Post by bcfreak on Oct 11, 2006 21:21:30 GMT -5
Here is a bio about Blue Cheer from 1969
"Nobody could accuse Blue Cheer of sneaking into the rock scene quietly in mid-1968. There are only three of them, and they're very young and small, but there are people who still ache from the sheer loudness of those three small boys and there six gigantic Marshall amplifiers (probably the loudest sound in rock history). "They play so hard and so heavy they make cottage cheese out of air," said Gut, the former Hell's Angel who co-manages them. In San Francisco, where they apparently like to be shaken up physically by noise, Blue Cheer is very big. They were less successful on the East Coast, where they were put down for coming on as carbon copies of two other trios Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with out having either band's musical strength. Physical strength is something else. They have twenty-four speakers on those six amps, a guitarist who get through four guitars a month without even trying (more when he's in the mood) and a drummer who wears thick gloves to protect his hand and flies down down his drumsticks for a blunter sound. There version of the old Eddie Cochran song Summertime Blues was a summertime hit. There are people who see in there music, not the joyous versions of San Francisco acid rock , but the horrors of a bad STP trip, and that, they say, is what the sound is all about" - Lillian Roxon, Rock Encyclopedia 1969
"Nobody could accuse Blue Cheer of sneaking into the rock scene quietly in mid-1968. There are only three of them, and they're very young and small, but there are people who still ache from the sheer loudness of those three small boys and there six gigantic Marshall amplifiers (probably the loudest sound in rock history). "They play so hard and so heavy they make cottage cheese out of air," said Gut, the former Hell's Angel who co-manages them. In San Francisco, where they apparently like to be shaken up physically by noise, Blue Cheer is very big. They were less successful on the East Coast, where they were put down for coming on as carbon copies of two other trios Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with out having either band's musical strength. Physical strength is something else. They have twenty-four speakers on those six amps, a guitarist who get through four guitars a month without even trying (more when he's in the mood) and a drummer who wears thick gloves to protect his hand and flies down down his drumsticks for a blunter sound. There version of the old Eddie Cochran song Summertime Blues was a summertime hit. There are people who see in there music, not the joyous versions of San Francisco acid rock , but the horrors of a bad STP trip, and that, they say, is what the sound is all about" - Lillian Roxon, Rock Encyclopedia 1969
