My daughter asked me what the first heavy metal song was, and I played Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer for her. She's 26 and was shocked that the video was in black in white. I never felt so old. But she loved it. And it felt good to pass on the love of classic metal to another generation.
That's great my kids loves great bands and the Rockin Blues. I call them kids because I'm old and I call all the younger people kids. When I Wake Up and crawl out of bed I'm Rockin to the Blues.
Man I’m 50 years old will be 51 in October. How did I not notice or hear about this band before. I love them. Sounds like I need to listen to these guys on my old school Sportster 1200 next time I go for a long ride
Duck MacDonald absolutely shredding his way through this set like a knife through butter. This set is so fucking heavy. Doom metal paradise for my ears
Would have been amazing to see this live, catching 2/3rds of the original Blue Cheer lineup. Even as old men, they could blast out the loud and heavy rock music. So sorry that Dickie Peterson and Paul Whaley is no longer with us. Somebody ought to release this concert on vinyl LP. Would be fantastic.
I'm 78 and was there. I was the Black kid with the Afghan Hound that brought much of the acid up from Laguna Beach to Ferlinghetti's bookstore, 'City Lights'. Super Spade was my cousin.
Underrated. Maybe they will get the recognition they deserve one day. Saw them at The Brook in Southampton about 20 years ago. Only about 60 there. Never knew what they were missing.😊
I was in a band back in 1969, still in jr. high school. We played a school dance and Parchment Fam was one of the songs we did. Everyone said it was groovy and far out.
This is my first time listening to them and oh my god my brains are blown apart. Been a metalhead since the age of 3 I'm 26 now and I cant believe I never heard of them before.
Saw them live at Duke, maybe 1967-68. Wall of Sound - knocked us out of the stadium. Terrific aid too - little blue marshmallows. Crazy time - glad I (and they) survived!!
@@drivinsouth651 the style of jimi hendrix is not heavy metal, it is mainly psychedelic rock and acid rock, he only introduced elements that later would be a reference for heavy metal, however, undoubtedly hendrix together with cream and the who were water dividers for birth of heavy metal. every musical genre has its precedents and evolutions, and bands like blue cheer, Steppenwolf and iron butterfly sounded like the purest heavy metal of the 70s, the beginning of heavy metal "in its pure form" for that time
This band was so far ahead of time in so many ways till I can't even count them. We were all kids together running up and down the Strip, Laurel Canyon and Laguna Beach eating acid. Sky Saxton was part of our crowd. Was a wonderful time to be a kid in West Hollywood back then. I feel sorry for those who missed out on those days when metal and psychedelia were in their infancies and real fine nookie was easy to get. Good daze back then.
Sometimes one needs this kind of toughness to cope with all the negative people. I saw Blue Cheer Live in Fairmount park Philadelphia in 1970. They're just as hard here in 2008, that was a year of change for me.
The first grunge album. 1968. (I said that and Jack Endino agreed.) I loved it as a kid in 1974. One of the only good albums at my local library (the other one was "switched on Bach.")
The old expression that Blue Cheer turned the air into cottage cheese made sense after seeing them in 2008. The air seemed thicker when they were playing.
Heavy metal meets Punk rock meets Grunge. I once knew a Cat in London who was strictly Classic rock n roll but he had a kid brother who was a real Punk kid. I am not a Punk rock fan even though Mick Jones was my Art school friend. But I like Blue Cheer. 😄🌟😎🌎☮️❤️
Has this ever been released on double vinyl? If not, it should be. It sounds like it was played and recorded with a 2-LP release in mind, truth be told -- complete with a little break in the middle of 'Doctor Please' for the sake of flipping over from Side 3 to Side 4. RIP, Paul and Dickie.
To the morons that said this was a shitty band, you don't know what your talking about.Blue Cheer was dynamite!RAWWWW sound, way before Grand FUNK,AND DURING WHEN CREAM WAS KING! These no comparison to the experience, different styles entirely great each in their own way.I remember seeing Blue Cheer on American Bandstand doing Summertime Blues.Get 1st album and second,I still own mine they still are great as when I first heard them.Rock On!
