BLUE CHEER Vincebus Eruptum LP PHILIPS 1968 US orig LEIGH STEPHENS-SILVER METRE
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BLUE CHEER
DICK PETERSON, PAUL WHALEY,LEIGH STEPHENS
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)
"VINCEBUS ERUPTUM"
1968 LP PHILIPS RECORDS STEREO PHS 600-264
PRINTED IN U.S.A. ORIGINAL PRESSING
[All early US stereo pressings have identical silver / grey textured sleeves
with the Owsley reference on the back.
Original US stereo pressing without any producer credited on labels]
THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)
This version: Barely played US original killer debut LP comes in embossed letter
silver textured cover. it have "Augustus Stanley Owsley III" on back sleeve
but NOT "produced by abe "voco" kesh" on the label
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: PHILIPS - BLACK/RAINBOW LABEL w/LIGHT BLUE LOGO - SILVER TEXT
Catalog on cover: (front & spine) PHS 600-264
(on rear) PHS 600-264/PHM 200-264
Catalog on labels: PHS-600-264 (Side 1 / Side 2)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): PHS600264A- M2
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): PHS600264B- M2
Other / Runout [Both Sides Runout (Etched)]: MR
On labels: STEREO
On Back Sleeve: Notes by Augustus Stanley Owsley III
All selections published by BMI
Produced by Abe "Voco" Kesh
Recorded at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, Calif.
Amplifiers by Jim Marshall, Ltd.
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side 1: SUMMERTIME BLUES - ROCK ME BABY - DOCTOR PLEASE
Side 2: OUT OF FOCUS - PARCHMENT FARM - SECOND TIME AROUND
grading
RECORD EX, NEAR MINT but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Rock & roll had grown louder and wilder by leaps and bounds during the '60s, but when Blue Cheer
emerged from San Francisco onto the national rock scene in 1968 with their debut album,
Vincebus Eruptum, they crossed a line which most musicians and fans hadn't even thought to draw yet.
Vincebus Eruptum sounds monolithically loud and primal today, but it must have seemed like some
sort of frontal assault upon first release; Blue Cheer are often cited as the first genuine heavy metal band,
but that in itself doesn't quite sum up the true impact of this music, which even at a low volume sounds
crushingly forceful.Vincebus Eruptum is a glorious celebration of rock & roll primitivism run
through enough Marshall amps to deafen an army; only a few of Blue Cheer's peers could come up
with anything remotely this heavy (the MC5's Kick Out the Jams and side two of the
Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat were its closest rivals back in the day), and no one
could summon so much thunder with just three people.
If you want to wake the neighbors, this is still the album to get, and it was
Blue Cheer's simplest and most forceful musical statement...(AllMusic)
