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| | Vincebus Eruptum | | | Music Artist : | | Blue Cheer | | Music Style : | | Psychedelic Rock | | Record Label : | | Island / Mercury | | Release Date : | | 1993-04-06 | | Store Price : | | $11.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Summertime Blues
2. Rock Me Baby
3. Doctor Please
4. Out of Focus
5. Parchment Farm
6. Second Time Around
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 These Guys And Some Others Is Why I Learned To Play Guitar
Submitted on: 2009-11-04 |
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Blue Cheer ,Jimi Hendrix -That why's I Learned to play guitar! Blue Cheer,Blew me away! If You want yo hear where metal started right here, Vincbus Eruptum
Blue Cheer. Summertime Blues my favorite blue cheer cover! It's raw but come on this was the 60's it,s good for that time, and still good for roots!Amazing part of Metal History! I still Love it! If your looking to be schooled in metal, Good early lession! If you Want to hear an udated version
of blue cheer's cover of summertime blues, get The Beast is Back-Blue Cheer.Dickie Peterson Died-bass player-voc. He will be missed,He was a good menter!-(teacher)! I have, Vincebus Eruptum,Outsidinside,The Beast Is Back,
and Live Bootleg-By Blue Cheer. They are my favorite Metal begining Cds |
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 1st heavy metal album. Influenced by Jimi Hendrix. 75/100
Submitted on: 2009-08-13 |
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Having seen the documentary "Metal: A headbanger's journey" some years back and finding a cover of pop song in the 60s to be my idea of a true heavy metal song, I bought this album (and Vanilla Fudge's debut) on the chance that it did have the song featured in the documentary. Not sure that I have found the song I heard. Should have made a note of the song when I saw the movie! Anyway, since exploring the origins of heavy metal for myself, I suppose that it's easier to convince myself that this was the first heavy metal album. More so than for Led Zeppelin's and Black Sabbath's debut albums. What I found most interesting about this album is how -it seems to me- that Blue Cheer were inspired by Jimi Hendrix's guitar playing. This album is infused with blues based rock of the kind that Hendrix played. The songs on this album are often heavy, with fuzzy guitar, and at times the male lead singer sounds like the male version of Janis Joplin (I don't know which one of those two started performing first though).
Anyway, here are my picks as the best songs on the album, plus the rest:
Second time around - I like the drums in this track, from the cool intro, to the extended solo later on. The riff is really cool too...though it does sound familiar...not sure...maybe Blue Cheer were the first with something like this? Lyrics feature the phrase "You better straighten up child. You better fly right". I know of that phrase from the annoying Stephen Sondheim song (I think) "Straighten up and fly right". Might be an old fashioned common phrase in any case. The end of the song has some distorted guitar sounds. From an Australian perspective, I think that this is the kind of song that a Jet or a Spiderbait could do a good cover of, not that this original is lacking in any way. Be good for someone to put this song out there again.
Out of focus - I liked this song first time around, but more so on a second listen. The lead guitar and bass guitar are funky and nicely play together. The lead guitar also reminds me of Jimi Hendrix. The lyrics seem to deal with a lack of self esteem.
The rest:
Summertime blues - this MIGHT be the song that I heard on that documentary. If it is, then the cd doesn't capture the effect of hearing this in the cinema, which made it seem like a true heavy metal song, way before any band got labelled that as such. Has a fuzzy, throbbing heavy metal guitar sound, influenced by Hendrix' "Foxey lady", I think. Features fills by the drum and bass guitar.
Rock me baby: the lead guitar picks notes here and then the signature blues drum beat and bass guitar note sequence kicks in. Has some gravelly vocals. A cover of a B.B.King song, I think.
Doctor please - has a Hendrix style lead guitar style and it predates Black Sabbath's heavy metal style riffing.
Parchment farm - a cover of a traditional song, this one in particular being a version by Mose Allison. Ity's bassy with a long instrumental bit.
