i heard once that Jimmy Page was in SF around 66-67 - saw Blue Cheer and thought "i can do this - better" then went back to England and put Zep together.
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better ? worse ? relative concepts, but it is an interesting story.
The endless debate about who invented heavy metal will never be solved, but remember this: Blue Cheer came along in 1966, 3 years before Black Sabbath blipped onto the map. The Cheer invented heavy metal, Sabbath made it a genre!
Saw them "Live" at New City Opera House in Minneapolis when Summer time Blues was on the Radio...drummer was this little guy with a pigeon chest who played like an animal, they had custom speaker enclosures with 4-15" JBL's in each one....rocked the joint...! saw Cream there also....
Actually I just listened to this band today, I'gotta say I pretty impressed, damn that sound is so massive. I think that this is quite an underrated band, as far as I can tell. I Guess why Blue Cheer is not that popular is due to the lack of melody.
My favorite bit of trivia is that as an old blues number, covered by probably hundreds of other artists, this song is Parchman Farm, a name for the Mississippi State pen. Someone did not know that, misheard and once it was on the record sleeve it was too late. Well they are named after acid so it is no surprise that there were stoner mistakes surrounding them. I love this band.
I HATE METAL, BUT LIKE BLUE CHEER! FUCK YOU ALL hahahahhahahahaahah cookin chick peA SOUP in a bowl made of a head so yeah this is good but point made when alternative says other musci called rocknroll is really on alter statement kk
This is an old Blues song written long before this version,but loving heavy music when I was young in the 70,s,I picked this LP up at a second hand store for 50 cents,and it is still one of my faves,and still heavier than any band around way before there was metal,ect,and these cats worked hard,the LP was named after some Owsly Acid called Blue Cheer on blotter paper,Blue Cheer,way ahead of their time
America stamped it's mark on metal. Blue Cheer was American and they were influenced by Link Wray the overdrive distortion pioneer. He is also credited by Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck( 2 of the all time greatest guitarists credited with pionerring Heavy Mammoth riffs that kickstarted Heavy Metal).
It's my understanding that the first use of the term "heavy metal" was in Steppenwolf's classic "Born to Be Wild", in the verse, "I like smoke and lightning, Heavy Metal thunder"...thus it was born. These guys embody it.
The term "Heavy Metal" was first coined to describe the sound of Led Zeppelin. Blue Cheer sound every bit as heavy as Led Zeppelin did. The guitar playing in Blue Cheer sounds a lot like Zeppelin, not sure if one copied the other or maybe the trend was just going that way. Eventually, rock music evolved to the point where this is no longer considered heavy metal, but it was back then. However, it was and still is, pretty loud and noisy. I like it.
@CougarButtes These guys were doing "Heavy Metal " while the Beatles were doing Sgt. Pepper in 1966-1967. That is several years before Zep and Sabbath! They were one of the first bands to play this way.. Remember Steppenwolf? Heavy Metal thunder? Born To Be Wild? Remember Hot Smoke & Sassafras? At least 2 years before Zep. Zep was not (WAS NOT) the first heavy metal band! Let's give credit where it is due.. Remember The Standells? Dirty Water? There are numerous examples of "Heavy Metal"...
@benzaseeadoneitall I didn't say that Zep was the first metal band in my previous comment, just that they were the first band to have that tern used about them in major international media because they were the most popular. And for the record their first album came out in 1968. Steppenwolf used the term about riding bikes. There is some interesting info on wikipedia for Heavy_metal_music. They site a lot of lesser known bands like Blue Cheer in the formation of Heavy Metal.
honestly, the only thing that's keeping this from being the first metal album is that half the songs themselves are covers of old blues/rock standards. it's just as heavy as black sabbath's first two albums (but not master of reality) but stylistically I don't think it's not enough of a departure from it's roots to be considered the start of a new form of music.
If you're saying this isn't heavy metal, then you are expressing an opinion. Bach didn't call his music Baroque, but it is commonly agreed now that his music fit stylistically within the period that was later termed Baroque.
Yes, this is acid rock, but stylistically, Blue Cheer (and acid rock in general) fits into a continuum in which heavy metal is included.You can argue where the line can be drawn, but it has nothing to do with whether or not the term 'heavy metal' existed.
@flemmasterj I think music like this is just blues rock, same genre with jimi hendrix. is jimi hendrix considered as heavy metal too? I thought what called heavy metal music is when they playing guitar riff like a bass/less chords, fast solo with classical scale, alot of tapping, less bending, and the singer have lame clean voice or dog barking. Iron maiden, van halen, and slipknot can be classifed as heavy metal (my version), but not blue cheer. well, that's just my opinion. :)
@flemmasterj So correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe the term "heavy metal" was coined when a journalist used it to describe the sound of Jimi Hendrix playing his guitar. Stating that it sounded like heavy metal falling from the sky - Oh yeah , sweet sonic chaos ! it tickles my funny places !
@flemmasterj totally agree... for instance.. when The Stooges made their debut they called it "future rock" today it's commonly accepted as the beginning of punk
@trsonic87 haha what an irony. "Future rock" was in fact "punk rock" when heavy rock music was collapsing towards the end of the 70s and that's when punk rock rose to proeminence. I mean that's what I think "future rock" kinda meant.
@doom696mented yeah, it's just kinda cool that Iggy saw the "future" of rock 10 years earlier... Iggy was a HUGE influence on Sonic Youth, as was Velvet Underground... this is unrelated to Blue Cheer... but still pretty cool that Iggy was the future in a manner of speaking by influencing the Youth who further paved the way for the dirty psychedelic material that the mid to late 80's and early 90's grunge and low-fi sound... Independent releases and psychedelic drugs forever!!!!
