@@jimmymurphy7789 Hail Saint Lucifer, the Light Bringer
@patricking6512
3 жыл бұрын
I was on Bandstand for this show, and saw these guys perform this song!!!
@edson020877
2 жыл бұрын
One of the first Heavy Metal bands in history
@monkeyliver1986
Жыл бұрын
The greatest metal band in history
@petercena9497
Жыл бұрын
The first in my opinion.
@monkeyliver1986
Жыл бұрын
@@petercena9497 they were the first. You're absolutely right
@occultdestroyer
Жыл бұрын
THE first
@MikeBlitzMag
5 жыл бұрын
RIP drummer Paul Whaley, who passed away on 28 January 2019 at age 73.
@faceman9117
4 жыл бұрын
dude is absolutely amazing on the drums
@ywvypex1434
3 жыл бұрын
That’s not true there are 2 different Paul whaleys bc the one that’s playing in this vid is 15 and his parents didn’t want him to share his name my grandma knows him I know his name but I’m not saying it
@andrewjordan8879
3 жыл бұрын
Yw Vypex wut
@UberLummox
3 жыл бұрын
@@ywvypex1434 George C. Brix I believe. The statute of limitations wore out a long time ago on that one!!!
@hexenzsene2837
3 жыл бұрын
@@ywvypex1434 bullshit
@steveebben2154
4 жыл бұрын
I watched this episode of American Bandstand - it opened my eyes big time - these guys were so loud (all of those old Marshall 100w Super Leads). I bought the 45 and played it everyday (many times a day). These guys helped change rock & roll in America!!!!
@matthatter2849
7 жыл бұрын
January of 1968 saw the release of the debut albums of Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, AND Steppenwolf! Talk about starting the year off right!
@patricialambert3110
5 жыл бұрын
After a year that began with Jimi Hendrix and Cream's debuts, and ended with the Vanilla Fudge's debut in December 1967!
@deansuffka6844
4 жыл бұрын
That " Summer of Love", I was a 19 year old roadie for Blue Cheer & Iron Butterfly(along with a number of other top-hit bands of the time). Then came the draft...
@Kgio-2112
4 жыл бұрын
And the 428 cobrajet!
@u.p.woodtick3296
4 жыл бұрын
MattHatter I was 16 yrs old and bought them all
@sandipbiswas766
4 жыл бұрын
1968 also marked the inception of classic bands, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple
@imjustpassinthru
3 жыл бұрын
Blue Cheer was advertised as being the loudest rock band in existence at that time.
@kelechi_77
11 ай бұрын
Same were The Who
@carymisenar862
10 ай бұрын
I remember that
@happyend1084
9 ай бұрын
les rallizes denudes want to know your location
@TheStampedehero
Ай бұрын
May I mention Deep Purple.
@imjustpassinthru
Ай бұрын
@@TheStampedehero Of course.
@65Wildkat
2 жыл бұрын
One of the most underrated bands in “Heavy Rock”…….in my opinion they are the first Heavy Metal” bands
@trajan6927
16 күн бұрын
What songs do they sing? What album(s) would you recommend?
@rushmore120
4 жыл бұрын
51 years later and this song is still bad ass...
@joellafargue9882
4 жыл бұрын
But this version is just plain bad, quality-wise. I don't like the way they left out lines. No wonder this band didn't last long.
@stevegans3517
Жыл бұрын
This version, yes, but the song is older - it's an Eddie Cochran original from the 50s that also rocks. A comparison of the two shows just how much rock evolved in ten years.
@jamesanderson348
7 ай бұрын
It STILL sounds hot and fresh all these years later. This was heavy metal
@gj5250
3 жыл бұрын
I was fortunate to see Blue Cheer in the early 70's at the Blue Moon tavern in Seattle what a band. They were in my opinion one of great bands to start heavy metal music. I sure wish I would have taken some snap shots.
@chriscampbell9191
2 жыл бұрын
That must have been when Tony Rainier was the guitar player?
@Mr1087shotwell
2 жыл бұрын
Peace of Mind, is really a favorite of mine, it sounds so far ahead of its time, by it's self, it sounds like another band y'know?
@richardhincemon9423
Жыл бұрын
@@chriscampbell9191 l e i g h Stevens guitar player and he was there original guitarist.
