thanx no argument here just taking advantage ov really learning the history here I listened to blue cheer and sabbath in the early 80 as a teen will be a metalhead till death thanx for the tips
sabbath zep and iron claw was the first metal then came pentagram 71 this is protometal like zeppelin face the facts sabbath opened the heavyist doorway and evryone followed suite if there is anything heavyer then sabb before them let me know havent found it yet
@tristanatlaticus Sir Lord Baltimore's first album came around the same time as Sabbath's first - 1970, but blows it away in terms of sheer power and energy. There's Lucifer's Friend - also 1970. Look up 'Ride The Sky'. When it comes to evil and dark themes, yes, Sabbath may have been the first. Black Widow came out in 1969 but they leaned more towards hippy/psychedelic than metal. All in all, Blue Cheer really may have been the most aggressive and raw sounding before Sabbath.
@tristanatlaticus Sir Lord Baltimore's first album came around the same time as Sabbath's first - 1970, but blows it away in terms of sheer power and energy. There's Lucifer's Friend - also 1970. Look up 'Ride The Sky'. When it comes to evil and dark themes, yes, Sabbath may have been the first. Black Widow came out in 1969 but they leaned more towards hippy-psychedelic than metal. All in all, Blue Cheer really may have been the most aggressive and raw sounding before Sabbath.
@VictorRechnageL Good point.. hehe. But Earth never had a proper LP release back in '67 to make their footprint. So all you had left in '67 were Hendrix, Cream, and perhaps Iron Butterfly.
@tristanatlaticus Oh.. btw. Iron Claw and Pentagram were deeply influenced by Sabbath. So they weren't really the first metal, more like taking genre forward and defining it even further.
I KNOW MORE ABOUT MUSIC THAN YOU`LL EVER KNOW AZZHOLE ! I`M 57 YEARS OLD AND HAVE BEEN BUYING RECORDS SINCE I WAS 9 YEARS OLD. I HAVE OVER 10,000 RECORDS IN MY COLLECTION AND UNLIKE YOU I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN STYLES OF MUSIC. NOW GO LISTEN TO LADY GAGA YOU FRICKIN` TONE DEAF LOSER !
YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK PUNK ! BLACK SABBATH WAS THE FIRST HEAVY METAL BAND ! IT`S OBVIOUS YOU "DON`T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HARD ROCK AND HEAVY METAL !
Aha! I know this from the end of Led Zeppelin I - nice! Now I'll have to track down Blue Cheer on vinyl. It's really interesting to see how the acid-rock sound began to morph into heavy metal. "Heavy," after all, was 1960s hippie slang, kids. The heavy music was bubbling and brewing in many different places in the late '60s.
@arielrebelfan1 mate you can go fuck yourself, you don't dig metal that's fine, but don't make us out to be a bunch of mindless ogres ok, personally i love metal, I love rock, I love blues, I especially love and appreciate a lot of bands you dig, please don't be so narrow minded in future (btw alice in chains and soundgarden get pretty fuckin' heavy at times, very metal imho)
@uoza92 Alice and Soundgarden were actually categorized as "heavy metal" bands until the Music Revolution of 1991. After that, "grunge" was the official title. These are just labels, marketing, really. I think there was a distinction because in the 1980s, "heavy metal" meant LA hair and glam bands. It meant the pretty boy rockers who sang about girls and cars. The Seattle bands, as followers of punk, rejected all that and focused on the music, which was VERY based on Zeppelin & Sabbath.
Thanx for the comment Plankton. I wish there was a way to recapture "that 60's feelings. How cool would it be to do it all over again, w/ Blue Cheer providing the ambiance of course! :>)
why is everyone comparing blue cheer/cream and even black sabbath to heavy metal when its ovious that rock is better than metal? idk.... just seems to me that people who liston to metal are spoid suburban kids/adults who dont do anything exiting with their life cuz they have no soul same as the music they liston to
@arielrebelfan1 people who enslave themselves to genres really miss the point of music. rock and roll is a rectangle and heavy metals a square, they're both the same thing. who cares
Oh, so Robert Plant flat out stole that lyric for How Many More Times... which could now be asking How Many More Times am I going to find out Zeppelin stole this shit?
I went to Hollywood to catch their show.. and It was Paul Butterfield Blues band..who were good but I really hate I never got to see them back in the day...I never heard why they cancled
I went to Hollywood to catch their show.. and I was Paul Butterfield Blues band..who were good but I really hate I never got to see them back in the day...I never heard why they cancled
this band is awsome!!!! great blues rock/early metal sound . Its so pure and real cause they didn't know any better. They only knew how to kick ass...
@steffanwunderink Haunted is good too. Or I could say 6 people are out of Focus, which is definitely true. At any rate, it is truly sad how sick some people must live without some Blue Cheer.
