Blue Cheer (album)
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Blue Cheer is the fourth album by Blue Cheer
, released in 1969 on Philips Records
. Gary Lee Yoder
contributed songwriting for the opening and closing tracks and would later join the group as guitarist on their next album The Original Human Being
(1970).
The album is the first Blue Cheer release as a four piece band, as they had always been a power trio
prior.
Blue Cheer
Blue Cheer was an American psychedelic blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009...
, released in 1969 on Philips Records
Philips Records
Philips Records is a record label that was founded by Dutch electronics company Philips. It was started by "Philips Phonographische Industrie" in 1950. Recordings were made with popular artists of various nationalities and also with classical artists from Germany, France and Holland. Philips also...
. Gary Lee Yoder
Gary Lee Yoder
Gary Lee Yoder is a musician who was part of several 1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock bands, including Kak, Oxford Circle, and Blue Cheer.Oxford Circle and Kak were both formed in Yoder's hometown of Davis, California, and featured the same nucleus of members...
contributed songwriting for the opening and closing tracks and would later join the group as guitarist on their next album The Original Human Being
The Original Human Being
The Original Human Being is Blue Cheer's fifth album. It was released in 1970 and shows Blue Cheer exploring a more psychedelic and laid‑back rock 'n' roll with horn sections on a few of the songs. This album features a very unusual, and different, song for Blue Cheer: "Babaji ", which...
(1970).
The album is the first Blue Cheer release as a four piece band, as they had always been a power trio
Power trio
A power trio is a rock and roll band format where the traditional power trio has a lineup of guitar, bass and drums, leaving out the rhythm guitar or keyboard that are used in other rock music to fill out the sound with chords...
prior.
Side one
- "Fool" (Grelecki, Gary Lee YoderGary Lee YoderGary Lee Yoder is a musician who was part of several 1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock bands, including Kak, Oxford Circle, and Blue Cheer.Oxford Circle and Kak were both formed in Yoder's hometown of Davis, California, and featured the same nucleus of members...
) – 3:26 - "You're Gonna Need Someone" (Mayell, Stephens) – 3:31
- "Hello LA, Bye Bye Birmingham" (Delaney BramlettDelaney BramlettDelaney Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and notoriety in partnership with his then wife Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and Rock superstars dubbed Delaney...
, Mac DavisMac DavisMac Davis is a country music singer, songwriter, and actor originally from Lubbock, Texas who has enjoyed much crossover success...
) – 3:29 - "Saturday Freedom" (Stephens) – 5:47
- "Ain't That the Way (Love's Supposed to Be)" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 3:11
Side two
- "Rock and Roll Queens" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 2:44
- "Better When We Try" (Kellogg) – 2:48
- "Natural Man" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 3:36
- "Lovin' You's Easy" (Stephens) – 3:50
- "The Same Old Story" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 3:53
Personnel
- Bruce Stephens – guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, lead & backing vocals - Dickie Peterson – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, lead vocals - Ralph Burns Kellogg – keyboards
- Norman Mayell – drumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s - Eric Albronda – producer, backing vocals