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Post by Festooned Piglips on Oct 9, 2007 21:05:47 GMT -5
What wonderful things have you heard about me? Go on, stroke my enormous ego!!
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Post by ddye on Oct 9, 2007 21:09:18 GMT -5
"Stroke" is not a word I'm terribly fond of when speaking on message boards, especially when followed by the word "enormous"... Doug What wonderful things have you heard about me? Go on, stroke my enormous ego!! |
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Post by Festooned Piglips on Oct 9, 2007 21:13:42 GMT -5
Okay, let me rephrase this...What wonderful things have you heard about me?
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Post by ddye on Oct 9, 2007 21:24:02 GMT -5
Well, I heard that you single-handedly (hey, it fits in with "stroke" and "enormous...) champion Randy Holden here as the single most talented guitar player since the Garden of Eden... That when Randy Holden cries, the Mississippi floods. Randy Holden is not hung like a horse… horses are hung like Randy Holden When Randy Holden sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself playing guitar. Randy Holden has not had to pay taxes ever. Is that accurate? Doug Okay, let me rephrase this...What wonderful things have you heard about me? |
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Post by Festooned Piglips on Oct 9, 2007 21:30:09 GMT -5
Not only are you 100% correct, but that was so damned poetic I got tears in my eyes just readin't it. And what's with all the allusions to stroking and enormous?  Well, I heard that you single-handedly (hey, it fits in with "stroke" and "enormous...) champion Randy Holden here as the single most talented guitar player since the Garden of Eden... That when Randy Holden cries, the Mississippi floods. Randy Holden is not hung like a horse… horses are hung like Randy Holden When Randy Holden sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself playing guitar. Randy Holden has not had to pay taxes ever. Is that accurate? Doug Okay, let me rephrase this...What wonderful things have you heard about me? |
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Post by ddye on Oct 9, 2007 21:59:13 GMT -5
How's the planning stage going for the new website Ddye? I've done the Home page(except for some pics I'm waiting for), the audio from the Media page, and links to this message board and the tour schedule. I'm waiting for a CD of pictures to do the broadband slideshow. Duck tells me he has some really cool stuff. He sent a few concert pictures that are astonishing. Some of you guys may have seen them, but I hadn't. I still have to finish the History page, link to the old site, do a page of BC-related links, and add a contact page. If anyone would like to contribute, I could REALLY use some cool BC related links. Also, I'll try to write a short history, but someone here could probably do a much more thorough job than I. I'd probably have to combine some bios from other sites, but I'll do that if I have to. It's definitely a broadband site at this point, the Home page has an audio loop and two Flash files. I've included 2 samples from What Doesn't Kill You, Bootleg, Japan and Highlights, and Dining With Sharks on the Media page and they're pretty big. I'm still playing around with how to present them, Flash is cool, but the files are large, and the page takes too damn long to load. I may go with MP3, but some browsers don't handle them very well, and I don't want to have to go to a new page for every audio file. Also, I'm going to make the pictures VERY large, for a website. Dialup people will have to be very patient, but these pictures are HUGE, and I want to do them justice. If I get the pictures soon, I might have it done by the weekend, barring any unforseen problems. I really hope you guys like it. Doug |
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Post by gypsyball on Oct 9, 2007 22:46:26 GMT -5
WOW!  Yet another deep, introspective post from everyones favorite thinker, Gyspsball!! I was just asking Ddye a question. And if this post pisses you off then I'm doing my job ;D |
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Post by Terence Belcher on Oct 10, 2007 6:16:38 GMT -5
WOW! Yet another deep, introspective post from everyones favorite thinker, Gyspsball!! I was just asking Ddye a question. And if this post pisses you off then I'm doing my job ;D So, you actually think you're pissing me off by merely posting on a message board? Son, you need to get out a little more. Nothing on any message board has ever pissed me off because...well, because it's just a message board. But, your post is quite revealing. (Thinking) that you're pissing people off on a message board is a lofty goal indeed. What's next for you? Stop buying $1 eighties hair metal LP's at the local flea market? Moving out of your mom's basement? Finally start eating with utensils? I wait with baited breath..... |
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Post by mr maltese on Oct 10, 2007 8:53:51 GMT -5
Doug,
also don't forget, 'New Improved","BC 4","Human Being" and
"Oh Pleasant Hope" those records are an essential part of BC's
history
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Post by ddye on Oct 10, 2007 9:55:52 GMT -5
You're right of course, but those are adquately addressed on the old site, which will remain. Also, I had to use albums (is that term even valid anymore?) that I was sure that Blue Cheer retained the rights to. I will include a discography on the History page though, and a link to the "archives". Doug I've included 2 samples from What Doesn't Kill You, Bootleg, Japan and Highlights, and Dining With Sharks on the Media page and they're pretty big. I'm still playing around with how to present them Doug, also don't forget, 'New Improved","BC 4","Human Being" and "Oh Pleasant Hope" those records are an essential part of BC's history |
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Post by frankenpint on Oct 10, 2007 10:38:01 GMT -5
Yeah, I can really see a past record company suing Blue Cheer for putting up their own music that they recorded despite the fact that the record company won't even release it themselves!
