They were so influential they should be in the Hall of fame. I saw them in a different line-up at Cologne Rose Club, with original drummer Paul Whaley and an excellent guitarist named Andrew "Duck" MacDonald - the loudest and heaviest thing I have ever experienced. My ears are still ringing!
I remember when Dick Clark introduced them on "American Bandstand." He was smiling; he knew our minds were about to be blown. Still are. They were the start of acid rock and heavy metal.
Dickie Peterson wasn't specifically known as a great "singer," but, from the late 60's when Blue Cheer first showed up until this performance in 2005, his voice held up remarkably well.
Saw Blue Cheer in 68 at the Colorado Springs auditorium, no seats, just floor. Was able to stand at the stages edge with my 2 buds .so loud and could feel the air coming off Paul whalers baas drums .RIP Dickie 😞🙏🏻
My Mom drove my me and my best friend Chuck to see B.C. at Niles West High School in Skokie Ill. around 67" and I still havnt recovered and never will !!! Dont let your Vincibus Eruptom !!!
Modern rock n roll is garbage. This is being said by a rock fan. Nothing but a mix of rock, pop, punk, stoner and a little drop of rap. 2020s rock is a combination of all these genres together. There are a few bands that are new and rock on this 60s-70s sound. But never get much attention.
@Azhag Dark and the biggest issue of them all. These 10 people that are producing music, they don't even listen to music. They just say "This is the music you need to hear."
@@On_Dust There's rock and roll music coming out of Japan that's pretty good. The UK and USA are too jaded - grunge was a big flop and we're all waiting for the "next big thing".
@@mattbarbarich3295 Nobody is talking about hard loud rock. We are talking about heavy metal. What Hendrix song was heavy metal? None, he was playing spaced out beautiful melodies and bluesy blues. No heavy metal. Cream was creamy and dreamy, not one of the songs is heavy metal. Name one.
I bet that if Sabbath had released the album vincebus eruptum in '67 and played it the exact same way blue cheer did, then everyone would say that this is the first heavy metal album.
People just want to argue. BUT... THEY WERE THE FIRST HEAVY METAL BAND. I first saw them in the summer of 68 and they blew the walls out. Not blues rock this is too heavy to be that. They may have had a few that used blues chords but they were full on metal. I had the privilege of buying Dickie a drink in Hollywood when Blue Cheer played the Coconut Teaszer. I got him and the band to sign my Vincebus Eruptum album. He change my style of bass playing. Back then he played it damned near below the waist. I stopped playing my bass up around below my chest from then on. First time I ever saw a wall of Marshalls. HOOKED from that point on. Wherever you are Dickie, thanks and you KEEP ON ROCKIN'
They were kind of the first to do a few things, but one of them was the naming themselves "Blue Cheer"..Once radio exec's caught the meaning of the name, they were blackballed.
+Vicktor K.Y. ,,id agree Blue Cheer are the originals of metal,with Jimi Hendrix especially when you listen to Jimi's voodoo chid slight return that song is way heaver than anything early black Sabbath ever did
karl wills yes it is. Ten different bands made heavy metal songs before Black Sabbath, but because something i can't understand nobody want to accept it.
Not really, I mean I don't want to get REALLY technical and all that to explain to you why Blue Cheer didn't create metal. but Blue Cheer's material sounded just like Jimi Hendrix's music. and by that, Blue Cheer was Psychedelic/Hard/Blues Rock, or maybe even Proto Metal to say the least.
