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Blue Cheer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• ASIN: B00000C3BX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #777,020 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. When It All Gets Old

2. West Coast Child Of Sunshine

3. I Want My Baby Back

4. Aces 'N' Eights

5. As Long As I Live

6. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

7. Peace Of Mind

8. Fruit & Iceburgs

9. Honey Butter Love

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blue Cheer evolves from psychodelic rock to classic rock., October 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: New Improved (Audio CD)

Fans of early Blue Cheer won't want to miss this amazing transformation from loud and raucus rock to fine tuned and tasteful rock and roll. Side two of the album in particular flows through Peace of Mind and Fruit and Icebergs. Peace of Mind is filled with mild and powerful musical statements. Some of the absolute best dual lead guitar solos ever performed will absolutely wreck you. Fine and somewhat eerie harmonies will move you. An emotional masterpiece. Fruit and Icebergs is performed in the best 3 piece rock band tradition. Reminiscent of the glory days of Cream, Leslie West and Mountain and others of that time with the originality you've come to expect from Blue Cheer. Certainly every song on the album is worthy of high mention and praise but if these two songs in particular don't strike you in the rock and roll jugular then your veins are tapped out.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars zen motion dumptruck on fire, April 21, 2001

By 

fred udrah "udrah" (south california) - See all my reviews

This review is from: New Improved (Audio CD)

Reviewer: udrah (see more about me) from south california Side 1: the "stoned acid crazy biker sound " of the first 2 LPS is gone and in its place is some wacky surf psychedelia that occasionally 'works'. BUT the white blues stuff is even less successful....HOWEVER...Side 2 is dominated by guitarist Randy Holden, who offers 3 slow zen metal heavy pieces that growl & grumble like a slow motion dumptruck on fire. Holden creates a unique sound (that he himself ) or other guitarists have not been able to replicate since. 2 stars for side one, but 8 for side 2 ....hence the 5 star rating.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cheers to BLUE CHEER, October 4, 2005

By 

Gregory A. Smerdon "Greg Smerdon" (Bath, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Improved (Audio CD)

I bought NEW!IMPROVED!BLUE CHEER originally on LP in the early '70's because I'd heard the name from others 'in the know' and besides, loved the primary colors and cartoonish graphics, sort of reminding me of those CHEAP THRILLS album graphics. In those days, often you might find one side of an album was your favorite, so my side 2 got worn out (Peace of Mind/Fruit & Icebergs/Honey Butter Lover) while I ignored side 1.

Well, as is often the case, I was wrong about side 1, and it only took me 33 years to realize that fact. Instead of trying to describe the influences I hear, take a listen yourself...you might find BLUE CHEER was actually ahead of so many other later groups that caught on; yepper, they were influencers instead of influencees. Even as members moved on, they hooked up with other 'obscure' names which you will find in any number of retrospectives and liner notes for years to come, appearing with such entities as Norman Mayell, ex-member Sopwith Camel, (who at one time played with Mike Bloomfield in a band called THE GROUP, which included a bass player called Silver Sid, ex-bassist for Roy Rogers, of all people).

BLUE CHEER even had Hank Cicalo as a mixer and engineer (he also did the first post Don Kirschner Monkees album, HEADQUARTERS); on it, Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith scribbled down some control room jibberish lyrics set to a Chuck Berry knock-off progression/melody, and gave Cicalo songwriting credits, of which he purchased a house with his royalties.

My only reservation in listening to this CD, even with 2 great bonus tracks, and Bob Dylan's "It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry", is the fact it does not seem to come up to current digital remastering standards (this copy produced in 1994)...HONEY BUTTER LOVER, a way too short, beautiful end/counterpoint of the heavier songs of "side" 2, for example, is too quiet and unclear in it's equalization; somehow it sounds more muffled than the scratchy sounds of the original abused LP I have stored in my own memory banks...and...what WERE those lyrics?

My recommendation is to buy this album; it is the closest thing you may ever come to in terms of the old 'underground/heavy' groups. Known in it's day as 'the world's loudest band' they were precursors to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and all their generations of progenies and imposters.