Blue Cheer - Rock Me Baby - NYC soundcheck

[Nash1965H]

No RUSH without BLUE CHEER. Geddy Lee has said time and time again, that BLUE CHEER was a major influence on he and Alex Lifeson. At least we have RUSH giving credit where credit is due. Thanks Geddy. BLUE CHEER rocks.

[karmalyuk]

Great video! Thank you! Hail to Blue Cheer!

[larawora]

R.I.P the biggest legend of metal/blues dickie peterson

[mcshair21]

I say Blue Cheer > Black Sabbath

[ThomasShatter]

It's sad,that they don't be more famous...But the good thing is, they don't be a fucking "rockstars" who selling all kind of shit with title "Blue Cheer".And i must say it - Vincebus Eruptum is one of the best album in history of rock and metal :)

[GEEZTONE]

lmao...good for you...enjoy that ride!!!!

[DruDixon777]

Ragged Glory!

[MoreAwsomeMetal]

DAMN I MISSED THEM IN LIVE!!!!

[HopeflRomantc]

this must've been after Jerre died

[witchaywoman1]

Thank you Ace!! Love to see them Jam!

[Rodhust]

BLUE CHEER is fucking awesome. see my Brazilian band that plays covers of BLUE CHEER. Band type in HUST - ROCK MY BABY.

[pikiwiki]

i'd rather listen to this song over sabbath

[1961slam]

Forgot to add: Thank-you for putting this vid up for the rest of us to enjoy!!

[AceFrehleyArchive]

@1961slam You are very welcome, I'm glad I was there to shoot it! I miss my friend and seeing these guys play.

[1961slam]

Now you hear in this set where the term 'groovy' come's from. Imagine these guy's in an arena with a mountain of gear!

[telumvolat]

Dickie, we miss you so!

Thank you for the fucking great music. R.I.P!

[catabeth1]

All I knew back then was classical,I told my grandma this was my music and she laughed and said'Honey, youre weird"

[weswade]

I had this album (Vincebus Eruptum) when I was a kid... Gawd, I wish I still had it!!!

[weswade]

I had this album when I was a kid... Gawd, I wish I still had it!!!

[k77jones]

jeezus, have these guys been in a time capsule since 1969?!!!!!!!!!!!!

[semitar6]

It looks like the camera guy couldnt help rocking out himself...either that or he was having a schizephrenic episode while filming.

[psychkoala]

Cool tone ! !

[Xaymot]

holy fuck that is thick

[pikiwiki]

@Xaymot Yes. Rather. It is.

[terminater1952]

What a great performance,loved it.

[rdpyt2666]

El origen de todo. Los otros padres del metal.

[Nash1965H]

I'm starting to agree with, the one and only Geddy Lee (Rush). Blue Cheer were the firtst true METAL band. Now don't everyone gang up on me all at once. For Ireally love Black Sabbath, but just listen to this. These guys they're rippin' it. They're trully AWESOME!!!!!

[pikiwiki]

@Nash1965H Lets, let's be realistic here. Sabbath, just, never, ever, got close to anything, this thick. Ever.

[Nash1965H]

@pikiwiki What the.....  I never disagreed with you. I have nothing but praise for Blue Cheer.

[pikiwiki]

@Nash1965H sorry if i misled you. i just, never heard anything like this song before, from anyone, thought it was how you describe it. I feel like i really felt something when i heard this, like something actually happened. it's good.

[pikiwiki]

trower-esque rythmn, page-esque lead fills and the occasional loopy deep purple lick, all laid out on basic delta blues rythmns. sounds like thunder in the distance from vietnam. makes me feel like I'm walking underwater. fantastic.

[DYNODRUM]

i CAN SAY THIS :Blue Cheer in 67' may have been the first Power trio type american Band and I've seen Cream Live so hold on to your shOrts before you comment .They have and deserve credit , Summertime Blues blew em all away.. It was also a type of, L.s.d-blue cheer

[PsychedelicTeen]

@LazyGigolo, that would be Andrew "Duck" MacDonald. He first joined Blue Cheer in the mid-80s. He played with them from 1985?-1991 (before the recording of Dining with the Sharks) and them from 1999-2009. I know that's probably more than you wanted, but I can't help myself sometimes!

[heyutang]

awesome!!!!

[LazyGigolo]

Hi,

Who plays the guitar in this clip ? The guy looks exactly like young Leigh Stephens in 1968...

[Lopproj]

rip :'(

[reportanddeport]

This shit kicks ass. And damn it, this super hard blues is hard to find. RIP Dickie Peterson.

[MetalYarick89]

RIP

[myownservant]

RIP, thanks for the lovely music

[luckyshow]

rock in peace

[wateronthesmoke]

Your deeds will live on.

[NEKRomantik2]

RIP Dickie

[hswatnik]

rip dickie peterson-

[SwampDweller67]

Thanks for posting this .... awesome. No justice in the world or these guys would have been playing stadiums.....

[parapedal1]

RIP DICKIE!

[hambone9119]

great so wanna see them live im seeing budgie in 2 weeks canrt wait now all i have to do is witness leaf hound and blue cheer.

[bschuit]

To bad Ricky died to day....

R.I.P

RICKER

[hambone9119]

i found out this morning i was saddened and shed a tear for Dicky wasnt a pompos ass too good rocker he was a friendly down to earth guy who did it coz he enjoyed it.

[SkopTeocratico]

Fantastic performance.

[Zepplica911]

Great stuff ..... However , I wish Leigh Stephens had stayed with the band after the two iconic albums and the TRIO would have been killing bands throughout the 70s like a walk in the park ...

