Blue Cheer : The Hunter

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Classic



[1964jtk]

GOOD!!!

[PhiZappaCrappa]

Sheeet. I can almost smell my room in my parent's house while spinin' this tune as a highschool junior in '71! Great post!

[somatder]

Shit, that intro is massive!

[cfazekas0441]

ive got this album in vinal can anyone tell me what its worth

[noiwillnotcomply]

@cfazekas0441 Priceless

[TheNiceroad]

@cfazekas0441 check it out on popsike.com and discogs. It depends a lot on which issue, pressing and condition.

[TheNiceroad]

Oh yes, and Mono pressings are always worth waaaayy more!

[TheGuitarProphet]

O.K somebody tell me if Kiss ripped off some of these lyrics for their song Love Gun. I love Kiss but damn, I think they might have ripped off Blue Cheer. Blue Cheer lyrics: There ain't no use in hiding, No there ain't no use to run, 'Cause of got you in the sights of my, Love Gun Kiss lyrics: No place for hiding baby, No place to run, You pull the trigger on my, Love Gun Coincidence? I don't know, but if it's true, then it only makes Blue Cheer even more influential than I already thought.

[sirlordwhitman]

@TheGuitarProphet Blue Cheer covered this song too, just like a lot of hard bands back in the 70s covered blues artists like Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf etc etc.. so I wouldn't say Kiss ripped them off. Even Led Zep's first album has a lot of blues covers. Love Gun was also covered by Free (later Bad Company).. which I think is a really good version. Check it out..

[Alithecomedian]

66 Garagerock started metal assholes

[decristo1021]

I remember buying a Blue Cheer tape at a grocery store in 1988 when I was a sophomore in high school. I bought it b/c I liked their pummeling of "Summertime Blues" and there was a song called "Parchment Farm" on it, which I liked. Don't have the tape anymore, but with You Tube I guess I don't need it....

[Trund27]

My rocker best friend used to buy Cheer laundry soap in honour of this band....So awesome

[MrCamelneck]

@Trund27

I can dig it. It even comes in a blue box or a blue plastic container!

Maybe Cheer should do a commercial featuring "Sometime Blues".

[Trund27]

@MrCamelneck Awesome! I would watch that ad for sure

[freudastaire]

Why this fuckin CD is so heavypriced?????

[MyJaar]

blue cheer is gay

[TheRockandroll420]

@MyJaar Modern day fag!



[DrugWhore1]

Yea you modern day fag!

[zelix10]

@MyJaar clearly not, the song is clearly about hunting for pussy. sorry you tried. :P

[Ben0itZ]

sounds like Cream but with more punch to it

[spacepatrolman]

@Ben0itZ this song keeps getting bigger and bigger they put a commercial on the video booker t. jones wrote it when atlantic records played sunshine of your love by the cream for him he thought it was great

[PhiZappaCrappa]

At eighteen, a target on every snatch! <<3

[john17972]

Yoda says: rape is natural rape is fun, rape is best when its one on one.

[nbmuir]

Had this on vinyl when it came out.

[jeremebonesaw]

Is this a song about rape?

[jfred7374]

For everyone debating over the origin of this song, it was written by Booker T. and the MG's (who also wrote "Green Onions," which has a similar lick) and first recorded by blues guitarist Albert King (with Booker T and the MGs has his backing band). That was in 1967. Blue Cheer recorded this in 1968, and Zeppelin used some lyrics in "How Many More Times" in 1969.

[spacepatrolman]

@jfred7374you got the story straight when atlantic records played sunshine of your love by the cream for booker t. he thought it was great [was it an influence on this song i dont know}

[Psychedelicbananas]

@jfred7374 you forgot Free's version on 1968's Tons Of Sobs

[VinylShellacLover]

I've since digitized the badly neglected copy I found (with my spare, old stylus, of course!) and you know what? The grunginess of the bad vinyl actually adds a dimension to the music. Love it!

[reynoldswrap36]

The first verse is in a Zeppelin song too. So idk who did it first because its on Zepp I and this came out about the same time

[fbendz]

@reynoldswrap36 This is the original. Blue Cheer is covering it, giving due tribute. Zeppelin "stole" it. Check out the cover by Free as well.

[spacepatrolman]

@fbendz i think albert king did it before them[ booker t. jones wrote it but did he ever record it atlantic records played sunshine of your love by cream for him he said it was great tom dowd showed ginger baker the drum beat it was native american] but led didnt do the whole song why are they sticking commercials on this i wouldnt mind if it was a commercial for a blue cheer recording

[fbendz]

@spacepatrolman Sure. I stated that it is a cover. :-) I just ment that this is the original song, and Zep "stole" from it in "How many more times".

[spacepatrolman]

@fbendz zep did it at the fillmore east when they were they opening act for iron butterfly bill graham didnt get along with blue cheers manager too well he said im never havening them here again

[spacepatrolman]

@fbendz jimmy page has a website in myspace he sez im here for dateing he looks like hes been in a coffin for 3 days

[cometothesabbat]

@reynoldswrap36 This came a year before Zep I.

[Hektor7788]

Never knew they had this song. I've only heard it from Danzig.

