Blue Cheer - Feathers From Your Tree (1968)

[@impalaman9707]

I think this was right after they played one of the loudest gigs of the 60s: A triple blitzkrieg of deafness and hearing loss from the MC5, The Stooges, and Blue Cheer at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit in June '68.

[@myrrhakerenko5553]

Uff

[@michaelszczys8316]

This reminds me of watching bands on tv as a kid in the 60s. They first used to put 95% of the camera on whoever was singing, then maybe the other 5% you might get a quick blip of the rest of the band. Then it progressed to getting all artsy with a lot of effects and you might not really see the band much at all. I remember watching local tv show with local bands and my sister getting mad because all the camera was on ugly creepy lead singer and none on the cute guy playing guitar

[@elvissorna8861]

Man that must have been a heavy heavy night

[@johnharris1812]

I bet your ears nose and eyes were bleeding from that lineup? Must have been awesome!

[@craigdewolf4813]

"Blitzkrieg" would be an understatement, that would have done what WWII couldnt: take London Down. That would have been an intense show! I had the poster/centerfold from OutsideInside on my wall through college. This guy is why I bought Rogers drums

[@runningfree4606]

We can change the course of music today, right now and forever by recommending this band to all the kids in the family. Let's do it!

[@RoRo-vr6wx]

I like that quote

[@gtaylor1812]

Dickie Peterson was one of the coolest MoFo's to strap on a bass. RIP Legend.

[@Dougdenslowe]

I was on LSD at the Fillmore,Whaley's arms turned into Thor's hammers!The good old days!

[@michaelsena7445]

That's so fucking cool. I was in Albuquerque n Dickie Peterson took off his tophat tosses what was inside of it to us in the front sure wasn't mnm's

[@towhee89]

Dude, he pounded the crap outta those drums!

[@On_Dust]

This isn't possible. This type of drug doesn't cause that type of illusions. Except for colours shifting and changing you won't see any other difference.

[@ThePhoenixcompanies]

@@On_Dust You most likely have never viewed life through a windowpane.

[@On_Dust]

@@ThePhoenixcompanies Is this supposed to be something sad?

[@hardyharhar9]

To say the second album is great is an understatement!

[@David-mo5jw]

It realy ,realy is

[@NintendoGameTube1]

My favorite album of theirs.

[@impalaman9707]

To me, this was the record that should have been called "New Improved" Blue Cheer. The one that came out a year later with that title was actually a MAJOR step back in sound quality--not to mention--False Advertising!

[@buriedverydeep]

Yes, OutsideInside is Legendary ...❤️🔥❤️

[@gms9655]

Not only was it their best LP musically, but the album cover was the best one I ever owned. It had cartoon pics of the group with all types of paraphernalia and it also opened twice, with a pic of the band playing onstage.

[@marvinjoseph8093]

Where in the world did this come from? All these years and hidden.

[@monkeyliver1986]

One of the most important bands of all time

[@mavjimbo]

They were phenomenal

[@allenthemadman]

blue cheer needs more radio play. they are that good and their drummer kicks ass!

[@MrLewisFloydHenry]

All I can say after finding this is: thank fuck there is some footage of Blue Cheer playing some stuff off of the great second album. This tune is killer.

[@Roxxy1987]

love these guys,been listening to them for almost half my life

[@MrMaricopa100]

Me too

[@shadowwalkeralephshadow8438]

Used to date Paul's sister long ago

[@whyalwaysme2522]

+Shadowwalkeraleph Shadow yeah shag baby yeah!!!

[@bennybongosbigolebonanza894]

I’ve been listening to them for more than half my life. I bought their album when I was 17. All that work though and you guys are still cooler than me because I bought their CD in 1994! Hey, I was close! LOL I did see them live in 2006. And they were nice enough to do a meet and greet. Very nice dudes.