[bmet012]

Dickie Peterson and the boys still rockin 40 plus years later i too remember when i bought my first Blue Cheer album years ago and my father yelling at me to turn that shit down i love it these guys still got it.

[rezeski]

I remember too. And I played it every day as loud as that crappy record player would play...

[bmet012]

hey rezeski when did you first get into Blue Cheer?I remember when Summertime Blues by them came out in 67 i had NEVER heard anything as heavy as that.And then 2 weeks ago my son im 57 now sent me this link to this vid by Blue Cheer i was amazed that they were still playing i thought they had broken up years ago oh no there still rockin after all these years amazing isnt it.

[dnggitg]

This is the darkest, sleaziest rendition of "Rock Me Baby" I've ever heard. Love it.

[KristofaKa]

this is not about getting old, guys! I am only 26 and still think that music like this or black sabbath and all the good stuff from back then will never be achieved again nowadays!

[gingermol76]

So cool. This is the way rock should be. What the hell has happened to rock?

[Taz0161]

Since you and I are roughly the same age give or take a few years you probably remember your parents asking the same questions mine did like , what happened to real music this is crap LOL it's just what we're used to and the changes in music we will probably never adjust to. I remember buying my first Blue Cheer album when I was 12 years old and my mother saying , thats not music , thats just a lot of noise LMAO.

[gingermol76]

You are so right. I guess we're just getting old, Taz.. Semper Fi, bro.

[oldsoftee]

The corporations ate it alive and spit out the bones... So sad...

[semitar6]

Corporations discovered they could make money from it....and now you got tripe like Justin Bieber and Britny Spears...sometines evolution sucks ass.. Blue Cheer Rocks.

[Ramzadkm]

@gingermol76 "You were born just to see rock die and become the industry of 'cool' "

[ThrashZone11]

@gingermol76 MTV started to exsist

[SuchisLifeIA]

Wow! These guys remind me of my old friend who asked me to find them. Better hang on to this video for his next drop-by visit.

[JesusLikesBreed]

the bassist/vocalist looks like Mumm-Ra from thundercats

[Powers129]

Shit these guys fuckin rock

[buffl777]

yeah

[Moose4Choice]

You think Cream was "light years ahead" of the Jimi Hendrix Experience? Ha, the Experience blew Cream away!

[myownservant]

great jam, chilled out

[FuckMunar]

This band kicks ass

and Im only 18 years of age

[AndreasBusshart]

COOL JAM

[econoroller]

the original louder than God metal band right here

[DrumTent]

BLUE CHEER are the original STONER, Doom, NOISE band. They single-handedly invented Heavy Metal.

[deathpigeon69]

How's he get that mint sound - Muff style fuzz??

[pietmk]

Rock till you drop !!

[FoxNGrass]

As I get older I hope to continue to jam as these chaps. Get off

[ungerncyv]

клёво!

[bufodmt]

Blue Cheer were the first to use standard blues songs to perform heavy guitar driven psychedelic music... Then came Led Zeppelin.....bufodmt...

[UISABOLLOX]

Don't think so...have you never heard of Cream.

[jb1563700]

Jimi Hendrix, anyone?

[mussman717word]

True, but Cream wasn't nearly as heavy, man. No doubt, Clapton shreaded, and it was fucking nice, but Blue Cheer brought did the rhythm section more justice. Peace!

[UISABOLLOX]

Will have to agree to disagree on that one....Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker are one of the greatest rhythm sections ever but thats just my opinion. I agree that the Cheer were heavier but Cream were really a blues band. Musically, Cream were light years ahead of anyone of that era...it's why they became household names and superstars.

[Laffeylad]

Taste!! I think so.

[UISABOLLOX]

Yup Taste were great too.

[downonme666]

I totally agree!

[bufodmt]

When I was nine years old I had the 45 rpm record of "Out of Focus" and listening to it made me go into the garage and turn an old RCA phonograph into a guitar amplifier and the rest is history......(more later) bufodmt.

[CadillacL]

Sabbath always gets credit for being the "Fathers' of Metal but, Blue Cheer

ARE the Masters.

[pikiwiki]

@CadillacL FINALLY. Someone has spoken the truth. Peace.

[hardcoreoma]

@CadillacL fail

[GEEZTONE]

@CadillacL Areu kidding me, lmao...luv the early metal, but these are masters over Sabbath's 40 plus years of reign????? LMFAO, LMFAO...and again LMFAO. Iommi perfected this chicken scratch into an art we know today. If this was the founders of heavy metal, omg, lol, save us all!!!!

[CadillacL]

@GEEZTONE All I'm saying is Blue Cheer should get credit for being the early influence. At the time, nobody heard anyone like them.

[lenasglad]

@GEEZTONE

Black Sabbath could play about 2 notes.

[GEEZTONE]

@lenasglad 2 notes made them legendary.....Bue what?

[GEEZTONE]

Respond to this video...2 notes made them legendary figures in both rock and roll hall of fames...Blue Who?

[furtherdefinitions]

@GEEZTONE Glad you like Black Sabbath and think they're the shit. Blue Cheer was still there first. Oh gee, not in the R&R Hall Of Fame? So what! Blue Cheer was still there first. The pioneers don't often get the recognition they deserve, and in this period of time, there were lots of bands that were doing interesting or different things that didn't get recognition. In any case, most of it was better than the shit that passes for music today.

[GEEZTONE]

@furtherdefinitions Well, I know what u r saying. I do respect that. But countless bands were there "first" before the Beatles and Stones too. I guess it boils down to what you do once you arrive....and the legacy you build under your bands name over the next 40 or so years, lol, don't you think????

[Planktontwo]

What a treat to see Dickie and Paul back together performing in concert. Please come to Minnesota sometime guys!!