Nowadays it's all more technical and less psychedelic. Of course it also was something new. It wasn't called heavy metal but hard rock or underground. I don't think heavy metal was such a big revolution as underground or hard rock.
@DrQuackinducks Blue Cheer had a big time influence on a lot of modern bands. I even hear a lot of similarities between the singer in Blue Cheer (especially on this track) and Kyuss' John Garcia. I think Josh Homme must have listened a lot to B.C., given the similarity in guitar sounds.
@WinteRest49 idk about EVERYONE literally calling it crap but my uncle, who grew up in san francisco, says that they caught alot of flack for what they were doing due to how heavy, loud & primal they played their music. Their music the opposite of the usual hippie flower power stuff that were highly popular then so of course people had a negative reaction to blue cheer. Since u decided to tell that guy what ppl thought about cheer, do u happen to think their is crap as well?
@TheCityofgood No, I still like the music a lot. I like the deliberate lack of sophistication while still sounding really good. 'Most people *I* knew at the time didn't like the band. To me, a lame band back then was Iron Butterfly, i.e. "Ina Gadda Da Vida."
@WinteRest49 Ya becuase they were heavy, primal, blues, and hard rock and everyone at the time was all flower power and acid, so when they came they really shocked the hell out of people because they were so heavy and loud, but when the 70's started to roll around heavy music was getting popular.
@94ddare Yup, another thing they did was exploit the hippy stereotype, and made it sound good. They wore "elephant" bellbottoms, grew their hair extremely long for the time, screamed into the mike, and deliberately played off-key as loud as possible, e.g. the dischordant lead in "Out of Focus." I thought they were making fun of their critics, while still sounding really good.
alot of people seem to be on more drugs than blue cheer here and not realize that this album is monumentally heavy. go on, check the equipment used to record it. stacks of sunns that you've never see again. also, considering the first black sabbath/blue cheer albums were straight up blues worships, shut the fuck up about who you think is better. sabbath's first four are basically the foundations of stoner rock, blue cheer's next three are falling into psychedelia. the more you know
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!
wunderbar,the PURE OWSLEY ACID,AND ORANGE SUNSHINE,AND "BLUE CHEER",WINDOWPANE,now for you dumb dicks who think "black sabbath" invented metal,i could agree,JUST KIDDING,THEY INVENTED PHONY BALONY ""SATANIC"OOH,RUN LITTLE BABES DOUCHETTE CRAP,PURE SHIT,i wish i could dose you all with good acid,you'd laugh at that fat ignorant white trash low life ozzer,and his dumass band, there were lots then toads,n.y.dolls,VELVET UNDERGROUND,,1,000 TIMES THAT OZzY PHONY,NO,100,000,000 MILLION HEAVY
@alezander666 Go kill yourself you worthless dumb fuck 'White trash' refering to Ozzy do you even know hes not american because we dont use that faggot term in Britain where real metal was invented by Sabbath. While those bands you list were influential you clearly have no idea about heavy music. Cos it all sounds the same and it all sounds happy as fuck. You stupid old crack head go fuck yourself. Heres a timeline for you Blues/ Sabbath/ Other metal / u go suck ozzys dick ass wipe
@deekante check out witchcraft from sweden,brutus from norway,radio moscow,uncle acid and the deadbeats,the sheepdogs,the black hollies etc.....theres a lot of new bands bringin back the sound.
@deekante I DID HEAR MOST WERE DEAF,only one living now?dickie peterson,was that his name,met him late night in hippie bar in oh,75,with alice,old alice applebush,my queen of life itself
@alezander666....Dickie died a year or two ago....my dad got to meet one of his childhood music idols! Its crazy he made me jam with him to out of focus, summertime blues and second time around all the time....never really appreciated it until now!!!!
@deekante Don't stereotype metal by its shitty nu-metal offsprings. Here are some amazing 70's inspired bands: Red Fang, The Sword, Queens of the Stone Age, Sleep, Fu Manchu, Kyuss, Monstr0, Electric Wizard, Slo Burn, 40 Watt Sun, and Sunn 0))). (Just to name the cream of the crop)
They're different, but they all came from a 70's background and ran with it in their own, kickass direction. Don't say metal nowadays sucks if you've only seen the bad side :D
Rush--another great power trio--claim Blue Cheer as a major early influence. Have you ever noticed how certain segments of 'Doctor Please' so closely resemble segments of 'Working Man' off the first Rush album?
This is just straight up "thrash metal" going on through the middle part of this track! The kind that wouldn't be duplicated again for another 15 years when Metallica showed up on the scene!
honestly I will always say that Black Sabbath is the first metal band, but Blue Cheer was pure sonic terror before metal and this album is still as heavy as anything out there. honestly listen to that distortion and dissonance it's fucking brutal, in a pure and primal way, not like these metal bands today that are always trying to one up eachother in the speed/technicality/most "br00tal" war. it's not about thatm its about the weight of the MUSIC.
