Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues (DEMO 1967)
Oldies Songs Before the Volume Was Tamed: Blue Cheer’s 1967 “Summertime Blues” Demo Captures Rock on the Edge of Transformation Long before heavy music found its commercial footing, a raw and unfiltered…
Blue Cheer – Feathers From Your Tree (1968)
Before Metal Had a Name: Blue Cheer’s Sonic Storm Still Feels Dangerous Today In 1968, as psychedelic rock drifted deeper into color and abstraction, a trio from San Francisco chose…
Blue Cheer – In Color 1968 (Unreleased Jam)
Before the Genre Had a Name: Blue Cheer’s Lost 1968 Jam Reveals the Birth of Heavy Sound In the expanding archive of late sixties rock, few discoveries feel as immediate…
Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues (1968)
Volume Became Revolution: Blue Cheer and the Moment Rock Turned Dangerous Again In the late 1960s, as psychedelic music drifted toward abstraction and studio polish, Blue Cheer chose a radically…
Blue Cheer – Out Of Focus
“Out Of Focus”: A Psychedelic Cry for Clarity Amidst the Haze of Disorientation. For those of us who recall the seismic shifts in popular music during the late 1960s, a…