[@annzeannieorannzeannaschot4361]

This is a band not candy asses like today's junk

[@claryscat]

I saw these guys at the Cow Palace in '68 with Canned Heat, Credence Clearwater and a Haigh-Ashbury band called the Wedge. The ticket was a buck and a half. Summertime blues was getting played on Top 40 AM radio and the brand new underground FM format on KMPX played whole album sides. These guys were loud! Hendrix loud, Who loud... with virtually no PA... just a monster stack of amps on stage.

[@Hemimod]

claryscat You probably mean '68, not '86. Saw them in 2008 or so, groundshaking...

[@paistecat]

Saw them at the Hollywood Palladium in ‘68.....

[@itookallthenames]

You lucky bastard

[@hardyharhar9]

Paul Whaley is a beast.

[@ZavnorZ]

Yes....that was hot shit stuff in 1968. Still is....

[@tutoch]

yea its no wonder Niel Peart was a fan

[@DAGDRUM53]

tutoch Good for Neil. Whaley always sounded like an amalgam of Mitchell and Moon to me; later that is, I'd heard Hendrix first, of course, but was listening to Blue Cheer long before The Who. And the Cheer still gets me off.

[@loudmind68]

No... He is *_THE BEAST_* there are no other

[@klinkerkk]

Was :'(

[@3sandlot]

Wore out both albums in 1968... Finally saw them in 2006 -- one of the best small hall concerts ever. Was five feet away from them. BS'd with Peterson after the show. Answered all my questions. ... TV cameramen rarely got the shot right during a guitar solo for any group back in the day -- didn't do their homework.

[@Enevan1968]

Dickie Peterson was the nicest guy to BS with... They don't make them like him anymore.

[@cragman8]

SF Psychedelic Music has long been a part of my life. These guys were part of what made it all happen. Love it.

[@derekbeattie5845]

Another 45 i got from friends in the US in exchange for UK singles,. helped me build a collection most of which no one had ever heard of, Blues Magoos, Electric Prunes, Strawberry Alarmclock, Grateful Dead and my hero Captain Beefheart etc. Yellow Brick Road was a revelation ...then he really got down to it .. Clandeboye Forest nr. Newtownards in N.Ireland used to rock with a whole new set of sounds back in the late 60s and early 70s all played on a battery powered record player ,... MAD

[@jakeshaw6827]

Do you dig some Frank Zappa mate

[@songsamsung]

Wow! Can't believe what I've just seen!!! My all time favourite Blue Cheer song. Thank you so much!!

[@metrakos]

Discovering this band over the last week has been a real revelation for me. This Outside Inside album is just fantastic. How could it be so unknown when it is easily as good or better than the Experience or Cream

[@mavjimbo]

Masterpiece

[@richardl3720]

While I really like this the Experience was in another league altogether. Are Your Experienced might just be the best album ever made.

[@jaredkushner5024]

@@richardl3720 It's not really in another league. Not sure why you're claiming that, it sounds similar. The fame it's received is dictating to you that it's better, it isn't necessarily, though.

[@richardl3720]

@@jaredkushner5024 I understand where you're coming from but completely disagree.

[@floydvaughn9666]

Maybe if they'd have named themselves Whale? Haha. I don't know, but if the front man had gotten a style that showed his face then maybe the right people would've paid attention?

[@reacguru]

These guys were amazing, just a power trio, and everybody notices what a monster Paul Whaley was, but Leigh Stephens was creating a wall of sound like no other guitarist at the time, and Dickie Peterson established a standard for bassist/vocalists that nobody has exceeded. The various incarnations of Blue Cheer produced some great rock and roll that was never as widely recognized as it should have been.

[@On_Dust]

I wanna be in a power trio. Except for better money. You don't need to practice all the time for other band members changing their parts. And if all 3 members of the trio can sing in tune, you'll end up with some pretty good harmonies.