In 1968, I attended a concert held at the Eagles Auditorium in Seattle, Washington. To show you just how ironic things can get, Blue Cheer was the headliner and Pink Floyd was the backup band to warm-up the audience.
Remarkable. The poor quality of the film makes it even more exciting for me (I'm just odd sometimes, huh?)....Thank you so much for uploading this. Terrific.
Loved this when it came out. I'm sure Free did a version with better vocals, but this has a really dirty, gritty feel. Can anyone remind me - who did the album covers that were a bit like Salvadore Dali?
@ozgribbo Gut’s, the acid biker,designed the cover of the embossed beauty that was Blue Cheer’s debut, “Vincebus Eruptum.”, and Arab, an associate of Guts, designed the cover of their second l.p., Insideoutside...................A very, very g-reat group.
@angrysamoan666 Yes. You're right. I know as much about Blue Cheer as you obviously know about Free(Free is "Alright Now"). Right. But that's understandable since you were in diapers when they broke up and that's pretty much the only one of their songs they play. I've heard Blue Cheer for over 40 years, and they never struck me as an especially good band. I just think they're good for their own songs. Don't be so angry.
Blue Cheer lip-synching/miming?! Bet *that* boggled the North Beach crowd!
In 1968, the #1 Billboard 'single' was "Hey Jude". There's a couple tunes by Steppenwolf and Cream down the 'Top 100 List' but most of the rest is a bunch of pop/soul stuff. Blue Cheer was definitely creating a new sound and their only 'hit' was "Summertime Blues" which reached #14. They likely saw The Who perform it at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
you know i swear this is the first time in a while where i've found a music video and read the comments, and no one was arguing! no "thumbs up if you hate bieber" or anything like that just supportive, beneficial discussion. we need more of this
Didnt Albert KIng write this?FU%$ ME! I love this tune...Blue Cheer rocks. I musta listened to this SH&% like 100 times last night. I gotta get their sound down...Now I know where Jimmy Page got Zep´s sound...
@DemenzEntek Sheeet, dude. He ain't attributed on the original album! I'm just sayin' that, everything on the 'up-and-up', you'da figured it be attributed on the jacket. Dig?
@DemenzEntek Sheeet, dude. They ain't attributed on the original album! I'm just sayin' that, everything on the 'up-and-up', you'da figured it be attributed on the jacket. Dig?
Man oh man what a great frickin` song ! Put these guys in the rock hall of fame already for having one of the best ever sounding lead guitars ! Turn up the volume to 11 !
Damn, didn't know he died, saw them about two years ago in San Diego making the whole place shake like a gigantic vibrator with those bass frequencies! He ripped in life, he will RIP in death and peace!
The Hunter was originally a song by Booker T and The MGs, and I believe it was written by Steve Cropper and Donald 'Duck' Dunn (yeah, also of Blues Brothers fame.
When you listen to the rhythm groove, you can tell it's vintage MGs.
We're just a band that likes this kind of music and relates more to the 60's, 70's and 90's than today's music. We're just looking to be heard, if you would actually take the time to listen one of our songs on our channel and comment, we would really appreciated it. Thanks Peace.
We're just a band that likes this kind of music and relates more to the 60's, 70's and 90's than today's music. We're just looking to be heard, if you would actually take the time to listen one of our songs on our channel and comment, we would really appreciated it. Thanks Peace.
I read once that Bill Graham would not accept them into his fold? I played in a Bill Graham band that was in his line up of groups. And the band I played in was not even close to Blue Cheer in terms of innovation and sound.
Amazing, where did you find this video? I know the quality is poor, but B.C. did not make a lot of make a lot of noise on the top 10 scene. That is great as it made them better, I think. They had more fans than what history paints I think. RIP Dickie.
Well, it wouldnt surprise me if SG stands for Satans Guitar. SG's always get mean, evil tones, why else all doom metal bands use them. Wish I had one :(
@Frownland81: Wrong! Should be: "ALBERT KING 's song", not Howlin' Wolf. "The Hunter" appeared on the 1967 Albert King album "Born under a bad sign" (Stax 723). Written by members of Booker T. & the MG's, the Stax house band. Zeppelin DID "borrow" from Howlin' Wolf: "How many more times" was based on "No place to go", like "The lemon song" was based on Wolf's "Killin' Floor".
this is true musical revisionism: almost reviled at the time by "serious" journos, led zeppelin are now regarded as the best, the greatest and what not else.
fact is, the great zep stole their material left, right and center; apart from ripping off countless blues musicians (as you mention), jimmy page stole "dazed and confused" wholesale from jake holmes who did the original version in june 1967...worst of all, they never paid the old bluesmen a cent for it! zep were and are highly overrated.