I was in the very front row and caught one of Prairie Prince's drum-sticks at the end of the set which I think was "Summertime Blues" I never was ever a Tubes fan,yet he kicks ass on this set and was really great...much better than I had ever expected...I started listening to Blue Cheer in '68 when I was 11 and practiced over and over to "Summertime Blues" as it was huge in Miami in '68 and all of the kids that were going to concerts and dances were into it..Just like it was when "Hush" came out by Deep Purple,yet even more so..It was HUGE...They were the best band next to Cream and Hendrix..The first Quicksilver LP was out in the Summer of '68 and also The Amboy Dukes had a huge hit with "Journey to the Center of the Mind" forget about 1969 and Led Zep and all..Cream and Jimi and Blue Cheer and the other bands were way more original in every way than Zep had ever been..The Yardbirds were also much better than Zep and Spirit was way more innovative and original than the hyped-up,overpowered Zep..Page was a great guitarist..yet their music was too dramatic and it was a huge hype..I bought the first two lp's just like everyone else..Yet I got real sick of them fast and I am not sick of CREAM..Jimi or Blue Cheer or Quicksilver..These bands were the greatest and were real innovators and musicians...who had original style and chops to boot...they didn't mimic other players like Zep did with The Yardbirds..Jeff Beck or SPIRIT..it sucks what music has now become..I am not into any of it..it's all crap! Straight up garbage..all about money and no intelligence,wit,or soul..much less innovation..It is all amateurish and it's all being done by unprofessional hacks for the most-part..Only a few remain..Terje Rypdal of Norway is great and has always been....everyone else has sold-out...
When I was 14 I had gotten a guitar and would go over to Ted Nugent's house to play surf music with him through his Sears Silvertone amp. When I was a Senior in '68, He played at our Wm Fremd high school with the Amboy Dukes. In '66 I moved to Westport CT. and played with Steve Tallarico, in his basement with him playing drums. He later was known as Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, and strangely, Ted Nugent used to open for them. We heard the first Yardbirds concert in the US at Staples high school, and got together afterwards to talk how blown away we were by Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. incidentally, Linda Eastman, later Linda McCartney, showed me how to expose for spotlighted people on stage when taking photographs at that same concert. You never really know when it is happening!
They make every single modern band that have the audacity of calling themselves “rock” bite the dust. Hail hail Blue Cheee, one of the pioneers of Heavy Metal....
I saw Blue Cheer 50 years ago! They still sound the same! I think they had a big sound system then and were about 5 times louder. Unforgettable concert.
I saw them at the Fillmore in 68. So loud we covered our ears the whole time. The floor was vibrating up and down at least an inch or two. They didn't know that many songs so they played the same ones over in the second set...
Liegh was my dads best friend when I was little. He used to come to Portland and stay at our house. He had a killer brand new Corvette. That I remember LOL
They blew me away as a teenager playing out there on that barge and listening to this they blew me away again at 67 !! Great job guys ! Long may you live ! Paul, St Petersburg, Florida
love, love, love the blue cheer! i don’t worry about what “category” of rock n roll they are or if they were like the original band of whatever you want to call them, all i know is that they played hard and kicked ass for a long goddam time! and there won’t be any replacements for them or other great bands that are now slipping away and dying off. all us old rockers from back when these bands were around are finding out that there isn’t going to be a “new the who” or zeppelin or aerosmith or even like the cars or cheap trick. but goddam there sure as hell used to be and man, we had some fun! ✊🏼 -p.s. fuck the rock n roll hall of fame lolololol
My teenage life was pretty good, lived this song for sure! Late 1970's in America, sounds good LOUD! Still love this song, theres a COUNTRY version just heard the other day, pretty good LOL yall know what blue cheer means, doncha?
Anyone who would like to order this DVD it is probably still available if you contact : Mr. Boots Hughston inventor and chief of UB2 Productions in Mill Valley,CA as they made a DVD back in 2005 and only has part of this Blue Cheer show,yet has many others on it: The Charlatans and also Dan Hicks etc..Narada Michael Walden,Barry Melton from CJ & the Fish..Ray Manzarek of the Doors,Terry Haggerty from the Sons of Champlin and many others..It's a Beautiful Day / David LaFlamme etc...Boots is an inventor and is one of the coolest cats on the coast...played tuba on Kathi McDonald's classic LP on Capitol Records :"Insane Asylum" a great man for bringing all of this music to everyone in SF and the Bay Area for free...and the city wouldn't renew his license for the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love in S.F. Golden Gate Park/Speedway Meadows in 2117 as they wanted to profiteer on their lame version of the 50th year anniversary and denied Boots and his sidekick : Crowbar their performance license ..when Boots did the best shows ever..The only problem was is that Blue Cheer and all of the other acts could only perform for 20 minutes each for time-limitations...Yet this was the final performance of the original Blue Cheer...Dickie Peterson rest in peace...Kathi McDonald rest in peace..You kids could rock the Western Hemisphere..Boots and his son Boots Jr. did Reggae on the River as well....