@flemmasterj but honestly who gives a fuck what its called?? if blue cheer were on a video called "Origins of Folk Music", i bet this video would have a quarter the views it does now... just liten with your ears, not your head
@flemmasterj very true, i've been listening to metal for about 12 years. a lot of the things blue cheer did on this album you can find on later metal releases of all styles. highly influential band, great music!
@comedybenj You don't know what metal is man. You think you do, but you don't. This is what heavy metal was born out of. It's a different kind of heavy man. Don't let closed mindedness and misinterpretation cloud your vision of what true heavy metal is. THIS IS FUCKING HEAVY.
@legaata your right the term heavy metal didnt exist yet then not until deep purple did smoke on the water the phrase came from william bouroghs and used in the song born to be wild which wasnt heavy metal either ginger baker said he didnt like heavy metal because it didnt have enough blues and jazz influences to interest him
@comedybenj If you think "heavy metal" is equivalent to death or black metal or any kind of "RAAAAWWWWWWRRRR" kind of thing, you definetly sucks. Not to mention that "heavy metal" is SOMETHING for every person in this world as in "heavy music that weighs you down". It doesn't have to be like "these VERRRYYY MANLY MEN WHO LIFT THEIR SWORDS AND GO 'RAWWWWWR' OR 'GROOOOOOWWWWLLLLL' ", you know. This is "heavy psychedeli rock", but you can also call it "proto-heavy metal". Dumbass !
@grahamlaur Tony Iommi of Sabbath was not influenced by Blue Cheer. The Metal sound he got was when Sabbath wanted to write scary music, then Iommi tuned his guitar to D, to release tension on his fingers, because 2 of his fretboard fingers had part of them cut off in an accident. And before Sabbath were metal, they were a blues band back in 68, and decided to go the Sabbath way in late 68 early 69. Even so, Blue Cheer are a great band
@KingsField418 OK, I accept that. The point of my comment, though, was that I didn't see many people acknowledging the influence on The Stooges. Obviously Ron Asheton had heard Vincebus Eruptum before The Stooges made their debut.
@slantyrock Oh, I suspected that but couldnt tell if it were sarcasm, cause some people do consider Beethove and Vagner to be very inspirational to metal.
The house of heavy metal was built brick by brick, band by band. From The Yardbirds to Cream to The Jimi Hendrix Experience to Blue Cheer to Led Zeppelin to Black Sabbath and so on. Each band added the next brick to the building. BUT I do not go with the whole Zeppelin = hard rock, Sabbath = metal thing. If there was any band that were responsible for just "hard rock" it would be Free. A heavy blues based band without the doom and gloom. Zep had SOME doom, but yeah, Sabbath had more.
Zep and Sabbath both formed in '68. The Cheer formed in '66. Check ur facts! Sabbath has listed the Cheer as a primary influence. Jim Morrison described them as the most powerful band he's ever seen. The Who copied their cover of "Summertime Blues" almost to a T. Yah, they were more than a little bit psychadelic but their mode of delivery was the birth of metal music. QED.
@stuffalotxtwice Blue Cheer started metal. Black sabbath built off of them, Zeppelin and The Who built off of them, AC/DC and Rush built off of them, and so on and so forth.
@LedZeppelin2055 The who were popular before any of those bands (My Generation anyone!). I have to say Blue Cheer are heavy though and had a crazy sound that is very in touch with early metal like sabbath (and anyone who says the first album sabbath album isnt heavy well listen to it then listen to it then listen to poison and say that poison is darker more evil and heavier!)
Zep and Sabbath both formed in '68. Check ur facts! Sabbath has listed the Cheer as a primary influence. Jim Morrison described them as the most powerful band he's ever seen. The Who copied their cover of "Summertime Blues" almost to a T. Yah, they were more than a little bit psychadelic but their mode of delivery was the birth of metal music. QED.
Blue Cheer- Great band, but I'm sick of hearing how they "invented" or were the FIRST heavy metal band. Bosch....Black Sabbath was the the first band to present Heavy Metal to the public. And they also perfected and progressed it to the point where they are the most influentual metal band of all time.
Actually they are by far my favorite band. I practically worship them. I tattoed Icarus on my massive right bicep to prove it. But anyways Robert Plant said, in response to someone claiming that zep was the first metal group, that it was an inaccurate statement because "roughly a third of our songs are acoustic". Look the quote up. havent you heard zep tres?
@MrTrevorstroup Led Zeppelin will never be Heavy Metal. Yes, at a certain time they were the heaviest band on earth and indeed the Sab's were impressed. However, Sabbath's first EP redefined Heavy and Zeppelin never claimed that mantle again. Sure, Zeppelin is a generally more accepted band, but in terms of originality, heavyness, and influence, Sabbath gets the win. You may like Led Zeppelin more which is a perfectly valid opinion, but the fact remains, Sabbath is 10x heavier.
@MrTrevorstroup Led Zeppelin will never be Heavy Metal. Yes, at a certain time they were the heaviest band on earth and indeed the Sab's were impressed. However, Sabbath's first EP redefined Heavy and Zeppelin never claimed that mantle again. Sure, Zeppelin is a generally more accepted band, but in terms of originality, heavyness, and influence, Sabbath gets the win. You may like Led Zeppelin more which is a perfectly valid opinion, but the fact remains, Sabbath is 10x heavier.
It was the first tour for the Band and they were opening for Iron Butterfly ( they blew them away) at the Fillmore East. During the required signature drum solo which was really great. Some fan threw a tennis ball to the stage and Dickie threw it at Leigh and he caught it and threw back at him and Dickie used his bass like a bat and put it to the upper deck region (2nd balcony. Well everyone was thinking about what they had just seen and Dickie as usual really made our trip!