Yeah, Blue Cheer was sooo original. Let's count heir original tunes: Summertime Blues? nope. The Hunter? Nope? Rock Me, Baby? Nope. Parchman Farm? Nope. All musicians including classical musicians use and abuse. Maybe Zappa didn't but who the hell can listen to Zappa? Zep is beloved because of what they did, which was bombastic and dramatic and gave people a thrill and took them away from their boring little lives. Kind of like you slagging them on You Tube.
Second Time Around, yup Feathers From Your Tree, yup.
Sun Cycle, yup.
Just a Little Bit, yup.
Gypsy Ball, yup.
Come and Get It, yup.
Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger, yup.
Babylon, yup. Has anyone made any lp's that sound at all like 'Outsideinside'? Or like VIncebus Eruptum? Nope. Are those lp's all killer no filler? FUCK YEAH!
I love Blue Cheer. My point is: everybody back then and before borrowed, plaiierized, ripped off or redid everyone else. Still going on today, though harder to get away with in the digital age. I think nothing less of them for doing those covers. Long Live Blue Cheer.
@shotdonkey : True, but then again Page took "Dazed and confused" from the old Yardbirds setlist when it was still called "I'm confused" and credited to Holmes. You can hear a version on the withdrawn "Yardbirds Live at the Anderson Theater" from 1968 (the one with the dubbed fake crowd noise) on which Page played lead-guitar. It's was the blue print for Led Zep's version.
nope. with all due respect to the great wolf, it was, er...booker t and the mgs who wrote "the hunter" and albert king (on "born under a bad sign") who performed the definitive version and brought the composition its due fame.
blue cheer`s version is pretty neat too, of course, although possibly slightly heavy-handed... ;-)
happy i got to see them befor dickies death.killer show. day of the super bowl. seriusly. only like 15 people showed up so we all got to sit up frunt. this was at the couach house in san jon capistrono. they plyed it like itwas a full house i had them all sign the firts album and got to talk with all of them. i evan had duck sign the album though he wasnt on that album. i remeber this guy had the drummer sign a drum stick that he thre winto the audience and the dude cot it 30 years ago
" screaming vocals and pounding bass lines helped push the psychedelic blues-rock trio into the musical territory that would later be called heavy metal "
acid rock at its rawest, reminds me of ultimate spinach. I heard this group live in 1968 in Belvidere, Illinois. I think thats where my hearing lose came from. "Boomers Ear"
Blue Cheer, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, The Kinks, The who... they are one ogf the fathers of heavy metal!
Malmsteen996 3 days ago
Blue cheer is not metal its fantastic psyc rok n blu
tristanatlaticus 2 weeks ago
I like when Led Zeppelin inserted that part in "How many more times", very great
bluesmol73 3 weeks ago
not as good as blue cheer!
xsk8feshx 1 month ago
i like this
themunchdude 1 month ago
this is kind of Cream-style hard-rock blues, done with a garage band attitude -
SupernalOne 1 month ago
Kinetic Playground was the best...Also saw them at the Aragon Ballroom with the airplane .They were so load they had to nail down the drums...
vicktor440 2 months ago
Kinetic Playground was the best...
vicktor440 2 months ago
I saw them in '68 @ Miami Pop Fest. the drummer beat those skins so hard, his hands bled. now THAT'S rock, baby!
cripbabe111 3 months ago
@cripbabe111 Enviable
Dzontyu 1 month ago
thanx no argument here just taking advantage ov really learning the history here I listened to blue cheer and sabbath in the early 80 as a teen will be a metalhead till death thanx for the tips
tristanatlaticus 4 months ago
sabbath zep and iron claw was the first metal then came pentagram 71 this is protometal like zeppelin face the facts sabbath opened the heavyist doorway and evryone followed suite if there is anything heavyer then sabb before them let me know havent found it yet
tristanatlaticus 4 months ago
@tristanatlaticus Sir Lord Baltimore's first album came around the same time as Sabbath's first - 1970, but blows it away in terms of sheer power and energy. There's Lucifer's Friend - also 1970. Look up 'Ride The Sky'. When it comes to evil and dark themes, yes, Sabbath may have been the first. Black Widow came out in 1969 but they leaned more towards hippy/psychedelic than metal. All in all, Blue Cheer really may have been the most aggressive and raw sounding before Sabbath.
sirlordwhitman 4 months ago
@tristanatlaticus Sir Lord Baltimore's first album came around the same time as Sabbath's first - 1970, but blows it away in terms of sheer power and energy. There's Lucifer's Friend - also 1970. Look up 'Ride The Sky'. When it comes to evil and dark themes, yes, Sabbath may have been the first. Black Widow came out in 1969 but they leaned more towards hippy-psychedelic than metal. All in all, Blue Cheer really may have been the most aggressive and raw sounding before Sabbath.
sirlordwhitman 4 months ago
@sirlordwhitman Hell yeah! Sir Lord Baltimore rules!