@chriscampbell9191
Жыл бұрын
@@richardhincemon9423 Understood, but I think Leigh Stephens quit before the 1970s (1968 or 1969?), when GJ saw them in Seattle. I know that Tony Rainier was in Blue Cheer for a while in the 1970s. That's why I asked GJ if that was the guitarist that he saw.
@richardhincemon9423
Жыл бұрын
@@chriscampbell9191 got you! Leigh Stevens quit during the tour in 1968 and was replaced by Randy Holden on the tour and he recorded the songs piece of mind- fruits and icebergs/honey butter lover on the new! Improved! Blue cheer album in 1969. He quit during the recording of that album so you are correct it probably was Tony Rainier in the 1970s. That's my mistake I didn't understand the question. Cheers
@mountaindawg
10 жыл бұрын
Blue Cheer was WAY ahead of their time!
@andythomas706
6 жыл бұрын
They were retarded!
@lucky-rowe2623
2 жыл бұрын
First Heavy Metal band ever!!!!
@merrilldellas161
5 жыл бұрын
Serious garage band grunge sound! LOVE it!
@recordman64
6 жыл бұрын
One-time Guinness World Record holder for World's Loudest Band.
@if6was929
5 жыл бұрын
and that's something to be proud of?
@ummmummm563
4 жыл бұрын
if6was929 Hahahahahaha
@EMWoodworking
4 жыл бұрын
if6was929 yes
@georgewalls1925
4 жыл бұрын
@@if6was929 yeap!
@jduff59
2 жыл бұрын
Lemme guess who knocked them off the record?
@toddan11
2 жыл бұрын
OMG. The performance is so how I think summer was back in those days, and how I want it to continue like that once in a while. The after performance interview by Dick Clark with the band is so genuine Blue Cheer. And Dick Clark navigated so conservatively interested thru out the interview, yet aloof in a way as well. Love it!
@MrZootalores
3 ай бұрын
yeh that was bonus to see Dick Clark talking with young druggie/biker musicians...almost treating them like they were human-ha ha!
@jduff59
3 жыл бұрын
Dick Clark was so cool here - he actually showed big respect for these guys - even though it had to be a lip-sync. An actual live performance probably would have freaked out the crew!
@chriscampbell9191
2 жыл бұрын
But the drumming looks live, so I wonder how it really sounded to the audience. Lip sync to the record + real drums. I mean, the cymbals are moving... Paul Whaley's really hitting them.
@DoomMetalSludge
2 жыл бұрын
Dick Clark hated Blue Cheer. Shortly before this performance, he happened upon a young Dickie Peterson smoking hash in a dressing room; Clark remarked something along the lines of "you guys are a disgrace to rock and roll!" to which Dickie replied "thanks man!" - Blue Cheer were the red headed step child of the California music scene. They found kindred spirits in the Detroit scene with MC5 and The Stooges who also had their share of haters.
@jduff59
2 жыл бұрын
@@DoomMetalSludge That's funny as hell! I played in a band with Jeff Dahl, directly influenced by those very bands - we played fast and really loud! Great era in music.
@DoomMetalSludge
2 жыл бұрын
@@jduff59 wow, no kidding! Funny you mention Jeff Dahl, I recently came across a photo of him during his short stint with The Mentors, wearing a hood and everything - and he's sporting a Blue Cheer shirt as well!
@jduff59
2 жыл бұрын
@@DoomMetalSludge Jeff turned me on to Blue Cheer. I was in a band when I was 13 that played "High School" by MC5. Jeff started a band called "Powertrip" in 1981 - I played bass on their album - Ed Danky was in Powertrip and played w/the Mentors, too (great guitarist -RIP). I remember El Duce - what a character! We're all dead or seniors now!
@pfordsq
11 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU so much , for including the interview portion. I'd never seen that. Dickie once told me that he and Gut , the band's manager , were smoking a bowl of hash , backstage , at Bandstand . Dick Clark walked in on them , and said "People like you give Rock'n'Roll a bad name !" . They said "Thank you very much !".
@MrZootalores
3 ай бұрын
course they laughed at that(smoking a bowl) but the lads were right; they'd just changed the history of Rock forever
@econoroller
5 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. PAUL WHALEY. A TRUE MONSTER DRUMMER January 14, 1947 - January 28, 2019
@kooljoik2
5 жыл бұрын
I saw them at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit in June of 1968, along with Iggy and the Psychidelic Stooges and the MC5....believe me, those Marshall Stacks were cranked all the way up!
