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BLUE CHEER

DICK PETERSON, PAUL WHALEY, BRUCE STEPHENS,

BURNS KELLOGG, GENE ESTES, RANDY HOLDEN

 San Francisco-based Blue Cheer was what, in the late '60s, they used to call a "power trio": Dickie Peterson (bass, vocals), 

Paul Whaley (drums), and Leigh Stephens (guitar). They played what later was called heavy metal, 

and when they debuted in January 1968 with the album Vincebus Eruptum and a Top 40 cover 

of Eddie Cochran's hit "Summertime Blues," they sounded louder and more extreme than anything 

that had come before them. As it turned out, they were a precursor of much that would come after. 

Unfortunately, Blue Cheer itself didn't get much chance to profit from its prescience. 

Shortly after its breakthrough, the group was wracked by personnel changes. 

Leigh Stephens was replaced by Randy Holden after the release of the second album, 

Outsideinside (August 1968). Holden left during the recording of the third album, 

and Bruce Stephens (vocals, guitar), and Ralph Burns Kellogg (keyboards) 

joined to finish New! Improved! Blue Cheer (March 1969)

 "NEW! IMPROVED! BLUE CHEER"

1969      LP        PHILIPS  RECORDS       STEREO  PHS 600-305

PRINTED IN U.S.A.     ORIGINAL PRESSING 

 THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

 Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  PHILIPS  - BLACK/RAINBOW LABEL w/BLUE LOGO - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: (front & spine) PHS 600-305

Catalog on labels: PHS-600-305 (Side 1 / Side 2)

 Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): PHS600305A-M1  (Etched): II-I

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): PHS600305B-M2  (Etched): II-I

On labels: Produced by: Milan Melvin

On Back Sleeve: All selections Side 1; Gambol Music (ASCAP) 

Except*4, Blue Cheer Music (ASCAP) and *6 Witmark (ASCAP)

All Selections Side 2; Superficial Music (BMI)

Artwork Greg Irons San Francisco

Instruments courtesy of Leo Krebs Music North Hollywood

(Bruce Stephens & Burns Kellogg courtesy of DOT Records)

Recorded at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood

A Product of Mercury Record Productions, Inc.

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side 1: WHEN IT ALL GETS OLD - WEST COAST CHILD OF SUNSHINE

I WANT MY BABY BACK - ACES 'N EIGHTS - AS LONG AS I LIVE

IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH, IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY

Side 2: PEACE OF MIND - FRUIT & ICEBURGS - HONEY BUTTER LOVER

  grading

RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Guitarist Leigh Stephens quit Blue Cheer after touring in support of their second album, Outsideinside, 

but he may have been amused by the fact it took three men to replace him when the band cut their next LP. 

There are two different and distinct bands at work on New! Improved! Blue Cheer; 

on the album's first six tunes the lineup bears little musical resemblance to the wildly over-amped 

power trio that cut Vincebus Eruptum less than two years before. This new edition of Blue Cheer 

was still strongly influenced by the blues, but the raw physical impact of the band had been 

significantly buffered, and Bruce Stephens' rootsy guitar work was in a completely 

different league from the old band's bone-crushing onslaught. 

 On side two, Blue Cheer return to power trio format with Randy Holden (formerly of the Other Half) 

on guitar, and while his style is also considerably different from Leigh Stephens', 

his fondness for overwhelming volume and fierce, extended solos makes 

his contributions feel a lot more like the group's formative work...(AllMusic)