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

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

"VINCEBUS ERUPTUM"

1968    LP    PHILIPS RECORDS    STEREO   PHS 600-264

PRINTED IN USA ORIGINAL BUT LATER PRESSING

[with only "....Owsley" reference on back cover & with "Produced by" on labels]

TEXTURED & EMBOSSED SINGLE SLEEVE

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

Catalog on cover: (front & spine) PHS 600-264   (rear) PHS 600-264/PHM 200-264

Catalog on labels: PHS-600-264 (Side 1 / Side 2)

 Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): PHS600264A- M2  (Etched): MR

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): PHS600264B- M1  (Etched): MR

On labels: Produced by Abe "Voco" Kesh

On back cover: Notes by Owsley III

All selections published by BMI

Produced by Abe "Voco" Kesh

Recorded at Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, Calif.

Amplifiers by Jim Marshall, Ltd.

tracklisting

Side A: SUMMERTIME BLUES - ROCK ME BABY - DOCTOR PLEASE

  grading

RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ 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)