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Friday July 11, 2008

Blue Cheer, Amazing Psychedelic Rock

I was listening to my “Comets on Fire” station on LastFM this morning and, as is often the case with the fantastic LastFM, discovered a band I had not heard of previously and foresee myself getting as weird about as I did over Steve Hillage last spring.

Blue Cheer was “rumored to have been named for a brand of LSD and promoted by renowned LSD chemist and former Grateful Dead patron, Owsley Stanley” and is credited with creating Heavy Metal and Stoner Rock. After hearing a couple tracks of these maniacs I am fucking sold!

Their website seems to indicate they are back together and touring now. I can’t comment on that at all, but who knows I might check them out when they come through Chicago.

Music — Tags: , , , , , — Viking Brian @ 11:02 am


4 Comments »

  1. You hadn’t heard of Blue Cheer? Yes, those guys were good — Vincebus Eruptum is supposedly a masterpiece. I’ve never owned it, somehow. Has this shit been re-released on vinyl?

    Comment by Thomas Shade — Friday July 11, 2008 @ 1:10 pm

  2. i think so, you can buy it new on ebay for like $10 or you can buy an original pressing for like $25.

    Comment by Viking Brian — Saturday July 12, 2008 @ 2:50 pm

  3. My wife’s uncle (an old hippy now almost 60) gave me some Blue Cheer recently (music not the acid)and I was amused and yet pleasantly surprised. I would have to recommend it.

    Comment by gardnerrph — Saturday July 12, 2008 @ 7:45 pm

  4. I owe my Last FM addiction to the VYPH forum

    Comment by squiggy — Sunday July 13, 2008 @ 10:03 pm

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