@matthatter2849
Жыл бұрын
Blue Cheer, MC5, AND The Stooges on one bill?! I can't even imagine!
@SL-vi4tk
Ай бұрын
@@matthatter2849 Perfect comment! I couldn't imagine it either.
@sauquoit13456
11 жыл бұрын
On this day in 1968 {February 10th} Blue Cheer performed "Summertime Blues" on the late Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand'... One month later on March 2nd it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #14 and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #3 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart... A favorite of Bruce Springsteen; he has played it in 24 concerts between 1978 and 2012... R.I.P. Mr. Cochran {1938 - 1960} and Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}.
@patricialambert3110
6 жыл бұрын
You gotta love a band who's on a record label that manufactures light bulbs, has an album that is engineered by an off-duty cop, has a manager who is a Hell's Angel, and whose very presence pisses off Dick Clark!
@pigurine
6 жыл бұрын
As a 13 year old kid I would go INSANE to This.
@susanevans9285
Жыл бұрын
All these years later blue cheer still rocks
@tp10488
12 жыл бұрын
Man, this is great. I've followed the Cheer forever and never knew this clip existed. And with original guitarist Leigh Stephens too! Fantastic!
@MrZootalores
3 ай бұрын
Leigh is super! it's his weird feedback guitar sound i dug as a kid, truely pioneers of Rock!
@kenliss
9 жыл бұрын
I grew up in San Francisco high school class of '66. Saw these guys a lot. And everybody else.
@olcheekybastards
4 жыл бұрын
Saw them in 1992 at The Nightbreak Sf ca loud and great!
@jimmymurphy7789
4 жыл бұрын
Lucky !
@johns7272
4 жыл бұрын
Please dont tell me things like this. Cant contain my jealousy!
@wolfgangtrubshaw5549
6 жыл бұрын
5:05 _What makes Blue Cheer different?_ *_… Heavy …_* Little did he know, then …
@marvwatkins7029
3 жыл бұрын
Along with Hendrix and Cream, BC were pioneers in acid rock, heavy metal, and as a power trio. And of course, they would be from SF, " Hashbury", and all that implies. And their hair styles were ahead of their time and considered truly wild in an extreme "hippy" way. Besides the military, some folks still hate that look. That's their problem.
@AttilaGenghisHuyter
Жыл бұрын
Not acid rock. They were the first metal band ever.
@chuckufarlie8215
Жыл бұрын
@Chris Henley Speed, but yeah, it is the same. People don't understand that "genre" is defined after the fact. They saw themselves much different than future people could. Obviously. Why in the fuck would they think they were "metal?" They were, it turns out, but that's definitely not how they saw it.
@stickman1742
2 күн бұрын
Some credit should be given to Page and Beck as they recorded Beck's Bolero in early '66. People often don't think of it as it came out on a later album, but those guys were creating these sounds early on. It can't just be determined by album release dates.
@JK-tl2ob
14 күн бұрын
I was introduced to Blue Cheer in 1991 by a classmate. He was much older non traditional student. He was around 45 & I was 22. He happened to also be legally blind. And played bass guitar. Hearing this song on a sunny Midwest day reminds me of Tim. Miss those days.
@anthonypappas3877
7 жыл бұрын
They said that when Blue Cheer plugged in and turned up the amps, all the lights in Sand Diego would go off. Pretty funny. Very heavy. Loved this version.
@geezer1946
13 жыл бұрын
This does bring back some memories, couldn't get enough of that album definitely a wild performance for it's time. Ah, the good old days.
@nonotc
9 жыл бұрын
for me the first heavy hard rock blues before black sab....
@rugerkidd2076
4 жыл бұрын
LOVE THE HAIR!!!!!!!
@thelert
2 жыл бұрын
Outside Inside was my first intro to Blue Cheer, then came Cream with Disralei Gears. I loved this style of music from then on. Spirit was another band from that era with their Fresh Garbage album, I do miss those days.
@robertswanson5429
6 жыл бұрын
Dickie said that the band was named after the Blue Cheer acid that was going around in San Francisco at the time, because that LSD was a really, really heavy trip.
