Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues

[SuicidalNun]

This is the only kind of rock I listen to. If it was made after the '70's, it probably doesn't have that soul that makes rock amazing.

[c6la6ud6io1]

if you're watching this video in 2012 thumbs up.

[c6la6ud6io1]

It is seen that did not use hair conditioner.

[rasnikhilov]

Great fucking stoner vibes.

[Malmsteen996]

The Fathers of Heavy Metal!

[SingerinEX]

cool hair!

[Aldebaron9]

This isn't that heavy metal dog crap! This is 60's (SIXTIES, for those of you who can't count...)

PSYCHEDELIC ROCK, and NOTHING else!!! Heavy metal, my virgin ass!! That crap was and is nothing but electronic noise, phony lead breaks of speed and no true note run quality, and shit out the mouth lyrics........ heavy metal ---- sheeeee - it !!!

[0DethronedEmperor0]

@Aldebaron9

The line between hard rock, psych/acid rock, and heavy metal were very blurry around this time period. This type of music was still in it's infancy. The pounding drums, rumbling bass, and super charged blues guitar can still be heard in music being produced today. One would only need to look to the California Palm Desert scene, the sludge scene in Louisiana, and European labels like Elecktrohasch records to realize that this spirit is alive and well.

[Zzyyxxyyxx]

Awesome tune and everything, but does that drummer even HAVE a face?

[Starvoid7]

this is pure stoner rock!

[juliano66]

been into these guys for 24 years--I woulda killed to see this when I wuz a younger lad.

[StoneyMcJuicyBuds]

Awesome sludge version...BLUE CHEER!

[CelestialWoodway]

I saw this band a few years ago in Houston and they were even better live. Sounded like Black Sabbathy doomy bass riffs.

[TheRockandroll420]

Im 15, I knew this song and band before Metal Evolution

[Lespaulman987]

@TheRockandroll420 So am I, but nobody likes a Hipster -_-

[mashui99]

@TheRockandroll420 I knew them, but didn't look them up before them

[stewgotz1]

...pure fckin' power/.distortion,/crunching guitar/in your face ''don't fck with me'' BLUE CHEER!

[duqmiguel]

Heaviest Cave-man rock .. Ever! .. Their hair is Insane!

[MrDanielSultan]

Power Trio!

[MrTorpilKaimakli]

fucking freak the drummer..i like it!

[woowoo1967]

@MrTorpilKaimakli No kidding, that dude rocks

[SkoolyRatt]

@MrTorpilKaimakli That drummer is OFF the hinges!!!

[BlueComet88]

0:55 Cousin IT on drums.

[horsenaround]

I looked them up since i had the original vinyl lp and wanted to see if anyone even knew this band! I was around 16 yrs old when this band came out with this song!

[1951nightwish]

@horsenaround I was 17 and bought the single. Weren't they once voted the loudest band or something?

[jkeene58]

@1951nightwish I dont know about the loudness, but i do know that they were known to play until they shredded the ends of their fingers into a bloody mess! I was in 9th grade at school then and they were a big hit! Then it was Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Stones, etc.

[topdog25608]

They used to come on stage with that wall of Marshall amps, turn them up to ten and blast away. They played at Fillmore east in NYC, and you could hear them 6 blocks away over the noise of NYC.

[nigletgook]

it's a combo of black sabbath, blue cheer, steppenwolf, mc5 etc..seriously people do some homework, black sabbath invented they heavy sound but they borrowed it from these guys and blues riffs.

[MrMegaFredzeppelin]

EARLY KICK ASS METAL!!!!!! ROCK ON!!!!!!!

[Weissmenchland]

This stomps.  This ain't flower power.

[dreamgod13]

And then Metal was born

[cande231]

@dreamgod13 no black sabbath invented metal

[rockinglumberjack]

@cande231

Black Sabbath were precursors, but they weren't alone.

[Bulbakip]

Cousin It is that you on drums?

[Weissmenchland]

This is damn cool. 