1978 Leigh was in a band with my stepmother and Vinnie Appice called Scarlet. I was 19 and he was at our Laurel Canyon house often, we smoked a lot of pot and I would score him Quaaludes at least once a week. They played the Whiskey on Sunset and that was about it but what a gas to get to know him and watch him up close playing guitar. The best thing was getting to know Vinnie...
And Paul Whaley. They were both great guys , and they still had the hunger , later in life. Touring the US in a white van like a Punk band , sometimes only playing to about 50 people. They never failed.
Summer of 1969 I hadn't had my driver's license long. But played the teen fair with our group in some sort of battle of the bands. Teen Fair at the Paladium in Hollywood. Our stage was the Fender tent. A wall of Fender equipment to plug into. Later Blue Cheer played on the main stage. Opened with this song. Kicked ass! But we were standing directly in front of the stage maybe 25-30 ft away. I think my ears are still ringing😅
Interviewed Prairie Prince for a music magazine in 1983. He explained he was late because he got his credit card stuck in a bank machine. IN 1983. Always remembered that.
THE FIRST HEAVY METAL EVER.....! SAW THEM LIVE IN 2008 IN MALIBU BEACH AT THE MALIBU INN.....AND AFTER A GIG I HAD LONG LONG CONVERSATION WITH DICKIE PETERSON. ..RIP BRO....
OMG! How freakin Awesome is this! The original Metal band of the 60's. I cant believe I found this. My wife and I were there at the Polo field that day and had a blast. A major flash back. Kinda like when we saw the Dinosaurs.
+MrTeapotpilot If you would like to come to San Francisco in 2017 I will be running backstage for the 50th Anniversary Summer of Love. You can join the group I set up on Facebook if you like and see more about it as soon as we have things ready to go. The clip you see here was back stage at the 40th Anniversary. This time for the 50th we will have some 28 or more acts come to perform. And it will be a free concert and there will probably be more than 300,000 people coming to see what I feel with be the last for the SOL. Regards, Toney
+MrTeapotpilot, As soon as we get the Polo Fields booked for the 2017 music festival. I will let you know the date, It will take place in the late Fall of 2017.
Naw. Prince is a great drummer, but he didn't know the song really well and the nuances of the breaks. He was a 'fill in' at best. So no, too bad Paul wasn't there too.
I saw them many times, but the last time was at the Avalon Ballroom and it was truly amazing. There may or may not have been some chemical enhancement involved, but WOW! They were the LOUDEST band in SF. The albums do not do them justice.
For those who followed the band, for the short time they were playing, their music and their style evolved; each album was different; though duckies petersons' voice kept it solid.if you are lucky to have some ,give them a listen. You won't be disappointed. ROCK AND ROLL!
Fk. The Dog. Gawd, didnae think i could remember that well. What a trip we were, had, are having. Thanks whomever ran this to me at this time and place about that time and place. I used to scream this song in my head while a 17 yr old stranger in a strange land. The Straight Theater, Matrix and Hunter and the Family Dog. Sheesh
They were so influential they should be in the Hall of fame. I saw them in a different line-up at Cologne Rose Club, with original drummer Paul Whaley and an excellent guitarist named Andrew "Duck" MacDonald - the loudest and heaviest thing I have ever experienced. My ears are still ringing!