@matthewtaylor6405
4 жыл бұрын
It was strong even by those standards
@nononsensedragon9438
3 жыл бұрын
Strongest Rush from that first album when you're tripping totally amazing , I'll never forget that heart pounding beat and hypnotic trance like state, with a total body Rush accompanied with a primordial moan....😆😆🤣🤣😂😂.. Etc
@t1r3deye5
3 жыл бұрын
That is exactly the case - one of the stronger, cleaner tabs of acid to be had at the time... kinda made your bones and muscles trade places and the mind leaves the brain ... ;: )
@jackiewizelman4653
2 жыл бұрын
Yes ! It's truth. The bands name came from the Blue Cheer acid around at the time. I'm 70 yrs old. Take m
@jackiewizelman4653
2 жыл бұрын
Yes! It's true. The bands name came from the Blue Cheer acid around at the time. I'm 70 yrs old so take my word on it. The acid then was the best especially LSD sugar cubes!!!
@bealtown
11 жыл бұрын
These guys' records used to scare me when I was a toddler. Their burnt-out, acid+heroin feel was palpably conveyed on their album covers, especially that other one (not Vincebus Eruptum). I love the fog-horn distortion on the guitar.
@crochunter35
2 жыл бұрын
They were speed freaks.
@Mr1087shotwell
2 жыл бұрын
I love that description
@matthatter2849
Жыл бұрын
You're talking about the jacket for "Outsideinside" their second album! Yep there's a long spoon on the back of that cover!
@mamalion123
11 жыл бұрын
One day in Hollywood, I was walking with a friend and suddenly I see this very good looking guy with beautiful long blond hair and walking with a Great Dane dog, I thought Wow!!! We both looked at each other and boom we started a conversation,so that's how it all started we dated and I remember he was so sweet. I was very young about 15. I believe he must of been in his early 20s...He told me he was a drummer for a band called Blue Cheer and I've never heard of them before, so I said "how cool".
@johnjacobs8350
4 жыл бұрын
:p so blue cheer's drummer was a pedophile
@quasimoto5656
4 жыл бұрын
martha bourse ew, why do rockstars always have to be pedos🤮
@mamalion123
4 жыл бұрын
John Jacobs No he wasn’t!! he never raped me or had sex with me, he was sweet and kind, it sure wasn’t a traumatic experience in my youth at the contrary It was a true pleasure to have met such a wonderful and sweet guy and mega respectful with me. So stop being a sick ass by dirtying his memory saying he was a pedophile!!
@philr5497
4 жыл бұрын
@@johnjacobs8350 Assbite!
@oatnoid
4 жыл бұрын
I wish somebody would do a show called "Where Are They Now" But so many don't want to look backwards when they were young and beautiful and the world was laid out before their feet. And now they are old and grey , or dead. I think its wonderful to have good memories like yours. Although it can start you on a path of sadness if you haven't learned how to get off of that path by now.
@matthatter2849
Жыл бұрын
February of 1964, The Beatles appear on Ed Sullivan and then only four years later....THIS appears on American Bandstand. It's just unbelievable.
@BOBBOTO
Ай бұрын
Gosh, such original thinking. 😂
@WarrenPaulHarris
3 жыл бұрын
I saw them several times at the Avalon. And before that when they were still a 5 man band in the Golden Gate panhandle - Free Sunday concerts. They were amazing live. Never adequately recorded.
@horseygurl143
7 жыл бұрын
I have not forgotten the words after all these years! So glad this was posted! Thanks!
@Carryon392
10 жыл бұрын
Lip synching with Marshall stacks. They should have cranked 'em up to watch the blood spurt out of the audience's ears. They would have vaporized Dick Clark's pompadour.
@thamnosma
9 жыл бұрын
No kidding. I have to laugh how much work it was to set up those amps and not even use them. What a joke.
@precisionbrown6829
6 жыл бұрын
Dr. Benton Quest well I knew the Drummer and he never lipsyncs or fakes anything!
@precisionbrown6829
6 жыл бұрын
Stephen Dreher hell yeah baby and my back kills me everyday to remind me. I’d do it again in a heartbeat 💗
@Mike583
6 жыл бұрын
Dr. Benton Quest I was in early teens watching A.B.,didn't know it at time,but all bands lipsynched on the show.