Black Sabbath invented metal. Blue Cheer might have been heavy for their time but if this came out today nobody would call it metal. But Sabbath still sound just as heavy now as they always have.
@daveceaser13 That's because heavy metal back then was not the same as it is now. It was more like "really loud blues". What we see as metal today is different.
@daveceaser13 Also Black Sabbath may have influenced what we perceive as the "modern" definition of heavy metal, but there are many other bands Zep, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly that were also considered heavy metal.
@daveceaser13 True, but Blue Cheer had two albums out (Vincebus Eruptus and Outside Inside) came out in 1968, before Led Zeppelin's first album in 1969, so maybe there was some influence going both ways.
sorry,SORRY TO BUST YA BUBBLE,SAW BLUE CHEER IN PHOENIX,ON BLUECHEER ACID,GREAT,MOST OF US HIPPIES,AS WE WERE CALLED,AND HATED IT,DESPISED THE ''''black sabbath' JUNK,IT WAS STUPID,,OOOH,DEVIL MUSIC,A GIMMIC FROM WHITE TRASH ENGLAND,NOW CREAM,ECT,WUNDERBAR,BUT OZZY,WHAT A DUMBASS,BITIN A PIDGEON HEAD OFF,WOW,we hated that shit,AND WE SAW THRU IT,BUT LITTLE TEENAGERS,13,OOH,IT TURNED EM ON,
this BAND MADE "F**KING GRAND FUNKY RAILROAD',sound like it did,a big electrified fart,hippies hated funk,and those dopey,anti acid bands,they were stupid,grand funk,DIDN'T THEY DO THAT DOUCHE BALLAD,""I'M GETTING CLOSER TO MY HOME",also real cool hippies,thought black sabbath was plastic,DUMB,no devil worshipers,just british white trash,AND AEROSMITH,THEY WERE JUNK,KING CRIMSON,YEAH,GENTLE GIANT,ROXY MUSIC,GREAT,BUT OZZY,STUPID WIENER DOUCHE,
@alezander666 All this from 1 point of view..... I'm sure everything you said is true... But I am POSITIVE that you just flat out don't like ozzy or Black Sabbath...... so yea black sabbath was real shitty, they didn't influence anyone, they barely sold any records, they fizzled out right away & the lead guitarist couldn't play a "Riff" to save his life.... haha stay in your world buddy, even tho you claim to be alive back then, nobody cares about your hatred of Black Sabbath
I've never heard of this band before. i stumbled across them tonight, listened to maybe half a dozen songs and am now asking "WHY HAVEN'T I HEARD OF THEM BEFORE?!?!?!?!?!" This is prob the best classic rock i've ever laid ears on and i think it is changing my life!
glad you dig 'em -- this music is from 1967 or so, a lot of time has passed -- really odd how the best things in life get forgotten - ask the oldsters, they had some good shit going on, back in the day - everbody was young once :)
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Im a huge stoner/doom/classic rock man.....but christ this is garbage! where is the appeal in this? this sounds like me and my middle school buddies in my mom's garage
This was one of my all time favorite tunes from the 1960s. I remember the guitar break running through my mind over and over as I walked about the grounds at the University of Virginia.
I remember asking my dad about this scratched up old copy of Vincebus Eruptum I found in his collection. He said it was shitty crap. I was hooked from there.
I'm 24 years old. Never been much for heavy metal, more into things along the lines of Pink Floyd and The Who, but I have to say Blue Cheer is amazing. I've never heard anything like this before.
Thank you DrZaies...you reinforced my point that they all were influenced by other artists...been that way for decades in music. Led Zepplin has historically been more blatent about it than others. I guess that's why they been sued for musical plagerism so much. I like LZ, but don't kid yourself-they will rip you of faster than a cat will lick it's ass. Is that why they are known for so many artistic infringement lawsuits?
Arizonaresident- How can Summertime Blues be a rip-off of Purple Haze when Summertime Blues was written in 1958? Fact is they all ripped off each other. How Many More Times by Led Zepplin is a BLATENT rip off of The Hunter by Blue Cheer...that is not opinion, that's fact. I just give credit where it is due. BLUE CHEER WAS LOUD AS HELL and you can't take that away from them. LOL
@IfByWhiskey Awesome point, except The Hunter wasn't written by any of the guys from Blue Cheer. It was a written by Booker Jones of Booker T and the MG's. So Zeppelin was ripping him off, not Blue Cheer.
The breakdowns from 3:57 to 4:50 and from 6:16 to 7:49 just make you wanna smash your head into a wall....over and over and over. The colors just FLASH in your mind. So heavy....and so GOOD.
