slade, Motörhead, Diamond Head, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Queen, and of course, Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haushinka300 6 months ago
This was in the movie Troll!!!
kingsnake23 7 months ago
beast song!!!!! thanks
ripshairout 7 months ago
dig it....thanks.
upjumpedthedevil123 7 months ago
Blue cheer was just trying to mix up a bit of hendrix/iron butterfly/who and turn it up a little for good measure.. .pretty much the formula for "metal" music in the early days.
65Moondoggy 7 months ago
I have loved this song since buying the album in 1968...but Leigh's guitar isn't mixed as high in the upload as the original recording. It's down about 30 percent from the original mix.
And the DC5? Heavy Metal? Give me some of the drugs YOU take, man. I'm old. I need something like that to bend my mind THAT far.
rpmhart 7 months ago
Stop arguing about the name of the music. Who cares if it´s metal or not? For god´s sake, drop it!
ttesoro 7 months ago
I called my Congressman, and he said quote, "Take this, boy!" LMAO!
hb310dude 7 months ago
Yeah, I really like Cream and still own their records and play them but my heart was with 60's Californian/San Francisco Acid, Garage & Punk bands like Blue Cheer, Love, Clear Light, Kak and and and ...
rockHollie 7 months ago 8
@rockHollie Yeah me too, love the proto metal and heavy psychedelic blues, check out my channel if you want to know more bands...thanks!!
MLGxSLasH 7 months ago 10
@rockHollie love and clear light were on 4 track car tapes you listen to one side over and over or flip them over
spacepatrolman 6 months ago
@rockHollie
moby grape?...lol...
jkgeiger1 5 months ago
Blue Cheer is without any doubt the MOTHER of Heavy Metal. One year before Black Sabbath and two years before Led Zeppelin. How come anybody say the first Led Zep is Metal? Crap. Must be out of his/her mind. It's pure Blues Rock or call it Acid Blues, inspired by US bands like Blue Cheer and Spirit and some more. Cream and Yardbirds HEAVIER than Blue Cheer? You must be nuts!
rockHollie 7 months ago 10
@rockHollie if you don't think that cream can't be compared with blue cheer check out cream " Live at Grande Ballroom Detroit 1967" this album is extremely heavy more like you must imagine anyways thanks for comment!
MLGxSLasH 7 months ago 2
@rockHollie The debate rages on!--just like Dickie would have hoped for!
jannyrcobs 7 months ago
@rockHollie the first heavy metal album was Black Sabbath's self titled. end of story
djc741 7 months ago
@rockHollie not two years before zeppelin buddy,and what about butterfly? mc5?
clydeholbrook 6 months ago
@rockHollie mc5 started in 64, before cream, zeppelin, butterfly or blue cheer or sabbath or the worst band ever...deep purple
clydeholbrook 6 months ago
@rockHollie Black sabbath are the first to DEFINE heavy metal music.... not Zeppelin though they have a part in it... after Led Zep first album Tony said to Ozzy, "we'll be heavier" and with the Black Sabbath song... defines what heavy metal music is. no doubt Blue Cheer took big part in Black Sabbath's playing style. @ Great song btw! Cannot stop listenning to it!
assaf001 5 months ago
@rockHollie Oh shut up. Cream was just as heavy, if not heavier, than Blue Cheer.
And no, Black Sabbath invented Metal, period.
VictorRechnageL 5 months ago
@rockHollie Loudest band in the world at the time.
Fukonservaties 4 months ago
@rockHollie i dont know, man. cream's first album came out 2 years before this one and they had some pretty mean bluesy songs too.
HBK1337 3 months ago
@rockHollie - Who were the lightest band at the time? Love all the above bands. Do the Who and Deep Purple feature. Once the term Heavy Metal came out it was all over for me..
Lucky enough to see Blue Cheer in The Brook at Southampton in the late 90s.One of my Best Gigs. Only 60 people attended. The uninformed....
yuteshute 2 months ago
@rockHollie "One year before Sabbath and two years before Led Zeppelin"? Shouldn't it be the other way round?
ProcolHarum1967 2 months ago 12
@rockHollie Zeppelin formed in 1968 and Sabbath came around in '69.
pdhudsonUSMC 2 months ago
@rockHollie led zeppelin were before black sabbath.
kirkmancometh 1 month ago
@kirkmancometh both bands got their start at the same time black sabbath represented the grimy dirgy side of metal and led zeppelin represented the good time feel uplift of heavy metal but overall both bands are killer and awesome
jacobladders 1 month ago
@jacobladders according to wikipedia led zep formed in 68 sabbath in 69.
kirkmancometh 1 month ago
I still think that the first heavy metal song ever was "Any Way You Want It" by the Dave Clark Five in 1964..
BBINGHAM032352 7 months ago
This actually 1960s garage band music! Cream,the Yardbirds and Jimi Hendrix were heavier than this. Real heavy metal didn't start until Led Zeppelin came along and inspired bands like Deep Purple,Uriah Heep and Black Sabbath to make heavier yet.