[japinvt]

sloe gin/coke and red leb and champale which has giving me still the hangover

[NIGHTOFHATE78]

danzig recorded this on his debut and i never fgn knew this till i was looking up old bands

[VinylShellacLover]

I found a badly roached copy of "Outsideinside" in a Rascals' jacket the other day! It made me smile just to see the Philips label...

[spacepatrolman]

@VinylShellacLover i went to a garage sale and bought john cage toy piano concerto and there was marijaunna in the album cover

[MusicIsDeadToday]

@spacepatrolman That's epic.

[BulldawgBiker]

great band

[mindingosafado]

"They had to record some songs at Pier 57 as the studio kicked them out for being too loud. When they were recording songs at Pier 57, they were so loud that people on boats complained they could hear the sound at 9 miles (14km) away."

Hahahaha, Fuck Yes.

[jacksterner]

Canned Heat does a pretty bitchin' version of this.

[ex5098]

wat year is this?

[ahamedo]

@ex5098 1965

[kevin4peace]

Thats where Led Zeppelin got the middle section of 'How Many More Times"... Mind has been blown. Led Zep stole all their early songs...

[jkeeneth]

@kevin4peace Yeah dont get so excited it was a blues tune before that.. Albert King I believe, music has a way of rotating around through a LOT of people..

[kevin4peace]

@jkeeneth Its just that 'The Hunter' part of the song takes about a minute in 'How Many More Times' and the writing credit is solely 'Page'. How could they get away with that?

[nww009]

@kevin4peace You can get away with anything if you change the key and modify some of the melody/chords. Also, most blues standards are considered folk songs. You don't have to credit the song writer if its a folk tune.

[YoGuy37]

How is a band like this so unknown

[wolfen682]

and i thought FREE did this - just discovered Blue Cheer

[sabbathtage25]

@belfastcityphil lol. I guess this was the original.

[ThomasLikesShred]

Danzig also does a great cover of this. Great song, sounds good from anybody.

[johnfright]

Albert King

[tampicoplus]

Free is the best playing this song

[berylman]

You know what is funny you can't put in Blue Cheer Highway Man and find anything even remotely related. Bunch of modern crap...and I mean crap,

[clyde8her]

I saw Blue Cheer in Honolulu and the Waikiki Shell in about '70 and they were unbelievable...Nobody was ready for their volume and intensity...Dickie was the first headbanger by a long shot...

[terminater1952]

This was what american sixties rock was all about.

[4kingL]

Whooooooosh.......you bet...............

[bigguy4570]

One of the best Bands to come out of the 60's

[chiefmech23]

Have the LP, this is the dawn of real hard rock which does not exist today, long live Dickie, this is where it's at

[starwarsandmetalgirl]

simply amazing

[darrenable1]

Rock On Blue Cheer, Outsideinside is a Great Lp. Keep Rockin'

[heyanto]

Amazing!

[ricardoguerra666]

danzig covered this, but asshole didnt say it was blue cheers album

[seanB81]

@ricardoguerra666 Actually Danzig has mentioned it being a cover and gave credit to the writers on numerous occasions in older interviews, but he said due to error on the part of whoever put the booklet together forgot to write it in there. Glenn has given praise to Blue Cheer a lot too, he's a big fan of them! :)

[GBZ10TROY]

The Hunter appeared originally on the Albert King album King of the Blues Guitar. Recorded at Stax in Memphis Tenn with Booker T. Washington and the MGs as backup band.

""The Hunter" is a famous tune that was never a hit for Albert, but was on his Bad Sign LP. Ike and Tina Tuner later recorded it with much success."

[spacepatrolman]

@GBZ10TROY t I have a promo copy of that that album thats very interesting did booker t who wrote the song ever record it with his own group ?

[GBZ10TROY]

Writers/Composers"The Hunter" (Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Al Jackson, Jr, Booker T. Jones) 2:45

Make that Booker T Jones. Mixed my metaphores. Heh!

Free included a version of this song on their 1968 album 'Tons of Sobs'.

[Fantobacon]

Danzig covered this

[Fantobacon]

Danzig covered this

[mikedeviant]

@Fantobacon So did Blue Cheer. This is John Lee Hooker's song originally.

[harmoneusa]

rip dickie...........i shared a pizza with dickie in st louis ...early 70's..........wowowowow

[whitetrashoutlaw]

This band is really good, I usually don't like music from this time period, but these guys can play

[dreamer4e]

Same with me.Really digging them.

[dvd1man]

Isn't the gatefold of this album a photo of them on stage with double or triple stacked Marshalls?

[Cervicconstruction]

@dvd1man that's right also on the inside is a photo of them with their chief benefactor.

Augustus Owsley Stanley III

[wretchedSTONER]

this song just makes me wanna put one in the air and see how it treats me.

[chrisradano]

One of the greatest album cover of all time. Remember opening it up????

[fender69likar]

Robert Plant stole the lyrics!!

[mussman717word]

@fender69likar

No, Dickie Peterson "stole" the entire song from Booker T. Jones, if you really wanna get down to it. Plant just paid tribute to both artists, I guess. I don't know whether that bit in "How Many More Times" was inspired by Blue Cheer or the MGs, but it's all good, baby. Three great artists recognizing each others brilliance, there's nothing wrong with that.