SOCOM018 4 months ago
@sirlordwhitman Mind you that Black Sabbath formed in 1967, as Earth, playing most of their stuff from the "Black Sabbath"-LP, and old blues covers.
VictorRechnageL 3 months ago
@VictorRechnageL Good point.. hehe. But Earth never had a proper LP release back in '67 to make their footprint. So all you had left in '67 were Hendrix, Cream, and perhaps Iron Butterfly.
sirlordwhitman 3 months ago
@tristanatlaticus Oh.. btw. Iron Claw and Pentagram were deeply influenced by Sabbath. So they weren't really the first metal, more like taking genre forward and defining it even further.
sirlordwhitman 4 months ago
There is one band that was playing before Black Sabbath but the were not metal not yet but in one of their songs you can hear the words heavy metal.
lukacrust 4 months ago
I KNOW MORE ABOUT MUSIC THAN YOU`LL EVER KNOW AZZHOLE ! I`M 57 YEARS OLD AND HAVE BEEN BUYING RECORDS SINCE I WAS 9 YEARS OLD. I HAVE OVER 10,000 RECORDS IN MY COLLECTION AND UNLIKE YOU I KNOW THE DIFFERENCE IN STYLES OF MUSIC. NOW GO LISTEN TO LADY GAGA YOU FRICKIN` TONE DEAF LOSER !
waykoolrecords 4 months ago
@waykoolrecords wow man cool out.who cares heavy metal or hard rock enjoy the music.
KumarsDad 4 months ago
Danzig did a really good version on their first album...but for sheer, primal, sludgy, grimy noize, Blue Cheer's version is tops....
decristo1021 4 months ago
Sorry but this is NOT heavy metal. It`s frickin` great loud distorted PSYCHEDELIC HARD ROCK !
waykoolrecords 4 months ago
@waykoolrecords
where do you think Heavy Metal started? Go do your homework before you post next time
luthierjustin1 4 months ago
YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK PUNK ! BLACK SABBATH WAS THE FIRST HEAVY METAL BAND ! IT`S OBVIOUS YOU "DON`T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HARD ROCK AND HEAVY METAL !
waykoolrecords 4 months ago
@waykoolrecords
hahaha kid, you really don't know anything about music do you? its ok. I doubt you're older than 15. you still have time to learn!
luthierjustin1 4 months ago
Aha! I know this from the end of Led Zeppelin I - nice! Now I'll have to track down Blue Cheer on vinyl. It's really interesting to see how the acid-rock sound began to morph into heavy metal. "Heavy," after all, was 1960s hippie slang, kids. The heavy music was bubbling and brewing in many different places in the late '60s.
gamesDAMNED 5 months ago
@arielrebelfan1 mate you can go fuck yourself, you don't dig metal that's fine, but don't make us out to be a bunch of mindless ogres ok, personally i love metal, I love rock, I love blues, I especially love and appreciate a lot of bands you dig, please don't be so narrow minded in future (btw alice in chains and soundgarden get pretty fuckin' heavy at times, very metal imho)
uoza92 5 months ago
@uoza92 Alice and Soundgarden were actually categorized as "heavy metal" bands until the Music Revolution of 1991. After that, "grunge" was the official title. These are just labels, marketing, really. I think there was a distinction because in the 1980s, "heavy metal" meant LA hair and glam bands. It meant the pretty boy rockers who sang about girls and cars. The Seattle bands, as followers of punk, rejected all that and focused on the music, which was VERY based on Zeppelin & Sabbath.
gamesDAMNED 5 months ago
Thanx for the comment Plankton. I wish there was a way to recapture "that 60's feelings. How cool would it be to do it all over again, w/ Blue Cheer providing the ambiance of course! :>)
latawie 5 months ago
I wish I was the 4th Blue Cheer member haha, playing the triangle or whathever haha, I would't care
GOORVY 6 months ago
why is everyone comparing blue cheer/cream and even black sabbath to heavy metal when its ovious that rock is better than metal? idk.... just seems to me that people who liston to metal are spoid suburban kids/adults who dont do anything exiting with their life cuz they have no soul same as the music they liston to
arielrebelfan1 6 months ago
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SensimillaLove 5 months ago
@arielrebelfan1 people who enslave themselves to genres really miss the point of music. rock and roll is a rectangle and heavy metals a square, they're both the same thing. who cares
SensimillaLove 5 months ago
@SensimillaLove mmmm never thought of it that way, makes sense
arielrebelfan1 5 months ago
Excellent!
thewalruswasrichard 6 months ago
Oh, so Robert Plant flat out stole that lyric for How Many More Times... which could now be asking How Many More Times am I going to find out Zeppelin stole this shit?
ecclesiasticous 6 months ago
@ecclesiasticous
The Hunter is an old song. So technically Blue Cheer "borrowed" it also.
