Now that’s funny. I think I still have one of their albums. I think I have a “Dust” albumn also. How about this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwfW9WwIXLk
heh heh heh.
Both versions are classics...both are part of my music collection.
Eddie rules. Blue Cheer was for speedfreaks.
My brother and I strongly disagreed over this song when it came out in the late fall of 1967. I much preferred Eddie’s version, which I thought was crazy, cool, and the end. It was often played on my favorite radio station, KWIZ. However, he thought the Blue Cheer version, which was played on KRLA, his favorite station, was out of sight.
Just about every rock and roll band covered blues tunes, so it was clever of Blue Cheer to cover a rockabilly classic. Not many did that, but now a number of rockabilly bands have covered old rock and rolls songs. Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2B2A32EBF506636A
Quite a few are pretty good!
A couple of live versions:
Brian Setzer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHfIMZm2uo
and these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea0759BeJ2U
Went to the Fillmore West in the year ....
Ike and Tina Turner were the opening act for Blue Cheer.
Even now I can hear and feel the reverberations.
Eddie Cochran is a long long way from Blue Cheer. He and Gene Vincent are two of the oldies that will always be missed. RIP. Great music of the be bop era.
Watched Blue Cheer sing Summertime Blues here in Salt Lake at the Terrace. They were the warm up band for Three Dog Night. Ah, the sixties...
Here’s RUSH doing a cover of Summertime Blues, Live, 2004. The guy’s voice with Blue Cheer adds a lot to the song though, Geddy sounds like a choirboy in comparison.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSHQumypPCc
Here is RUSH’s entire (short) album “Feedback” where they covered 6 or 7 songs that they loved growing up. Their version of “Crossroads” is really good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxucItPmsZ8
Lmao
I know the band and they done Eddie Cochran good
But when I think BLUE CHEER.....
....it ain’t about the band.
Man......actually my first dose to be honest....a blue chalky capsule given to me by a guy whose brother played for Quicksilver
Ziggy Stardust had just come out...
Nothing is ever quite the same afterwards
I probably warn all my large brood of spawn about LSD more than any intoxicant this side of drunk driving
For good reason....despite the romanticizing.... its so powerful....or was
A dice roll...
They had stacks upon stacks (a wall of them) and were infamous for playing the loudest at the time. They were OK saw them live once....they were psychedelic out of San Fran or thereabouts. They were on many psychedelic posters for concerts. Their big hit was good but the rest.... Each dude had very long hair
I was14 when I first heard Blue Cheer’s version of Summertime Blues...they performed it on the Steve Allen Show (ahhh, remember when tv was all class??)I liked Blue Cheer’s version, which tipped me off to Eddie Cochran’s original,...I love ‘em both!! In fact, thst’s the only kind of Rock n Roll I listen too anymore.
The drummer looks like cousin itt of the Adam’s family!