'Dickie Peterson' and his "Blue Cheer" are, were, always played in my Home. Check 'Yoder" in the band "KAK," a Blue Cheer Member. Vincibus Eruptum This video is later in their career. "They played sporadically until 2009" --Google Assistant
Same. I own all their music that I know of. 1967 was my first year of seeing them. 73 years old. Rock Festival Roadie 1968 -- 1970. 4 Festivals West Coast --- East Coast. West Palm Beach, Florida was the last one. Rolling Stones closed that one. The best act I saw was Johnny & Edgar Winters do; "TABACCO ROAD". Janis Joplin, Johnny , and Vanilla Fudge did a set
Dickie's the only original member left. Back then I was in a band named 'Melvin Wonderful'...I know the sad creepy lonesome feeling of being the only one still standing. I'm still living in the past, it was a better time to be alive.
No offense to the Motorhead fans out there, but Dickie Peterson is pretty much the original Lemmy Kilmeister.. I was a big fan of the Cheer since '68 and Vincebus, I may have liked Outside inside even more... Liked New Improved, the Randy Holden side more than the Bruce Stephens Burns Kellogg side, but It has grown on me over the years... I envy the bloke who saw ' em w. Cream, I saw 'em (Cream the same year, and later saw Blue Cheer, opening for Iron Butterfly, ( all original members) but I was told by Randy Holden that Leigh Stephens had left the band only four days earlier, and he was the new replacement... I was bummed that with four bands on the bill. There were two stages on opposite sides of the coliseum and I was at the wrong end, and had to make my way through a huge crowd with general seating, once Blue Cheer started... I did have my brothers 35 mm. camera and managedto get some good photos of the group backstage, though I couldn't get the flash working for thier set which was oddly poorly lit.. Wish I'd had presence of mind to take pics of Iron butterfly, which was better lit.. also the Byrds and Standells were there...
Coming from a guy that probably can't play a note on any instrument! I'd like to see what's coming out of you when you're 60 something years old touring playing under hot stage lights ! Disrespectful moron ,he died a year later!
@@scottbegonias313 All of your suppositions regarding me are in fact WRONG, and he still had snot running out of his nose while playing, derelict, so you can put your foil hat on and go back to bed ;now.
No les dieron la importancia que tenian..pero junto con motorhead.judas priest .gallaguer.zeppelin .hendrix y unos pocos mas ..para mi estan en un pedestal..seran inimitables...muy grandes..bueno...enormes,
The great BLUE CHEER. I saw them half a dozen times and got to even go see them rehearse in San Francisco. Dickie was pretty cool and he and the band signed my VINCEBUS ERUPTUM album. WORST camera work ever.
You can probably find tablature on Blue chair online somewhere try tablature places that are you know about guitar and guitar only especially San Francisco ksan was the station that played them exclusively they're no longer around but tablets are for blue should not be that hard to find
Before Lemmy...Before Geddy....Before Budgie....There was DICKIE! The original singing bass player in a metal trio! RIP
Fuck yeah man!
They could not be denied.
They're originally from
California.
They'll blow your stereo speakers!.
They are one of the few
bands that people have
over looked.
My daughter asked me what the first heavy metal song was, and I played Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer for her. She's 26 and was shocked that the video was in black in white. I never felt so old. But she loved it. And it felt good to pass on the love of classic metal to another generation.
Play her "Rumble" by Link Wray too, if you wanna expose her to the earliest roots of metal.
That's great my kids loves great bands and the Rockin Blues. I call them kids because I'm old and I call all the younger people kids. When I Wake Up and crawl out of bed I'm Rockin to the Blues.
first heavy metal song, 🤣
keep dreaming😂
@@simplechronology2605🤣
@@nobody53535 when you're opinion matters to someone, they'll let you know. Until then, stay in the basement.
Man I’m 50 years old will be 51 in October. How did I not notice or hear about this band before. I love them. Sounds like I need to listen to these guys on my old school Sportster 1200 next time I go for a long ride
Yo tengo 64 y la conocí hoy. Conocí muchas bandas desde Doors, Cream, Zeppelin, Purple, etc, etc, y nunca antes habia oído a los Cheer.
The first metal band in the world is from San Francisco
Dickie Peterson, one of the best of all time.
One of the most important rock n roll bands in history
the fathers of heavy metal and stoner rock
Yes
Duck MacDonald absolutely shredding his way through this set like a knife through butter. This set is so fucking heavy. Doom metal paradise for my ears
100% agreed. Duck is a fucking gem. And Dickies just beefed out in every way.
Long before Heavy Metal there was Blue Cheer.