BaronM 6 months ago
I went to Hollywood to catch their show.. and It was Paul Butterfield Blues band..who were good but I really hate I never got to see them back in the day...I never heard why they cancled
joelceol 6 months ago
I went to Hollywood to catch their show.. and I was Paul Butterfield Blues band..who were good but I really hate I never got to see them back in the day...I never heard why they cancled
joelceol 6 months ago
Albert King -> Blue Cheer -> Danzig
qw27 6 months ago
this band is awsome!!!! great blues rock/early metal sound . Its so pure and real cause they didn't know any better. They only knew how to kick ass...
livondeath00 7 months ago
Sorry to hear about Dickie. Blue Cheer = the first heavy metal band!
terminator2570 7 months ago
'White boy' blues!
PhiZappaCrappa 7 months ago
Danzig did an amazing version on their first album w the great drummer Chuck Biskits
sitro74 7 months ago 7
@sitro74 Holy smokes. All these years I never knew that song was a cover.
jwatson626 1 month ago
Dig that ghostly video
GOREG4SM 7 months ago
Looks like the boys in the control room dropped a few tabs right before air time.
pdshane 8 months ago
danzig covers this ; D didnt know that , jezus this is good
bjlauquee 8 months ago
This is what stoner should be :)
dbbification 9 months ago
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This is the shit!!! other great bands to check out are "Nitro-Sage" and "Red Fang"!
wildbrewband1 9 months ago
The band that invented the REAL wall of sound; lots and lots of Marshalls!!
searayus1 9 months ago
Absolutely fantastic.
duncanstpt 9 months ago
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Make me young again.
duncanstpt 9 months ago
6 people should have been hunted by Dickie Peterson before he passed away
Planktontwo 9 months ago
@Planktontwo : they will be haunted by him ;-)
steffanwunderink 9 months ago
@steffanwunderink Haunted is good too. Or I could say 6 people are out of Focus, which is definitely true. At any rate, it is truly sad how sick some people must live without some Blue Cheer.
Planktontwo 9 months ago
nice sound quality... like listening from ancient television
Countmaurizio 10 months ago
Original hard rock band State side! Way to find this vid and post it up, sir!
1961slam 10 months ago
Nice Piercing for that time period, they engineered head banging & LONG haired rockers.
Garaa838383 10 months ago
glen danzig do it a cover for this song in your first album...deserve a check out!
yeddojr 10 months ago
In 1968, I attended a concert held at the Eagles Auditorium in Seattle, Washington. To show you just how ironic things can get, Blue Cheer was the headliner and Pink Floyd was the backup band to warm-up the audience.
texasnewt 11 months ago 2
@texasnewt man that is some great info.... love the ones who study the music and just dont listen to it...great info...
then8t 10 months ago
Blue Cheer were the first "Heavy Metal Band". I worked with Blue Cheer at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago in1968 doing sound and lights.
003Damian 1 year ago 25
@003Damian You're very lucky then, they are legendary
sherrynd 9 months ago
@003Damian Lucky
TheRockandroll420 3 weeks ago
Not bad but I prefer Albert King's version the best. (Followed by Free's which copied Albert's intro for the most part in their version.)
ishawnm 1 year ago
BLUE CHEER ROCKS
79tazman 1 year ago
I must admit, I do like Blue Cheers music. But personally Free play a far better version. But that is just my opinion. R.I.P Paul Kossoff
MrRosco1281 1 year ago
blue cheer en las venas.
vinterriketkalyI 1 year ago
FUCKIN Rad. BWP58 What is a good song then since your subjective shit seems to be better?
daSaboriGuitars 1 year ago
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crap then crap now
BWP58 1 year ago
Damn, I didn't know he died... A big lost.
thecoololdcat 1 year ago
Remarkable. The poor quality of the film makes it even more exciting for me (I'm just odd sometimes, huh?)....Thank you so much for uploading this. Terrific.
gawagney 1 year ago
Loved this when it came out. I'm sure Free did a version with better vocals, but this has a really dirty, gritty feel. Can anyone remind me - who did the album covers that were a bit like Salvadore Dali?
ozgribbo 1 year ago
@ozgribbo Gut’s, the acid biker,designed the cover of the embossed beauty that was Blue Cheer’s debut, “Vincebus Eruptum.”, and Arab, an associate of Guts, designed the cover of their second l.p., Insideoutside...................A very, very g-reat group.
gawagney 1 year ago
So this is what inspired Kiss' best album
tocko92 1 year ago
No offense to Blue Cheer fans, but I think Free's version blows this away. IMHO.
daven58100 1 year ago
@daven58100 If you can make that judgement mate, you dont get Blue Cheer at all
Free is alright now LOL
Blue Cheer is beyond the grave
angrysamoan666 1 year ago
@angrysamoan666 Yes. You're right. I know as much about Blue Cheer as you obviously know about Free(Free is "Alright Now"). Right. But that's understandable since you were in diapers when they broke up and that's pretty much the only one of their songs they play. I've heard Blue Cheer for over 40 years, and they never struck me as an especially good band. I just think they're good for their own songs. Don't be so angry.
daven58100 1 year ago
@daven58100 Even you admit the Free singer is a whore with Queen nowerdays
Over 40 years you hear Blue Cheer and dont get them
There first 2 albums KILL then their third album Kills too LOL
Free?