People say Sabbath was the first metal band because Iommi had to down tune because of his finger situation.What can you do,minor chords just sound evil .
blue cheer is great they are the first metal band ever yet they are in the shadow of black sabbath and led zepplin.Even those bands are more popular doesnt make them better than blue cheer long live blue cheer!! Long live metal !!!!!!!!!
@megaforce811 Yeah, me too. Both of those "First Daze Here" compilation cds are excellent!, I hope they put out a third one. Also, check out "Bedemon: Child of Darkness" if you haven't already.
@lenmark59 yeah i think its just that steppenwolf got good recognition. i've heard so many claims to the original heavy metal song it hurts my head now that i think about it. the beatles even, helter skelter i've heard claims of it being the first heavy metal song. who knows, who knows. all good music though
Fans of doom or sludge, those that like Electric Wizard, Eyehategod and others would probably appreciate this. There is something in Blue Cheer I always found depressing albeit in a good way.
There is more to metal than distortion, I know that. Aggression, intensity, volume, that certain dark edge, a lot of power chords, and many other less articulable attributes factor in; you have to go by the overall sound, but I've always thought the main reason Cheer didn't seem like metal to me was the distortion thing. I'm well aware that what I (and the rest of you) say isn't indisputable fact, so nobody should take it too seriously.
There were a lot of bands, aside from Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin that gave birth to what became known as heavy metal, aside from the obvious (Free, Humble Pie, Grand Funk Railroad, Deep Purple) you have Bang, Josefus, Iron Claw, Jerusalem, May Blitz, High Tide, Captain Beyond, Lucifers Friend, Sir Lord Baltimore etc, and much of the riffing style, lead guitar, imagery etc came from 70's Judas Priest. To claim one band as the definitive first metal act is wrong.
@fuzzleredmenn these guys were around in 1965 all those bands beside black sabbath, jimi hendrix, and deep purple i think are just overrated classic ROCK not metal
@metalheadshredder1 I never said they were metal, I said they gave birth to metal, or at least they are part of its roots. Overrated? Thats a matter of opinion, but not one I share I'm afraid.
In my opinion, I'd like to say THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE was the very first heavy metal band. It was from this seed that the roots of metal (among others) had sprung forth. I dare say he affected all of rock, also jazz, classical and country; even punk and rap. Ex: MANIC DEPRESSION is a fusion of a waltz with a jazz swing and the landscape is completely painted in the sound of distorted metal, using harmonics feedback and distortion. This song qualify's as the first metal song before anyone
In my opinion, I'd like to say THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE was the very first heavy metal band. It was from this seed that the roots of metal (among other things) had sprung forth. I dare say he affected all of rock, also jazz, classical and country; even punk and rap. So if you can't hear all of the ear marks of metal on Jimi's first album then you must be deaf. Obviously you don"t play guitar. Are you kiddin me, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned him yet. Pay attention!
@nananaalgoodaye people who think Led Zeppelin were the first metal band are wrong, just like people who think Blue Cheer were. Sabbath was the first fully fledged metal band, and always will be. Blue Cheer is acid rock, like cream, only more primitive and aggressive. Very Heavy Power Trio they were, and major influence on metal(particularily on stoner/ doom bands) but they're not Heavy Metal. There's more to being metal than having power chords, and lots of distortion...
@mikexlong thats true, i suppose its because its a heavy power chord blues scale riff with fast dums . I suppose some days i think its black sabbath and somedays i think its blue cheer, but yeah i think if blue cheer arent the first they are very close to the line with sabbath just on the other side
@nananaalgoodaye lol I mean it is sortof a tough call. one must also remember the beatles wrote helter skelter the same year as this album came out. a lot of people forget how heavy that song really is, just because it's the beatles lol.
@nananaalgoodaye just a personal pet peeve of mine, but its "one OF" as in, one of a kind. you don't say one OFF a kind do you? lots of people just accept mispellings nowadays, it irks me, especially when you can see it. it just looks wrong to the eye.
@nananaalgoodaye This isn't metal, Zeppelin wasn't metal there is no traceable origin of metal but in my opinion a fat kid turned his gain up to high in his basement one day fucked up an octave and everything just came from that.
@ManamoPrime actually it was Tony Iommi, not a fat kid. and he didn't "fuck up an octave" he stumbled upon the flatted fifth when he was jamming on a G-chord, and made a song out of the riff with Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, and Ozzy Osbourne. Geezer named the song-and rechristened the band "Black Sabbath", after a horror movie starring Vincent Price. Zeppelin and Cheer helped influence it's sound, but Sabbath was the first fully fledged incarnation of metal, a completely new type of music.
Okay okay, heavy acid metal rock :) There, covers them all.
Babbalicious72 1 day ago
1st ever Heavy Metal band and if you don't agree with it then you don't know the truth!
Sandbagger300 1 day ago
first heavy metal band, ever.
morbidangelofdeath1 1 week ago
the main riff is like surf boogie, but TOTALLY METAL... Sabbath Look Out!!
falquest 1 week ago
this band will forever be legendary for its influence. haters hate, but that is what makes pepole famous in the end :)
Shitonmyfaceify 2 weeks ago
Fucking love this song...
assasinator1980 1 month ago
i heard once that Jimmy Page was in SF around 66-67 - saw Blue Cheer and thought "i can do this - better" then went back to England and put Zep together.
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better ? worse ? relative concepts, but it is an interesting story.
MrKirkenstein 1 month ago
Sounds like a song Jack White would write. Just saying.
commandhtf 1 month ago
@commandhtf i could imagine him writing a song like this..but i cant imagine him kicking ass at performing it like blue cheer do.