This band is pure sick unadulterated psychedelic blues that never conformed to the system's music. This is music that tells the man to stick it. I had a chance to see these guys live in 2006; at a club in the spring garden section of Philadelphia. Their is no music to compare to this and the acid rock fuzz lays you to waste. Blue cheer are innovators!
arrgh, as my first comment somehow wasn't posted, i'm gonna write it again...
people, why are you arguing about this crap? at that time the bands themselves didn't care about definitions. just remember, they are bands, not opposing football teams. and i love both Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath, cuz they were just two fucking great rock 'n' roll bands, each ahead of their time.
i always wonder who fucking cares about it... i mean the bands themselves were not arguing about definitions, sabbath didn't even like the term heavy metal. so what's it about, they are bands, not opposing football teams
i agree with you 67675656565655656565 but i would also include the cream and hendrix as helping sabbath and cheer to come into existance -and i would also credit-the kinks/zep/yardbirds/purple/floyd and zepp as all being important in the developement of metal-blue cheer saw hendrix play in 67 before they dropped to a 3 piece and before they released their debut album-and they were fans of hendrix - but essentially i agree with u-cheer and sabbath were the first 2 metal bands in my opinion also
dude how can you NOT CALL BLUE CHEER A METAL BAND?!?
if you dont agree with me, listen to the middle of the song 'second time around' (from vincebus eruptum) when everything goes crazy and noisy as hell!!!
because the FIRST metal band was black sabbath, blue cheer was only an influence, blue cheer is more like led zeppelins blues rock, this is not metal, and not everything thtas crazy and noisy is metal, im sorry but this is not metal
black sabbath is the first real metal band but blue cheer is just metal band. Its like comparing Metallica and Guns N Roses. They are same heavy metal bands but heavy in different way and the reason more people think black sabbath is the first metal band is that they just sound heavier than blue cheer. So lets put in this way: Blue Cheer is the first metal band ever and Black Sabbath is the first REAL metal band ever.
man u have hearing problems, go see doctor or something...and speaking of 'doctor' ,this song, Doctor Please seems like its totally about ur hearing problems.
dude, ur the one who has problems, ignorance problems that make u see what u wanna see and not the reality, this is not metal, and im tired of telling it to you, its just an influence to metal,
@klesto92 This is just noise. Black Sabbath is actual music. And what do you call their Summertime Blues other than a knock off of Purple Haze? Seems to me Blue Cheer got their influence from Hendrix so who should be getting the credit here?
yes blue cheer deserves a little more respect than they get as not only they first played/influenced heavy metal but also stoner rock, punk rock, grunge rock, noise rock...etc like anything that is outrageous, loud and noisy.
@67675656565655656565 , YUP, like Cavemen on Jack Daniels and Acid . I used to cover some of Vincebuseruptum when it was new and even Outside Inside. Loved it : Still do. Well I am a Petersen. heheh BTW I think Stan Owsley's name is signed on the Outside cover. Owsley was early Grateful Dead sound man and chemist famed for producing LSD while it was not yet illegal. One batch called Blue Cheer is where the band got it's name . : )
@Humbler25 dont mind humbler25 nup cant understand with your boyfriends dick in your mouth maybe you should focus on him more so than stalking me on youtube faggot.
@67675656565655656565 wow... nice grammar! I guess I was right about you dropping out of school. You also continue with the gay comments. This only confirms your own gayness.
Love the Stooges....but their first album was the only thing that even came close to this. And came close is the key phrase. This is fucking 1000 times more demented and heavy.
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OK!, ...tell ya what....
This is the measuring stick fo' ACID ROCK!', pure 'n simple!
VincebusEruption 3 days ago
Nowadays it's all more technical and less psychedelic. Of course it also was something new. It wasn't called heavy metal but hard rock or underground. I don't think heavy metal was such a big revolution as underground or hard rock.
Rubduck54 1 week ago
I will try guys!!!....
-THE DOGTOR-
Jenscool 1 week ago
Paul Whaley was such a BAD ASS on those skins!
MattHatter 2 weeks ago
Love the sound of this band
94ddare 2 weeks ago in playlist BLUE CHEER
ok so do any qotsa fans hear the resemblance between give the mule what he wants and the riff starting at 0:18
DrQuackinducks 3 weeks ago
@DrQuackinducks Blue Cheer had a big time influence on a lot of modern bands. I even hear a lot of similarities between the singer in Blue Cheer (especially on this track) and Kyuss' John Garcia. I think Josh Homme must have listened a lot to B.C., given the similarity in guitar sounds.
dmreeoogdaq 3 weeks ago
I wish I saw these guys in concert
1991NeonAngel 1 month ago
@1991NeonAngel Everybody called their music "crap" back then.
WinteRest49 1 month ago
@WinteRest49 idk about EVERYONE literally calling it crap but my uncle, who grew up in san francisco, says that they caught alot of flack for what they were doing due to how heavy, loud & primal they played their music. Their music the opposite of the usual hippie flower power stuff that were highly popular then so of course people had a negative reaction to blue cheer. Since u decided to tell that guy what ppl thought about cheer, do u happen to think their is crap as well?
TheCityofgood 3 weeks ago
@TheCityofgood No, I still like the music a lot. I like the deliberate lack of sophistication while still sounding really good. 'Most people *I* knew at the time didn't like the band. To me, a lame band back then was Iron Butterfly, i.e. "Ina Gadda Da Vida."