Blue Cheer ,should be in the Rock n Roll hall of Fame
AGREED>>>>>>
karl wills they are not known enough sadly
You mean the Rock n Roll Hall Of Shame? Fuck them!
Blue Cheer is to AWESOME for that place!!!!!!!
along with Jethro Tull
The first heavy metal band minus Paul Whaley on drums. Now Dickie Peterson is gone too. These guys never got enough credit as pioneers in heavy rock.
The same happened to a proto punk band called death. They discovered punk rock and never got enough credit about it.
@@On_Dust In my youth there were two metal bands the MC5 and a band called Death . I still have all the original albums of both .
they never had good recordings either which is sad. I loved these guys when I was in high school
Could not agree more with you.
Indeed
In the 60's I saw these guys with Cream...my ears are still ringing!
Cream and Blue Cheer together? HOLY SHIT!
@@lenini056 I wonder if that was after Bob Adcock kicked Deep Purple off the tour?
@@joeyjo-joshabadu9636 Before. Likely in the first US tour of 68.
Not
Arguably the loudest band in the world Blue Cheer
Damn, his voice has barely aged. It's just insane how good he sounds.
I think it aged all at once
No. I didn't feel. I am old and my voice still sounds the same
Dickie Peterson was the ageless rocker, badass until he departed this life. Should be far more recognized.
Dickie's "sandpaper" voice made him.
His voice did the Alice Cooper thingy, Alice looked 55 at 28, still looks something like that.
I remember when Dick Clark introduced them on "American Bandstand." He was smiling; he knew our minds were about to be blown. Still are. They were the start of acid rock and heavy metal.
Dick was pissed and let the boys know. Apparently they or Dickie gave him a what for back
they are true 2 their music.
I don't care what kind of music you're listening too,it doesn't get much heavier than this!
I love you guys, I saw you live in haigh and ashbury in 1968; I couldn believe that 3 guys could made that much noise GOD BLESS YOU❤❤❤❤❤❤
Dickie Peterson wasn't specifically known as a great "singer," but, from the late 60's when Blue Cheer first showed up until this performance in 2005, his voice held up remarkably well.
They always did the best version of this song.
I'm totally agree!
rigid yeah definitely
rigid Original is the best, Eddie Cochran
Michael Koenig Eddie was pretty good for his time
Eddie is good any time!
I got this as a single FREE inside an album I ordered. This was in 1968 and I have loved them since!
RIP Mr Dickie Peterson born on the same day as me 9-12, but I was born in 1962, RIP brother of the first American heavy metal band!!!
That's amazing. Awesome that you're still ok. Rock on.
Saw Blue Cheer in 68 at the Colorado Springs auditorium, no seats, just floor.
Was able to stand at the stages edge with my 2 buds .so loud and could feel the air coming off Paul whalers baas drums .RIP Dickie 😞🙏🏻
Vincebus Eruptum is the most worn out LP in my collection.
Wow almost like 1968 coming back in a time machine!
I wish!!!
...good to see Leigh Stephens up on stage.
My Mom drove my me and my best friend Chuck to see B.C. at Niles West High School in Skokie Ill. around 67" and I still havnt recovered and never will !!! Dont let your Vincibus Eruptom !!!
R.I.P. Dickie Respect.
Nice to see Paul Kantner in the back of the band....RIP
Yeah! I was pleased to see Paul K. backstage too. But Paul was a solid community guy. God love him! He was a giant!
They made the air melt .
Old hippies on stage jamming away. ....priceless.
LOOOOVE HOW THE CROWD IS JUST JAMMING OUT!!! AWESOME
old hippies like me are great !
Doug Prescher Like a true nature's child We were born, born to be wild We can climb so high
I never wanna diiiahhhhahhhyyy
Born to be wild.......
yes we are....t/y
Y'all are cool as a fan!!
Nah, Boomers suck.
As others, I was fortunate to witness Blue Cher in Seattle Wa at the Blue Moon tavern back in the late 70's. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
you know what, even without loads of modern gain and pedals, is still heavier than 98% of modern "rock."