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Post by rowenafaire on Oct 10, 2007 10:53:02 GMT -5
are there tracks from the old albums on the old site? the albums are pictured and detailed but i didn/t know there were any samples...and it would be good if they were available on a blue cheer site not just youtube etc...? the band would know their rights regarding past material and making it undownloadable(?) would not be infringing anything would it?
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Post by rowenafaire on Oct 10, 2007 10:56:57 GMT -5
TB - suitable initials for someone who seems unable to do anything except cough up infectious crap all over everyone in his near vicinity!!
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Post by WholeLottaShakin on Oct 10, 2007 11:43:25 GMT -5
Like these? mention blue cheer, dickie ... lots more out there ... you guys, if the band sanctions this, and it does, get behind it. If the loyality, devotion, heart and love of the people on the this bb could put the band over the top, then they would be there. Obviously, something else is needed to get the word out to a broader world. NOTHING is ever going to stop blue cheer from being blue cheer. Seems to me ddye is doing a stand up job, putting his own time, money, blood sweat and soul into this for the same reason some of you do ... 'cause he's crazy. So, if you got something positive to say, some contribution to make, do it. hollywoodagogo.com/www.stonerrock.com/Andrew Lau Interview, great guy, big fan, dedicated to the truth as it is not as a PR guy thinks it should be www.furious.com/PERFECT/bluecheer2.htmlwww.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/55 - Julian Cope: The only raucous, LOUD and twisted exercise released in-between the advent of Hendrix and the ascension of The Stooges, side one of this wayward, careening and LSD-train wrecked album contains the most out of control power trio-ing EVER: easily dwarfing “Summertime Blues” as disjointed playing, shifting tempos and everything played so loud and so slow it fucking explodes all over the place like lighting a coffee can full of roman candles with a stream of flaming lighter fluid. Which is how I plan to spend every Fourth of July from now on: reveling in the glorious, howling fury that is “Outsideinside”, the second Blue Cheer album. What? I can’t hear you!! I said I just finished listening to “Outsideinside,” the second Blue Cheer album...! Recorded live by Abe “Voco” Kesh with only scant overdubbing of odd piano fills and even more distorto-SG guitar, side one reveals Blue Cheer completely stretch and freak out on an acid-induced power-trip squeezing through unprecedented white-knuckle volume abuse. Paul Whaley’s drums are fed through punishing amounts of phase akin to being locked tripping into an oil drum as it’s being pummeled repeatedly with sledgehammers. “Just A Little Bit,” the first of (unbelievably and unbelievable) THREE singles culled from this demented album, has everything panning at one time or another, as the drums are all whacked retardedly slow over the whole volume/pandemonium as it winds up with whistling feedback that hits cue even as the rest of Leigh Stephens’ over-recorded, over-amped, over-everything guitar channeling and Dickie Peterson’s bass grokk-outs head into hugely echoed drum fills that rocket out from the speakers. “Gypsy Ball” is a slow, plodding mass of wah-wah, smoking amps and more Paul Whaley over-recorded live drums phased into oblivion. “Come And Get It” is where Blue Cheer give it all, merge white light fever with canned heat blind fury into a speeding, burning, go-for-broke, pile driver that is a completely reckless, recorded-in-the-red absolute BLOW OUT. Paul Whaley’s playing faster than he ever did in real life, and Peterson’s bristling vocals and rambunctious bass are full throttle, cranking insanity as Stephen’s guitar barely navigates his mapped-out