Cheer had probably the first distinctive metal sound... Other bands were heavy

THEE LOUDEST BAND IN THE WORLD!!! I remember the story of them renting the end of a pear in New Jersey, as they could not get their phalanx of amps into the recording studio. Supposedly you could hear them five miles away, as they tore up the pear. Madness!!!

This was an era where more and more artists were exploring these heavy sounds. Captain Foam, Baby Grandmothers, The Glass Sun with Silence of the Morning, and Cro Magnon's Caledonia are great examples of bands at the time who were cranking their amps with all kinds of heavy distortion and exoerimenting with those heavy sounds either through distortion, heavy thundering drums, deep bass, or insane vocals (or a combo of all three).

No they didn't. The first heavy metal was "Spoonful" on Cream's Dec. 1966 album called "Fresh Cream". I used to have Vincebus Eruptum but got rid of it because most of it is just a chaotic (oh, but "heavy") mess. The band just wasn't very good. They did do a good job on "Summertime Blues". One good song on the whole album.

Inadvertently yes, they did.

Yes.

I think "the heavy metal sound" was played by many bands in the old days (end of the 60s). Still, they didn't know that the sound called in those days "hard rock and roll", or sometimes "heavy rock", eventually would be what we know today as heavy metal ........ bands like IRON BUTTERFLY, VANILLA FUDGE, RUSH, LUCIFER'S FRIEND, BLUE CHEER; try GENESIS 1973 live album with the song "The Knife", and tell me if the sound of Steve Hackett's guitar is not heavy metal, although the GENESIS was a pure prog-rock group, that song is in my opinion pure heavy metal sound.

Yes they did.

I believe most music evolved from something else. Jimi Hendrix feed back from his amps was a great catalyst. Blue Cheer definitely deserves to be called the first heavy metal band. When you are blowing out your studio windows, and have to record on a wharf, this is when you know you are entitled to the name Heavy Metal!

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I don't think they invented it, I think they discovered it and then took it to the next level.

Nice shirt! But trying to be too dynamic with the pauses and building of crescendos...plus the throaty gurgle sounds between. Just say Blue Cheer blew the tone arms off the turntables back then and let it go...

The MC5 is another good candidate for 'who invented heavy metal?' If not metal, then hard rock and we can award the heavy metal crown to Blue Cheer. Many of their rare (RECORDED) live performances were done in 1970, but they had been doing a very heavy/hard rock set very early in '68, presented here when it was finally recorded live in July 1970: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWXNhGaajJV3qqcsi=aGLeHuv0pg5hdJr1

Yes . they did

Heavy metal only at its best. Beggars Banquet? Only an oversight?

Energized mind expanding roots in blues. I had forgotten a great easy bass part and cut.

so heavy and they were writing this material in 66 and 67!

I got a s500 tribute 2 day's ago!!! Fantastic guitar I'm very happy with it 😀

Check out Randy Holden’s Population II . HEAVY 🕺

is he pronouncing the album name correctly?

I agree 💯 I discovered Blue Cheer a few weeks ago. I was impressed from hearing all that fuzz ❤❤❤❤

Nice! Luv that guitar tone!!!

Great video Big Mike! Blue cheer 1967: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJTHYWeun79mm9U

Certainly a big part of heavy metals' tools. supposedly the loudest band in the world at the time. The original guitarist was great. He left after the second album I believe. They later moved in a more folk rock direction. Best psychedelic guitar riff ever in "summertime blues". I saw them in the 90s at the 930 club in D.C. with a young guitarist. Bass player and Drummer still kicked it.

HELL YEAH they were the first heavy metal band. PAUL himself called the band HEAVY when Dick Clark asked them to describe their music and he said HEAVY. There ya go. But I never heard Dick say that. He had them on the show AMERICAN BANDSTAND. And that was when Paul said they were HEAY. RUSH loved BLUE CHEER and played SUMMERTIME BLUES exactly like BLUE CHEER as a tribute to them. IT showed more when they played live. I saw them several times. Got Dickie and Paul to sign my VINCEBUS ERUPTUM album. AND I still have a few photos of them playing at a festival..

Blue cheer was the first heavy medal band

A band that is often forgotten but that I like to remind people is "The Gun", who had a hit in 1968 with "Race with the Devil". On their LP they describe themselves as a hard rock band and that's pretty good, even though they sometimes sound very psychedelic with the backwards guitar solos. I consider Blue Cheer to be the first metal band because they played harder and more excessively and with a guitar sound that I don't think was there before. MC5 come close, but the guitar and bass don't sound nearly as fat. This may also be due to the recording technology.

Yes Yes they did.

Crikees! In this day of women built like prepubescent boys being celebrated, it’s great to see someone so fine. Bettie is a jaguar! With such ease in front of a camera, it’s hard to believe she could be ignored. Still, I wonder what this ignorant society would think of such beauty these days. Bettie’s a treasure not to be cast aside!How sweet AND bad all at once! We miss you Bettie. 🤟❤️🙏

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HEAVY METAL!!! HEAVY METAL IS: DOUBLE BASS DRUM WITH CLASSICAL GUITAR TECHNIC AND AGAINST RELIGION LYRICS! THAT IT'S HEAVY METAL! BUNCH OF IDIOTS!!! BLUE CHEER WAS THE FIRST BAND WITH A HEAVY DISTORTION ON GUITAR!!!! YOU SHOULD LEARN MUSIC HISTORY! PLEASE! STOP WITH YOUR BS ABOUT HEAVY METAL!