[TheMegamania]

drumer is insane awesome

[Youtubi13]

These are 60s' Megadeth

[abusivemomba]

love this early wave of acid-rock.

[VitalSigns1]

Black Sabbath did not create heavy metal. Blue Cheer did.

[stormbringerhugo]

@VitalSigns1 Black Sabbbath, when they started, were a tribute band to The Jmim Hendrix Experience and Blue Cheer tribute with many ither. So, it means Blue Cheer was before than Black Sabbath

[realityfrominsanity]

@stormbringerhugo When Black Sabbath started they were NOT a tribute band to Hendrix or Cheer, nor were they ever. They were a blues rock band. But yes Cheer was before Sabbath.

[stormbringerhugo]

@stormbringerhugo NO? so i was wrong all this time of my life u.u ......

[NathanBro1]

looked up this song after watching A Headbangers Journey

[s1ygirl]

I think this drummer is the model they used for Animal of the Muppets.

[F4R0F4deB4C0N]

I have the cd Vincebus Eruptum. Excelent song.

[spicyMcHAGGIS9green]

The original stoners.

[mottosierra]

the first band that tune the guitar in D like motley crue did

[spicyMcHAGGIS9green]

@mottosierra Sabbath tuned their guitars to C# standard before Motley Crue. Neil Young used drop D before MC in the 70's. He also used double drop C tuning also.

Just sayin'.

[matthewodonnellcfc]

Before metal had a name.

[kodiak11755]

saw these guys @ the Family Dog in Denver, Co. and paid $2.50 foor a ticket, those where the days!

[feelingslinky]

a@kodiak11755 amazing you saw these guys??!!! was it pure psych in your face full on power? would love to have been there!!!!

[godalful]

that guitar tone is amazzzzzzzzing

[cherries1999]

Nice hair..what shampoo do they use?

[snaglepuss1000]

first time I heard this I thought it was THE MC 5 great band!



[TonyDX4Life]

Anyone else look this band up after watching Metal Evolution?

[LedZeppelin2055]

@TonyDX4Life I looked them up after seeing Geddy talk about them in Metal: A Headbanger's Journey.

[endurancemusic]

@LedZeppelin2055 sameee!!!!! i got hooked after seeing this !

[Nobodie92]

@LedZeppelin2055 i looked them up cause bands such as electric wizard and kyuss were influence by this band.

[mottosierra]

@TonyDX4Life  you have all the reason

[ruffhouse00x]

@TonyDX4Life Naw Im looked them up because Glenn Danzig told me too

[SkoolyRatt]

@TonyDX4Life Metal Evolution RULZ!!!

[luc00leh]

@TonyDX4Life Me too! Thanks Sam Dunn!

[Volts48]

@TonyDX4Life it's amazing how TV or movies influence people to go out an search for music.

[MrTheWhoflungcharlie]

wtf..who ..ive never heard of these guys...amazing

[jerkythesandpiper]

Trolls



[doorsfan58]

First true metal power trio!

[meatforyourmom]

boys and girls this pre-dates sabbath's first release. let it be known that satan was an acid head!- i drink your blood,

[yugang08]

1 of the best bands in history!

[Scotmanly]

Brings back some great memories!!!

[Goyasrevenge]

those poor drums

[atti1488]

you 19 fuckers!!!!!!!!! may you all rot in deepest part of hell...

[zeepster]

Why did so many tracks from this era change the beat count at times? I mean modern (pop)music does it too ofcourse, radiohead for instance does it all the time. Was it 'fashionable' back then?

[TheZombieJC]

@zeepster They just changed from 4/4 with a cut-time feel to 4/4.

[Ralfertify]

Back then this was sonic violence, awesome song haha

[pumpkinheadbmx]

:56 FLOATING HEAD WITH FLOATING HANDS TEARING UP THE DRUMS

[dddravac307308]

this video? milion+ views? lets doit?

[JohnFredC]

The best version of this song... captures the summertime heat!

[feelingslinky]

coolest fuckin drummer ever...the way he just hits the skins is so dam cool!