WinteRest49 3 weeks ago
@WinteRest49 blue cheer wouldnt be blue cheer if they were fully focused on being sophisticated, thats for sure haha
TheCityofgood 3 weeks ago
@WinteRest49 correction: their music is crap as well??
TheCityofgood 3 weeks ago
@WinteRest49 Ya becuase they were heavy, primal, blues, and hard rock and everyone at the time was all flower power and acid, so when they came they really shocked the hell out of people because they were so heavy and loud, but when the 70's started to roll around heavy music was getting popular.
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@94ddare Yup, another thing they did was exploit the hippy stereotype, and made it sound good. They wore "elephant" bellbottoms, grew their hair extremely long for the time, screamed into the mike, and deliberately played off-key as loud as possible, e.g. the dischordant lead in "Out of Focus." I thought they were making fun of their critics, while still sounding really good.
WinteRest49 2 weeks ago
alot of people seem to be on more drugs than blue cheer here and not realize that this album is monumentally heavy. go on, check the equipment used to record it. stacks of sunns that you've never see again. also, considering the first black sabbath/blue cheer albums were straight up blues worships, shut the fuck up about who you think is better. sabbath's first four are basically the foundations of stoner rock, blue cheer's next three are falling into psychedelia. the more you know
ChoirofWolves 1 month ago
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Personally, I think Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer BOTH kicked serious ass, but some fuckers on Youtube are just born to be know-it-all buzzkills.
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chamelean223344 1 month ago
@MrUsingDrugs haha poser, what a gay word. from 'mr using drugs' as well. Yeah you're really cool. Sad cunt
TheKingeboue27 1 month ago
wish i could go back to these days, but i was cursed to live in this generation :/
Bigryry100 2 months ago 2
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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
Heavy metal was so goo back in these days
VitalSigns1 2 months ago 2
wunderbar,the PURE OWSLEY ACID,AND ORANGE SUNSHINE,AND "BLUE CHEER",WINDOWPANE,now for you dumb dicks who think "black sabbath" invented metal,i could agree,JUST KIDDING,THEY INVENTED PHONY BALONY ""SATANIC"OOH,RUN LITTLE BABES DOUCHETTE CRAP,PURE SHIT,i wish i could dose you all with good acid,you'd laugh at that fat ignorant white trash low life ozzer,and his dumass band, there were lots then toads,n.y.dolls,VELVET UNDERGROUND,,1,000 TIMES THAT OZzY PHONY,NO,100,000,000 MILLION HEAVY
alezander666 4 months ago
@alezander666 Dude, smoke some weed and calm down.
crowbarftw 3 months ago 6
@alezander666 Go kill yourself you worthless dumb fuck 'White trash' refering to Ozzy do you even know hes not american because we dont use that faggot term in Britain where real metal was invented by Sabbath. While those bands you list were influential you clearly have no idea about heavy music. Cos it all sounds the same and it all sounds happy as fuck. You stupid old crack head go fuck yourself. Heres a timeline for you Blues/ Sabbath/ Other metal / u go suck ozzys dick ass wipe
TheKingeboue27 2 months ago
can anyone please make at least a some guitar-tabs of this one? i cannot figure it out at all.
vaskeluu 5 months ago
I love how the drums are almost an afterthought on these recordings.
johnfright 6 months ago
I wish metal was still like this,like loud,crazy blues. Now it's just a bunch of douchebags screaming at a microphone.
deekante 6 months ago 30
@deekante check out witchcraft from sweden,brutus from norway,radio moscow,uncle acid and the deadbeats,the sheepdogs,the black hollies etc.....theres a lot of new bands bringin back the sound.
AaronBaker12345 6 months ago
@deekante Also, you should check out The Sword
TheMightyZooblin 5 months ago
@deekante I DID HEAR MOST WERE DEAF,only one living now?dickie peterson,was that his name,met him late night in hippie bar in oh,75,with alice,old alice applebush,my queen of life itself
alezander666 4 months ago
@alezander666....Dickie died a year or two ago....my dad got to meet one of his childhood music idols! Its crazy he made me jam with him to out of focus, summertime blues and second time around all the time....never really appreciated it until now!!!!
ronscott39 1 month ago
@deekante
If they're not whining at a microphone :)
SupernalOne 2 months ago
@deekante Don't stereotype metal by its shitty nu-metal offsprings. Here are some amazing 70's inspired bands: Red Fang, The Sword, Queens of the Stone Age, Sleep, Fu Manchu, Kyuss, Monstr0, Electric Wizard, Slo Burn, 40 Watt Sun, and Sunn 0))). (Just to name the cream of the crop)
They're different, but they all came from a 70's background and ran with it in their own, kickass direction. Don't say metal nowadays sucks if you've only seen the bad side :D
HYPERZEPHARIAN 1 week ago
@HYPERZEPHARIAN
Don't forget Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. They sound a lot like Blue Cheer or Black Sabbath.
deekante 1 week ago
@deekante Agree! Floored me first time i heard them...
agepowert 6 days ago
@HYPERZEPHARIAN Also, they just broke up, but Purple Rhinestone Eagle are/ were my fave local metal band.
infrequentvlogs 5 days ago
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@deekante
bet they did MUCH better 'n u, a-hole!
