Blue Cheer Lp VINCEBUS ERUPTUM" w/shrink contains Summertime Blues

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Blue Cheer Vincebus eruptum" Lp Cover is in Excellent condition and in shrink...Record shows some ligh marks and sleeves VG+..Buyer to pay $4.00 s/h Thanks for looking
Jump to navigationJump to search Vincebus Eruptum Studio album by Blue Cheer Released January 16, 1968 Recorded 1967 Studio Amigo Studios, Hollywood, California Genre

• Heavy metal
• hard rock
• psychedelic rock

Vincebus Eruptum (/v???ke?b?s ??r?pt?m/; pseudo-Latin) is the debut album of American rock band Blue Cheer. Released on January 16, 1968,[1][2] the album features a heavy-thunderous blues sound, which would later be known as heavy metal. It also contains elements of acid rock, grunge,] experimental rock, blues rock, stoner rock,] and garage rock. A commercial and critical success, Vincebus Eruptum peaked at number 11 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and spawned the top-20 hit cover of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues". Being an example of hard rock, it is also lauded as one of the first heavy metal albums.

Background and history[edit]

Blue Cheer's debut album was recorded in 1967 at Amigo Studios in North Hollywood, California.[7] In an interview with StonerRock.com, frontman Dickie Peterson explained that "Some songs I wrote have taken 20 years to really complete. And there are other songs like 'Doctor Please' or 'Out of Focus' that I wrote in ten minutes."[8] On "Doctor Please" in particular, Peterson explained that "when I wrote the song (in 1967), it was a glorification of drugs. I was going through a lot of 'Should I take this drug or should I not take this drug? Blah, blah, blah.' There was a lot of soul searching at the time when I wrote that song, and I actually decided to take it. That’s what that song was about and that’s what I sang it about, sort of a drug anthem for me."[8] On the band's cover of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues", Peterson noted that "We kept changing it around and adding/taking bits away. It also has to do with large doses of LSD."[9]

Legacy[edit]

Blue Cheer's debut album has widely been held in high regard by critics. Writing for music website AllMusic, Mark Deming described Vincebus Eruptum as "a glorious celebration of rock & roll primitivism run through enough Marshall amps to deafen an army", praising the band's "sound and fury" as one of the founding movements of heavy metal.[10] Pitchfork reviewer Alexander Linhardt gave the album nine out of a maximum ten points, noting that the album was less structured than its successor, Outsideinside.[11] It has also been described by Billboard as "the epitome of psychedelic rock".[13]

Online music service Rhapsody included Vincebus Eruptum in its list of the "10 Essential Proto-Metal Albums", suggesting that the band "not only inspired the term 'power trio,' they practically invented heavy metal."[14]

Track listing[edit]

Personnel[edit]

Blue Cheer

• Dickie Peterson – vocals, bass
• Leigh Stephens – guitar
• Paul Whaley – drums

Additional personnel

• Abe "Voco" Kesh – production
• John MacQuarrie – engineering
• John Van Hamersveld – photography

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