I think The New Originals was an early name for Spinal Tap...
And I saw Blue Cheer once (a few years ago). They put on a good show with a contemporary psych band (The Black Angels). Some of the excesses of the debut album were true of all acid rock albums of the late 1960s.
Some of the excesses of [Vincebus Eruptum] were true of all acid rock albums of the late 1960s.
Actually, Vincebus Eruptum kind of made most of those excesses seem tame. Particularly the berserk feedback overdubs in the finale of "Second Time Around." Until bassist Dickie Peterson's death last October, Blue Cheer had been working for a very long time (they first reunited in the early 1980s) with Peterson, original drummer Paul Whaley, and guitarist Andrew (Duck) MacDonald.
Little remembered: After the original trio's second album (Outsideinside, which was still pre-metallic music but nowhere even close to the first album's insane style---unless you've heard their laughing-gas cover of the Rolling Stones's "Satisfaction"), they transformed gradually into an interesting, somewhat experimental band tinkering with straight R and B, raga, folk, and straight-up rock and roll, with little resembling their original pre-metallic squall other than one side of New! Improved! Blue Cheer, their third set.
Ironically, considering the original trio's squall of sound, the first guitarist, Leigh Stephens, left after the second album---depending on whom you believe, he either quit or was fired because he objected to the band's overloaded drinking and drugging in those years.