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[mr snoop]

Found this at www.northstar.com ... the Cheer is there Friday, June 23 ...

Blue Cheer
June 23, 2006
$15

Blue Cheer, named after their friend Owsley Stanley’s special brand of Acid tabs, formed in late 1967. They came from San Francisco. They made raucous, frantic slabs of greasy noise, took trips by the truckload and hung around with Hell’s Angels. They used the basic heavy psychedelic blues format of Hendrix and co, added giant, heavily discordant guitar workouts and a pounding, overdriven bass, then played it all at full blast. Vincebus Eruptum is a 60s Rock Classic. It spawned a Top Ten hit in America (Summertime Blues) and the album itself reached # 10, selling over a million copies in the US alone. Legend has it that whilst recording their second album, "Outsideinside", they were so loud they blew up the studio monitors and the album could only be completed with the band playing outside. They were friends with and played on the same bill as Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin and The Grateul Dead. Bands from Motorhead to Pearl Jam, Nirvana to Chili Peppers, all cite Blue Cheer as an influence.



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[snoop]

i meant northsix

[Will Matson]

Dude, could you play a block of The Boss for us down here at the steel factory?

[bcfreak]

In the Louder Than God LP that I have, in the liner notes, it said that when Blue Cheer recorded Parchment Farm, they blew out 2 of the studio's echo chambers. What I want to know is, how the hell can you blow out an echo chamber?

[dr brown]

You can blow out an echo chamber by either sending too much signal through the speaker in the chamber, which would "blow" it, or if you send too much signal through the speaker and the speaker doesn't blow, you may damage the mic on the other end. Unless they have ribbon mics in the chamber, I'd imagine the speaker would blow first. Still wondering about the veracity of this whole story. I'm hoping to speak with John MacQuarrie soon to see if he remembered this happening. Might have just been something concocted for the press kit.
Eric? Oh wait, he wasn't there...

[ericalbronda]

What did blow in Amigo Studios , Los Angeles, were some of the "Pots" on the mixing board. Also Straight Theater, formally Height theater, opening concert , the PA system, just pushed too far and blew the internal circuits of the power amps- At the time few venues had a sufficient PA system so half the time the voice was not present ------
Recording outside on a pier in New York it did rain on the speakers so a great excuse to tell the accountants we needed all replacement speakers for the Marshall's , so JBL's replaced the stock Marshall speakers . Really they were a bit wet but new speakers made the sound crisper for awhile.
Cheers,
Eric

[mr maltese]

No doubt these guys must have been a force to be reckoned with,...everyone I've spoken to who has seen them back in 1968 said they were the loudest band they've ever seen or heard,...these guys were louder than The Who was back then,...you can hear it from the way they sounded from the few BC live recordings that are out there like The Steve Allen audio and The San Jose Civic Ctr,.....that could be a factor as to why there aren't that many live recordings of them from that time,....it's hard to get good quality boots of Motorhead today and I know how loud those guys played so it was probably even more difficult back then,...but I certainly do hope more live recordings do surface