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i've been a fan of blue cheer since the beginning. wore their lp's out and listen to them regularly on cd. i've never had the opportunity to see them live, so bought this cd. it is an excellent live recording with great picture and sound quality. a nice blend of old and new songs. only thing is, dickie has a runny nose, and that's being polite. it's rather distracting, but thankfully he takes care of the matter after the first few songs. there is a great interview and as an extra, does commentary throughout the whole concert which is a great idea. overall, a must own concert cd. it's sad that dickie passed away last year. at least we fans have this show to enjoy.

Absolutely stunning performance! The sound is more like Blue Cheer in concert than the usual compressed audio. Crank it up, the bass completely fills the air in the room you're in, just like they sound live. This is the real thing, and thousands of young bands are going to go to learn a lot when they see this.

The new stuff is great, the old stuff is great. Parchment Farm, Doctor Please and Rollin' Them Bones in particular are as intense as I have ever heard from a live concert video.

An absolutely killer DVD of one of the greatest live bands ever. Great selection of songs. The sound on this dvd is tremendous! There is a great interview with Dickie Peterson, a photo slide show, and a dutch tv segment which is amusing. This is a must have for any Blue Cheer fans and anybody who appreciates the power of a rock trio! A great DVD of a great band! Many thanks for putting this out!!!

time the guys did this. love dickie and paul and now since i met duck , what a performance. blue cheer, phychedelic blues live. rock on and loudly spread a little cheer!

yoda.

WOW! These guys STILL rock like nobody else. Seeing the new DVD made me realize just how much Blue Cheer has totally influenced music, especially Metal. The first power trio of music is still the awesome team I love to rock out to. The only thing better is a LIVE Blue Cheer show. Thank you for finally releasing something new, guys. I LOVE IT!!!

I punched up my PC looking for any kind of DVD on Blue Cheer & I found this on Amazon. It was great to see Blue Cheer perform live & in a recent show. I'd recommend this to anybody who understands or appreciates hard rock, metal, or blues.

Well., I dropped the disk on my DVD player and proceeded to watch Blue Cheer's Rockpalast concert on my large format tv. Somehow, it was not sounding right...did not feel right. The sound mix didn't fit. But that might have been due to my settings. Still, I got through the first five songs and I gotta say, tears welled up inside my eyes. Alas, Dickie was taken too soon. The phone rang and then I was distracted, actually distracted and depressed. So I turned it off and went into a slow slide depression. So I put the sleeve on my desk and there it sat for a couple of weeks. I diverted my attention to the Blue Cheer Tribute cd , which is quite good. And still the Blue Cheer dvd lay where I left it. Collecting a bit of dust, I picked it up and said, now is time to here this concert through. This second time around, though I opted for my portable dvd player and quality headphones. And that was the key. It deafinitely felt more personal that way, as I have met and talked with the Dickie, Paul and Duck. Settling in, I gotta say the sound is superb, the lighting and camera work fantastic. There are a lot of options on this dvd. You can select different sound settings and Dickie's commentary is off by default. It can be turned on as you see fit. So back to the concert.....

Paul has a full drum set for this recording, not the smaller touring kit that most of us witnessed during the American tours. He plays it greatly! Dickie is in fine voice too!. And Duck, what can I say about Duck. His tone is superb, his arrangements clever and never wavering. Full on, he must say, bring it full on!

The set list is a little condensed but includes a good mixture of their classic tunes from Vincebus Eruptum and OutsideInside and new tunes from What Doesn't Kill You...
The set list is :
Babylon
Parchment Farm
I'm Gonna Get to You
Rollin' Dem Bones
Out of Focus
Just a Little Bit
Maladjusted Child
Summertime Blues
Doctor Please
Hunter