[vonkaunaz]

@feelingslinky : Absolutely with you there! I find it incredibly cool how those long manes of the late 60s and early 70s would hid the face, and the way the drummer beats the crap out of those toms is fantastic.

[feelingslinky]

@vonkaunaz always good to know people out there know their music and also the cool people who played it :)

[terryorr]

I was in my teens in the very early 70's and was into the sonic assault drumming style. We had a local hard rock band that went by the name of Three Day War and we played lots of Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Grand Funk, Cream, Steppenwolf and other early heavy metal bands, as well as a few rarer songs like Green Manalishi. Bands such as Blue Cheer, Vanilla Fudge, Amboy Dukes, Frijid Pink, MC5 were favorites for us because they kicked ass and still had garage band enthusiasm.

[stewgotz1]

BLUE ''FUCKIN''CHEER....THEY PLAY SO LOUD ,THEY'LL TURN THE AIR INTO COTTAGE CHEESE

[Cervicconstruction]

@stewgotz1 I was there it was much more than that they made music a living breathing ANIMAL.

COUNTRY

[feelingslinky]

fuckin love the fuzz-out rock-metal sound they got! awesomeness!

[XPS9100Boy]

ATTITUDE

[rustinpeace1992]

most underrated band of the 1960s

[TeleTubeee]

That drummer reminds me of that Muppet drummer.

[TheYigg1]

This is the best fuckn shit ive ever heard in my dam life...

[urckrecords]

@TheYigg1 WELL STATED!!!!!!!!!! believe it or not, when I was in high school in the 80s, fuckin MTV used to play this during the daytime, they called it "Closet Classics". What the hell happened?

[TheYigg1]

@urckrecords Hells yeah i believe it sounds soo raw man.....Damm really im in high school now an i think im the only one bumping this shit down the hall ways, mtv went down hill so fast not even cool anymore

[KaYcEeJaY1000]

@TheYigg1 hellyea!!! you are so right...im is high skool to and i love this song and nobodys heard of blue cheer WTF!!

[urckrecords]

@urckrecords spread the word! we need new bands that sound like these guys!!!

[nuppert]

@urckrecords Search youtube for Wolfmother - new moon rising.

[MattHatter]

@urckrecords That was EXACTLY the first time I ever saw this video....on MTV's "Closet Classics" back in the '80s when I was only 9 or so. I remember thinking drummer Paul Whaley had the longest hair I've ever seen on a guy!

[the2point2]

thumbs up if you are watching it in 2011 :D



[DuttyFassyhole]

Love love love love love love love! This makes me so happy every time I watch it.

[opticomxDDDDDDDDDDDD]

THIS IS OLDER THAN HELTER SKELTER.

[kevinlcpc]

I think someone forgot about Keith Moon!!!! This guy is great though!!

[kevinlcpc]

I think someone forgot about Keith Moon!!!!

[kemotox]

1:20 the drummer is Rayman! :DDD

[ruslanasrtu]

SUPER  DRUMMER!!!!!!!!!!

[Jay435]

i was 15 yrs old when this came out - people were stupified by them and didn't know what to think. All the garage bands worshipped them and that's when everyone started telling us to "turn it down" and so we made it fucking louder.

[DirkjeA]

@Jay435 I too was 15 years old when I heard this for the first time, coming out loud of the speakers of the boy next door. I was instantly in love with him (till I saw his record collection and discovered Jim Reeves ;-)

[SupernautG]

@Jay435 Jay, thanks for that. No one comments on how revolutionary this music must have sounded. This is 1968! From someone of that era to hear this must be as mindblowing as showing a TV to someone from the Middle Ages would have been.

[Mutahnt]

Yee first Metal drummer

[Mutahnt]

They actually look really Metal

[cyberyanmar]

cousin itt on both bass and drums

[ThatDisembodiedVoice]

That drummer almost invented Headbanging.

[METAAAAALYEAH]

*Reads all the "Sabbath invented Metal" comments* Okay, listen up kiddies....NO ONE INVENTED METAL. It was an evolutionary process, it started with the Blues, then Rock 'N Roll. Then, you had guys like Blue Cheer and Led Zepplin who were getting close to/crossing the line of Rock and Metal. Sabbath was just recognized as the first.