BBINGHAM032352 7 months ago
dam the beat sound so swell
jerry420884 7 months ago
The best version and the album cover is so perfect for the time....
paisleyization 7 months ago
Huh? What? Sorry, I can't hear you! ;)
StndrDeviant 8 months ago
@mymusicvidsandrants sure? check out my video "My Favorite Proto-Metal Stoner doom songs of 60's/70's" and later tell me if you liked or not
MLGxSLasH 8 months ago
Why is this metal and not bluesrock? Someone please explain :(
Freistaat1918 8 months ago
@Freistaat1918 of course that blue cheer is 100% blues, the point is that Leigh Stephens played heavy bluesy riffs with some fuzz and raw distortion and this isn't logically metal it's just heavy psych
MLGxSLasH 8 months ago 14
@MLGxSLasH All metal was back in the day was really heavy blues.
TheMetalUnited 4 months ago
@MLGxSLasH Exactly right I like the raw distortion of that guitar either it's a metal ass kicker to me I love it.
Starskylina87 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@Freistaat1918 Proto-metal: what came before and ended up evolving into heavy metal.
cactusnoturno 7 months ago
@Freistaat1918 hey just listen to blues, jus tlisten to metal, and then compare to which one this song seems like. It seems like metal obviously.
slihfshf 6 months ago
@Freistaat1918 The term heavy metal didnt exist then
spacepatrolman 5 months ago
@Freistaat1918 While this is a R&B cover, what makes this Heavy Metal is their attitude, the crushing, lumbering tempo, massive distortion and deathless delivery. They take a light-hearted teen song and crush it like a flower in their chain mail grip. That it is the attitude and Blue Cheer was the first with the attitude. Sabbath followed a few years later.
robertschelly 3 months ago
pass the bong!
12161euclid 8 months ago
@atomheart411 Thank you for your answer. Waow, must have been nice seeing them live at the time.
Could I get this kind of sound with an SG in a Marshall Class5 ?
Thanks.
MojoMouton 8 months ago
@MojoMouton Sorta, I get extremely close, just crank up the treble man.
obscurebandfan 7 months ago
@obscurebandfan Wooh yeah ! I'm soon gonna buy a SG Standard, will it make it ?
MojoMouton 6 months ago
@MojoMouton Most definitely, just keep the bass relatively low, also a vintage style fuzz for some of the more dirty tones Leigh uses, hope I've helped.
obscurebandfan 6 months ago
@obscurebandfan You did, thanks dude.
A last question maybe : which fuzz pedal would you rather use for this kind of tones ?
Thx
MojoMouton 6 months ago
@MojoMouton Leigh used a Fuzz Face, you can buy the modern version or a clone for relatively cheap, Jimi used them too.
obscurebandfan 6 months ago
@obscurebandfan Thanks again. And could the FuzzFace be creamy enough to sound like Cream or Santana or Yardbirds late recordings ?
MojoMouton 6 months ago
"There ain't no cure for the Summertime Blues". This is a classic!!! If this is the first Heavy Metal song, what a way to start!!!
1962drob 8 months ago
Is actually Leigh Stephens playing on this song ? Is he playing an SG ? In a Marshall amp ? Could anybody tell me how to get an alike sound with an SG ?
Thanks
MojoMouton 8 months ago
@MojoMouton Basically I think it's about keeping every knob dimed.They were famous for their volume after all.No pedals,no effects.Just volume and lot's of it. When this came out I was 14.Me and my friends were bouncing off the walls playing air guitar.Finally we bought instruments and bought in.Saw them just a little before Dickie died. Still absolutely killing it.This is not your incense and peppermints kind of psychedelia.This is peaking energy.Threating chaos but keeping the groove.
atomheart411 8 months ago
Super Rock & Roll!
1400deadwood 9 months ago 2
96 Roman Pratorian soldiers vs. 1 hating persian
yankeemanful 9 months ago
This is a really cool version of Summertime Blues. This is, by far, the best version of Summertime Blues ever recorded. Although I do like The Who's version.
1962drob 9 months ago
@1962drob the who is amazing but this is better
VEVOthesporks 9 months ago 3
@VEVOthesporks I agree with you 100%!!!
1962drob 9 months ago
@VEVOthesporks oh these guys were a hoot live . but the Who way way up there.
cordeliann 8 months ago
This ain't no heavy metal to my mind... Obviously one of the inspirations of the genre, but it lacks that feeling you can find in Black Sabbath (the song). But let's not bitch about what genre it is and just enjoy the music !!!
TheMeetic666 9 months ago
Definitely the first heavy metal song--even before the genre was born. Crank up those speakers!
Cissy2cute 9 months ago
1 person is not allowed to take the car to go drivin' next Sunday
captsouth 9 months ago
this version of the song is why I can't stand the way the Who does it. This blows them far,far,far away to the land of the "forgotten inferiors!"