VincebusEruption 3 days ago
Rush--another great power trio--claim Blue Cheer as a major early influence. Have you ever noticed how certain segments of 'Doctor Please' so closely resemble segments of 'Working Man' off the first Rush album?
jannyrcobs 6 months ago
This is just straight up "thrash metal" going on through the middle part of this track! The kind that wouldn't be duplicated again for another 15 years when Metallica showed up on the scene!
notfragile33 6 months ago
@notfragile33 You're more idiot than all of those who say Blue Cheer was heavier than Black Sabbath
doom696mented 2 months ago
honestly I will always say that Black Sabbath is the first metal band, but Blue Cheer was pure sonic terror before metal and this album is still as heavy as anything out there. honestly listen to that distortion and dissonance it's fucking brutal, in a pure and primal way, not like these metal bands today that are always trying to one up eachother in the speed/technicality/most "br00tal" war. it's not about thatm its about the weight of the MUSIC.
mikexlong 6 months ago 2
@mikexlong Dude, listen to Jacula's "Triumphatus Sad" song and tell me what do you think.
doom696mented 6 months ago
Black Sabbath invented metal. Blue Cheer might have been heavy for their time but if this came out today nobody would call it metal. But Sabbath still sound just as heavy now as they always have.
daveceaser13 7 months ago
@daveceaser13 That's because heavy metal back then was not the same as it is now. It was more like "really loud blues". What we see as metal today is different.
BlindGuardianOwnz 6 months ago 4
@daveceaser13 Also Black Sabbath may have influenced what we perceive as the "modern" definition of heavy metal, but there are many other bands Zep, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly that were also considered heavy metal.
BlindGuardianOwnz 6 months ago 3
@daveceaser13 True, but Blue Cheer had two albums out (Vincebus Eruptus and Outside Inside) came out in 1968, before Led Zeppelin's first album in 1969, so maybe there was some influence going both ways.
ssur55 5 months ago
Wagner has risen from his grave to give his approval of this album.
ronoman88 7 months ago 2
sorry,SORRY TO BUST YA BUBBLE,SAW BLUE CHEER IN PHOENIX,ON BLUECHEER ACID,GREAT,MOST OF US HIPPIES,AS WE WERE CALLED,AND HATED IT,DESPISED THE ''''black sabbath' JUNK,IT WAS STUPID,,OOOH,DEVIL MUSIC,A GIMMIC FROM WHITE TRASH ENGLAND,NOW CREAM,ECT,WUNDERBAR,BUT OZZY,WHAT A DUMBASS,BITIN A PIDGEON HEAD OFF,WOW,we hated that shit,AND WE SAW THRU IT,BUT LITTLE TEENAGERS,13,OOH,IT TURNED EM ON,
alezander666 7 months ago
this BAND MADE "F**KING GRAND FUNKY RAILROAD',sound like it did,a big electrified fart,hippies hated funk,and those dopey,anti acid bands,they were stupid,grand funk,DIDN'T THEY DO THAT DOUCHE BALLAD,""I'M GETTING CLOSER TO MY HOME",also real cool hippies,thought black sabbath was plastic,DUMB,no devil worshipers,just british white trash,AND AEROSMITH,THEY WERE JUNK,KING CRIMSON,YEAH,GENTLE GIANT,ROXY MUSIC,GREAT,BUT OZZY,STUPID WIENER DOUCHE,
alezander666 7 months ago
@alezander666 All this from 1 point of view..... I'm sure everything you said is true... But I am POSITIVE that you just flat out don't like ozzy or Black Sabbath...... so yea black sabbath was real shitty, they didn't influence anyone, they barely sold any records, they fizzled out right away & the lead guitarist couldn't play a "Riff" to save his life.... haha stay in your world buddy, even tho you claim to be alive back then, nobody cares about your hatred of Black Sabbath
MrGeltabs 7 months ago
@alezander666 Tell it like it was!!
warehambr 4 months ago
Sorry, Cream never went here (though Ginger Baker loved the toms), they were somewhere else in the universe, this is brutal emotion.
memphist1 7 months ago
i fucking love this band!
pablokpo55 7 months ago
Good old psychedelic rock! Gotta love summer time blues and the way the drummer works that tom tom!
HSECMAN 7 months ago
@Maxharddrive64 No! More like a variation of Cream.
jeffreygaudreault 8 months ago
Blue Cheer and MC5, two bands that should have been huge,
flashingarrows 9 months ago 2
@flashingarrows you got that right!!!!!
bugmandu1 8 months ago
@flashingarrows you got that right!!!!! They started it!!!
bugmandu1 8 months ago
doc, I need a painkiller
lucasalvarenga 9 months ago
Wow I like these guys....kind of a harder version of Grand Funk
Maxharddrive64 9 months ago
blue cheer, mc5, jacula, zeppein, are the earlier metal band..