[UberKrispy]

Got some low end to it, fo sho

[MadStone666]

Sick drummer for that times

[notfragile33]

I know people would have given their right ear to see Blue Cheer, MC5, and the Stooges in their one-and-only gig together back in '69...And they may have lost their other ear after the show!

[tiborvivi]

R.I.P. Dickie Henderson (1946-2009)

[ChapaczNorek]

@tiborvivi OMG, PETERSON not Henderson...

[hugemangus]

Eddie Cochran recorded this song in 1958, 10 years before this . . . I don't see much Eddie Cochran in these guys . . . ? LOL

[humppppa]

first metal drummer in history

[Paulohenrique0]

@humppppa I don't know, Helter Skelter is first heavy metal music...

[whelmers1]

@humppppa What..? thats not John Bonham!

[AlyssaGoesToItaly]

Haha I love the drummer :)

[gozone132]

Heavy metal was born on Friday the 13th of February 1970.In England.

Blue cheer were just one of many hippy groups of the time in America playing fuzzed out guitars and taking dope.Theres no direction to the music.

Yes the guitars are distorted,but that does not make them a heavy metal band.

[ElectricHellfire]

@gozone132 I agree

[gre1990]

@gozone132 Oh cmon! this song clearly mixes some minor scales without flattened third. So thats the main deal to know were not talking about rock anymore.

[TheRyanDomengeaux]

They were see through! Awesome

[Ramusiewicz]

Freakin' GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[heyyouthere4]

They were so loud the audience had to listen from the parking lot. Rumor has it their amps pumped a whopping 25 KWatts. Sort of like Hot Black in Hitchhiker's Guide.

[CrispyTurkey]

Warning: This song makes the listener sound as bad ass as humanely possible. Keep away from sharp objects while raging.

[barrfmen]

@CrispyTurkey Great comment! If someone said to me, play the biggest badest, most rippin rock song ever, it would be this one.

[CrispyTurkey]

@barrfmen :) 

[RockerFilms94]

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.

[Amhlair]

Do you realize how long that drummer's hair was for 1968?? I was 14 and thought I had lost my mind - which I was trying hard to do - when I first saw them in concert.

[IndianaParkWars]

amazing bass at 0:57!

[ElricMeln1]

First metal!!! beautiful!

[clydeholbrook]

sorry guys, butterfly was pre blue cheer. what about bands like the mc5? listen to i want you right now...pure metal



[dubbly1]

This band reminds me of Black Sabbath, The Beatles, and Cream all put together in one band.

[notfragile33]

You really can't say Led Zeppelin is Metal, and Blue Cheer isn't. On the other hand, I really don't like this comparison people make to Grand Funk Railroad. Okay, GFR had a 'few' metal moments, but they were not a 'heavy metal band'. And Blue Cheer, early on, was much more 'one dimensional'--they never played anything that sounded like Sly Stone or Edgar Winter, the way the band that had "FUNK" as their middle name did!

[ziwzihizwiz]

its a shame the video cuts when they get to the noisy freak out...

[murrayjonasson]

Reminds me of the drummer for Arcane Sugar on a song called the union

[yuyuberi]

Dick used to play guitar in our basement..............man oh man wish i could get hime back............life waaaas hard on him......Love you man

[jv2009FF]

Muito bom !!

[darkpumperrr]

Awesome proto-stoner.

[MattHatter]

@jerrybtube1 Wow. You seem like you've read some of MY comments on here! LOL. I've made quite a few comments on here stating the exact same thing you just did. It was a welcomed RELIEF when grunge swept away all the hair band BS in the late '80s. When I saw Nirvana on SNL in the beginning of 1992 I was like, "Thank you God!" Up until that point I had never had a true "rock and roll" moment on television (my mom got to see things like The Who on The Smothers Brothers).

[dannyhood66]

This was straight up thrash metal in 68.

