Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues

[Kurtiz76]

KICK AZZZZ !!!! 

[40coupe1]

Arguably the first 'Heavy Metal' band in Rock 'n' Roll...their version of Eddie Cochran's 'Summertime Blues' is my own personal favorite.

[ValveWrench]

I saw Blue Cheer in Houston at a club called the Catacombs.....My ears rang for two weeks....LOUD

[MrDennisCLee]

These guys put the POWER in 'power trio'.

[MrDennisCLee]

These guys put the power in 'power trio'.

[stewgotz1]

the drummer would be arrested for beating his drums to a pulp...PURE FUCKIN' HEAVY STONER ROCK!!!

[dsrocknroller]

REAL rock n rollers!

[chauntzu]

Great band...But loud is not automatically better!!!

[vinyljunie1980]

How could those 4 people "dislike" this clip? They must be Beiber fans...lol!!!

[WalDen2626]

Please. Don't forget their origin. Mmmmm ... Oh, I remember. They called San Francisco home. And they took their name from a popular muliti pill affectionately known as "blue cheer". That was an invention of some owly kind of guy. First heavy metal? First power group? Or maybe just the first acid rock group. They definitely played. AND they were managed by Gut. And that makes perfect sense.

[ygetup1]

one night in summer of 67 or so they played on the steve allen late night show. they were so loud it completely overpowered the studio sound system and what you heard while watching was just a blur of noise. outstanding! just the line hum from the marshalls before they started was feeding back through the studio system. funniest part of it all was that steve allen was a notorious rock and roll hater.

[bigguy4570]

This is not heavy metal this is HARD ROCK AT IT"S BEST

[realityfrominsanity]

@bigguy4570 YES! Thank you! Finally someone that knows what this really is!

[CHURINFUNFLAIS]

I still cant believe these guys R still so Underrated today and back then,This was Nasty Heavy! & best part They had the Look and the Sound for 67´68´-I´ve never seen other Band members with hair so long like this until the end on 69 maybe!

[garyputo]

this is what metal is suppose to sound like!

[public8608]

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[jhstan]

This is what Rock and Roll is supposed to sound like. Not like these little wussie pop posers that are calling themselves Rock and Roll.

[alshouse]

THIS is heavy-metal thunder!! :) :)

[flatowginette]

Blue Cheer and Hendrix were my first love boy did my father hated them!

[Cissy2cute]

Love the way the guitarist goes up the scale! Fantastic metal cover of Cochran's hit.

[stratosl]

The first heavy metal song

[Cissy2cute]

@stratosl - I just wrote that on another video's comments. I agree 100%. Of course, heavy metal as a rock genre was not as yet defined. But this song has all the components--and I LOVE that drumming.

[JamezDHI50]

That's right, BC was the first real Metal band, and Rush pays homage to them on Feedback, their album of covers, with the BC's arrangement on Summertime Blues, and the signature BC riff right in the intro..

But, Jimmy Page was right behind them on the Metal front with early versions of Dazed and Confused that he was doing at the end of The Yardbirds time, ca '68..

[GWARCUM]

The true god fathers of heavy metal ..2 years before Sabbah's Parinoid.

[steve89z]

i dig the drummin'

[sibkiss2009]

Dickie Peterson, R.I.P!

[dkopack71]

This is awesome, I can one up Blue Cheer with Sir Lord Baltimore! If you like Blue Cheer, you must hear: Sir Lord Baltimore.

[deathpigeon69]

No one is better than the other IMO..if you've heard either and not the other, whichever way around, you've GOTTA hear the other...!

[bigguy4570]

Paul Whaley one of rocks best and underrated drummers.

[CelestialWoodway]

By the way saw these guys a year ago in Houston and they were fucking great!

[CelestialWoodway]

Check out my video response. Van Halen playing this song back in their bar days! Eddie plays a Sabbath solo on it also!

[Laskiewic]

A C-123 flown in to the U.S. by the C.I.A. Oliver North loaded that plane to the brim with Cocain.The C.I.A. had the D.E.A. and Military distribute the drug to Americans to create a bond with Foriegn Nations.I am going to exploit the Gov. through my music. (Hi Mike Flick) long time no see!

[MrSeven73]

This song is just savage, absolutely love it!!!

[clashboy1977]

You can't say this is the first metal song. Yes its heavy. Heavy for the time too. But there were songs heavy before this music was getting heavier since 1964 when dave davies of the kinks discovered distortion by cutting up his amp with a razor blade. The guitarist from the sonics the following eyar doing somthing similar with a knife getting a fuzzier sound. then bands like hendrix cream and the yardbirds furthering it adding in their own stuff and giving birth to psychadelic rock!

[clashboy1977]

also frank zappa is often cites as being the first to have a "heavy song" with who are the brain police.

in the mid to late 60's many psychadelic bands were experimenting with fuzz and having very heavy fuzz and distortion. Blue cheer then came ont eh scene with the powerful drumming which added a attitude to the heavyness. then u had zep and dep purple etc.

But the first band that was actually "Metal" was sabbath. bringing in dark themes to this heavy music!

[clashboy1977]

the term heavy metal in a music way was used in born to be wild by steppenwolf in the mid 60's.

the first band that actually called themselves heavy metal was sir lord baltimore in 1970! justa bit of info for peopel that may not know it

[hambone9119]

There also stories that the King Of rock chuck berry created distortion by kicking his amp.

[clashboy1977]

i never heard that. if its true i wonder why he never recorded with it!

[bbusl]

This is without doubt "Metals"birth...!!.and boy does that drummer have fucking thunder in his wrists..!!.....Awsome..!!

[Mr911cerrera]

I saw them in '68 at the Filmore, three small guys with LOTS OF HAIR. Blue Cheer was a kind of acid that was around at the time. Wellveryinteresting is right ...Steppenwolf made the first reference to "Heavy Metal Thunder"I also remember that they had Marshall amps stacked to the fucking ceiling! It still rocks after forty years.

[trezebeguet21]

A little bit of metal or is it just me?

[rzombie22]

this was the first metal song

[Wellveryinteresting]

Not necessarily. There is some question about that, seeming that back in 1968 when this was released it was the first year for Steppenwolf ("Born To Be Wild" & "Magic Carpet Ride"), Iron Butterfly ("In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida") and a couple of other early examples of the ramping up for later metal of the guitar. Also a year before 1968, 1967 was the start of Cream, Jimi Hendrix & Vanilla Fudge's version of the Supremes hit, "You Keep Me Hangin' On".

[MaceMn]

Best version of this tune ever! They beat The Who by a mile. No disrespect intended, as I love da Who too.

[TREYOLDHIPPIE]

Thanks for the great sound here! Always a classic.  Lyrics .. bangin sound.. its ALL THAT.. ALL that.

[BigBishop1]

cousin it is playing in early man now

[uscrire]

This song is just so fucking awesome.

[Da420wn]

ONE OF MY FAVORITE VIDEOS

[69worf12]

This rocks like a motherfucker. very cool

[slloyd1452]

When they released this song I thought it was the best fuckin' piece of music I'd ever heard. It still sounds great after more than 40 years. To do what they did to Eddie Cochran's pop ditty showed a generational earthquake. No "smile nicely for the camera", just "stick your head into the speakers and cop this". Blue Cheer a probably still making money from it. Richly deserved. What a performance of rebellion - Eddie would have loved it.