Listen to P{aul Kossof's Back Street Crawler, dude, that long track KILLS all of Free. I know every Free record every one
Kossof was the talent brother, the rest was an abortion IMHO
angrysamoan666 1 year ago
@angrysamoan666 You fucking cunt I fucking love your posts LOL
angrysamoan666 1 year ago
Blue Cheer lip-synching/miming?! Bet *that* boggled the North Beach crowd!
In 1968, the #1 Billboard 'single' was "Hey Jude". There's a couple tunes by Steppenwolf and Cream down the 'Top 100 List' but most of the rest is a bunch of pop/soul stuff. Blue Cheer was definitely creating a new sound and their only 'hit' was "Summertime Blues" which reached #14. They likely saw The Who perform it at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
RIP Dickie; man lived and breathed his music.
Fun post!
YouzTube99 1 year ago
What a find...awesome stuff. Thanks.
velvetttfoggg 1 year ago
I like it that it's nice and crispy.
TextFreeley 1 year ago
the band who created metal music :)
bxshred707 1 year ago
Didn't Led Zeppelin do a remake of this?
Thraxter 1 year ago
@Thraxter
Danzig covered this....
whatever1745 1 year ago
you know i swear this is the first time in a while where i've found a music video and read the comments, and no one was arguing! no "thumbs up if you hate bieber" or anything like that just supportive, beneficial discussion. we need more of this
K1ngOfKings322 1 year ago
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Didnt Albert KIng write this?FU%$ ME! I love this tune...Blue Cheer rocks. I musta listened to this SH&% like 100 times last night. I gotta get their sound down...Now I know where Jimmy Page got Zep´s sound...
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
wicked !!
faunoram 1 year ago
@DemenzEntek Sheeet, dude. He ain't attributed on the original album! I'm just sayin' that, everything on the 'up-and-up', you'da figured it be attributed on the jacket. Dig?
PhiZappaCrappa 1 year ago
@DemenzEntek Sheeet, dude. They ain't attributed on the original album! I'm just sayin' that, everything on the 'up-and-up', you'da figured it be attributed on the jacket. Dig?
PhiZappaCrappa 1 year ago
Thanks for upload this :D
faisalroute66 1 year ago
The genesis of metal. I am the final word on it, as you'll see on my channel.
ctomarctus 1 year ago
the first metal band
AntiAllYou 1 year ago
Great video of the dawn of hard rock/metal, does not get better than this, thanks.
chiefmech23 1 year ago
Now thats the Blue Cheer I remember as a teen, always been a fan.
RIP Dickie
shootum1 1 year ago
BC attributed this one; Zep just stole it w/o mention. Some frickin' integrity, puleeeze!
PhiZappaCrappa 1 year ago
Isn't this what rock SHOULD be? Monstruous!
heyanto 1 year ago 11
@heyanto Damn right!!!
KTKTRock 5 months ago
danzig has a differnet version of this song on his 1st album
steveorama1978 1 year ago
Randy Holden Rocks!!!!
stockalone 1 year ago
@stockalone This was Randy? I thought it was Leigh. These guys were underrated. Huge influence.
triplettam 1 year ago
RIP Dickie and Dio!!!!!!
tuegy 1 year ago
Man what a great frickin` song ! Put these guys in the rock & roll hall of fame for having one of the greatest sounding lead guitar sounds ever !
OHIOROCKS7 1 year ago
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Man what a great frickin` song ! Put these guys in the rock & roll hall of fame for having one of the greatest sounding lead guitar sounds ever !
OHIOROCKS7 1 year ago
Man what a great frickin` song ! Put these guys in the rock & roll hall of fame for having one of the greatest sounding lead guitar sounds ever !
OHIOROCKS7 1 year ago
What a great song ! Love the sound of this lead guitar ! Turn up the volume to 11 !
OHIOROCKS7 1 year ago
Man what a great frickin` song ! Put these guys in the rock & roll hall of fame for having one of the greatest sounding lead guitar sounds ever !
OHIOROCKS7 1 year ago
@OHIOROCKS7 That would be awesome, they need to put BC and Rush in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame already!
MegaAries1992 1 year ago
Man oh man what a great frickin` song ! Put these guys in the rock hall of fame already for having one of the best ever sounding lead guitars ! Turn up the volume to 11 !