[@elvissorna8861]

Their music always makes me want to roam the forests in the countryside tripping on acid, or even sober

[@bobbyneal6322]

Holy Moly!! Now here's a real gem!! Man!! What a period in time this was for BLUE CHEER!! Their 2nd LP..."OUTSIDEINSIDE" really broke some new ground!! This is absolute DYNAMITE!! Wow!! Wish I had a complete DVD of them at this time!! Thanks-a-million for posting this!! More! More! More! Bobby Neal

[@Planktontwo]

Exactly what I was thinking. I mean there has to be very few film footage of Blue Cheer period. This is a treat.

[@myrrhakerenko5553]

+ bobby Neal. Same opinion. Same wish. Great psychedelia, they were carrying acid rock elsewhere...

[@philiphoward1731]

They didn’t have really good video Quitman back then it was too expensive the film all the time but I Wirly would’ve been great if they would’ve videotaped blue cheer

[@jameskinkead2456]

This was LSD music. The Acid we got was made by Owsley , pharmaceutical grade and almost 8 times stronger than it is today. Blue Cheer was a special batch of Acid Owsley made for them. That's how they got their name. You wouldn't believe what happens to this music on a full blown Acid trip........I can't describe it but it's wayyyyyyyyyyy beyond mere music. Genuine Psychedelic music from that era is like arcane texts you have to have the key to read.......@@myrrhakerenko5553

[@davizzyus]

Wow! Incredibly delicious rarity!! Didn't know there was any footage of them from '68, other than the 'Summertime Blues' on Beat Club!! Thanks a million for the upload!!

[@philiphoward1731]

davizzyus Is somebody in pencil time machine I’m going back to 1968 and I’m gonna videotape blue cheer in 4K high definition and while I’m back in 1968 I’m gonna buy a bunch of Marshall amplifiers a bunch of Sunn Amplifiers hey Sunn PA System a bunch a Rogers drums and bring them all back to you today

[@On_Dust]

@@philiphoward1731 i have a better plan. I would go back to '67 to teach them some Sabbath tunes and some Lucifer's Friend songs. I would do it for everyone to say that they are the first heavy metal band. But even if i did, people would again say that Blue Cheer isn't metal. 😂😂

[@mavjimbo]

Huge surprise

[@oldguy9078]

These guy's were so far ahead of their time during this time in music, critics and people had no clue. Blue Cheer started it all metal, heavy metal. psychedelic you name it they started it.

[@davidepalmas5500]

Amboy Dukes di Ted Nugent e Mountain a Woodstock erano selvaggi e rudi. Leslie West re del tono

[@01skynyrdfan01]

Thank you for this post even though the sound sucks I loved watching it, wish I had had the chance to see them live...

[@Cap683]

Blue Cheer was on The Mike Douglas Show and played Out Of Focus. The sheer impact of the volume on the studio equipment caused wavy lines to appear on the TV screen. Mike Douglas was pretty liberal as far as letting acts like Blue Cheer play on his show and all the performances were live. I doubt that he had much Blue Cheer in his personal record collection.

[@farmhand6524]

Thanks for this rock relic upload... Heard them first in '68 on American Bandstand

[@eastwest42286]

Great song. Whaley was killing it. He literally looks like a time traveler from the 90s stuck in 1968. He gives me that stoner rock vibe. One of the most sinister sounding songs of its time.

[@On_Dust]

Maybe the best drummer of his generation. Iron Butterfly's was also good

[@eastwest42286]

@@On_Dust Blue Cheer Iron Butterfly Vanilla Fudge Black Sabbath Blue Öyster Cult MC5 Sir Lord Baltimore and Leaf Hound were proto-metal pioneers.

[@talpajam]

what is sinister is Whaley's intro to Just A Little Bit..pre-Peart, Bobby Caldwell, even Bonham. that drum riff is so pre-every drummer in '68...just sick stuff. the tell is, on YT there is not one drum cover of Paul Whaley playing JALB..not one.

[@jameskinkead2456]

There's nothing sinister about it. It's Acid Rock made by people taking LSD for people who were into LSD. And I mean pure doses around 350-400 mics. The average dose today is 50 mics. You couldn't listen to anything evil or scary sounding back then or you'd freak out...........This was brain wave music and turned into something beyond music when you listened to it on a trip.