Bullocks to Black Sabbath
They were metal before metal.
they're called stoner rock as well as heavy psychedelic hard rock, not heavy metal, black sabbath owned heavy metal
@@MidnightMark12 Ozzy said he wanted their sounds.
@@rafehr1378
You think that Sharon got them behind the tour bus with the strap on?
Blue Cheer rules! Sabbath rules!! HEAVY METAL!!
Would have been amazing to see this live, catching 2/3rds of the original Blue Cheer lineup. Even as old men, they could blast out the loud and heavy rock music. So sorry that Dickie Peterson and Paul Whaley is no longer with us.
Somebody ought to release this concert on vinyl LP. Would be fantastic.
They had a crushing sound,crank it up
i saw these guys in the 60s !!!!
Rock on brother.
You saw the original best of the best.
My number "1" Band. 73 years old. Roll into Utube with "SATURDAYS FREEDOM". Own about every sound these Boys released. This was the last.
I'm 78 and was there. I was the Black kid with the Afghan Hound that brought much of the acid up from Laguna Beach to Ferlinghetti's bookstore, 'City Lights'. Super Spade was my cousin.
Underrated. Maybe they will get the recognition they deserve one day. Saw them at The Brook in Southampton about 20 years ago. Only about 60 there. Never knew what they were missing.😊
If these guys don't belong in the Rock and roll Hall of Fame no one does.
They delivered the Rock and sound pretty damn good! One of the first hard rock bands ever!
saw this lineup in portland oregon 2008. red fang and danava opened. it ruled.
I love this band! Just discovered them and I love it.
RIP Dickie and Paul. Rock in Peace.🤘❤
I was in a band back in 1969, still in jr. high school. We played a school dance
and Parchment Fam was one of the songs we did. Everyone said it was groovy
and far out.
The legendary Andrew Duck McDonald! Awesome
This is my first time listening to them and oh my god my brains are blown apart. Been a metalhead since the age of 3 I'm 26 now and I cant believe I never heard of them before.
Saw them live at Duke, maybe 1967-68. Wall of Sound - knocked us out of the stadium. Terrific aid too - little blue marshmallows. Crazy time - glad I (and they) survived!!
Now that's a great story!!
Hey Guys,i LOVE you since the Very First time i Heard you,back at the 1987...LONG LIVE BLUE CHEER!
I know this was 15 years ago but they kicked ass!!
Pioneers!
Not according to The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
@@drivinsouth651 the style of jimi hendrix is not heavy metal, it is mainly psychedelic rock and acid rock, he only introduced elements that later would be a reference for heavy metal, however, undoubtedly hendrix together with cream and the who were water dividers for birth of heavy metal. every musical genre has its precedents and evolutions, and bands like blue cheer, Steppenwolf and iron butterfly sounded like the purest heavy metal of the 70s, the beginning of heavy metal "in its pure form" for that time
@@hexenzsene2837 Woodstock`s National Anthem, Voodoo Chile (slight return) and machine Gun are definitely HEAVY METAL.! Sorry.
@@drivinsouth651
and don't forget purple haze too. The combination between heavy blues and psychedelia gives us metal. This is what Blue Cheer did.
Pioneers of Heavy metal
Never heard this! wow 20201 lockdowns vintage finds. Power trio heavy jamming!. A little bit like Motorhead. Cool!
Cheers to Blue Cheer.
Motorhead was like Blue Cheer.
Before there was Lemmy---there was Dickie!
Yes indeed but you have it backwards Motorhead sounded like them but still not as heavy. The apples don't fall far from the tree.
RIP Mr. Whaley.
i was never overly fond of too many of the hard-edged rock but for some reason i always really liked blue cheer
WHAT an EFFING performance! Gawdang, CRUNCHITY goodness!
This band was so far ahead of time in so many ways till I can't even count them. We were all kids together running up and down the Strip, Laurel Canyon and Laguna Beach eating acid. Sky Saxton was part of our crowd. Was a wonderful time to be a kid in West Hollywood back then. I feel sorry for those who missed out on those days when metal and psychedelia were in their infancies and real fine nookie was easy to get. Good daze back then.
I was there, what a fantastic gig!!!!
Excellent,saw them at the round house many years ago.
Oooh. I like that. Plus they were on fire for this recording!!!
Live
They did a real good being Blue Cheer. Thank you.