Modern rock n roll is garbage. This is being said by a rock fan. Nothing but a mix of rock, pop, punk, stoner and a little drop of rap. 2020s rock is a combination of all these genres together. There are a few bands that are new and rock on this 60s-70s sound. But never get much attention.
@Azhag Dark and the biggest issue of them all. These 10 people that are producing music, they don't even listen to music. They just say "This is the music you need to hear."
@@On_Dust There's rock and roll music coming out of Japan that's pretty good. The UK and USA are too jaded - grunge was a big flop and we're all waiting for the "next big thing".
Stack those Marshalls
I got to see them a couple times in 1967-68 at Chet Helm's "Family Dog" on W Evans in Denver. RIP Dickie
It's as if they came from the world of 1969 on a time machine to the present day.
*WoW WoW WoW this is music! Greetings from Germany.*
"You gonna play the one song everyone knows you're gonna play?"
Brilliant
As far as I'm concerned this is the king of rock bands and the creators of heavy metal.
Blue Cheer is the first American heavy metal band ever.👌
First American one? First one.
Could be, Cream and Jimi Hendrix Exp were playing hard loud rock a year before so it's all hard to quantify, and don't forget Iron Butterfly.
@@mattbarbarich3295 Nobody is talking about hard loud rock. We are talking about heavy metal. What Hendrix song was heavy metal? None, he was playing spaced out beautiful melodies and bluesy blues. No heavy metal. Cream was creamy and dreamy, not one of the songs is heavy metal. Name one.
Huge Sabbath fan here, but these guys beat them by two years 1968! Heavy drums,bass,face melting fuzz guitar.
I bet that if Sabbath had released the album vincebus eruptum in '67 and played it the exact same way blue cheer did, then everyone would say that this is the first heavy metal album.
Yo. Ozzy was inspired by Blue Cheer hearing this tune.
@@On_Dust blue cheer released their first two albums in 1968.
THE ORIGINAL LINE UP!!!!! WOAH YEAH THIS IS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT YA DIG
Lewis Floyd Henry yeah cool i dig it.too. they got soul and thats what counts.
Paul whaley is the original drummer!
Leigh Stevens and Dickie are original but the drummer here is Prairie Prince not the original drummer. He's good, but he's not Paul Whaley.
Thought that was Prarie!...From The Tubes
@@Formula-602 And Todd!
People just want to argue. BUT...
THEY WERE THE FIRST HEAVY METAL BAND.
I first saw them in the summer of 68 and they blew the walls out. Not blues rock this is too heavy to be that. They may have had a few that used blues chords but they were full on metal.
I had the privilege of buying Dickie a drink in Hollywood when Blue Cheer played the Coconut Teaszer. I got him and the band to sign my Vincebus Eruptum album. He change my style of bass playing. Back then he played it damned near below the waist.
I stopped playing my bass up around below my chest from then on. First time I ever saw a wall of Marshalls. HOOKED from that point on.
Wherever you are Dickie, thanks and you KEEP ON ROCKIN'
They were kind of the first to do a few things, but one of them was the naming themselves "Blue Cheer"..Once radio exec's caught the meaning of the name, they were blackballed.
the real creators of heavy metal together one more time! the last!
+Vicktor K.Y. ,,id agree Blue Cheer are the originals of metal,with Jimi Hendrix especially when you listen to Jimi's voodoo chid slight return that song is way heaver than anything early black Sabbath ever did
karl wills yes it is. Ten different bands made heavy metal songs before Black Sabbath, but because something i can't understand nobody want to accept it.
Not really, I mean I don't want to get REALLY technical and all that to explain to you why Blue Cheer didn't create metal. but Blue Cheer's material sounded just like Jimi Hendrix's music. and by that, Blue Cheer was Psychedelic/Hard/Blues Rock, or maybe even Proto Metal to say the least.
