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Post by featheredfish on Nov 16, 2006 18:44:27 GMT -5
I can`t understand why they aren`t introducing the fans to at least one new song, considering that there is supposed to be a new album recorded and don`t tell me that it is because Paul is unfamiliar with it.
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Post by ddye on Nov 17, 2006 11:10:31 GMT -5
I caught the Satellite Ballroom show, it was GREAT! Dickie was in good voice, and his bass could be FELT as well as heard. My brother, familiar with BC but not a real fan, was totally impressed by Paul Whaley, who also surprised me with a powerful performance and a great drum mix. At the end of the show Paul came to the front of the stage and shook a lot of hands, mine among them. I told him that I was proud of him.
Dickie came out after the show and my brother and I talked with him for about 10 minutes. He was really nice and laid back.
As far as attendance went, the crowd wasn't large, but as the show went on the crowd (many who probably weren't that familiar with BC) got more and more into it. After one song a guy yelled out "These guys are ****ing AWESOME!", and a girl said "You can hear them AND feel them". At one point Dickie was talking about the usual "the audience is the fourth member of the band", and another guy yelled out "So where's MY cut?", which broke Dickie up.
It was a great show, but I wished they'd played some newer stuff. I told Dickie that "Big Noise" was my favorite BC song, and he said that they were just trying to gain familiarity on this tour, and hoped to play more newer stuff the next time around.
AWESOME SHOW!
Doug
P.S. I didn't get to talk with Duck, but I wish I'd had the chance, he was great!
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Post by babylon on Nov 17, 2006 13:35:16 GMT -5
Great review, ddye!
It always amazes me that these guys are able to put out 300% every show.
Nice comment about Paul - I thought he was incredible when they played in Philly last Saturday. Great to see him on top of his game again.
Thanks for getting out and supporting BC live - it's the only way were gonna get some more!
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Post by bcfreak on Nov 18, 2006 9:41:40 GMT -5
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Post by babylon on Nov 19, 2006 11:04:50 GMT -5
Hey BCFREAK - Thanks for the heads-up on the new youtube BC posts.
Pretty distorted sound - but great to see such a recent show - best kinda report I can think of!
Gods of thunder speaking for themselves!! ;D
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Post by bcfreak on Nov 19, 2006 13:20:41 GMT -5
Thanks Babylon, now someone should post the Feathers From Your Tree chip that Scott talked about on his website. Here's a link to a video of Randy Holden doing Space Surf Rider www.youtube.com/watch?v=99feQvjKwm8 |
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Post by babylon on Nov 19, 2006 19:48:11 GMT -5
Very cool - 'Feathers' is one of my all time favorites! BCFreak, it's just great that these guys are out touring and giving the true believers some audio thrills and spills.  Yeah, Scott mentioned a few videos I wish he would provide links too - I've contacted him and emailed back and forth, he plays his cards pretty close to the vest. Hey, Eric - still waiting for some stories about 'Red Weather' sessions and your time in England circa 1969 with Mr. Stehpens. Thanks to everyone who contributes worthwhile stuff to this BC board - we're the chosen few, my friends!! |
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Post by bcfreak on Nov 19, 2006 20:51:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I wish Scott would put some of these videos on his website, and the audio of the interveiw that Steve Allen did with the band.
Eric, what in your mind, was the best gig that Blue Cheer did with Leigh Stephens?
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Post by ericalbronda on Nov 21, 2006 7:16:06 GMT -5
Bc Freak. Interestingly enough the best gig with Leigh was the last one.
We knew we were leaving ,( I left BC at that time to record with Leigh in England), so before the gig we planned a closing which he had never done before
which startled Dickie and Paul. Instead of a long extended feedback session at the conclusion he just ran a decending note barrage and then stop--thats it folks.
Gig was the Sacramento Civic Auditorium.
The best I ever herd them was the first time I herd them as a trio in Novato, California at our rented house in the basement-Janis Joplin, was there , as you probably know she was in love with Paul for awhile ---I was quite altered
and honestly thought it was the end of the World---now hows that for a
review ! Perhaps the world did stop or time to make way for a newly created
form of music after the thick walls of conformity were kicked over and surpassed.
Eric
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Post by bcfreak on Nov 21, 2006 17:32:14 GMT -5
Very interesting, Eric. What were the Red Weather sessions like, and how did it help to co-produce the last 3 Blue Cheer albums when you came back to the states?
Eric, & Eio,or anyone how was around during that time period what was the impact on you, when Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison left this world in such short time span of each other? For those that are too young, to know that must have felt when they died to soon.
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Post by riffraff on Nov 21, 2006 22:32:34 GMT -5
Yeah, and add to it Keith Moon, Keith Relf, John Bonham, Duane Allman, John Cippolina, Brian Jones, Tommy Bolin....probably missing a few.
For some reason, the death of John Bonham was the biggest downer for me. Zeppelin was still at their peak with a follow up to Presence being contemplated. The Experience had already broken up, so with Jimi, i guess it was sad news, but it was inevitable. It seemed like the immortal words of the Who..."hope I die before I get old " was becoming an epitah.
Not being in the music business, it was all hard to comprehend. Now understanding how the system used and burned up musicians it all seems like a meat grinder. In those days America was very conservative....I am sure when some of these musicians died the establishment rested easier....
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Post by riffraff on Nov 21, 2006 23:01:47 GMT -5
Also bcfreak, before we were even out of grade school, we had John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, all assassinated. And they were the greatest leaders of our time. So a number of us do believe the conspiracy theories...
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Post by FeedbackLourde on Nov 21, 2006 23:23:51 GMT -5
Eric,
Going back to the Gary Yoder line-up, I was wondering...when the band played Summertime Blues (as I'm sure they still did), did Ralph Kellogg get a keyboard break along with the guitar, bass, & drums?
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Post by mr maltese on Nov 21, 2006 23:35:40 GMT -5
Also Bon Scott was a great loss to the r'n r world - to me he was the greatest rock 'n roll singer the hard rock era has ever produced,...that man lived the r n'r life,...I'll never forget hearing the announcement on the radio of his death - I was shocked - the next year they got Brian Johnson and went on to become one of the biggest rock bands from 1981 and on..it was like Bon wasn't meant to become a star...he only got recognized after the band made it in the eighties and I'll never forget too when they re-released "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" everyone at the time thought AC/DC got a new singer no one even knew that Bon was their original singer - that really showed me where the people were at
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Post by bcfreak on Nov 22, 2006 20:51:54 GMT -5
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