Sorry, just being honest.
yugang08 1 month ago
@commandhtf oh btw blue cheer didnt write the song, Mose Allison wrote it. They just did a heavier rugged cover of the original song.
yugang08 1 month ago
@commandhtf only if jack white wrote it wouldn't rock, it would only make money.
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and shot his arm ( it wasn't with a gun )
mediaman46 2 months ago
The endless debate about who invented heavy metal will never be solved, but remember this: Blue Cheer came along in 1966, 3 years before Black Sabbath blipped onto the map. The Cheer invented heavy metal, Sabbath made it a genre!
kidtexaus1 2 months ago
MC5 were ripping it up in early 68.
nigletgook 2 months ago
These guys defined heavy metal along with Black Sabbath if you don't think so up yours.
nigletgook 2 months ago
Saw them "Live" at New City Opera House in Minneapolis when Summer time Blues was on the Radio...drummer was this little guy with a pigeon chest who played like an animal, they had custom speaker enclosures with 4-15" JBL's in each one....rocked the joint...! saw Cream there also....
barkbarkbarkbarkable 2 months ago
@barkbarkbarkbarkable bull shit!
xxTHExxKLASxx 1 month ago
Wow, amazing!!
PrivatePyles 2 months ago
Actually I just listened to this band today, I'gotta say I pretty impressed, damn that sound is so massive. I think that this is quite an underrated band, as far as I can tell. I Guess why Blue Cheer is not that popular is due to the lack of melody.
somatder 2 months ago
One of Black Sabbath's influence.
mariesalas1 2 months ago
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luixnoise 2 months ago
My favorite bit of trivia is that as an old blues number, covered by probably hundreds of other artists, this song is Parchman Farm, a name for the Mississippi State pen. Someone did not know that, misheard and once it was on the record sleeve it was too late. Well they are named after acid so it is no surprise that there were stoner mistakes surrounding them. I love this band.
mrhdbnger 3 months ago
I HATE METAL, BUT LIKE BLUE CHEER! FUCK YOU ALL hahahahhahahahaahah cookin chick peA SOUP in a bowl made of a head so yeah this is good but point made when alternative says other musci called rocknroll is really on alter statement kk
TheoGallagher 3 months ago
This is an old Blues song written long before this version,but loving heavy music when I was young in the 70,s,I picked this LP up at a second hand store for 50 cents,and it is still one of my faves,and still heavier than any band around way before there was metal,ect,and these cats worked hard,the LP was named after some Owsly Acid called Blue Cheer on blotter paper,Blue Cheer,way ahead of their time
neilembo55 3 months ago
Fuck metal... fuck acid rock.. .THIS IS FUCKIN AMAZING!
francoxxxfranco 3 months ago
Im 15 and think rock nowdays should be like Blue Cheer not that Jonas crap or whatever it's all the same!
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TheRockandroll420 3 months ago
@yarsinc I second that.
MrEntropyProductions 3 months ago
America stamped it's mark on metal. Blue Cheer was American and they were influenced by Link Wray the overdrive distortion pioneer. He is also credited by Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck( 2 of the all time greatest guitarists credited with pionerring Heavy Mammoth riffs that kickstarted Heavy Metal).
Rosieisapunk1200 4 months ago
If VH1 says its early metal with Cream and Hendrix its early metal.
J5MARLON 4 months ago
@J5MARLON fuck VH1
ruslanasrtu 2 weeks ago
@ruslanasrtu I think you hurt VH1 feelings. : P
J5MARLON 2 weeks ago
she was no good
ninaivk1 4 months ago
I LOVE that tone, the way it goes from jangly clean to wooly crushing fuzz, awesome.
DoubleEdgedSword12 5 months ago
It's my understanding that the first use of the term "heavy metal" was in Steppenwolf's classic "Born to Be Wild", in the verse, "I like smoke and lightning, Heavy Metal thunder"...thus it was born. These guys embody it.
bhedrock 5 months ago
The term "Heavy Metal" was first coined to describe the sound of Led Zeppelin. Blue Cheer sound every bit as heavy as Led Zeppelin did. The guitar playing in Blue Cheer sounds a lot like Zeppelin, not sure if one copied the other or maybe the trend was just going that way. Eventually, rock music evolved to the point where this is no longer considered heavy metal, but it was back then. However, it was and still is, pretty loud and noisy. I like it.
CougarButtes 5 months ago
@CougarButtes These guys were doing "Heavy Metal " while the Beatles were doing Sgt. Pepper in 1966-1967. That is several years before Zep and Sabbath! They were one of the first bands to play this way.. Remember Steppenwolf? Heavy Metal thunder? Born To Be Wild? Remember Hot Smoke & Sassafras? At least 2 years before Zep. Zep was not (WAS NOT) the first heavy metal band! Let's give credit where it is due.. Remember The Standells? Dirty Water? There are numerous examples of "Heavy Metal"...
benzaseeadoneitall 3 months ago
@benzaseeadoneitall I didn't say that Zep was the first metal band in my previous comment, just that they were the first band to have that tern used about them in major international media because they were the most popular. And for the record their first album came out in 1968. Steppenwolf used the term about riding bikes. There is some interesting info on wikipedia for Heavy_metal_music. They site a lot of lesser known bands like Blue Cheer in the formation of Heavy Metal.
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It is spelled Parchman Farm. It's a real place, the Mississippi state prison.