I just buy it haha thanks for this video!

Always preferred outsideinside a seriously overlooked album

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Yes, they did invent Heavy Metal! It should be noted that term the ‘heavy metal’ arguably has its origins in the early 60s in a series of books by William Burroughs. Its basis is a character named “Uranium Willy the Heavy Metal Kid” from ‘The Ticket That Exploded’, though the kneejerk source for many bibliophiles is ‘Naked Lunch’. An easy mistake since ‘Naked Lunch’ is Burroughs most well known and scandalous book, featuring such tasty morsels as “…a rancid string of jism tuned to the note of G”. ‘Naked Lunch’ also features androgynous aliens called Mugwumps that had sex with anything that moved, and then some. Of note, Lance Loud, who starred on the ground breaking PBS series ‘An American Family’ formed a punk band after the show and called the band The Mugwumps. Tragically, Lance died from complications with HIV in the 80s. I should mention that I saw Black Sabbath on their first American tour at the original Fillmore Auditorium. I was quite excited to see them…however I was painfully disappointed to see Ozzie wearing shorts, and he had a tattoo of a smiley face on each knee cap. Home made, I learned. Since the old Fillmore stage was about 2 feet high, if even that, my rush to the stage front was reduced to me staring disappointedly at Ozzies stupid knees while he sang and foamed at the mouth about ‘Iron Man’. I did manage to talk to him between songs and he was very friendly…and drunk/high. But those smiley faces haunt my dreams. I should mention that I was VERY VERY young, had very long hair and an extremely pretty face. Easily mistaken for a girl. No….i did not wake up under Ozzie.

Great and fitting statements. Blue Cheer’s first two albums deserve to be heralded as two of the most important heavy rock recordings in history. All metal artists owe their existence to Blue Cheer and Black Sabbath because the two defined and perfected the genre. All metal artists since have been adding to the building blocks set by BC and BS. End of story.

No, they aren't heavy metal, nor is Hendrix or cream

Got mine last week, fantastic guitar for the money I still can't believe it cost me less than £500 in the UK. Quality control must be good as it's flawless in every way and the fingerboard and fret ends are rolled perfectly. I have experience playing acoustics £1000 and upwards and this can hang with them for sure. I also feel over time it will get better and will open up the mids more as time passes. I haven't really spent too much time with it plugged in but the electronics sounded good and the mic blend is a nice sound.

I was good friends with Dickie,Paul and Eric Albronda Eric told me some great stories from those early Avalon and Fillmore shows. Dick Clark seemed to enjoy them on his TV show ❤

Most people tend to believe that the birth of heavy metal can be traced back to Birmingham, England, with the release of the first Black Sabbath album. Over two sides of vinyl, the sound of Tony Iommi’s guitar set the blueprint for what metal was supposed to be, taking the fundamentals of blues and adding different textures to make it sound ominous and foreboding. Then again, metal may have been around long before Iommi even started dreaming up his doom hymns. Across the 1960s, the counterculture movement also brought its fair share of darker bands. Compared to the songs about moving to San Francisco and basking in the sunshine of psychedelia, acts like The Doors and The Velvet Underground were already exposing fans to the gritty side of life.

the reason Black Sabbath is considered the 1st REAL metal band, is they were darker, heavier, and who legions of people copy and emulate. no one copies or cites blue cheer. Iommi's riffs are the blue print for metal as we know it. nothing against blue cheer.

That album will make your ears bleed, yes they were in my humble opinion the first metal band.

I killed my neighbours so I could put this album on.

Great story The mid '70s being some friends were driving around downtown Tampa looking for a place to party and listen to some music drove by Curtis Hixson Hall local radio station was having a food drive 98 cents in a can of food to see a band we never heard of the band turned out to be Tom Petty and Heartbreakers they played a couple of cover songs I think one of them was a Chuck Berry song the last song they played was a breakdown and I remember saying oh yeah I heard that song on the radio Little did we know all hundred hundred fifty others at the most I'm just listening to future rock legend

Some synchronicity was going on from about 1966-1970. Abnormal things were happening to normal people which seemed to have a significant effect on their lives. Some people say, "Well, it was the introduction of LSD, peyote, mushrooms and cannabis." But it was more than that. This is a perfect example for 50 people. I had heard a couple of songs on the underground rock FM channel in Cleveland by a group called Led Zeppelin and they were coming to Cleveland on their 1st US tour. They were playing in a theatre that held about 2500 but there were only about 100 of us there. We all sat in the front. LZ played the whole 1st album. I came out of there drenched in sweat, perfume and spilled beer. Their music was so new, so exhilarating. A strange and wonderful interlude for 100 of us.

You could arguably say that the MC5 was the first metal band. Even though they did not have an album out until 1969, they started in 1963. The MC5 and Blue Cheer sound very similar to me.

I’ve often felt “Summertime Blues” by Blue Cheer was the first metal song

Blue Cheer LSD.👽🙏

This argument goes back a ways I heard music from the radio in 1968 I been to many biker conventions and runs when blue cheer played I did a opening show once for blue cheer Met dickie many times and asked the same question He said , “ we played heavy and loud , and I think could be heavier blues , I can’t really say @

Both guitars sounded Great!

Cool! Michael, excelent song!