Tell me that Under The Sun or Children of the Grave by Sabbath wasn't heavier than Voodoo Child.
Sabbath came 3 years later....Hendrix and Jeff beck with the Yardbirds were the first Heavy Metal. Also Page and Clapton with Creem
I was in the very front row and caught one of Prairie Prince's drum-sticks at the end of the set which I think was "Summertime Blues" I never was ever a Tubes fan,yet he kicks ass on this set and was really great...much better than I had ever expected...I started listening to Blue Cheer in '68 when I was 11 and practiced over and over to "Summertime Blues" as it was huge in Miami in '68 and all of the kids that were going to concerts and dances were into it..Just like it was when "Hush" came out by Deep Purple,yet even more so..It was HUGE...They were the best band next to Cream and Hendrix..The first Quicksilver LP was out in the Summer of '68 and also The Amboy Dukes had a huge hit with "Journey to the Center of the Mind" forget about 1969 and Led Zep and all..Cream and Jimi and Blue Cheer and the other bands were way more original in every way than Zep had ever been..The Yardbirds were also much better than Zep and Spirit was way more innovative and original than the hyped-up,overpowered Zep..Page was a great guitarist..yet their music was too dramatic and it was a huge hype..I bought the first two lp's just like everyone else..Yet I got real sick of them fast and I am not sick of CREAM..Jimi or Blue Cheer or Quicksilver..These bands were the greatest and were real innovators and musicians...who had original style and chops to boot...they didn't mimic other players like Zep did with The Yardbirds..Jeff Beck or SPIRIT..it sucks what music has now become..I am not into any of it..it's all crap! Straight up garbage..all about money and no intelligence,wit,or soul..much less innovation..It is all amateurish and it's all being done by unprofessional hacks for the most-part..Only a few remain..Terje Rypdal of Norway is great and has always been....everyone else has sold-out...
When I was 14 I had gotten a guitar and would go over to Ted Nugent's house to play surf music with him through his Sears Silvertone amp. When I was a Senior in '68, He played at our Wm Fremd high school with the Amboy Dukes.
In '66 I moved to Westport CT. and played with Steve Tallarico, in his basement with him playing drums. He later was known as Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, and strangely, Ted Nugent used to open for them.
We heard the first Yardbirds concert in the US at Staples high school, and got together afterwards to talk how blown away we were by Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.
incidentally, Linda Eastman, later Linda McCartney, showed me how to expose for spotlighted people on stage when taking photographs at that same concert.
You never really know when it is happening!
They make every single modern band that have the audacity of calling themselves “rock” bite the dust. Hail hail Blue Cheee, one of the pioneers of Heavy Metal....
dropped a lot of acid to this tune wish i had some now 62 and still trippin
Still got the Album.... Pops, ticks, & all, sounds BETTER at 7 or louder... When I listen to Blue Cheer, So do the neighbors...
I heard Prairie Prince the other nite, when he was in The Tubes.....coincidence???🤔🤔😳😲🤘🤘🤘
GREAT BLUE CHEER. R.I.P Dickie.
so glad they got a good appreciative crowd to play to.
At one time they were the loudest band .according to the Guinness record book
I saw Blue Cheer 50 years ago! They still sound the same! I think they had a big sound system then and were about 5 times louder. Unforgettable concert.
I saw them at the Fillmore in 68. So loud we covered our ears the whole time. The floor was vibrating up and down at least an inch or two. They didn't know that many songs so they played the same ones over in the second set...