[Mortslake]

Steve Cropper/Donald "Duck" Dunn/Al Jackson, Jr./Booker T. Jones/Junior Wells to be precise,,,

[mydisease2you]

the very first heavy metal and stoner rock band!!!

[steviegofcali7]

@mydisease2you your soo right!!! I am a native of SF Love Dickie and Leigh!!

[evilmaniac999]

@mydisease2you not quiet... this is hard acid/psychedelic rock... Maybe they're the first ones to use a heavier sound in rock music, but Black Sabbath are the Godfathers/Birthfathers of heavy/doom/stoner metal.

[SabbraCadabra789]

@mydisease2you heavy metal???

[mydisease2you]

@SabbraCadabra789 This song may not be sounding loud enough to be heavy metal these days, but back then (1968) this song was considered very heavy. This kind of sound was new and nobody have ever heard of it before. Blue Cheer is mainly blues rock, but if you listen to songs like summertime blues, just a little bit, second time around, and the intro of this song, you can actually feel that thumping noise.

[SabbraCadabra789]

@mydisease2you yeah true.....i personnally don't like the term 'heavy metal' but that's just me...i never call my favourite band 'black sabbath' heavy metal' either....just don't like it.......there heavy rock.....

peace brother..........\m/

[elranchero]

@mydisease2you exactly. They were stoners before we knew what stoner meant.

[sabbathtage25]

@mydisease2you you mean Black Sabbath.  LOL. No, for real though, these guys are amazing. I cannot believe they don't play them on the radio. They kick some serious ass. I love them.

[SMEAGZY]

@mydisease2you well i dont know if its the first, the term metal didnt exist back then but its definately one of the bands that started metal, also theres mc5

[BlindGuardianOwnz]

@SMEAGZY The term metal did exist. It was called "heavy metal". It was even in the lyrics of Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild".

[TheChildofcain]

@BlindGuardianOwnz yes it did you are 100% correct steppenwolf pretty much invented the term in those lyrics

[chrisboy29]

vraiment cool!!!

[borntobewildpascal]

the fathers of metal ...... blue cheer , cream , black sabbath etc .... jaime ben le style metal 60's 70's et 80's cetais bon...... moi personelment je suis old school ....

[fabiomr2]

" 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

[Lascalpab]

Ah.. Fond memories.. Cambridge, England, 1969. Best ahcid in the UK. Legend has it that Blue Cheer was the loudest group around, then.

Proof: "a dog walked in front ot the amps once the were rehearsing and it just died from the sound, man..";

"Wow.. Far out, man, far out.."

[steve273]

hi lascalpab-im from cambridge-and my older bruv had this in the late 60's-and ive done lots of sid too-so nice to meet you here at blue cheer's the hunter -on youtube haha -to everyone else-they are no more underated than the groundhogs or ten years after etc-and they were following in the footsteps of earlier rockers like hendrix who they saw live in 67 and also the cream/yarbirds/velvet underground/peter greens fleetwood mac/pink floyd [from cambridge lol] and in 68 sabbath/zep/purple formed

[rockbobcorn]

This should have way more views than Canonrock or the History of dance or something.

Real music doesn't get what it deserves.

[slidab]

It wasn't from heartbrewaker,on the first Zep albam in How Many More Times ,they used the first verse of the Hunter about three quarters of the way thru the song.jeez get your rock history straight

[danzbmw]

I was in grade school, one day we went into the Fairfield Music store,,,Leigh Stephens was working and he was playing a guitar (silvertone /Danelectro Amp...I asked him if he could play the lead from Mystic eyes..He rolled his eyes and played it for me...lol I was a geek to do that..oh well. I bought a ticket to see Blue Cheer at Napa Fair grounds..bad ass.

[largelester]

metal at its' best!! did they get much airtime in the late 60's?

[TruemetalandpunkONLY]

Some of the lyrics and parts of this song are reminiscent of "Heartbreaker" by Led Zeppelin.

[hardnheavyrock]

This came out before Zep

The original was an old blues

[TruemetalandpunkONLY]

Oh yeah, I know dude. Led Zeppelin 2 {which had Heartbreaker on it} came out in late 1969, October I think. And this came out in 1968. Right?

[wisfal]

i believe the lyrics were actually used on How Many More Times not heartbreaker.

[spacepatrolman]

Right they play a little of it on how many more times albert king did it booker t. wrote it but i never was able to find a recording of it by bookert. and the mgs.

[TheOuterSpaceBassMan]

awesome song!

[MOTARDkamikaze]

I uploaded every song from Vincebus Eruptum and insideoutside, but utube\copyright would only allow 2.

[TheOuterSpaceBassMan]

Hmm even blue cheer is getting that crap? The one thing about blue cheer is they are looked at as like one of the best acid rock bands, but then why do they have the grateful dead and endless Beatles albums when they should have blue cheer but i haven't seen one album by them.

[KIDAmnesiacBends]

probably because Beatles and dead albums are so easy to find at your local store, but blue cheer is nowhere to be found