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BLUE CHEER

DICKIE PETERSON, BRUCE STEPHENS, NORMAN MAYELL, RALPH BURNS KELLOGG, plus GARY YODER

One of the earliest power trios, and proto-metal pioneers for their uncompromisingly loud vision of acid rock

"BLUE CHEER"

1970    LP    PHILIPS RECORDS    STEREO   PHS 600-333

PRINTED IN USA    ORIGINAL PRESSING

SINGLE SLEEVE

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: PHILIPS -  BLACK LABEL w/RAINBOW STRIPE & BLUE LOGO - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: (front) PHS 600-333   (rear) PHS-600-333

Catalog on labels: PHS-600-333

 Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): PHS600333A-M2  (Etched): -II-IIII  MR

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): PHS600333B-M1  (Etched): -II-III  MR

On labels: Produced by Michael Sunday with the assistance of Eric Albronda

Arranged by Blue Cheer

*Indicates Dickie Peterson as lead vocal

./.Indicates Bruce Stephens as lead vocal

On back cover: Tracklist & Credits

Produced by Michael Sunday....

Recorded and mixed at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco

tracklisting

Side A: FOOL - YOU'RE GONNA NEED SOMEONE -HELLO L.A., BYE BYE BIRMINGHAM

SATURDAY FREEDOM - AIN'T THAT THE WAY (LOVE'S SUPPOSED TO BE)

Side B: ROCK AND ROLL QUEENS - BETTER WHEN WE TRY

NATURAL MAN - LOVIN' YOU'S EASY - THE SAME OLD STORY

grading

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

After working with two monstrously loud guitar heroes, Leigh Stephens and Randy Holden, Blue Cheer wanted to pursue a more subtle musical direction, and on their fourth album, simply titled Blue Cheer, they followed the path of the first half of 1969's New! Improved! Blue Cheer, featuring guitarist Bruce Stephens and keyboard man Ralph Burns Kellogg, instead of the power trio format they pioneered on their first two albums and the second half of New! Improved! with Holden. Drummer Paul Whaley had also dropped out of the band by album number four, with Norman Mayell taking over the traps and leaving bassist and singer Dickie Peterson as the only original member of Blue Cheer, all within two years of the release of Vincebus Eruptum. Given all these changes, it's no wonder Blue Cheer sounds so much different than they did on the band's first two LP's, but so long as you're not expecting the monolithic power of their earliest stuff, it's a fun album that generates an impressive groove. Blue Cheer's music was always rooted in the blues, but here the approach is less mutated and more organic, with a touch of boogie in the rhythms and enough swagger to keep this from sounding like country-rock, even if the tone is more rootsy and significantly less punishing...(AllMusic)