Liegh was my dads best friend when I was little. He used to come to Portland and stay at our house. He had a killer brand new Corvette. That I remember LOL
They blew me away as a teenager playing out there on that barge and listening to this they blew me away again at 67 !! Great job guys ! Long may you live ! Paul, St Petersburg, Florida
I remember my dad introducing me to blue cheer"s music for the first time i was like omg this is awsome IM 27 years old im a big fan of them
they are the best band of all time
Still loving this 50 years later
love, love, love the blue cheer! i don’t worry about what “category” of rock n roll they are or if they were like the original band of whatever you want to call them, all i know is that they played hard and kicked ass for a long goddam time! and there won’t be any replacements for them or other great bands that are now slipping away and dying off. all us old rockers from back when these bands were around are finding out that there isn’t going to be a “new the who” or zeppelin or aerosmith or even like the cars or cheap trick. but goddam there sure as hell used to be and man, we had some fun! ✊🏼
-p.s. fuck the rock n roll hall of fame lolololol
E = mc5
saw Blue Cheer in Denver at the Family Dog stoned on Blue Cheer acid 🎉
6 Marshal amps my ears rang for 3 days
Remember seeing Vincebus Eruptum when it came out as a kid. Never saw so much hair on guys in my life. Mind blown
Heavy metal before heavy metal.
Great.
Saw them in the late 80s at Fenders Ballroom in Long Beach. It was wild 😜 AF!
My teenage life was pretty good, lived this song for sure! Late 1970's in America, sounds good LOUD! Still love this song, theres a COUNTRY version just heard the other day, pretty good LOL yall know what blue cheer means, doncha?
Anyone who would like to order this DVD it is probably still available if you contact : Mr. Boots Hughston inventor and chief of UB2 Productions in Mill Valley,CA as they made a DVD back in 2005 and only has part of this Blue Cheer show,yet has many others on it: The Charlatans and also Dan Hicks etc..Narada Michael Walden,Barry Melton from CJ & the Fish..Ray Manzarek of the Doors,Terry Haggerty from the Sons of Champlin and many others..It's a Beautiful Day / David LaFlamme etc...Boots is an inventor and is one of the coolest cats on the coast...played tuba on Kathi McDonald's classic LP on Capitol Records :"Insane Asylum" a great man for bringing all of this music to everyone in SF and the Bay Area for free...and the city wouldn't renew his license for the 50th Anniversary of the Summer of Love in S.F. Golden Gate Park/Speedway Meadows in 2117 as they wanted to profiteer on their lame version of the 50th year anniversary and denied Boots and his sidekick : Crowbar their performance license ..when Boots did the best shows ever..The only problem was is that Blue Cheer and all of the other acts could only perform for 20 minutes each for time-limitations...Yet this was the final performance of the original Blue Cheer...Dickie Peterson rest in peace...Kathi McDonald rest in peace..You kids could rock the Western Hemisphere..Boots and his son Boots Jr. did Reggae on the River as well....
This gives me goose pimples. It's like 1968 all over again in 2005. Wow !!!
What a fun time.. Everybody is rocking.. Bang that head..
In 1968 I saw Blue Cheer play at Eagle's Auditorium in Seattle. They were on the bill with...Pink Floyd. This was a study in musical contrast...
God Bless Dickie. This is crazy badass
I saw them in Hollywood. They were so loud my beer bottle shattered.
WHAT GOOOODS
Sound the same as in the 60's. Great !!!!
Three guys who kicked ass!
1978 Leigh was in a band with my stepmother and Vinnie Appice called Scarlet. I was 19 and he was at our Laurel Canyon house often, we smoked a lot of pot and I would score him Quaaludes at least once a week. They played the Whiskey on Sunset and that was about it but what a gas to get to know him and watch him up close playing guitar. The best thing was getting to know Vinnie...
RIP Paul Whaley
BLUE FCKIN CHEER!
Great !!! RIP Dickie.
One Bad Ass Bass player!! R.I.P. Dickie
And Paul Whaley. They were both great guys , and they still had the hunger , later in life. Touring the US in a white van like a Punk band , sometimes only playing to about 50 people. They never failed.
Summer of 1969 I hadn't had my driver's license long. But played the teen fair with our group in some sort of battle of the bands. Teen Fair at the Paladium in Hollywood. Our stage was the Fender tent. A wall of Fender equipment to plug into. Later Blue Cheer played on the main stage. Opened with this song. Kicked ass! But we were standing directly in front of the stage maybe 25-30 ft away. I think my ears are still ringing😅
Interviewed Prairie Prince for a music magazine in 1983. He explained he was late because he got his credit card stuck in a bank machine. IN 1983. Always remembered that.