I love how they play some of their new stuff 🙂
I'm strictly Classic rock n roll fan
Quel privilège de les voir, les écouter. Plus qu'un coup de foudre de jeunesse !
The amazing band! The great inspiration for Black Sabbath/metal!
True. What Ozzy said about Blue Cheer.
Awesome Trio !!!
I can't believe these guys are still alive . Whaaaaaahhh Ain't no cure !
Really diggin these guys, they're awesome.
Sometimes one needs this kind of toughness to cope with all the negative people. I saw Blue Cheer Live in Fairmount park Philadelphia in 1970. They're just as hard here in 2008, that was a year of change for me.
The first grunge album. 1968. (I said that and Jack Endino agreed.)
I loved it as a kid in 1974. One of the only good albums at my local library (the other one was "switched on Bach.")
Wendy Carlos (previously Walter Carlos) "Switched-On Bach" is an amazing album!!
Moog Madness!!
Спасибо за всё, Дикки и Blue Cheer!
The old expression that Blue Cheer turned the air into cottage cheese made sense after seeing them in 2008. The air seemed thicker when they were playing.
I think I also read that the music turned the listeners' brains into cottage cheese.
👍 Aerobatics
Hello from Rossia, Novosibirsk
legend of hard rock and thunder riff for heavy metal music \m/!
Heavy metal meets Punk rock meets Grunge. I once knew a Cat in London who was strictly Classic rock n roll but he had a kid brother who was a real Punk kid. I am not a Punk rock fan even though Mick Jones was my Art school friend. But I like Blue Cheer. 😄🌟😎🌎☮️❤️
Has this ever been released on double vinyl? If not, it should be. It sounds like it was played and recorded with a 2-LP release in mind, truth be told -- complete with a little break in the middle of 'Doctor Please' for the sake of flipping over from Side 3 to Side 4. RIP, Paul and Dickie.
Da kommt Leben in meine alten Rockerknochen. Tönt besser als meine TV-Aufzeichnung damals.
¡Carajo! ¿por que hasta hoy 8-12-18 descubro este concierto???
This is the best damn version of this song I've ever heard.
❤️🕊️🙏
Crank it up!
Blue Cheer was the name of a brand of acid....
Blue Cheer and Grateful Dead were the Acid Test.
So was Deep Purple
Owlsley was pure acid, took it the night I saw the cheer, what a great memory
presentes en mis primeros viajes al sol !!
Blue Cheer is one of forefathers of heavy metal.
Thank you.
Excelente recital que bien suenan
Отрыв башки!!! Кайфую от Дикки!!
To the morons that said this was a shitty band, you don't know what your talking about.Blue Cheer was dynamite!RAWWWW sound, way before Grand FUNK,AND DURING WHEN CREAM WAS KING! These no comparison to the experience, different styles entirely great each in their own way.I remember seeing Blue Cheer on American Bandstand doing Summertime Blues.Get 1st album and second,I still own mine they still are great as when I first heard them.Rock On!
Maybe...but at least Mark Farner could sing 🤣
@hurdygurdyguy1 prefer Dickies gravel voice. Couldn't imagine anyone else singing for Blue Cheer. He's king and noone can beat him.
@@hurdygurdyguy1 as if that matters!
The Melvins must have been influenced by these guys Blue Cheer was like grunge 20 years before the Seatle scene hit
'Dickie Peterson' and his "Blue Cheer" are, were, always played in my Home. Check 'Yoder" in the band "KAK," a Blue Cheer Member.
Vincibus Eruptum
This video is later in their career. "They played sporadically until 2009"
--Google Assistant
Same. I own all their music that I know of. 1967 was my first year of seeing them. 73 years old. Rock Festival Roadie 1968 -- 1970. 4 Festivals
West Coast --- East Coast. West Palm Beach, Florida was the last one. Rolling Stones closed that one. The best act I saw was Johnny & Edgar Winters do; "TABACCO ROAD". Janis Joplin, Johnny , and Vanilla Fudge did a set
Blues cheer una verdadera leyenda del rock duro y puro 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🇨🇱😈😈😈
Cool! I got to see them around this time maybe 07 or so good shit👹
Dickie's the only original member left. Back then I was in a band named 'Melvin Wonderful'...I know the sad creepy lonesome feeling of being the only one still standing. I'm still living in the past, it was a better time to be alive.
Acá suenan mas rockeros que psicodélicos ...el grunge de los 60....PAPITOS DEL ROCK!!