Anyway, you want heavy? watch?v=jM23S12LXaE
coy0te9 6 months ago
Thumbs up if you thought that music ended on 2:14
xyntota 6 months ago
@xyntota neaaahhh
doom696mented 6 months ago
honestly, the only thing that's keeping this from being the first metal album is that half the songs themselves are covers of old blues/rock standards. it's just as heavy as black sabbath's first two albums (but not master of reality) but stylistically I don't think it's not enough of a departure from it's roots to be considered the start of a new form of music.
mikexlong 7 months ago
That tone is hhheeaavvvvyy
DoubleEdgedSword12 7 months ago
Just gonna throw my opinion into this whole "Metal or not" debate.
In my eyes, Heavy Metal really started to form when Acid Rock and Blues started to come together, and that describes Blue Cheer accurately.
1000PsychicWars 7 months ago 3
If you're saying this isn't heavy metal, then you are expressing an opinion. Bach didn't call his music Baroque, but it is commonly agreed now that his music fit stylistically within the period that was later termed Baroque.
Yes, this is acid rock, but stylistically, Blue Cheer (and acid rock in general) fits into a continuum in which heavy metal is included.You can argue where the line can be drawn, but it has nothing to do with whether or not the term 'heavy metal' existed.
flemmasterj 7 months ago 35
@flemmasterj Either way it's still just all Rock and Roll
Traductus5972 5 months ago
@flemmasterj I think music like this is just blues rock, same genre with jimi hendrix. is jimi hendrix considered as heavy metal too? I thought what called heavy metal music is when they playing guitar riff like a bass/less chords, fast solo with classical scale, alot of tapping, less bending, and the singer have lame clean voice or dog barking. Iron maiden, van halen, and slipknot can be classifed as heavy metal (my version), but not blue cheer. well, that's just my opinion. :)
AlternativeBT 4 months ago
@flemmasterj So correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe the term "heavy metal" was coined when a journalist used it to describe the sound of Jimi Hendrix playing his guitar. Stating that it sounded like heavy metal falling from the sky - Oh yeah , sweet sonic chaos ! it tickles my funny places !
vothesun 4 months ago
@flemmasterj totally agree... for instance.. when The Stooges made their debut they called it "future rock" today it's commonly accepted as the beginning of punk
trsonic87 3 months ago
@trsonic87 haha what an irony. "Future rock" was in fact "punk rock" when heavy rock music was collapsing towards the end of the 70s and that's when punk rock rose to proeminence. I mean that's what I think "future rock" kinda meant.
doom696mented 3 months ago
@doom696mented yeah, it's just kinda cool that Iggy saw the "future" of rock 10 years earlier... Iggy was a HUGE influence on Sonic Youth, as was Velvet Underground... this is unrelated to Blue Cheer... but still pretty cool that Iggy was the future in a manner of speaking by influencing the Youth who further paved the way for the dirty psychedelic material that the mid to late 80's and early 90's grunge and low-fi sound... Independent releases and psychedelic drugs forever!!!!
trsonic87 2 months ago
@flemmasterj but honestly who gives a fuck what its called?? if blue cheer were on a video called "Origins of Folk Music", i bet this video would have a quarter the views it does now... just liten with your ears, not your head
Ukabumba 4 days ago
@flemmasterj very true, i've been listening to metal for about 12 years. a lot of the things blue cheer did on this album you can find on later metal releases of all styles. highly influential band, great music!
DeeEmm1 1 day ago
i have just listened to 6 minutes noise... and i enjoyed every second of it :D
thegrouchboy 7 months ago
This isn't anything...but damn good music !
thethirstygerman 7 months ago 2
This isn't heavy metal
comedybenj 7 months ago
@comedybenj You don't know what metal is man. You think you do, but you don't. This is what heavy metal was born out of. It's a different kind of heavy man. Don't let closed mindedness and misinterpretation cloud your vision of what true heavy metal is. THIS IS FUCKING HEAVY.
Metalmalitia141 7 months ago
@comedybenj stoner rock
Peter7beardmaster 7 months ago
@Peter7beardmaster Yep
comedybenj 7 months ago
@comedybenj No, this isn't heavy metal, this is acid rock.
legaata 7 months ago
@legaata your right the term heavy metal didnt exist yet then not until deep purple did smoke on the water the phrase came from william bouroghs and used in the song born to be wild which wasnt heavy metal either ginger baker said he didnt like heavy metal because it didnt have enough blues and jazz influences to interest him
spacepatrolman 7 months ago
@comedybenj If you think "heavy metal" is equivalent to death or black metal or any kind of "RAAAAWWWWWWRRRR" kind of thing, you definetly sucks. Not to mention that "heavy metal" is SOMETHING for every person in this world as in "heavy music that weighs you down". It doesn't have to be like "these VERRRYYY MANLY MEN WHO LIFT THEIR SWORDS AND GO 'RAWWWWWR' OR 'GROOOOOOWWWWLLLLL' ", you know. This is "heavy psychedeli rock", but you can also call it "proto-heavy metal". Dumbass !
doom696mented 6 months ago
@comedybenj you definetly suck**
doom696mented 6 months ago
@doom696mented America didn't invent Heavy Metal
comedybenj 6 months ago
@comedybenj Yeah, I know. Black Sabbath did. You think you're smarter by saying that?
doom696mented 6 months ago
All he did was shoot his wife.
akerswizard779 7 months ago 19
@akerswizard779
i'm glad he shot the bitch,if not then we may not have got this awesome song
morbidangelofdeath1 6 months ago 2
@akerswizard779 she was no good... :/
dissent88 2 weeks ago
Sorry guys but from what I've been digging up the past few months, hendrix=overrated.
flutternuttt 8 months ago
@flutternuttt If you´d only been digging the shit out of your ears you´d probably hear that Hendrix ain´t overrated! What a stupid remark...!