1qaz2wsx3edc5753 10 months ago
Rock needs to return to this sound. sooooo good.
KyplayaZ4lyfe 10 months ago
to roots of metal!
666RisingBeast666 11 months ago 2
is it just me? or does the intro sound like "Foxy Lady"?!?!
TheArabmobile1 11 months ago
@TheArabmobile1 I think it sounds like foxy lady too.
bladerunner951 11 months ago 2
everytime i listen to this album i gotta spark a bong up
jacobladders 11 months ago
@jacobladders
Check out an album called Sea Shanties by a band called High Tide. It will mess you up.
mason6554 11 months ago
@mason6554 Dude, thanks for the recommendation, i just checked out that album and its fucking awesome! The singer sounds alot like Jim Morrison. Recommend any other heavy psychedelic rock with fuzzed out guitars?
realityfrominsanity 11 months ago
@realityfrominsanity
Be sure to check out there second album which is just called High Tide. Its different but very good though. Another one of my favourite bands is Hawkwind. I just discovered a band called Salem Mass, they have a pretty good album called Witchburning. If your as big a fan as I am of Jim Morrison you should check out Danzig's first 2 albums, especially the first. What other bands are you into? I can recommend a couple others if you'd like.
mason6554 10 months ago
@mason6554 Awesome dude. Yeah i know about Salem Mass' Witchburning. And The Doors kick ass! I listen to somewhat Danzig, lately I've been really into heavy psychedelic rock from the 60's/70's (Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, ect.). Blue Cheer is actually my favorite at the moment. I havnt heard of Hawkwind, and I havnt checked out High Tide's second album but i will defenatly check them out! Recommend any other psychedelic bands with fuzzed out guitars and trippy solos?
realityfrominsanity 10 months ago
@realityfrominsanity
A band called Bitter Creek have this song called Plastic Thunder which is great but I can't find any other stuff by them. Bands like The Electric Prunes and Strawberry Alarmclock are good but not too heavy though. Deep Purple did come crazy stuff back then too. Theres also Steppenwolf, they're not too psychodelic but they have a heavier sound. The Byrds are good too.
mason6554 10 months ago
@realityfrominsanity A quick trivia note about Hawkwind...you know who their bass player is, right? It's Lemmy form Motorhead :)
jplew138 10 months ago
@jplew138 Haha yeah i know, thanks though :)
realityfrominsanity 10 months ago
@jplew138
I wasn't their bass player very long but the stuff with him is the best.
steelwizard 9 months ago
@mason6554 check out leaf hound man
hambone9119 10 months ago
@hambone9119
Wow. Thats a cool band, thanks Man. You like Captain Beyond?
mason6554 9 months ago
@mason6554 just checked em out Dam that shit is awesome.
hambone9119 9 months ago
@hambone9119
These kind of bands definitely are the greatest.
mason6554 9 months ago
@realityfrominsanity
try Mountain, with Felix Pappalardi & Leslie West - start with their single Mississippi Queen :)
SupernalOne 10 months ago
By FAR, my favorite version of the song. I kinda hate the original from Eddie Cochrane, mostly because of the cartoonish spoken word parts and 'circus organ'. I love that Blue Cheer replaced those parts with drum fills and distortion. The Who version is cool, and Rush did a fantastic version, inspired by the Blue Cheer and Who versions combined.
Blue Cheer rules them all on this one, in my opinion.
Billinois78 11 months ago 2
this is crazy
jpark1115 11 months ago
this is the real stuff here....1968
d1sailer 1 year ago
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MaceMn 1 year ago
the best version of this gr8 Eddie Cochrane song in my opinion..prefer it to the Who's cover although the Who were a gr8 band
TheBlueCream 1 year ago
@TheBlueCream Totally agree..... Sweet upload. I love this version. It makes The Who's version seem weak. Don't get me wrong as I love The Who.
MaceMn 1 year ago 2
this song and band both kick major ass.
theillfrisch1 1 year ago
the inner sleeve shows em in front of a wall of marshalls...the best stage imaginable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...and only a 3 piece group...allways been 1 of my favs....considering i remember buyin the album back then!!!
jkgeiger1 1 year ago
the inner sleeve shows em in front of a wall of marshalls...the best stage imaginable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...and only a 3 piece group...allways been 1 of my favs....considering i remember buyin the album back then!!!
jkgeiger1 1 year ago
This is the true beginning. The beginning of something raw, wild... but wonderful. The heaviness itself!
ThrashNWOBHManiac 1 year ago
@ThrashNWOBHManiac Right On,,, THE BEGINNING.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
One of the early heavy tunes that made me want to play the drums!
TheeUnidentified 1 year ago 16
@TheeUnidentified the drums makes me crazy the sound of the guitar is really insane thanks for comment dude
MLGxSLasH 1 year ago 9