from the Chicago Tribune:


Blue Cheer coming back

By Kevin Williams
Published April 13, 2006

Buttress those eardrums, kids, because Blue Cheer is back. The group is coming to Chicago for the first time since 1971 as part of the Intonation Music Festival.

The high-volume group, which began life as a trio before going through various personnel iterations, is credited with creating what has become heavy metal. Blue Cheer is set to play the fest June 25.

Other acts added to the fest, to be held at Union Park on June 24-25, include The Sword, Rhymefest, ex-Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard and Erase Errata.


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Pretty cool, diverse line-up. I may need to get to this.

i could watch for maybe two songs.


they're kinda silly.

Outsideinside should have been in the top 20 of the 65-74 chart.

Great album. I would even settle for the top 50.

someone YSI a good Blue Cheer song that isn't "Summertime Blues"

This is "Babylon" from "Outsideinside" (1968):

I'm the Light.

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2IWAHYM...F51701WCQPKX7LC

Blue Cheer
Vincebus Eruptum
(Philips 1968)

Named after a particularly potent brand of street acid, Blue Cheer were the 60s progenitors of Heavy Metal. A group that played so hard and loud that, so rumour persists, they inadvertently caused the early demise of a dog which strayed on stage while they were improvising. Vincebus Eruptum, their seminal debut, snarled rabidly in the face of hippy innocence and soon became a Hell's Angels party stomper. 30 years later, the record would inspire a horde of suitably impressed Japanese noise trios to pay mutated homage to the group. Vincebus Eruptum may have failed to impress the Woodstock generation with its full on sonic rock attack and textured silver sleeve, but without its raw power both High Rise and Musica Transonic would have remained mere twinkles in Nanjo Asahito's eye.

They are playing here tonite.

I go see?