Any Blue Cheer fans?

[Marcfordsfuzz513]

I only know their first album Vincebus Eruptum or whatever its called... But its ****ing incredible... I love loud sloppy bluesy distorted, dirty,fuzzy,psychedelic albums. And this album is certainly that.

[Stan]

I only know their first album Vincebus Eruptum or whatever its called... But its ****ing incredible... I love loud sloppy bluesy distorted, dirty,fuzzy,psychedelic albums. And this album is certainly that.

That record and Outsideinside with Leigh Stephens' playing influenced me greatly as a young, aspiring hair farmer and proud noise merchant back in the day. New Improved was great as well, albeit a different Blue Cheer.

[Marcfordsfuzz513]

That record and Outsideinside with Leigh Stephens' playing influenced me greatly as a young, aspiring hair farmer and proud noise merchant back in the day. New Improved was great as well, albeit a different Blue Cheer.
Yeah, I agree. I've heard bits and pieces of other albums but it's just not the same without Leigh....

[thanagar]

Vincebus Eruptum is a guilty pleasure for me. Sounds like a thirty-minute trainwreck. Fabulous!

[greyhound]

I remember buying the Vincebus Eruptum album at Woolworths when it first came out. Apparently it wasn't a big seller so they had it in the sale bin. I bought it soley because the album cover looked cool, and it worked out good because I liked the record. Have the CD also and downloaded it to my iPod and listen to it every so often.

Bought the MC5 "Kick Out The Jams" album at the same store also which was another wild and wooly record of the day.

[Baxtercat]

I caught 'em at the Shrine in LA several times. I remember they had some tattered Marshall stacks.
Tinnitus Eruptum.
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[circusinthesky]

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Great track. Parchment Farm, too. Plus, I am convinced that Muppet drummer Animal was based on the Summertime Blues video.

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[DAB]

Nah...it was Cousin It from The Addams Family

[mc5nrg]

Saw them on Barry Richards' or maybe jack Alix' UHF TV show. With giant Magnatone stacks of a;ll things.

Doctor Please! I'll make it up to you the second time around. A classic lease breaker.

[crzyfngers]

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this was my son's favorite song when he was 8. start 'em early.

[gtrmaker]

I've been a big Blue Cheer fan ever since the first time I heard Sumertime Blues on the AM radio way back in the 60's. Sun Cycle is one of my all time favorite songs.

[Twangmaster]

... with Feathers from your Tree.

that line, and album warped my guitar playing for life. Got me more than a bit hooked on what i now call blues rock.

[GAT]

Man, we opened up for them in the late '70s, it was a trip!

[DrumBob]

I loved their first album when it was released, but I played it again a few years ago, and said to myself, "These guys couldn't play to save their lives." Sorry, I've moved on musically from Blue Cheer.

[datguytim]

yeah, always dug 'em!

[DGTCrazy]

I've met Dickie Peterson hanging out up on the Russian River. Great guy...............but that SG Bass he plays is soooo friggin loud....LOL

[Echo Are]

Kind of related to OP: Before Blue Cheer, Paul Whaley was the drummer in The Oxford Circle, a Sacramento, CA band that released a killer single on World United Records in November, 1966. Check out "Foolish Woman":

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[zombywoof]

I loved their first album when it was released, but I played it again a few years ago, and said to myself, "These guys couldn't play to save their lives." Sorry, I've moved on musically from Blue Cheer.

I am the opposite - thought they sucked big time when they first hit and then started to enjoy them later on for what they were - which was just makers of a joyful racket.

[Blingdogg]

I love them!!

[Jim Jones]

Caveman rock at it's finest! I love Blue Cheer, especially that first album! "Outsideinside" is OK, too but "Vincebus Eruptum" is it for me.

[ggwwbb]

I love Blue Cheer! I remember seeing "Summertime Blues" on MTV's Closet Classics back in the 80s and gettin hooked on them. I found Vincebus Eruptum on vinyl at a flea market about 20 years ago. I recorded it onto cassette more than once, wearing out each copy. I'd had the record for probably 5-10 years and was listening to it when I noticed something in the bottom of the record sleeve.....it was a brand new packet of JOB rolling papers!!! I showed them to a guy I worked with and he said that he hadn't seen that size of papers since he was a teenager....he wanted them, but I put them back in the sleeve and they are still there to this day! Seems appropriate to find something like that in a Blue Cheer record.
Here's my favorite Blue Cheer song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMXPNs5F_zc

[markbosko]

Loud, very loud. I could hear them a mile away practicing in Laguna Canyon.