BLUE CHEER Outsideinside LP PHILIPS 1968 UK orig+foc RANDY HOLDEN-OTHER HALF
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BLUE CHEER
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)
"OUTSIDEINSIDE"
1968 LP PHILIPS RECORDS STEREO SBL 7860
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING
FULLY LAMINATED (on outside) GATEFOLD COVER (UNIPAK STYLE)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: PHILIPS - BLACK LABEL w/SILVER LOGO - SILVER TEXT
Catalog on cover: (rear) SBL 7860 (852 120 BY)
Catalog on labels: [SBL.7860 (852 120 BY) 852 120 1Y] / [SBL.7860 (852 120 BY) 852 120 2Y]
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 852120 1Y ?1 420
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 852120 2Y ?1 420
On labels: ? 1968
Arranged by Blue CheerProduced by Abe (Voco) Kesh
rim text reads "All Rights......Prohibited"
Rights Society / Publishing: Blue Cheer Music USA, Mirage Music, Tee Pee Music
On Inside Sleeve (Right Panel): Outside sessions recorded at: Gate Five, Sausalito, Calif.....
Inside sessions recorded at: A&R Studios, N.Y..C.
Black & white photo: Jim Marshall
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side 1: FEATHERS FROM YOUR TREE - CUN CYCLE
JUST A LITTLE BIT - GYPSY BALL - COME AND GET IT
Side 2: (I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION - THE HUNTER
MAGNOLIA CABOOSE BABYFINGER - BABYLON
grading
RECORD from VG(+) to VG+ but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Outsideinside found Blue Cheer embracing the possibilities of the recording studio;Leigh Stephens overdubbed multiple guitar parts on several tunes, while the mix sends
his leads flying around the room, though aggressive use of panning and the monstrous,
fuzzy growl of his tone gets cleaned up on some tunes (check out the wah-wah solos
on "Gypsy Ball"), though the results are still as gentle as a chainsaw. The engineering is friendlier
to Paul Whaley's drumming; his traps don't sound as much like trash cans on these sessions,
though the crude, phase shifting on "Just a Little Bit" remains gloriously amateurish.
And if Dickie Peterson's bass sounds just about the same, he got to spend more time on his vocals here,
and his blustery howl communicates better this time. The opening cut, "Feathers from Your Tree,"
also added a piano to the mix (which is somehow audible through the dozens of amps),
while "Babylon" is almost funky in its lead-footed approximation of an R&B groove,
and "The Hunter" is a broad but playful exercise in sexual swagger that, if nothing else,
provided a lyrical conceit Kiss could use to more profitable effect nine years later.
But if Outsideinside is cleaner, tighter, and more ambitious than Vincebus Eruptum,
it's still clearly the work of the same band, and Blue Cheer sound every bit as thunderous
on their sophomore effort. If anything, this LP captures the psychedelic side of their musical
personality with greater clarity than the blunt approach of the debut...(AllMusic)
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