Blue Cheer is a band I never would have heard of unless I had decided to explore heavy metal. At the moment, I'd give them the kudos of bringing out the first album which was heavy metal to any great degree. It's the original compositions on this album which stand out the most...and I actually prefer them to any of the songs on the debuts of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, which are two bands that often get credited with inventing heavy metal. |
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The first HARDCORE BAND, the progenitors of HEAVY METAL, the original NOISE MAKERS
Submitted on: 2009-05-21 |
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| This is the classic BLUE CHEER album that belongs in every collection of HARD ROCK. Though I think their follow up (OUTSIDEINSIDE) is even better (though not as noisy) VINCEBUS ERUPTUM is the record all headbangers should own. Blasting out with their Top 20 hit cover of "Summertime Blues" (#14 March 1968) followed by the slow Blues baste "Rock Me Baby" then the droning buzzing stunning stoner Noise anthem "Doctor Please..." this power trio was "Dazed and Confused" a full year before LED ZEPPELIN adopted BLUE CHEER's formula and then went on to dominate anything we'd now call HEAVY METAL (at least as far as record sales). The second half of VINCEBUS ERUPTUM is for Joe Guts who got thru the first; "Out Of Focus" BLUE CHEER intends their listener to be, then cover and kick "Parchment Farm" (or "Parchman Farm" I think these guys listened to records and then covered them by ear) and just in case you're still standing, BLUE CHEER figured they'd close with and kill ya the "Second Time Around". Bassist vocalist DICKIE PETERSON wrote half, plus the band reworked old Blues tunes and cool covers in a scorchingly loud, pounding, sloppy, feedback-heavy style that was unique in 1968. BLUE CHEER belongs in the Valhalla of greatest Rock Bands, but sadly, these days, warrant nary a mention. |
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Cheer Up!
Submitted on: 2009-04-10 |
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This is the album I put on whenever I need to get in touch with my inner sixteen year old!
And speaking of being 16 and high school and all that, I remember asking some of the kids who had taken Latin (which I didn't get around to 'til college) what "Vincebus Eruptum," and no one could tell me for sure. Turns out it didn't really MEAN anything, I later learned. But it didn't quite mean "nothing" either. Most English speakers recognize the roots of these pseudo words ("vincebus" derived from VINCERE ("to defeat, to win")and "eruptum's" kinda obvious, wouldn't you say?) It was a playful, defiantly pseudo-erudite title.
Some maintain that Blue Cheer's sound was as inauthentic as their Latin, but that's missing the point. It may seem like the band was a poor man's Hendrix without the necessary experience, but that was the beauty part. Hendrix was at least 50% technical wizardry and was capable of being, you know, kinda subtle (not a BAD thing, of course, but not at all PUNK or proto-punk). These guys were. A friend of mine complained once to me that all the songs on VINCEBUS ERUPTUM were in the same key, same tempo, same volume level "Precisely," I responded!
He probably thought I was agreeing with him. |
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One of the best hard rock albums of all time!
Submitted on: 2009-04-05 |
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| When I first heard Blue Cheer's cover of Eddie Cochran's classic "Summertime Blues," on FM radio way back in 1968 I was blown away as you can imagine! It is without a doubt the most awesome version by anybody, although some would argue that The Who's "live" version from "Live At Leeds" is the best, and it is definitely right up there, but I've always liked Blue Cheer's version better than anybody's! Even after 40 + years it still amazes me when I listen to it, and Vincebus Eruptum should be heard and owned by anyone who loves really hard or heavy metal rock, and these guys were THE FIRST band really to be considered heavy metal, well before Sabbath, Zeppelin, Deep Purple etc. You can't go wrong with this, and I agree with other reviewers that they didn't get the recognition they deserved! Many of the members were in various groups before Blue Cheer, and they were: The Other Half, Oxford Circle, Sons Of Adam, and Kak to name a few. All of those are great albums and if you can find the CD's, get them because they're all excellent! Glenn Signal Hill, CA |
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