MB280E 7 months ago
Blue Cheer was not a metal band they were pure Hard rock and roll from the get og
bigguy4570 8 months ago
reminds me of early Rush for some reason
300daysandnights 9 months ago
Hendrix hated these guys,but they rock.I have loved Blue Cheer for forty years
icut1 9 months ago
@icut1 Really?? Why did Hendrix hate them??
realityfrominsanity 9 months ago
@realityfrominsanity never knew that, these guys are better than hendrix by far!!!!!
doomvitus88 9 months ago
@doomvitus88 yeah, and they were Jim Morrison's favourite band !
doom696mented 8 months ago
haha he looks stupid the poor lonesome 1
guill62 9 months ago
I see just as much influence on The Stooges as I do on Black Sabbath... so I say they are forerunners of metal AND punk
grahamlaur 9 months ago 2
@grahamlaur Tony Iommi of Sabbath was not influenced by Blue Cheer. The Metal sound he got was when Sabbath wanted to write scary music, then Iommi tuned his guitar to D, to release tension on his fingers, because 2 of his fretboard fingers had part of them cut off in an accident. And before Sabbath were metal, they were a blues band back in 68, and decided to go the Sabbath way in late 68 early 69. Even so, Blue Cheer are a great band
KingsField418 9 months ago
@KingsField418 OK, I accept that. The point of my comment, though, was that I didn't see many people acknowledging the influence on The Stooges. Obviously Ron Asheton had heard Vincebus Eruptum before The Stooges made their debut.
grahamlaur 9 months ago
@KingsField418 C# to be picky, haha and they have some Metal-ish songs in E standard too.
But yes, you are correct.
MindKillSwe 9 months ago
@KingsField418 yeah and they were first called earth when they were into the blues rock stuff
DeathMetalDude231 8 months ago
@DeathMetalDude231 Yeah I know, Im a sab fan.
KingsField418 8 months ago
You're all wrong, Bach inveneted heavy metal...
slantyrock 9 months ago
@slantyrock I wouldnt say Bach, but mabey even Beethoven, I was a thrash metal wizard for his time..
Siksaneity77 9 months ago
@Siksaneity77 The joke was Bach was earlier....
slantyrock 9 months ago
@slantyrock Oh, I suspected that but couldnt tell if it were sarcasm, cause some people do consider Beethove and Vagner to be very inspirational to metal.
Siksaneity77 9 months ago
@Siksaneity77 Yeah, I was just making a joke of the whole "this came first" thing :)
slantyrock 9 months ago
The house of heavy metal was built brick by brick, band by band. From The Yardbirds to Cream to The Jimi Hendrix Experience to Blue Cheer to Led Zeppelin to Black Sabbath and so on. Each band added the next brick to the building. BUT I do not go with the whole Zeppelin = hard rock, Sabbath = metal thing. If there was any band that were responsible for just "hard rock" it would be Free. A heavy blues based band without the doom and gloom. Zep had SOME doom, but yeah, Sabbath had more.
MattHatter 9 months ago 3
Zep and Sabbath both formed in '68. The Cheer formed in '66. Check ur facts! Sabbath has listed the Cheer as a primary influence. Jim Morrison described them as the most powerful band he's ever seen. The Who copied their cover of "Summertime Blues" almost to a T. Yah, they were more than a little bit psychadelic but their mode of delivery was the birth of metal music. QED.
stuffalotxtwice 9 months ago
@stuffalotxtwice Where did you read that Blue Cheer was a primary influence on Sabbath?
Just wondering.
realityfrominsanity 9 months ago
@stuffalotxtwice Blue Cheer started metal. Black sabbath built off of them, Zeppelin and The Who built off of them, AC/DC and Rush built off of them, and so on and so forth.
SouthMeckStunna 9 months ago
@SouthMeckStunna The Who were before Black Sabbath...and The Who wasn't even metal.
LedZeppelin2055 9 months ago
@LedZeppelin2055 The Who wasnt really metal but they helped the metal image. They were one of the first bands to destroy equipment and shit
SouthMeckStunna 9 months ago
@SouthMeckStunna True, good point there.
LedZeppelin2055 9 months ago
@LedZeppelin2055 The who were popular before any of those bands (My Generation anyone!). I have to say Blue Cheer are heavy though and had a crazy sound that is very in touch with early metal like sabbath (and anyone who says the first album sabbath album isnt heavy well listen to it then listen to it then listen to poison and say that poison is darker more evil and heavier!)
JimijaymesGuitarist 6 months ago
Zep and Sabbath both formed in '68. Check ur facts! Sabbath has listed the Cheer as a primary influence. Jim Morrison described them as the most powerful band he's ever seen. The Who copied their cover of "Summertime Blues" almost to a T. Yah, they were more than a little bit psychadelic but their mode of delivery was the birth of metal music. QED.
stuffalotxtwice 9 months ago
This bans is also the beginning of punk rock, this band is everything !!!
atvperry 10 months ago
This shit cant touch Black Sabbath..sorry ya'll.
4eyedCyclopes 10 months ago
There is no answer to the first metal band. Music is subjective.
CrispyTurkey 10 months ago
I'm convinced, Blue Cheer is the first metal band. I used to say CREAM, but blue cheer has a much harder sound.
PollutedPoet 10 months ago
@PollutedPoet I'm with you on that one, man.
HeavyMetalWerewolf 9 months ago
I'm convinced, Blue Cheer is the first metal band. I used to say CREAM, but blue cheer has a much harder sound.