@JRNelsonSr
6 жыл бұрын
For me the dead amps themselves weren't half the joke as much as Clark calling attention to them, like the audience had to be prepared to be knocked unconscious or something. Great band, great days...
@mickeymousebiker1
11 жыл бұрын
For Eddie Cochran. This has always hit me like a squadron of low-flying B-17s. Primal as hell. The percussion is dynamic and precise. The guitar is laced with acidic blues. The bottom is as good as it gets. Now, dig this.
@TheDrummerman1951
11 жыл бұрын
After Leigh Stevens left the band Blue Cheer was never the same.
@Lee---
8 жыл бұрын
Fantastic time capsule. Sheer power--drums and bass pound like a stampeding cavalry--amped up guitars sing like a revving engine. They blast the roof off the auditorium, then politely answer stilted questions from Dick Clark with humility and shyness. 1968--when rock was about making incredible sounds, not about making money.
@funstruck1
5 жыл бұрын
Sponsored by Marshall! 😁
@danielcleveland8879
5 жыл бұрын
One of the LOUDEST things I ever heard was Lee Michaels at the Pasadena Rose Palace. That concert had War, Alice Cooper and Messiah. Lee came out, hit a couple of LOUD cords, went back to his wall of Marshalls, cranked each one,10 or 15 dual cabinets with dedicated heads, then went back into the wing. After a while, he snuck back out to his Hammond, sat down and hit a cord. People who weren't paying attention sat up like they were sitting on a charged cable. The windows in the Palace rattled like they were going to pop their frames. Fuckin' loud, man...
@MrZootalores
3 ай бұрын
@@danielcleveland8879 Lee Michaels was good! i saw him & his drummer Frosty at the Granada theater in Santa Barbara in 1972.wow! they were good
@Johngonefishin
6 жыл бұрын
Saw them in 67' & 68' when they toured up and down the west coast with Dickie driving the old yellow station wagon to gigs, in 67' they were at least a five-piece band with an asian guy on hammond organ, Leigh had a Vox AC-30 with JBLs that would cut thru anything like a razor blade, in 68' they came back as a three-piece (Dickie still driving the station wagon), and had the six Marshall stacks you see here, they played the Crystal ballroom that time and were so loud that the seats we were sitting on were moving, Dickie had installed a vibrato on his Fender jazz bass that had a spoon for a handle and he and Leigh would simultaneously get feedback going from the Marshalls that would shake the building, at the end they leaned their guitars against the Marshalls and walked off letting the feedback howl for five minutes before the roadies came up and shut the amps down.
@69zenos1
5 жыл бұрын
Johngonefishin what does Asian have to with it?
@deansuffka6844
4 жыл бұрын
As a roadie for Iron Butterfly & Blue Cheer, we used that feed-back ending after ripping it off from The Chamber Brothers "Time Has Come Today".
@theelevan2
9 жыл бұрын
Amazing. All of those amps and no mics.
@highline64
8 жыл бұрын
Yea, the 60's lip sync in action!
@davelesney7117
8 жыл бұрын
+theelevan1 bingo !
@Pimp-Master
8 жыл бұрын
+theelevan1 And they got it sounding exactly like the record too. I have new respect for Hippies.
@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm
7 жыл бұрын
theelevan = it`s called a overhead mic = start learning about 60`s recording = you are so fucking DUMB !
@theelevan2
7 жыл бұрын
Happy ugly troll Sunday everyone!
@rafaelallenblock
4 жыл бұрын
When you need sand bags to hold your drums down.
@jackiewizelman4653
2 жыл бұрын
Ginger Baker drummer of Cream use to tape his drum sticks to his hands.
@warehambr
13 жыл бұрын
Thanks for including the intro and interview. This is the only footage I have ever seen with Leigh Stevens. What a treat!
@theelevan2
10 жыл бұрын
I love how they set up all of those speakers and Dickie doesn't even have a microphone in front of him.
@jimmymurphy7789
4 жыл бұрын
NEAL ! Is that YOU ???
@Obeijin
7 жыл бұрын
How can you not love this ?
@robin7771
12 жыл бұрын
Love this. Any early footage with Leigh is greatly appreaciated. Thank you for posting.
@jamesanderson348
7 ай бұрын
I use to watch American Bandstand a lot. I dont know how I missed this one!