OHIOROCKS7 1 year ago
fucking KISS does this song, lame
bobbyp1214 1 year ago
R.I.P Dickie...yes...and what a great fucking find this is. Thanx. I wanna time machine set for 45 or so years in the past. What a rush it would be.
latawie 1 year ago
@latawie Absolutely, only if we could live the music again and leave out Vietnam and the marches against the government and all.
Planktontwo 5 months ago
Listened to this song real loud on my way to work today. No better breakfast than a little Blue Cheer! (geez I make it sound like a commercial...)
mewrth 1 year ago
danzig covered this, amazing.
axedecapitation 1 year ago
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Kostas4e 1 year ago
super old skul!like it!
budsgilson 1 year ago
Damn, didn't know he died, saw them about two years ago in San Diego making the whole place shake like a gigantic vibrator with those bass frequencies! He ripped in life, he will RIP in death and peace!
Hemimod 1 year ago
RIP = rip off artist Peterson (gotta pay for that heroin)
Kramnosnits 1 year ago
@Kramnosnits You're a moron. Blue Cheer was awesome. Peterson rocked. Get a clue!
spicy64 1 year ago
@Kramnosnits Shut up pig
SecretActivator 1 year ago
The Hunter was originally a song by Booker T and The MGs, and I believe it was written by Steve Cropper and Donald 'Duck' Dunn (yeah, also of Blues Brothers fame.
When you listen to the rhythm groove, you can tell it's vintage MGs.
jahtez 1 year ago
is this their song? because i've heard led zeppelin play it and i've heard canned heat doing it too
srtafk 1 year ago
Paydirt! : )
cloisterene 1 year ago
We're just a band that likes this kind of music and relates more to the 60's, 70's and 90's than today's music. We're just looking to be heard, if you would actually take the time to listen one of our songs on our channel and comment, we would really appreciated it. Thanks Peace.
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mobofg 1 year ago
Heavy as the real Stoner
MLGxSLasH 1 year ago
it would be only half as good, if the quality was better. but as it is here now it works.
klippspringer 1 year ago
This is real, raw primitive hard rock! Not like that 80s fabricated crap!
hodadsmusic 1 year ago
I read once that Bill Graham would not accept them into his fold? I played in a Bill Graham band that was in his line up of groups. And the band I played in was not even close to Blue Cheer in terms of innovation and sound.
74LesPaul 1 year ago
Amazing, where did you find this video? I know the quality is poor, but B.C. did not make a lot of make a lot of noise on the top 10 scene. That is great as it made them better, I think. They had more fans than what history paints I think. RIP Dickie.
Planktontwo 1 year ago
Ol' Jimmy was something else, wasn't he!
jannyrcobs 1 year ago
i shared a pizza with dickie in st louis at the peppermint lounge.... years ago..... wow hate to hear he passed............. long live blue cheer
harmoneusa 1 year ago 9
Ol' Jimmy Page stole everything from 'The Hunter' to 'Whole Lotta Love' to Lori Maddox's 14-year old arsehole!
jannyrcobs 2 years ago
Blue Cheer also stole "The Hunter."
JackBlair2 1 year ago
@jannyrcobs jealous?
TexasMist 1 year ago
@jannyrcobs lololol im not agreeing with you but i jus had to laugh
syrensounds 1 year ago
LEGENDDDD
mindingosafado 2 years ago
sounds a bit like the yardbirds. Drummer kicks ass.
beepeelow 2 years ago 3
RIP Dickie. You're missed.
iamthelazerviking23 2 years ago 18
God, even with this old recording you can occasionally hear that deep throaty SG tone.
MightySaturn5 2 years ago 3
Well, it wouldnt surprise me if SG stands for Satans Guitar. SG's always get mean, evil tones, why else all doom metal bands use them. Wish I had one :(
crowbarftw 2 years ago
it just stand for solid guitar.. :P
EmilLittleWing 2 years ago 2
pete townshend used one
he was evil, but he was bad asssssssssssssssssss
mindingosafado 2 years ago
основатели хеви метала!))) сейчас конечно музыка намного лучше,но без них не было б ничего?)
KyklaKoldyna32 2 years ago
The dawn of heavy metal!
befuddledman 2 years ago 3
thank you monsieur longpass...rip Dickie, one of the sensuality gods
sekhmetraptah 2 years ago 4
this is fn awesome
lovepeacepoetry 2 years ago
yhought this was free....lol
auntygomez 2 years ago
Zeppelin 'borrowed' this as part of their "how many more times' medley.
BaronM 2 years ago 3
Technically, both bands "borrowed" this line from Howlin' Wolf's song "The Hunter".
Frownland81 2 years ago 3
@Frownland81: Wrong! Should be: "ALBERT KING 's song", not Howlin' Wolf. "The Hunter" appeared on the 1967 Albert King album "Born under a bad sign" (Stax 723). Written by members of Booker T. & the MG's, the Stax house band. Zeppelin DID "borrow" from Howlin' Wolf: "How many more times" was based on "No place to go", like "The lemon song" was based on Wolf's "Killin' Floor".