JAMMA68 9 months ago
We would blast this music in Balboa Park in San Diego at the loveins in 68
frnzkuester 9 months ago 15
Help me, Help me doctor! Doctor, wont you please?
realityfrominsanity 9 months ago
@DANizDAN alice cooper was never considered heavy metal there just rock
67675656565655656565 10 months ago
rock guitar simply must be played so loud that it feeds back, screeching and roaring and warping into other dimensions - no good otherwise
SupernalOne 10 months ago
I've never heard of this band before. i stumbled across them tonight, listened to maybe half a dozen songs and am now asking "WHY HAVEN'T I HEARD OF THEM BEFORE?!?!?!?!?!" This is prob the best classic rock i've ever laid ears on and i think it is changing my life!
prplcow213 10 months ago
@prplcow213
glad you dig 'em -- this music is from 1967 or so, a lot of time has passed -- really odd how the best things in life get forgotten - ask the oldsters, they had some good shit going on, back in the day - everbody was young once :)
SupernalOne 10 months ago
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Im a huge stoner/doom/classic rock man.....but christ this is garbage! where is the appeal in this? this sounds like me and my middle school buddies in my mom's garage
565144 11 months ago
@565144 Ambulance guitar man.... don't dig it, then get out eh?
DoomMetalSludge 11 months ago
@DoomMetalSludge goddamn freeloading canadian
565144 11 months ago
@565144 I'm not Canadian, I am from Minnesota, but close. Lol but we don't talk like that anyway
DoomMetalSludge 11 months ago
@565144 ... you must not be that huge of a fan.
RowdyDebacle 10 months ago
definitely a pioneer of heavy metal!
MetalAttack1986 1 year ago
i think Blue Cheer are the first heavy metal band......
zzy66613 1 year ago 3
1 asshole isn't stoned enough to go to the doctor ! Let's all fuck the sober fucker !
doom696mented 1 year ago
Sick intro.
Blue Cheer rules!
realityfrominsanity 1 year ago
big four of metal:
4:deep purple
3:led zepplin
2:black sabbath
1:blue cheer
BrujoAsesino123 1 year ago 3
@BrujoAsesino123 Each one of those bands are fucking amazing
YoGuy37 1 year ago
This song is yelling at me to turn the volume up higher and higher but its the highest it can get and its not loud enuff!!!
TrippedOutMojoMan 1 year ago
@TrippedOutMojoMan - ever see the stacks of Marshall's they used in performances - YIKES
they were known as the loudest band EVER
CAS1xtz 1 year ago
6:15 - 7:10 sounds like a mammoth getting trapped in a tar pit, stamping its feet, trumpeting in rage, and then finally sinking - "heavy!"
SupernalOne 1 year ago
the oldest stoner metal ^_^ ... so fucking great !
evilmaniac999 1 year ago
This was one of my all time favorite tunes from the 1960s. I remember the guitar break running through my mind over and over as I walked about the grounds at the University of Virginia.
warehambr 1 year ago
get stoned and listen to this song...
SeagullsDiarrhea 1 year ago 2
@SeagullsDiarrhea what dya mean.... GET stoned
theslice2 1 year ago
I cant belive ive never heard Blue Cheer before to day, there Unbelivable for there time!! :D
MotorheadDrew 1 year ago 3
Can you say --- heavy as fuuuck?? I knew that you could........
jeffthrow6892 1 year ago
Excelente.
ralba1975 1 year ago
I remember asking my dad about this scratched up old copy of Vincebus Eruptum I found in his collection. He said it was shitty crap. I was hooked from there.
johnfright 1 year ago
@johnfright that's funny as hell
sandypoint63 1 year ago
@sandypoint63 It's true... but man did it resonate with me. Brutal.
johnfright 1 year ago
and give thanks to jimi hendrix, the inspirations for everyone like zeppelin, sabbath, bluecheer...
TheZombiefied 1 year ago 2
this song make me feel like I'm stoned
TheZombiefied 1 year ago 2
I'm 24 years old. Never been much for heavy metal, more into things along the lines of Pink Floyd and The Who, but I have to say Blue Cheer is amazing. I've never heard anything like this before.
bwc3821 1 year ago 2
Stick it to me....doctor.
oldbump 1 year ago
Is funny how everybody here all of the sudden are rock critics why don't you all shut the (&%($&% up and just enjoy the music..
techingo666 1 year ago
Thank you DrZaies...you reinforced my point that they all were influenced by other artists...been that way for decades in music. Led Zepplin has historically been more blatent about it than others. I guess that's why they been sued for musical plagerism so much. I like LZ, but don't kid yourself-they will rip you of faster than a cat will lick it's ass. Is that why they are known for so many artistic infringement lawsuits?