[@ricjan58]

An awe inspiring performance by this pivitol influencial band. Thanks for posting.

[@jmgmarcus808]

I wish the quality was better wow I love this record outside inside is a must hear for any proto metal lovers super heavy record before Black Sabbath wow I didn't think they had footage of this thank you!

[@777certain7]

me and my two buddies went to see blue cheer in 68 and dropped a ton of acid right before they went on and it was and incredible show...i don't know how long they played but it felt like 12 hours

[@pfordsq]

....."Flying , through the wonder , now you see , now you see , finding you this way , as the breezes blow , breezes blow. You know I wanna thank you , for being just that way , you know I'm gonna love you , every minute of every day , you know I could'nt stand it , could'nt stand it any other way...." . Dickie did'nt get his just due in this life , I don't believe that's the case , now. Thanks for posting a unique and rare clip , one I'd never heard of.

[@iconicshrubbery]

Beauty in the face of Onslaut

[@jeffthrow6892]

Wow......this is pretty awesome to see this old footage!! One of my favorite B.C. songs to boot, very cool......

[@NicoMalcolm]

Wow! Thanks so much for this upload. What a rare find! Fantastic band! R.I.P. Dickie Peterson

[@DaveFurgess]

bought this in Bridgeport, CT 1968, at 8 years old!

[@monkeyliver1986]

One of the only bands that were better live than in the studio

[@MarkGraham-f7o]

The Byrds were much better live too.

[@dagnabbit6187]

I am starting to equate bands like Blue Cheer and the 13th Floor Elevators with the Sergio Leone Westerns . How ? Well simply groundbreaking and timeless

[@rickytrux]

just want to second that emotion man......right on brother! can't believe this is on here!! Outsideinside is one of the all-time greatest rock l.p.s, and when i saw them in 2006 they opened up with Babylon....with Whaley on drums it was so killer! R.I.P. Dickie!!

[@realityfrominsanity]

RARE! Thanks for sharing. Blue Cheer forever!

[@c2itccase9]

Loudest concert I ever attended was in Indianapolis…Mellencamp Close second was ZZ Top in Ruston, LA.

[@TheDrummerman1951]

Nice the original Blue Cheer

[@hudent]

I forgot, thank you for posting this good shit I don't know how you got it but you did and that is all that matters....God Bless

[@TMCMR]

Damn. These guys are great live. Wow

[@mavjimbo]

Unfortunately this version of the band was only around briefly

[@Adriana-ts6hw]

Favorite song. And that hair! 😍

[@The_Klystron7]

Bought their first album when I was probably 17 or 18. (Along with MC5 live album) Was in a heavy punk band. Loved the Grateful Dead. Smoked tons of weed and dosed a lot. Circa 1984-5.

[@dreyxxyz]

As soon as I finished watching this, I hit Subcribe to your channel. I couldn't believe that someone actually had a video of my "Heroes" in their "Golden Age" Thank You so much for posting this-It's a Dream Come True! Try to find more footage from this time period-The 2nd Album "OutsideInside" (I played a Black Rogers Double Bass Set in a Midwest Band called, "Travelore" in the 1980's).

[@thegreatchain7112]

I saw the Jerry Garcia band at the bottom line NYC 1973, I was tripping & John Khan made funny faces and it looked like he was a horse 🐴 on quick draw McGrare's 2 wheeler scooting along ! Jerry Garcia was smiling ear 👂 to ear

[@johnbuysdimes]

My friend Mark Peterson and I checked them out several times in Chicago. ass kicking every time

[@thetriumphofthethrill2457]

Priceless. And a good live band they were too.

[@bobquack1]

Wow, this was heavy for that show. This was obviously taken from the unedited tapes with the time cues. This is the only live performance video I've seen for this song. There is another video performance for a song from this album (The Hunter), but Randy Holden is on guitar and I can't remember if it is lip synced. There is a video of Summertime Blues from American Bandstand but quality is very poor.