[METALLIKIDofTBR]

lol you think they might have based Animal off  Blue Cheer"s drummer?

[sibinala]

bands like this one are the reason why we have bands like metallica and all the other ones so give it up to them!!!

[vakuun]

Esto es lo que quiero hacer de por vida...

[MsELVISLOVER]

The guitarist looks like the lead singer for Monster Magnet.

[notfragile33]

We lost Dick Petersen the same year we lost Ron Asheton from The Stooges. That's too bad--my dream was to see Blue Cheer and The Stooges in concert together, that would have kicked almighty ass!

[sicfuker25]

this is heavy for it's time..it could be maybe the Slayer of the 60's

[jeffblacky]

Too all the jack of asses that dont think Blue Cheer was the founding fathers of the metal sound , either likes Abba or Dolly Parton as there metal bands. Number one they been playing as Blue Cheer since 1966 , long before Zep or Sab ever got together , and from witness said they still had that sound 2 years before there first record, my uncle Frank saw them in 1967 before he went to Vietnam , and was so loud that he had to stuff napkins in his ears to help drown out the sound wave.

[brofranomo]

@jeffblacky They WAY ahead of their time unfortunately. Metal started out as "hard rock" with the bands like Led Zepplin and Black Sabbath just to start with. Wonder how they may have done if they just come about maybe 5 years later. i suspect they would have been much more successful.

[PolMcCartney]

RIP Dickie...

[mrkillitoss]

i love that you can hear how fuckin loud it was when they recorded this ;)

[Bylga]

Slade + Black Sabbath = Blue Cheer

[unfortunatebeam]

Blue Cheer had down the formula before Jimmy Page

[SkyEatsKyle]

I would've loved this if I was dropping back cid at the same age then...heheh.

[TruthAxe]

This sound is NOT "heavy metal." These guys were Cream and Hendrix wannabes. And you can here their clone-ish slavery to that sound in this cover.

[freudastaire]

That drummer is high!

[sagawde]

from 1:02, the drummer's shirt becomes invisible...:O

[bsufilms]

paul whaley is a fuckin beast

[yourgodsname]

@jerrybtube1 Your best years are behind you old man, don't lump metal in with your sorry ass.Yeee Hawww, fag

[MAGALTMALDITABASURA]

- HEAVY METAL = BLACK SABBATH / N.I.B

- IRON BUTTERFLY + LED ZEPPELIN = ¡¡ BLUE CHEER IS HARD STONER PSYCHEDELIC ROCK !!

[notfragile33]

I heard there was a concert back in '68 or '69 that featured Blue Cheer, MC5, and The Stooges? If you think about it, that's approximately 3 hours of Marshall stacks blasting fuzz and white noise at your face! How someone didn't get out of that experience with PERMANENT hearing loss!

[Pirate7X]

@notfragile33 Hell yeah that's public hazard ha! A kick-ass rocking hazard.

[ostepop666]

I have been reading some coments now and I think a lot of you people need to see: Metal- A headbangers journey! freeking awsome docu!

[weswhiterock]

19 people have the summertime blues.

[daveceaser13]

this aint even close to being metal. metal musicians can actually play their instruments.

[chingchangchongfly]

@daveceaser13 Eat shit and die.

[notfragile33]

Other cool bands on the Philips record label: The Open Mind, Gong, and JD Blackfoot. Lest we also forget, Black Sabbath was for a time on the Philips subsidiary, Vertigo. Not bad for a company who also made some swell light bulbs!

[BiscuitNewt]

Thats REAL Drumming, ......and Bass-ing...... and Guitar-ing, you know what its all good :) !!

[MrSanford25]

w2ho the fuck is you incosicwentchiel shit you miss spelled fuck y ouuu

[Stratocasterized]

The only good thing here is the drummer. The rest is forgettable.



[gablepanda]

@Stratocasterized kinda like you

[Ivannnz]

i listening Heavy metal here

[loetzfan]

Just listening to this song I would have sworn that there were at least 5 people playing this song.

[balsaboy55]

blue cheers drummer bad ass