Firebird is a similar stoner rock band of Bill Steer
O que eu adoro no som do blue cher eo som alto no talo e muito peso vocal energetico brilhante mesmo.
No offense to the Motorhead fans out there, but Dickie Peterson is pretty much the original Lemmy Kilmeister.. I was a big fan of the Cheer since '68 and Vincebus, I may have liked Outside inside even more... Liked New Improved, the Randy Holden side more than the Bruce Stephens Burns Kellogg side, but It has grown on me over the years... I envy the bloke who saw ' em w. Cream, I saw 'em (Cream the same year, and later saw Blue Cheer, opening for Iron Butterfly, ( all original members) but I was told by Randy Holden that Leigh Stephens had left the band only four days earlier, and he was the new replacement... I was bummed that with four bands on the bill. There were two stages on opposite sides of the coliseum and I was at the wrong end, and had to make my way through a huge crowd with general seating, once Blue Cheer started... I did have my brothers 35 mm. camera and managedto get some good photos of the group backstage, though I couldn't get the flash working for thier set which was oddly poorly lit.. Wish I'd had presence of mind to take pics of Iron butterfly, which was better lit.. also the Byrds and Standells were there...
They were before Triumph,
Mahogany Rush and
Budgie.
But after Hendrix; coincidence?
Blue Cheer also influenced Pentagram. Those guys were Blue Cheer fanatics, and still are! They wanted to pick up where Blue Cheer left off!
That's the truth!! Bobby Liebling all time favorite band after UFO & Wishbone Ash is Blue Cheer!!
Dickie!
Super long live rock n roll super
Wow. I always liked them. But to see this also...
I saw Hendrix five times, including Filmore East 1970. New years show. Machine Gun....
One of the best bass players I played with laid back easy to work with Ruben Trejo San Francisco California USA
Tremendo suena esta banda!
Any chance to find Peace of Mind live, or at least the clip? I already saw it but only psicodelic effects. Doesn't the band playing it...
Muito top sensacional som.
Wow one the first acid rock band s
Oh. I like this band
Note,, guys got snot running out of his nose,, classic blue cheer!! Rock on derelicts!
Coming from a guy that probably can't play a note on any instrument! I'd like to see what's coming out of you when you're 60 something years old touring playing under hot stage lights ! Disrespectful moron ,he died a year later!
@@scottbegonias313 All of your suppositions regarding me are in fact WRONG, and he still had snot running out of his nose while playing, derelict, so you can put your foil hat on and go back to bed ;now.
Gracias
No les dieron la importancia que tenian..pero junto con motorhead.judas priest .gallaguer.zeppelin .hendrix y unos pocos mas ..para mi estan en un pedestal..seran inimitables...muy grandes..bueno...enormes,
Foghat, Humble Pie, Lemmy and a thousand other front men and bands borrowed from these chaps. They sounded this good even way back then.
Man just.... God DAMN MOFOS!!!
Bom de mais 🤘🤘
The great BLUE CHEER. I saw them half a dozen times and got to even go see them rehearse in San Francisco. Dickie was pretty cool and he and the band signed my VINCEBUS ERUPTUM album.
WORST camera work ever.
Motorhead before Motorhead! Metal before metal!
they were considered hard rock
@@mikebockey4125 Lemmy also considered Motorhead a rock band.
Before there was Lemmy---there was Dickie!
КРУТО!🤘
One hit wonders.
If you're the kind of person that worries about hits then you are in the wrong place all together. Wrong genre, wrong everything.
🤣😂 Sure sux when you announce to the world how dumb you are!
Dicky rules
Heavy, man….
The creators of metal.
Some bands can sound rather thin with one guitar 🎸 player... NOT BLUE CHEER!
Top. What kind of cymbals does he use? Anyone knows?
Fuck Yes Blue Cheer x
Anyone know where I can find a guitar tab for parchment farm or any of there songs
You can probably find tablature on Blue chair online somewhere try tablature places that are you know about guitar and guitar only especially San Francisco ksan was the station that played them exclusively they're no longer around but tablets are for blue should not be that hard to find
Is that the three original members from the 60s?
Strat Doom Madness.
His nose running!!!
Yeah coke tends to have that affect😵
Uhh ... He was a human being
Where is it going?
mono?
мы так лабали в 1968 году в 6 классе
Dikie reflash in me