50sResearchCenter 2 years ago 3
this is true musical revisionism: almost reviled at the time by "serious" journos, led zeppelin are now regarded as the best, the greatest and what not else.
fact is, the great zep stole their material left, right and center; apart from ripping off countless blues musicians (as you mention), jimmy page stole "dazed and confused" wholesale from jake holmes who did the original version in june 1967...worst of all, they never paid the old bluesmen a cent for it! zep were and are highly overrated.
shotdonkey 2 years ago
@shotdonkey
Yeah, Blue Cheer was sooo original. Let's count heir original tunes: Summertime Blues? nope. The Hunter? Nope? Rock Me, Baby? Nope. Parchman Farm? Nope. All musicians including classical musicians use and abuse. Maybe Zappa didn't but who the hell can listen to Zappa? Zep is beloved because of what they did, which was bombastic and dramatic and gave people a thrill and took them away from their boring little lives. Kind of like you slagging them on You Tube.
TexasMist 1 year ago
@TexasMist
Ok, let's count originals:Doctor Please, yup
Out of Focus, yup.
Second Time Around, yup Feathers From Your Tree, yup.
Sun Cycle, yup.
Just a Little Bit, yup.
Gypsy Ball, yup.
Come and Get It, yup.
Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger, yup.
Babylon, yup. Has anyone made any lp's that sound at all like 'Outsideinside'? Or like VIncebus Eruptum? Nope. Are those lp's all killer no filler? FUCK YEAH!
crazeehorse 1 year ago 3
I love Blue Cheer. My point is: everybody back then and before borrowed, plaiierized, ripped off or redid everyone else. Still going on today, though harder to get away with in the digital age. I think nothing less of them for doing those covers. Long Live Blue Cheer.
TexasMist 1 year ago
haha. so because they covered songs, they weren't original? you counted 4 songs, out of 20+. nice job.
centerrightpunk 1 year ago
@shotdonkey : True, but then again Page took "Dazed and confused" from the old Yardbirds setlist when it was still called "I'm confused" and credited to Holmes. You can hear a version on the withdrawn "Yardbirds Live at the Anderson Theater" from 1968 (the one with the dubbed fake crowd noise) on which Page played lead-guitar. It's was the blue print for Led Zep's version.
50sResearchCenter 1 year ago
nope. with all due respect to the great wolf, it was, er...booker t and the mgs who wrote "the hunter" and albert king (on "born under a bad sign") who performed the definitive version and brought the composition its due fame.
blue cheer`s version is pretty neat too, of course, although possibly slightly heavy-handed... ;-)
shotdonkey 2 years ago
Zeppelin barrowed all their music from blues musicians
keioffice 2 years ago
not all zeppelins music is borrowed....Achilles Last Stand is one of the most original songs in rock, the guitar is nothing blues
KIDAmnesiacBends 2 years ago 11
RIP Dickie
oj8b709q 2 years ago 4
Thanks for posting. Really gonna miss Dickie and BC
SuperGiantRock 2 years ago 3
RIP Dickie
rictusgrin666 2 years ago 2
happy i got to see them befor dickies death.killer show. day of the super bowl. seriusly. only like 15 people showed up so we all got to sit up frunt. this was at the couach house in san jon capistrono. they plyed it like itwas a full house i had them all sign the firts album and got to talk with all of them. i evan had duck sign the album though he wasnt on that album. i remeber this guy had the drummer sign a drum stick that he thre winto the audience and the dude cot it 30 years ago
joealanouf 2 years ago
lucky i wish i could have seen them
jbassman666 2 years ago
" screaming vocals and pounding bass lines helped push the psychedelic blues-rock trio into the musical territory that would later be called heavy metal "
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The New York Times 10-14-09
fabiomr2 2 years ago 24
looks like they recorded the video with a camera pooping from a assh of a elephant ...... love blue cheer!!
pantherax1 2 years ago
yeah, technology wasn't invented instantly.
wanderer1031 2 years ago
R I P Dickie!
sibkiss2009 2 years ago
RIP Dickie, The first, the best, the loudest!
Bogframe 2 years ago 2
Thank you Dickie & Blue Cheer for all the high times you've given us!!!!!!
saintsaji 2 years ago
One of the coolest voices in all of rock and the Cheer where amazing. Awesome video and RIP Dickie.
RealOmind 2 years ago
Goodbye, Dickie. You will not be forgotten.
hollywoodartchick 2 years ago
acid rock at its rawest, reminds me of ultimate spinach. I heard this group live in 1968 in Belvidere, Illinois. I think thats where my hearing lose came from. "Boomers Ear"
apingos 2 years ago
This is the same version that is tacked onto the end of my copy of Cocksucker Blues
youknowstone 2 years ago