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Oh Pleasant Hope

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As I write this, the Amazon sales rank for this album is 94,718! I hope that my single order moves it up ... atleast half way.

"Oh Pleansant Hope" is a terrific memory of a great friend who brought this home from Viet Nam. The cuts are terrific. This album is NOT the overly loud Blue Cheer, rather it is a bit more relaxed. GREAT STUFF! Relax & enjoy the Cheer's finest. It's a "gotta have" for any collector

The overall feel off this LP is much more laid back and interesting then all of the previous releases. Gone is the garage rock sound, replaced with pleasent tones reflecting folk, country, and rock textures. I am one of the few early underground FM dj's currently operating on KDHX-FM 88.1 St. Louis -Time Warp Radio Thursdays 4am-6am CST (streaming at KDHX.ORG). This is a CD that I can play most all of the cuts off of. Great job AKARMA

After the late '60s bombast by Blue Cheer, this jewel of an album appeared in the early '70s, reflecting the ability of musicians far more in command and sure of themself - and willing to experiment and relax a little. Some of the cuts are understandably dated, but overall this is a wonderful album and the sound is not only great but cheerful. Blue Cheer's predecessor, Mint Tattoo, as strange as it was, nicely bookends this terrific effort - get it if you can.

Is Blue cheer yet another rock band from the early 70's that doesn't deserve to be forgotten? YES!

Blue Cheer is more than just your typical hard rock band- they implement blues, country, great guitar playing, and the thing that's especially amazing about this Oh! Pleasant Hope album is their bizarre choice of instruments. One of the track on here is over 5 minutes in length and features sitar and I believe I hear a harp in the background over some tasty blues guitar work. Amazing!

The band also takes a stab at country rock with catchy and successful results. While primarily a hard rock/blues band, I have news for you- "Summertime Blues" stinks compared to this album. Yes that's right, I said it! Nobody else will so I'll make a stand right here, right now. Oh! Pleasant Hope stands alongside the very best early 70's hard rock albums, even the classics such as Deep Purple's In Rock, Black Sabbath's Master of Reality, and Thin Lizzy's debut. Blue Cheer *does* deserve to be remembered. Pick up this album for solid proof.

I stumbled upon Blue Cheer looking up Jimi Hendrix. I downloaded a few songs and was so impressed by what i heard, i bought Vincebus and Outsideinside. It was hard to find much in stores though, but i found this album in a record store and bought it without knowing anything about it. I was dumbfounded when i put it on and didn't recognize the voice on all but the last two songs. I guess Dickie Peterson's voice couldn't take him singing the way he did for all those years. The idea of a mellow Blue Cheer album sounds like a great idea... but what i was listening to wasn't Blue Cheer. The shock and frustration calmed, however, when i flipped to side B and actually started to like what i heard. "OH! Pleasant Hope" and "Ecological Blues" and the two Dickie actually sings on are great (so is "I'm the Light" but i get tired of it sometimes). As for side A... maybe one of these days, but for now it's all about side B.