hairpin turns at top speed. Side two is by far less crazy, all of it burnt out forever on the other side. Two covers -- “Satisfaction” and “The Hunter” -- are run through almost casually, but I wish it were an album-sided version of the instrumental “Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger” instead. But in reality, it’s only a mere 1:58 and hardly enough to redeem the second side. But there’s a headful of graphics to melt all hard feelings towards a waste of a perfectly good album side: the cover. Or, should I say, the covers, because it’s a UNIPAK that folds out two ways into an two-sided “L” with amazing photos of San Francisco’s first power trio in action -- in concert behind a veritable CURTAIN of Marshall stacks, Paul Whaley’s arms caught mid-flail/trip trailing like wings. AND a shot of the extended Blue Cheer family of roughneck dopers superimposed in outer space. AND a solarised colour shot of the trio as painted freaks with scary, hallucinatory faces. AND the front cover sporting a crude and rude Dali-esque by Arab (an associate of Gut’s, the acid biker who designed the cover of the embossed beauty that was Blue Cheer’s debut, “Vincebus Eruptum.”) This would be Blue Cheer’s last album with guitarist Leigh Stephens. Which was rather unfortunate for later Blue Cheer albums lack the ornery, blast out qualities of this death-defying proto-metal blitzkrieg. www.freakemporium.com/site/genres/all/multiple_genres/42/sub/display_frontpage/page.htmlwww.bestprices.com/cgi-bin/vlink/cd_person?id=nsession&p_id=P-----3713Jack Endino Newsletter quoting Dickie: www.endino.com/archive/layne.htmlwww.thothweb.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=printview&t=4242&start=75www.themix.com/performer/3713/blue-cheerbabequ.multiply.com/journalradiofreechicago.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.htmlContinuing the aging rocker theme into Sunday, the Vice people offered up the acid trip that is Blue Cheer, dubbed one of the first bands of heavy metal more than 30 years ago. This 3 piece hippie rock band from San Francisco, pump out a rich sound that caused an orgy last time they played Chicago over 30 years ago. By today's standards of metal, the Blue Cheer sound more like heavier Edgar Winter Group with touches of Hendrix and Old Chicago Blues greats. Lead singer Dickie Peterson, clad in a matted embroidered vest (that was no doubt 40 years old) screamed with his hoarse rocker voice through their bluesy-hippie rock set, bringing a little Woodstock to Intonation. He advocated "Peace and Love" in true hippie style, saying we gotta love each other before getting coherently incoherent. They christened the audience as the fourth member of their band, with their set-closer, a heavy-psych cover of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues", in which they relied on the audience to shout out the refrain, "there ain't no cure for the summertime blues..." (CG) Dickie’s Friend Hank Davidson www.hank-shop.info/index.php?sec=4www.answers.com/topic/good-times-are-so-hard-to-find-the-history-of-blue-cheer?cat=entertainmentblogs.heraldtimesonline.com/jbj/?m=200606For the members of Blue Cheer the sixties have yet to end. Pioneers of heavy metal, they played an underwhelming set of bluesy rock peppered with drug addled ramblings from front man Dickie Peterson. Dickie looks and operates as though he is still dropping acid in Haight Ashbury. Dickie Peterson. Wow. Rockon |
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Post by ddye on Oct 10, 2007 13:15:39 GMT -5
WholeLottaShakin, thank you so much for the links!
BTW, I decided to go with Windows Media Audio for the samples, with an option to go to an identical page with Flash files. The Windows Media files don't load with the page, so the page loads much quicker.
Doug
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Yet another deep, introspective post from everyones favorite thinker, Gyspsball!!