IfByWhiskey 1 year ago
Arizonaresident- How can Summertime Blues be a rip-off of Purple Haze when Summertime Blues was written in 1958? Fact is they all ripped off each other. How Many More Times by Led Zepplin is a BLATENT rip off of The Hunter by Blue Cheer...that is not opinion, that's fact. I just give credit where it is due. BLUE CHEER WAS LOUD AS HELL and you can't take that away from them. LOL
IfByWhiskey 1 year ago
@IfByWhiskey Awesome point, except The Hunter wasn't written by any of the guys from Blue Cheer. It was a written by Booker Jones of Booker T and the MG's. So Zeppelin was ripping him off, not Blue Cheer.
DrZaius327 1 year ago
@DrZaius327 idiot... the hunter is an old blues song from way back.. before booker T. Go to school
sexyballssacks 1 year ago
How did he managed to get those tones to sound like a really pissed off hosre because it's great
MegaAries1992 1 year ago
One of Rock's first true Stoner songs-unapologetic desire for getting ripped !!
jahhorkle 1 year ago
BITCHIN!!!!!!!!!!!
frnzkuester 1 year ago
Sleep meets Cream meets a 50 million year acid trip to the Andromedra galaxy and back.
TehUltraChancellor 1 year ago 16
i just read about these guys and man they rock
clunysusen 1 year ago
Stick it to me Doctor...
Kostas4e 1 year ago
@Kostas4e
Couldn't agree more...
whitepicnic 1 year ago
Ace Frehley loved these guys .......
fender7375 1 year ago
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IwshIcldstrtover 1 year ago
@IwshIcldstrtover That's right, Ace Frehley. I was just stating a fact is all ... whether you like him or not is no concern of mine.
fender7375 1 year ago
Awesome heavy stuff.
AlbertMondback 1 year ago
The breakdowns from 3:57 to 4:50 and from 6:16 to 7:49 just make you wanna smash your head into a wall....over and over and over. The colors just FLASH in your mind. So heavy....and so GOOD.
MattHatter 1 year ago
You can sure hear Blue Cheer in Pentagram's music.
waxonwankoff 1 year ago
I have said many times in the past that this may be the first metal band, so glad to finally see someone else say it first. RIP Dickie.
zenman5910 1 year ago
This band is pure sick unadulterated psychedelic blues that never conformed to the system's music. This is music that tells the man to stick it. I had a chance to see these guys live in 2006; at a club in the spring garden section of Philadelphia. Their is no music to compare to this and the acid rock fuzz lays you to waste. Blue cheer are innovators!
wn14fim3 1 year ago
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happywarmgun13 1 year ago
this is the heaviest song on the album, & my favorite
SupernalOne 1 year ago
George Brix was on Drums on this Track !! Check out Orphan Egg ! You tube !
attorneyblack 1 year ago
@attorneyblack ehhhh i didnt much like the vocals
joelaka3pac123 1 year ago
arrgh, as my first comment somehow wasn't posted, i'm gonna write it again...
people, why are you arguing about this crap? at that time the bands themselves didn't care about definitions. just remember, they are bands, not opposing football teams. and i love both Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath, cuz they were just two fucking great rock 'n' roll bands, each ahead of their time.
WizardofFuzz 1 year ago 2
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SupernalOne 2 years ago
i always wonder who fucking cares about it... i mean the bands themselves were not arguing about definitions, sabbath didn't even like the term heavy metal. so what's it about, they are bands, not opposing football teams
WizardofFuzz 1 year ago
@WizardofFuzz Good call man your 100% right
bigguy4570 1 year ago
R.I.P. Dickie, you will truly be missed.
gnome41 2 years ago 18
i really wish I would've got to have seen them in concert
Traductus5972 2 years ago
to me blue cheer and sabbath pretty much created heavy metal
67675656565655656565 2 years ago 31
i agree with you 67675656565655656565 but i would also include the cream and hendrix as helping sabbath and cheer to come into existance -and i would also credit-the kinks/zep/yardbirds/purple/floyd and zepp as all being important in the developement of metal-blue cheer saw hendrix play in 67 before they dropped to a 3 piece and before they released their debut album-and they were fans of hendrix - but essentially i agree with u-cheer and sabbath were the first 2 metal bands in my opinion also
steve273 2 years ago 2
Don't forget The Monks, their Black Monk Time album (1966) follows Kinks' sound before Blue Cheer.
martincervan 2 years ago
well tecnically blue cheer isnt a metal band
klesto92 2 years ago
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mydisease2you 2 years ago
@ klesto92
dude how can you NOT CALL BLUE CHEER A METAL BAND?!?
if you dont agree with me, listen to the middle of the song 'second time around' (from vincebus eruptum) when everything goes crazy and noisy as hell!!!
mydisease2you 2 years ago
because the FIRST metal band was black sabbath, blue cheer was only an influence, blue cheer is more like led zeppelins blues rock, this is not metal, and not everything thtas crazy and noisy is metal, im sorry but this is not metal
klesto92 2 years ago
black sabbath is the first real metal band but blue cheer is just metal band. Its like comparing Metallica and Guns N Roses. They are same heavy metal bands but heavy in different way and the reason more people think black sabbath is the first metal band is that they just sound heavier than blue cheer. So lets put in this way: Blue Cheer is the first metal band ever and Black Sabbath is the first REAL metal band ever.
