The Original Human Being (or BC#5) is Blue Cheer

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...

's fifth album. It was released in 1970 and shows Blue Cheer exploring a more psychedelic and laid‑back rock 'n' roll

Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

 with horn sections on a few of the songs. This album features a very unusual, and different, song for Blue Cheer: "Babaji (Twilight Raga)", which features extensive use of sitar

Sitar

The 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...

 and synthesizer

Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

. These instruments were only used one other time in the song "I'm the Light" on the album Oh! Pleasant Hope

Oh! Pleasant Hope

Oh! Pleasant Hope is the sixth, and last, album by Blue Cheer until 1983's The Beast Is Back. This album features less psychedelia and includes more blues-rock, hard rock, with some country rock leanings on some songs. This is an unusual Blue Cheer album in that Dickie Peterson only sings lead on...

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Side one

1. "Good Times Are So Hard to Find" – 3:22
2. "Love of a Woman" – 4:35
3. "Make Me Laugh" – 5:06
4. "Pilot" – 4:49
5. "Babaji (Twilight Raga)" – 3:46 (Instrumental)

Side two

1. "Preacher" – 4:01
2. "Black Sun" – 3:31
3. "Tears in My Bed" – 2:06
4. "Man on the Run" – 3:58
5. "Sandwich" – 5:01
6. "Rest at Ease" – 5:35

Personnel

• Dickie Peterson – bass, guitar, lead vocals (on tracks 2, 3, 9)
• Bruce Stephens – lead guitar
• Paul Whaley
  Paul Whaley
  Paul Whaley is an American drummer best known as the drummer for rock band Blue Cheer. He and Dickie Peterson were the only two founding members still in the band when it broke up in late 2009, following Peterson's death at age 63....
  
  – drums
• 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...
  
   – guitar, harmonica, vocals, harp, lead vocals (on tracks 1, 4–8, 10–11)
• Ralph Burns Kellogg
  Ethan James (producer)
  Ethan James was a musician, record producer, and recording engineer best known for his work on the Minutemen's seminal album Double Nickels on the Dime. He also produced and engineered albums for such acts as Black Flag, The Bangles, Rain Parade, Dos, and many others...
  
   – organ, piano, synthesizer, bass
• Norman Mayell – guitar, percussion, sitar, producer, drums