Oldies: Songs from the 1960's

MVW---I can't help myself. Forgive me!

 

lol cute story, yep many kids tried it
it was nevva gonna work

 

blasting music = educating the people

 

That was the first track on the album, and (in case no one knows) they were the first ones to cover it and make it a rock song (it was written and sung by a country western singer some years before). But their version was a little too harsh for the radio so, while it was popular, it didn't get a lot of air play until The Who covered it.

They were one of the first Acid Rock bands and are therefore considered by many to be the true father of Heavy Metal. They were one of the first bands to be banned by numerous recording studios because they played so loud they damaged equipment. Today I have several of their first albums on CD, and the History of Blue Cheer CD, which is a great compilation.

Here is something from their 3rd album (or was this their 2nd? I forget). I think the guitar solo that starts at 1:55 was one of the greater guitar solos of acid rock:

 

I even wrote a screenplay for an antiwar movie about a young kid that is drafted, sent to Vietnam, and is killed---not like his buddies on the battlefield, but by the jealous boyfriend of a bar girl he became infatuated with, even though the only affection she returns for his attention is nothing more than doing her job, and cultivating gifts and money from him and other customers that she likewise garnered the attention of. It ends with his body stuffed into a grimy dirty dumpster behind the bar. The entire soundtrack is nothing but Blue Cheer songs from the first several albums.

 

Sorry to make the thread a little acid heavy-----but I just happened to find this video which has the lyrics----including one of my favorite lyric phrases of the band----"I see a reflection of violence, in the ocean of life that exists."

This song was of course part of the screenplay I mentioned above. This song actually inspired the screenplay.