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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2009
This is the classic BLUE CHEER album that belongs in every collection of HARD ROCK. Though I think their follow up (OUTSIDEINSIDE) is even better (though not as noisy) VINCEBUS ERUPTUM is the record all headbangers should own. Blasting out with their Top 20 hit cover of "Summertime Blues" (#14 March 1968) followed by the slow Blues baste "Rock Me Baby" then the droning buzzing stunning stoner Noise anthem "Doctor Please..." this power trio was "Dazed and Confused" a full year before LED ZEPPELIN adopted BLUE CHEER's formula and then went on to dominate anything we'd now call HEAVY METAL (at least as far as record sales). The second half of VINCEBUS ERUPTUM is for Joe Guts who got thru the first; "Out Of Focus" BLUE CHEER intends their listener to be, then cover and kick "Parchment Farm" (or "Parchman Farm" I think these guys listened to records and then covered them by ear) and just in case you're still standing, BLUE CHEER figured they'd close with and kill ya the "Second Time Around". Bassist vocalist DICKIE PETERSON wrote half, plus the band reworked old Blues tunes and cool covers in a scorchingly loud, pounding, sloppy, feedback-heavy style that was unique in 1968. BLUE CHEER belongs in the Valhalla of greatest Rock Bands, but sadly, these days, warrant nary a mention.