@1thepner
Жыл бұрын
Me & a friend, mid-1980s, listened to this a ton while in South Korea with the 2nd Inf Division.
@kevingriffiths4981
2 жыл бұрын
Blue Cheer forever....!!!!!!!
@neptunebob
11 жыл бұрын
Paul (drums) went to my high school and played in the band that rehearsed down the street from mine. Nice to see him again, looking just like he did back then! (Hair longer than the high school would have allowed, though!)
@janewhite4486
9 жыл бұрын
This clip is a lot better than I remembered it being! Leigh Stephens on guitar ! Howard white: 2-18-2015
@mackingtheknifeful
13 жыл бұрын
This is so good!!!! Definitely one of Greatest Posts!!!!
@pigurine
6 жыл бұрын
My hair was like the Lead singer. Now I Don't have any.
@t4texastomjohnnycat978
6 жыл бұрын
pigurine 😂
@jayro3931
5 жыл бұрын
Me too
@quentinkirk3870
4 жыл бұрын
Damn, I'm 55 And I'm Growing Dreds, Sorry
@jerryumfress9030
4 жыл бұрын
Same here bro
@Kgio-2112
4 жыл бұрын
You have the wave haircut.... Wave it goodbye... woohooo . Just kiddin
@amanblackhearth5766
10 жыл бұрын
that drummer was killing it!!!
@alexfletcher5192
3 жыл бұрын
Once described by Lemmy of Motorhead as 'Really fucking loud!' - and given the white noise they used to put out, that seems like a hefty compliment.
@MrRocknrolldad
11 жыл бұрын
Dick Clark rules...He influenced so much and was so open to different styles and was fair to all. Love ya Dick.
@karlfisher1864
6 жыл бұрын
These guys were different! They never made it in the mainstream, but they were kind of cool in a funky kind of way.
@gms9655
Жыл бұрын
Their first two albums were ground breaking. Heavy psych rockers with guts and feel. They added a keyboardist after and kinda lost their edge. I Wish they stayed as a power trio. Who knows what they may have achieved. Same goes for GFR.
@stickman1742
2 күн бұрын
@@gms9655 Strange that they moved away from this sound just as it was starting to take off. Mistake business-wise.
@oatnoid
7 жыл бұрын
This band played at my High School cafeteria on a Saturday night dance. We were stunned. They were pissed at their manager getting them a gig at a high school dance. They looked just like that with a wall of Marshalls. The singer kept yelling "Can you hear me?" We were too blown away to respond. Can't blame him. He thought he wasn't reaching us. He couldn't have been more wrong. They were heavy metal before metal was heavy.
@jonmacdonald5345
6 жыл бұрын
John Connor Was that before or after Skynet???
@Kgio-2112
6 жыл бұрын
Jon MacDonald holy, that was epic!
@philr5497
4 жыл бұрын
I saw them at a HS dance too in '70.
@oatnoid
4 жыл бұрын
After, I think. I could be mistaken. My timeline keeps getting reset. Shit I thought happened never happened And then it did. Its very confusing. Might have been the orange sunshine.
@JohnnyNation
Жыл бұрын
Steve Allen introduced them on his show with "Run for your Lives/ it's Blue Cheer" !!!###
@dennycrane6159
4 жыл бұрын
HAD THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN CONNECTICUT IN MY CAR PASSENGER, MARCH 1968.. UNKNOWN TO ME AT THE TIME, THIS SONG WAS IN TOP 10.
@22bluesrocker
9 жыл бұрын
Dickie told me they were high on Hash, thats why he said Kasmer. Clark bust'd them in the dressing room doin' a bowl. Said, and I quote: "Its people like you that give Rock'n''Roll a bad name". Dickies response was,"'Why thank you very much". I was his guitar player from ' 72 to ' 74 in a band called Peterbuilt with his brother Jerri.
@Enevan1968
6 жыл бұрын
Dickie was the nicest man I ever met!
@billbrooks6756
6 жыл бұрын
Enevan1968 I second that met him twice in once in nyc with blue cheer at cbgb’s and 2007 Monterey pop festival the coolest guy RIP
@frankwaters8177
6 жыл бұрын
I remember Peterbilt. And I once saw a version of Blue Cheer in Nicasio, Dickie was there, but I'm not sure about the other guys.
