Rush - Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran cover)

Track 1 from "Feedback", an E.P. of cover songs released by Rush on June 29, 2004.

This song was originally recorded by EDDIE COCHRAN in 1958.

While it has been covered a number of times, including by:
The Beach Boys (in 1962, on the album "Surfin' Safari") and by
THE WHO (during a number of live performances, and recorded in 1970 on "Live at Leeds"; a studio track was recorded in 1967 but not released until 1998 when it appeared on the remastered CD of "Odds & Sods".),
it was the BLUE CHEER version (in 1968 on their debut album, "Vincebus Eruptum") that is considered one of the founding movements in early Heavy Metal. It can easily be heard in their combination of Heavy Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock and Hard Rock, through heavy distortion and loud, heavy drum fills.
As a power trio, they were an influence on RUSH.
Much of the style for Rush's version follows BOTH, Blue Cheer AND The Who.

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