Highlights are: a nice jazzy section in Parchment Farm, where in the original was a fade out that led into a drum solo and the version of Doctor Please. This is a long song, and the band performs a killer version of it here. It is real nice they got it committed to dvd so we get to see how the band gets into it. Duck does his thing where he switches from the classic Blue Cheer style to his shredding style of guitar. He meshes them real well, continually weaving around the song's structure. For those still not convinced of Duck's talented guitar work, after they see this, there will be no doubters. Duck is more melodic than Leigh, the element of chaos taken out. Sometimes that element is missed a bit, since Duck keeps thing under control. He does like his feedback parts!. This song builds and builds, unlike a Led Zeppelin tune that will take a break in the middle and juxtapose a cover seemingly unrelated. Doctor Please build up to Paul's drum solo which is masterly after all these years. I'm Gonna Get to You is in the vein of Alice in Chains and Maladjusted Child is just a great tune.
Dickie's storytelling is cut short in the video, but you get a greater sense of that in his interview which is one of the many extras on the dvd. Wish they could have done more with a booklet to accompany the DVD, but so much of this band has gone undocumented, so finally at last we have this. As the liner notes say , this is the only complete concert footage of the legendary band Blue Cheer. I bet now, many wished they had done something the first time around. But I was there like many and we didn't worry about those things. We all thought the good times would never end.
All in all you can't go wrong with this dvd.....it is thunderous!

All the songs both old and new, with top sound quality and commentary, not to be missed for fans and all who like heavy rock from the first few ORIGINATORS OF HEAVY ROCK.

Vorab ein paar Infos. Warum hier ein Review in Deutsch??? Weil es bis jetzt kein deutscher Anbieter geschafft hat sich diese DVD in's Vertriebsprogramm zu holen. Selbst bei Amazon Deutschland sucht man (immer noch) vergebens. Für alle die, die auf ihrer Suche nach der DVD letztendlich hier landen, eine Vorstellung auf deutsch.
Groß vorstellen braucht man diese Band wahrlich nicht mehr. Ich bezeichne sie gerne als die "Ur Heavy Metal Band" Jack Endino bezeichnet sie als DNA für Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple und alle anderen großartigen Hard Rock und Heavy Metal Bands. Das war Ende der 60er Jahre. Im Mai 1968 waren sie mit ihrem Debut (Vincebus Eruptum) zusammen mit Cream (Disraeli Gears), Jimi Hendrix (Are You Experienced) auf den Plätzen 9 / 10 und 11 der Billboard Charts, soll heißen, sie hatten in den Staaten riesigen Erfolg.
Und 40 Jahre später presentieren sie uns ihre erste offizielle DVD. Und sie sind immer noch der Inbegriff der "räudigen" dreckigen Rock'n`Roll Band, die auf der Bühne ein wahres Soundinferno entfacht. Von ihrem Energiepegel her müssten sie eigentlich in einer Liga mit Motörhead spielen. Dass sie diesen Erfolg schon lange nicht mehr haben merkt man ihrer Mucke nicht an. Hier wird keine Musik gespielt, hier wird eine Lebenseinstellung zelebriert. Nachdem man das Konzert schon eine Weile auf Rockpalst TV genießen konnte, haben wir es mit dieser DVD nun auch in einem vernünftigen Sound vorliegen. Dazu kommen einige interessante Extras mit der die DVD aufgewertet wurde. Lediglich einen Part vermisse ich. Eigentlich sollte die DVD noch einen Fanteil erhalten, in dem Bands und Fans Statements zu Blue Cheer abgeben. Der Aufruf dazu erfolgte im letzten Jahr. Leider ist daraus nichts geworden.
Trotzdem ist diese Band und diese DVD ein absolutes Muss für alle Fans die auf wirklich harte ungekünstelte Mucke stehen.
Einen kleinen Kritikpunkt habe ich doch noch. Ich vermisse ihren Übersong "Second Time Around" (die Vorlage für Motörheads "Overkill"), der bei vielen Konzerten auf dieser Tour gespielt wurde.

Rocks EuropeSimply stated, these guys, are KILLER!!! This is the next best thing to actually seeing them live. If you enjoy REAL loud, hard, Blues/Rock, then this is what you need. These guys will amaze you. After more than FORTY YEARS, they nail it!!Do yourself a favor, and BUY THIS DVD.Doctor Please, alone, is worth the price of the DVD, and the interview with Dickie, is priceless.