@22mikelwho
5 жыл бұрын
..haha, i could see that
@jamesgretsch4894
5 жыл бұрын
Troy Spence Jr. yeah because Dick Clark’s version of Rock was Bill Haley and His Comets, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran and the list goes on, not these pot smoking hippies.
@Eagles.Fan.Since.Super.Bowl.52
8 жыл бұрын
There's that word again, heavy! -Doc Brown
@jamesbush4895
6 жыл бұрын
Is there something wrong with the Earth's gravitational pull?
@charlesbarber6137
9 күн бұрын
Vincebus Eruptum - the perfect album. Blew my mind at age 12 and still does. Live Dead (Grateful Dead), Disraei Gears (Cream), Are You experienced? (Jimi Hendrix) and People are Strange (The Doors) would round out the top 5 albums that introduced me to rock and roll that year. It is funny to think that about that kind of music is what kids 12 year old (me, at least) were listening to at the time. Oh, and I saw The Who live the following year, pretty much ripped my head off too 🙂 Still listening; thanks KZitem.
@54markl
9 жыл бұрын
In those days, a group HAD to produce peculiar sounds that no one had ever heard before or you just didn't make it. These days it's just the opposite. Pff! I loved this song so much. I was so disappointed with the early Seventies.
@slant40
10 жыл бұрын
The warning shot across the bow of American musical consciousness.
@andythomas706
6 жыл бұрын
slant40: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! You've got to be kidding!!! This is some dismal old tosh!
@Knaeben
5 жыл бұрын
About how to play with no harmony
@billdaniels-vl6et
Жыл бұрын
Well yes Blue Cheer was the support band of the San Fransisco HAs back in the day even played with Big Brother and the Holding company that had Janis Joplin on vocals 1967.
@musicisbrilliant
6 жыл бұрын
Wow. NO WORDS needed for these guys. They dont TALK, they ROCK. This is the first time Ive ever heard Dickie Peterson actually speak. Ive been listening to his legendary singing voice for years. PS. Everyone PLEASE stop saying they invented heavy metal. They were way better than that.
@pashow6486
6 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, they didn't invent heavy metal (not that there'd be anything wrong with that, metal is great)
@BlutoniusRex
13 жыл бұрын
Just to show what an old fart I am, I saw this show when it aired in '68. It stuck with me over the years because 1) I really liked Blue Cheer and 2) Dick Clark going on about the "Wall of Sound". What a treat to see this after all those years. Thanks for posting.
@dbbubba1
9 жыл бұрын
They are just dudes like all of the metal heads I have known and recorded over the years. My friend saw them at a college in the Bay Area. He said it was amazingly loud.
@mamalion123
11 жыл бұрын
This is the second part of my story......So in that time in the late 60's there were so many garage bands (jamming in our parents garage) My brother was one of them and I asked him have you heard of a band called Blue Cheer and he said yes of course he said they were a very heavy band, I told him I was dating the drummer.He was like wow how cool! but that I was too young and that our parents would probably freak out and not approve and blablabla so I decided to end it..Yes I dated Paul Whaley.
@dixondiaz8448
3 жыл бұрын
Did you beat him off? Hahahaha
@davidwright5379
Жыл бұрын
Dickie Peterson was a very nice guy generous musician left us way too early!
@BLOEDVLEK
7 жыл бұрын
Best version of this song! i can't even listen to anyone else play it!
@stringtherapy7577
6 жыл бұрын
In the 60's I saw BC with Cream...what a concert that was...my ears are still ringing
@MARCELO-gn3ix
5 жыл бұрын
REALMENTE TENHO 52 ANOS E É VERDADE NO COMEÇO DOS ANOS 70 ERA SIM CONSIDERADO O QUE HJ CHAMAMOS DE "HEAVY METAL". MARAVILHOSO.
@kwagmyrefrontman
11 жыл бұрын
My Mom was channel surfing on one Saturday afternoon and came acrossed this; I said stop! stop! go back!!! THIS is what I saw!!
@caltagerone77
10 жыл бұрын
This is great, this guys look like they might have traveled back in time. They look so out of place among that audience. Why aren't there any other videos of guys around? This is some of the most authentic music I've ever heard. They rock!!!
