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1 posted on 06/28/2014 5:58:42 PM PDT by virgil283
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To: virgil283

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.


2 posted on 06/28/2014 6:01:47 PM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: virgil283

Both versions are classics...both are part of my music collection.


3 posted on 06/28/2014 6:01:56 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: virgil283

Eddie rules. Blue Cheer was for speedfreaks.


4 posted on 06/28/2014 6:08:40 PM PDT by Argus
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To: virgil283

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.


5 posted on 06/28/2014 6:22:49 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: virgil283

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!


8 posted on 06/28/2014 6:31:05 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: virgil283

A couple of live versions:
Brian Setzer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHfIMZm2uo

and these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea0759BeJ2U


10 posted on 06/28/2014 6:39:26 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: virgil283

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.


11 posted on 06/28/2014 8:19:11 PM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: virgil283

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.


12 posted on 06/28/2014 9:12:07 PM PDT by V K Lee
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To: virgil283

A Japanese band’s version. Live. pretty wild!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOcUNKM2AGA


13 posted on 06/28/2014 9:35:19 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: virgil283

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...


14 posted on 06/28/2014 10:06:20 PM PDT by glock rocks (If you like your health plan, you're a racist !)
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To: virgil283

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


17 posted on 06/29/2014 1:47:23 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: virgil283; Pelham; blam; Travis McGee

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...


18 posted on 06/29/2014 1:54:51 AM PDT by wardaddy (we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
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To: virgil283

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


19 posted on 06/29/2014 2:38:15 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: virgil283

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.


22 posted on 06/29/2014 10:14:26 AM PDT by pallmallman (Q)
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To: virgil283

The drummer looks like cousin itt of the Adam’s family!


23 posted on 06/29/2014 10:21:15 AM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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