PollutedPoet 10 months ago
is it parchman far or parchment farm?
billgeezeriommi 10 months ago
this is my favorite Blue Cheer tune. It's a great cover.
ronam2000 10 months ago
Zeitgeist Ladies and Gentlemen Cream and Hendrix? I am the Walrus come on!
petrovic178 10 months ago
Blue Cheer- Great band, but I'm sick of hearing how they "invented" or were the FIRST heavy metal band. Bosch....Black Sabbath was the the first band to present Heavy Metal to the public. And they also perfected and progressed it to the point where they are the most influentual metal band of all time.
WillHear432 10 months ago
Actually they are by far my favorite band. I practically worship them. I tattoed Icarus on my massive right bicep to prove it. But anyways Robert Plant said, in response to someone claiming that zep was the first metal group, that it was an inaccurate statement because "roughly a third of our songs are acoustic". Look the quote up. havent you heard zep tres?
565144 10 months ago
@565144 Hell yeah. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp forever.
shkwave99 10 months ago
Blue Cheer created the Heavy, Black Sabbath created the Metal.
realityfrominsanity 11 months ago
@realityfrominsanity -Well said!!
TheZunigal 8 months ago
goddamn i need some acid now
KIDAmnesiacBends 11 months ago
led zepplin was the first succesful metal band..
MrTrevorstroup 1 year ago
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@MrTrevorstroup Led Zeppelin will never be Heavy Metal. Yes, at a certain time they were the heaviest band on earth and indeed the Sab's were impressed. However, Sabbath's first EP redefined Heavy and Zeppelin never claimed that mantle again. Sure, Zeppelin is a generally more accepted band, but in terms of originality, heavyness, and influence, Sabbath gets the win. You may like Led Zeppelin more which is a perfectly valid opinion, but the fact remains, Sabbath is 10x heavier.
DoomMetalSludge 11 months ago
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@MrTrevorstroup Led Zeppelin will never be Heavy Metal. Yes, at a certain time they were the heaviest band on earth and indeed the Sab's were impressed. However, Sabbath's first EP redefined Heavy and Zeppelin never claimed that mantle again. Sure, Zeppelin is a generally more accepted band, but in terms of originality, heavyness, and influence, Sabbath gets the win. You may like Led Zeppelin more which is a perfectly valid opinion, but the fact remains, Sabbath is 10x heavier.
DoomMetalSludge 11 months ago
@MrTrevorstroup idk man metal? 1/3 of their songs are acoustic or folk
565144 11 months ago
@565144 wtf. 1/3 folk?? not. you haven't propably even listened to them very much.
hehhee1000 10 months ago
try "swamp rats" louie louie from 1966.unbelivable.
beroth77 1 year ago
It was the first tour for the Band and they were opening for Iron Butterfly ( they blew them away) at the Fillmore East. During the required signature drum solo which was really great. Some fan threw a tennis ball to the stage and Dickie threw it at Leigh and he caught it and threw back at him and Dickie used his bass like a bat and put it to the upper deck region (2nd balcony. Well everyone was thinking about what they had just seen and Dickie as usual really made our trip!
Rankinbacca 1 year ago
People say Sabbath was the first metal band because Iommi had to down tune because of his finger situation.What can you do,minor chords just sound evil .
dirdydraws 1 year ago
i wish i had the records and the record player to listen this properly.
DaSassyDanca 1 year ago
oh yes forgot one sensational heavy metal pioneer Lucifer's friend" more technical musicians,amazing singee
beroth77 1 year ago
@beroth77 YAH, sounded a lot like Deep Purple.
artzilla 1 year ago
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beroth77 1 year ago
1 deaf person disliked this video.
mikexlong 1 year ago
@mikexlong Maybe Blue Cheer being so heavy made them deaf, which caused said "person" to whimp out, declaring their dislike for a found disability...
DehumanizingSounds 1 year ago
Metal, blues, rock and psychedelic, all rolled into one great sound. Iron Butterfly ripped this for inagattadavida. Word.
bushwickgirl347 1 year ago
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beroth77 1 year ago
a 60s hard rock/heavy metal classic! Blue Cheer Rules!!!!!!!!
MetalAttack1986 1 year ago
Finally got all the way through this album today and its incredible every last song on it
EddieVH666 1 year ago
This album is classic.
rocknrollforever10 1 year ago
blue cheer is great they are the first metal band ever yet they are in the shadow of black sabbath and led zepplin.Even those bands are more popular doesnt make them better than blue cheer long live blue cheer!! Long live metal !!!!!!!!!
BrujoAsesino123 1 year ago
So fucking heavy.
19Labrie63 1 year ago
Crank it up !!
mondo56 1 year ago
Or "The hell with him"
shkinney420 1 year ago
probably the most amazing guitar sound ive ever heard.
Zatzzo 1 year ago
Awesome sludgy instrumentation. I could hear a lot of influences from these guys when I listen to Pentagram's seventies stuff.
megaforce811 1 year ago
@megaforce811 Yeah, me too. Both of those "First Daze Here" compilation cds are excellent!, I hope they put out a third one. Also, check out "Bedemon: Child of Darkness" if you haven't already.
JTOwens89 1 year ago
punk/ rock/ hard metal
vitamincity 1 year ago
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actually, there were many "hard rock" bands of the day that were the pioneers of what you young guys call metal, like Iron Butterfly and Mobey Grape
lenmark59 1 year ago
actually, there were many "hard rock" bands of the day that were the pioneers of what you young guys call metal, like Iron Butterfly and Mobey Grape
lenmark59 1 year ago
@lenmark59 yeah i think its just that steppenwolf got good recognition. i've heard so many claims to the original heavy metal song it hurts my head now that i think about it. the beatles even, helter skelter i've heard claims of it being the first heavy metal song. who knows, who knows. all good music though
spadehatesscrewtube 1 year ago
Fans of doom or sludge, those that like Electric Wizard, Eyehategod and others would probably appreciate this. There is something in Blue Cheer I always found depressing albeit in a good way.