Blue Cheer, Vanilla Fudge and Steppenwolf should be in the Rock and roll Hall of Fame
THE FIRST HEAVY METAL EVER.....! SAW THEM LIVE IN 2008 IN MALIBU BEACH AT THE MALIBU INN.....AND AFTER A GIG I HAD LONG LONG CONVERSATION WITH DICKIE PETERSON. ..RIP BRO....
LOVE BLUE CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER !!!!!!
Still get stronger, Dickey! You'll never Rest In Peace!!
I keep playin' the videos of my great friend Toney...to his memory...this is a great document, Blue Cheer at one of the great events, thank you Toney.
Still brilliant after all those years.
This absolutely fills my head.
Well guys you have still got it and even better .
One of the greatest rock and roll songs ever
OMG! How freakin Awesome is this! The original Metal band of the 60's. I cant believe I found this. My wife and I were there at the Polo field that day and had a blast. A major flash back. Kinda like when we saw the Dinosaurs.
Best version of this song.
I still have album from way back.
very good..................................
Love it.that was awesome.the true fathers of metal
This is fucking badass!
...They STILL sound great !!!!!!
OLD SCHOOL .ROCK .OM
+MrTeapotpilot, Yes, But with out learning from old school music, there would be no new school. :)
+Toney Burkhart .I love old school.
+MrTeapotpilot
If you would like to come to San Francisco in 2017 I will be running backstage for the 50th Anniversary Summer of Love. You can join the group I set up on Facebook if you like and see more about it as soon as we have things ready to go. The clip you see here was back stage at the 40th Anniversary. This time for the 50th we will have some 28 or more acts come to perform. And it will be a free concert and there will probably be more than 300,000 people coming to see what I feel with be the last for the SOL.
Regards,
Toney
+Toney Burkhart .LET ME KNOW MORE WHEN TA.
+MrTeapotpilot, As soon as we get the Polo Fields booked for the 2017 music festival. I will let you know the date, It will take place in the late Fall of 2017.
first metal rock band in the 1960
Best version of Summertime Blues
Naw. Prince is a great drummer, but he didn't know the song really well and the nuances of the breaks. He was a 'fill in' at best. So no, too bad Paul wasn't there too.
Still got a touch of the old sound !
Cream got together this same year for a tour...the last one too !
Damn the people by the stage are more alive than the audience
I saw them many times, but the last time was at the Avalon Ballroom and it was truly amazing. There may or may not have been some chemical enhancement involved, but WOW! They were the LOUDEST band in SF. The albums do not do them justice.
Avalon was the greatest place back then .
For those who followed the band, for the short time they were playing, their music and their style evolved; each album was different; though duckies petersons' voice kept it solid.if you are lucky to have some ,give them a listen. You won't be disappointed. ROCK AND ROLL!
That just kicks ass. They sound exactly the same
BIG Nostalgic Smiles. My fave band
Wer die Zeit zurückdrehen kann,sollte gleich damit angefangen. 📼🎸😉
Fk. The Dog. Gawd, didnae think i could remember that well. What a trip we were, had, are having. Thanks whomever ran this to me at this time and place about that time and place. I used to scream this song in my head while a 17 yr old stranger in a strange land. The Straight Theater, Matrix and Hunter and the Family Dog. Sheesh
Bobble head boy and dancing girl added some fun to this great cover.
Paul Kantner in the background at 3:45
Holy Shit! R.I.P
Looked a lot like Crosby too @ 4:11. I'll bet a lot of rock royalty was kickin' it that day!
I doubt that very much!
@Andy Thomas-you doubt what very much?
@Andy Thomas-you doubt what very much?
So great! Damn,real Rock and Roll!!
Always on my favorite songs list