mydisease2you 2 years ago
guns n roses is not metal, and blue cheer isnt either, i told you already, it just inlfuenced metal music
klesto92 1 year ago
man u have hearing problems, go see doctor or something...and speaking of 'doctor' ,this song, Doctor Please seems like its totally about ur hearing problems.
mydisease2you 1 year ago
dude, ur the one who has problems, ignorance problems that make u see what u wanna see and not the reality, this is not metal, and im tired of telling it to you, its just an influence to metal,
klesto92 1 year ago
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mydisease2you 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
well im tired of telling you that blue cheer is heavy metal so shut the fuck up asshole
mydisease2you 1 year ago
you dont have to get rude man, im just telling you the truth, its not metal, and once again, it was just influential to metal
klesto92 1 year ago
sorry man if i offended u
mydisease2you 1 year ago
@klesto92 This is just noise. Black Sabbath is actual music. And what do you call their Summertime Blues other than a knock off of Purple Haze? Seems to me Blue Cheer got their influence from Hendrix so who should be getting the credit here?
arizonaresident1 1 year ago
yes sabbath were heavely influinced by blue cheer, if you ask me blue cheer diserves a little more respect than they get
JaketheSnake743 2 years ago
@ jackthesnake743
yes blue cheer deserves a little more respect than they get as not only they first played/influenced heavy metal but also stoner rock, punk rock, grunge rock, noise rock...etc like anything that is outrageous, loud and noisy.
mydisease2you 2 years ago
@67675656565655656565 sure but dont forget deep purple's huge influence
Tonypowermetal 1 year ago
@67675656565655656565 I agree,they rock!!!!
Kyuki87 1 year ago
@67675656565655656565 yeah, well... don't forget Led Zeppelin... Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin created hard rock and heavy metal:)
evilmaniac999 1 year ago
@67675656565655656565 Yes Blue Cheer are the fathers of heavy metal.
Geepsterr 1 year ago
@Geepsterr loved to seen them in concert got such a heavy and primitive sound
67675656565655656565 1 year ago
@67675656565655656565 , YUP, like Cavemen on Jack Daniels and Acid . I used to cover some of Vincebuseruptum when it was new and even Outside Inside. Loved it : Still do. Well I am a Petersen. heheh BTW I think Stan Owsley's name is signed on the Outside cover. Owsley was early Grateful Dead sound man and chemist famed for producing LSD while it was not yet illegal. One batch called Blue Cheer is where the band got it's name . : )
Geepsterr 1 year ago 2
@67675656565655656565 are you kidding me ... must be crazy to start secion on youtube with that nick... :D
yeah ........ long live psychedelic rock.
faurosan 1 year ago
@faurosan what the hell are you talkin about
67675656565655656565 1 year ago
@67675656565655656565 what are you talking about?
Humbler25 1 year ago
@Humbler25 dont mind humbler25 nup cant understand with your boyfriends dick in your mouth maybe you should focus on him more so than stalking me on youtube faggot.
67675656565655656565 1 year ago
@67675656565655656565 wow... nice grammar! I guess I was right about you dropping out of school. You also continue with the gay comments. This only confirms your own gayness.
Humbler25 1 year ago
@67675656565655656565 HEY,DIDN'T I HAVE MY DICK IN YOUR MOUTH LAST NIGHT,REMEMBER
alezander666 7 months ago
@alezander666 other way round cuntface
67675656565655656565 7 months ago
@67675656565655656565 yep... you must be crazy to start session with that so long nick.....lies I'm just kidding.
: D ...................\BLUE CHEER/
faurosan 1 year ago
RIP DICKIE
MrBluesy91 2 years ago
When did Dickie die? damn what a loss he will be missed.
bigguy4570 2 years ago 4
Totaly loss for sure. He died October 12 2009
MOTARDkamikaze 2 years ago
Thanks for the reply bud.
bigguy4570 2 years ago
If there ever was a publicly under rated band, they are it.
PliskinLee 2 years ago
DAMN! ....way beforte KISS, MOTORHEAD SABBATH, There was Blue Cheer
CHURINFUNFLAIS 2 years ago
Love the Stooges....but their first album was the only thing that even came close to this. And came close is the key phrase. This is fucking 1000 times more demented and heavy.
Evoken13 2 years ago 2
rest in peace dickie peterson
789pequignot 2 years ago
he isnt dead...who the hell told you that!!!i mean i heard he has some health problems but nothing else
GatesOfGehenna76 2 years ago
Yes Dickie is dead Oct. 12th, 2009 of liver cancer he will truly be missed. Gone but never forgotten. stay well my friend
bigguy4570 2 years ago
But not as good as Fun House. HA!!
fantasykiss08 2 years ago
Better than the first Stooges album.
fantasykiss08 2 years ago