PigsPus 1 year ago
that bass riff in the middle invented metal
stereotypicallylame 1 year ago
There is more to metal than distortion, I know that. Aggression, intensity, volume, that certain dark edge, a lot of power chords, and many other less articulable attributes factor in; you have to go by the overall sound, but I've always thought the main reason Cheer didn't seem like metal to me was the distortion thing. I'm well aware that what I (and the rest of you) say isn't indisputable fact, so nobody should take it too seriously.
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stereotypicallylame 1 year ago
There were a lot of bands, aside from Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin that gave birth to what became known as heavy metal, aside from the obvious (Free, Humble Pie, Grand Funk Railroad, Deep Purple) you have Bang, Josefus, Iron Claw, Jerusalem, May Blitz, High Tide, Captain Beyond, Lucifers Friend, Sir Lord Baltimore etc, and much of the riffing style, lead guitar, imagery etc came from 70's Judas Priest. To claim one band as the definitive first metal act is wrong.
fuzzleredmenn 1 year ago
@fuzzleredmenn these guys were around in 1965 all those bands beside black sabbath, jimi hendrix, and deep purple i think are just overrated classic ROCK not metal
metalheadshredder1 1 year ago
@metalheadshredder1 even though black sabbath is the best :D "classic rock" band ever lived
metalheadshredder1 1 year ago
@metalheadshredder1 Black Sabbath are the best band of any kind as far as I'm concerned.
fuzzleredmenn 1 year ago
@fuzzleredmenn Next to BLUE CHEER of course.
bigguy4570 1 year ago
@metalheadshredder1 I never said they were metal, I said they gave birth to metal, or at least they are part of its roots. Overrated? Thats a matter of opinion, but not one I share I'm afraid.
fuzzleredmenn 1 year ago
In my opinion, I'd like to say THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE was the very first heavy metal band. It was from this seed that the roots of metal (among others) had sprung forth. I dare say he affected all of rock, also jazz, classical and country; even punk and rap. Ex: MANIC DEPRESSION is a fusion of a waltz with a jazz swing and the landscape is completely painted in the sound of distorted metal, using harmonics feedback and distortion. This song qualify's as the first metal song before anyone
robynalexis 1 year ago
In my opinion, I'd like to say THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE was the very first heavy metal band. It was from this seed that the roots of metal (among other things) had sprung forth. I dare say he affected all of rock, also jazz, classical and country; even punk and rap. So if you can't hear all of the ear marks of metal on Jimi's first album then you must be deaf. Obviously you don"t play guitar. Are you kiddin me, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned him yet. Pay attention!
robynalexis 1 year ago
why do people think led zeppelin were the first metal band?! This is metal! and earlier! WHY CAN'T PEOPLE SEE?!
nananaalgoodaye 1 year ago 19
@nananaalgoodaye people who think Led Zeppelin were the first metal band are wrong, just like people who think Blue Cheer were. Sabbath was the first fully fledged metal band, and always will be. Blue Cheer is acid rock, like cream, only more primitive and aggressive. Very Heavy Power Trio they were, and major influence on metal(particularily on stoner/ doom bands) but they're not Heavy Metal. There's more to being metal than having power chords, and lots of distortion...
mikexlong 1 year ago
@mikexlong thats true, i suppose its because its a heavy power chord blues scale riff with fast dums . I suppose some days i think its black sabbath and somedays i think its blue cheer, but yeah i think if blue cheer arent the first they are very close to the line with sabbath just on the other side
nananaalgoodaye 1 year ago
@nananaalgoodaye lol I mean it is sortof a tough call. one must also remember the beatles wrote helter skelter the same year as this album came out. a lot of people forget how heavy that song really is, just because it's the beatles lol.
mikexlong 1 year ago
@mikexlong you have a point, people ignore it coz its a one off. But this was actually 1967 i think
nananaalgoodaye 1 year ago
@nananaalgoodaye you're right, this was recorded in late '67, released in early '68.
mikexlong 1 year ago
@nananaalgoodaye just a personal pet peeve of mine, but its "one OF" as in, one of a kind. you don't say one OFF a kind do you? lots of people just accept mispellings nowadays, it irks me, especially when you can see it. it just looks wrong to the eye.
spadehatesscrewtube 1 year ago
@spadehatesscrewtube oh, haha sorry i do that when i'm typing fast, wouldn't make that mistake in an essay or nothin!
nananaalgoodaye 1 year ago
@nananaalgoodaye its fine :) its just one of my pet peeves.
like people who say "all of the sudden" :p im weird that way.
spadehatesscrewtube 1 year ago
@nananaalgoodaye This isn't metal, Zeppelin wasn't metal there is no traceable origin of metal but in my opinion a fat kid turned his gain up to high in his basement one day fucked up an octave and everything just came from that.
ManamoPrime 1 year ago
@ManamoPrime actually it was Tony Iommi, not a fat kid. and he didn't "fuck up an octave" he stumbled upon the flatted fifth when he was jamming on a G-chord, and made a song out of the riff with Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, and Ozzy Osbourne. Geezer named the song-and rechristened the band "Black Sabbath", after a horror movie starring Vincent Price. Zeppelin and Cheer helped influence it's sound, but Sabbath was the first fully fledged incarnation of metal, a completely new type of music.
mikexlong 1 year ago
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beroth77 1 year ago
@beroth77 LOL I JUST LISTENED TO THAT SONG A FEW DAYS AGO. INTRO RIFF IS TAKEN FROM HOLST'S PLANET SUITE MARS.
mikexlong 1 year ago