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All Music Guide - Jack Rabid
If you're old enough, you encountered this band sitting in someone's never-cleaned Mustang, while bong hits were traded in the front; trapped by rain from escaping the fetid reek, but strangely intrigued by the thickest, loudest band you'd ever heard on the 8-track -- Blue Cheer turning Eddie Cochran's Crickets-like 1958 number eight "Summertime Blues" into a bludgeon for a shocking 1968 number 11. (True story.) Even the Who's subsequent Live at Leeds cover was a popgun to Blue Cheer's howitzer! With Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, and prime heirs Black Sabbath, this psychedelic San Francisco trio birthed metal by playing huge blues. 40 years later, bassist singer Dickie ...
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All Music Guide - Jack Rabid
If you're old enough, you encountered this band sitting in someone's never-cleaned Mustang, while bong hits were traded in the front; trapped by rain from escaping the fetid reek, but strangely intrigued by the thickest, loudest band you'd ever heard on the 8-track -- Blue Cheer turning Eddie Cochran's Crickets-like 1958 number eight "Summertime Blues" into a bludgeon for a shocking 1968 number 11. (True story.) Even the Who's subsequent Live at Leeds cover was a popgun to Blue Cheer's howitzer! With Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, and prime heirs Black Sabbath, this psychedelic San Francisco trio birthed metal by playing huge blues. 40 years later, bassist singer Dickie Peterson and drummer Paul Whaley still jam with joined-in-the'80s guitarirst Duck McDonald, making metal as beefy as a brontosaurus. Today's cover is Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign," and that and more are a dust bomb of the dirtiest, rottenest rock this side of slower Motorhead.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 8/21/2007
  • Label: Rainman
  • UPC: 809289070120
  • Catalog Number: 701
  • Sales rank: 102,905

Album Credits

Performance Credits
Blue Cheer Primary Artist
Dickie Peterson Bass, Bass Guitar, Vocals, Group Member
Paul Whaley Drums, Group Member
Joe Hasselvander Drums, Guest Appearance
Michelle Metz Background Vocals
Andrew "Duck" MacDonald Guitar, Vocals
Maria Merriman Background Vocals
Technical Credits
Blue Cheer Audio Production
Albert King Composer
Chris Kozlowski Engineer, Mastering, Audio Production
Greg Lewerke Management
Ron Rainey Management
Ed Spyra Art Direction
Andrew "Duck" MacDonald Audio Production
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