@heynow4512
7 жыл бұрын
caltagerone77
@tinicum54
6 жыл бұрын
1st band to name themselves as the Best LSD ever. Augustus Owsley Stanley. Prolific LSD producer and supplier to the bands and stars of 1960s counterculture. ... Augustus Owsley Stanley III - and ..... called Blue Cheer and helped publicize them by putting out a line of blue-tinted LSD.
@steven1822
3 жыл бұрын
powerful words. bravo.
@srhcb1
8 жыл бұрын
That called BEATIN them drums!
@ChucksterOLove
6 жыл бұрын
HEAVY... Give it up for Dick Clark, he was always a musical pioneer. He had tons of heavy metal acts on AB when I was growing up.
If they would have played live, none of that audience would ever be able to hear again. That amount of amperage turned up in that small of a room would've been dangerous.
@danielcleveland8879
5 жыл бұрын
It would have been like hearing Mountain and/or West, Bruce and Laing at the Hollywood Palladium. The place was built for sound, but it was/is small. By that time i had learned to bring cotton balls to the show. Saved my ears.
@philr5497
4 жыл бұрын
@@danielcleveland8879 Mahavishnu at the Whiskey !
@user-lb8do4ew6k
4 жыл бұрын
FWIW I know a guy who saw motorhead at cbgb's & they were so loud he got a nosebleed. No joke
@rustycalvera977
6 жыл бұрын
best version these soulful ears ever heard
@crochunter35
2 жыл бұрын
It's the album cut. The band is obviously lip-syncing.
@MrMalibu30
6 жыл бұрын
I was up front watching them at Whiskey A go-go in `68....which is why, I am 1/2 deaf today..
@irisheyzgrl24murphy92
5 жыл бұрын
I seen this that day and was blown away by Blue cheer ..great !
@frankmikos2056
3 жыл бұрын
My favorite band of all time seen them live loudest band I ever heard ass kickin
@Amhlair
7 жыл бұрын
You just watched the birth of heavy metal.
@harkrum
7 жыл бұрын
Right....I and friends were learning guitar around this time an this stuff was the Best!!...only problem, it was on AM radio, and not played often enough...
@Journeyman107
7 жыл бұрын
Amhlair if Black Sabbath was the Big Bang that created the sound and aesthetic of metal in one fell swoop, this was certainly a foretelling tremor
@austinreynolds5457
7 жыл бұрын
cream was a great influence on heavy metal too. but yeah man i agree this stuff is bad ass🖒🖒✌
@TheBennychin
7 жыл бұрын
This is Psychedelic Rock.
@bflo1000
7 жыл бұрын
Or..................Acid Rock.
@angelawatkins6077
12 жыл бұрын
I really loved this song, thought it waz so kewl!!! :o)
@francestomic2772
Ай бұрын
Loved them soooo much h. I still have the album
@RogerSteinbrinkh2oBrother
9 жыл бұрын
They blew everyone's mind, Ha!
@febriantorian5132
2 жыл бұрын
Heavy metal 60s 🤘
@puppycat58
Жыл бұрын
Wow, I remember this song 🎵 I was 10 when it came out. I remember it being so loud and different from what I was used to listening too. I really liked it.
@lucasdeoliveira1821
2 жыл бұрын
They really were the sh*t! Can't get enough of Blue Cheer! Greetings from Brazil s2
@robertstalvey7509
8 жыл бұрын
What floors me the most is how much time the cameraman focuses on guitarist Leigh Stephens and drummer Paul Whaley. Usually AB focused more on the vocalist with the other members less. Maybe with Dickie Peterson's face obscured with his hair had something to do with it! Great seeing and hearing original lead guitarist Leigh Stephens.Thanks, Cactus for posting this
@JugaJuga14
8 жыл бұрын
I have a feeling that they just assumed the guitarist was the singer, as was the usual at the time. Bugged me a little how little footage was of Dickey, but they got there in the end.
@MrZootalores
3 ай бұрын
i was thrilled to see so much camera footage of Leigh! he was a favorite guitarist of mine so it's a blessing to see how he works. it was a "lip synched" performance but i can see his hands & fingers are doing what they always do
@jamesherman2596
7 жыл бұрын
It's Funny How He Said We Would Be Hearing A Lot From Them. Almost A One Hit Wonder!
@JohnAlcala-SonorDrummer
Ай бұрын
Came out 1 year after I was born! If only I was born 10 years sooner.
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