[@jeanninemeilman760]

I think I saw this "show". It was free at the Avalon Ballroom. Blue Cheer did two songs {Out of Focus was the other} over and over as it was being filmed for T.V. Steve Miller Band also played two songs a number of times.Is this film from that show? It's been 50 years!

[@billkranz8035]

Thanks for posting this gem!!

[@paistecat]

LOVE IT!! Paul Whaley was great!!

[@hudent]

Dickie Peterson is at his clearly young best thanks for posting this video I have not seen much live footage from this great band.

[@HiddenScars]

I would be VERY interested to see how this audio could be improved upon (if possible) when processed through a noise suppressor, a limiter, possibly some tube or tape saturation and a master buss compressor.

[@monkeyliver1986]

Musical geniuses

[@DavidWarrenArchivedChannel]

Thank you! One of my favorite Cheer songs :)

[@Hellon999]

Amazing live version.

[@rjc7289]

I wonder if this is the first time in recorded history that the word "heavy" was used to describe a band? Either way, we are witnessing the origins of heavy metal right here!

[@SteelCitySH]

I was wondering the same. I didn't know they were using the term "heavy" back in 68.

[@KeizerHedorah]

they'd been saying heavy since atleast 1965

[@jameskinkead2456]

Yeah, we were..........It's heavy, Man......... We got it from black street jive. Iron `Butterfly's first album was called "Heavy".@@SteelCitySH

[@stomachlining]

love blue cheer

[@On_Dust]

All of us do.

[@johnbuysdimes]

I seen them three times I got the party with them and they cared in their gear once

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

very well.................................................................................................................................

[@Billvis77]

Awesome! What a find, glad the tape still plays! Wish Dickie could have seen it.....

[@ARock-cb1pw]

lm finally getting a chance to hear B C and I luv'em since 6 grade in 68

[@TheRockandroll420]

Im 15 and I love this groovy band

[@dansmith5774]

Drummers a kicking Ass!!!!

[@americanpatriot9865]

Excellent band. Grandads of heavy metal!

[@mavjimbo]

This band was not fucking around

[@chuckpaul2663]

They should be in the Rock n Roll hall of fame

[@jameskinkead2456]

It's an outrage Madonna, Michael Jackson and Eminem are and genuine pioneers like Blue Cheer, MC5, Big Brother among others, are not. Nauseating and absolute bullshit.

[@hardyharhar9]

wow I think I'll favorite this one!

[@rogerbousse6642]

Love it

[@pfordsq]

You're right , Randy Holden is on "The Hunter" clip from Geman TV , and "Summetime Blues" from Beat Club(German TV) , he's just miming Leigh's parts , as they did a tour of Europe shortly after he joined , and they were still promoting "Outside Inside". The Bandstand clip ,I have a VHS copy , but , there is a better copy on You Tube. This thing , here , tho' , seems live to me...Could have been assisted , but , does'nt seem that way.

[@MyEndymion]

The godfathers of psychedelic, blues-based heavy metal!

[@metalheadgamer80]

MyEndymion, Blue Cheer weren't Metal. They were Psychedelic Hard Rock, or Heavy Psych in BC's case but not particularly Heavy Metal yet.

[@TheAnonymousJohnSmith6969]

MyEndymion yeah but I think it was more stoner rock sounding than heavy metal

[@TheAnonymousJohnSmith6969]

Joshua Ibarra seems like Outsideinside was more like stoner rock

[@On_Dust]

Heavy metal is blues based for the most part anyway.

[@jameskinkead2456]

Acid Rock or Psychedelic was what we called them. If you were into Blue Cheer you were into serious high dose LSD. They were absolutely a renegade , underground outfit.@@metalheadgamer80

[@thecandyman9308]

Sick tune

[@spamlambam234]

Long live American music!

[@FF-so3su]

Thanks

[@michaelsena7445]

I do believe any nite with Blue Cheer was. Heavy Heavy nite or day.🎸

[@Cactus29121989]

@superjudge555 I get it from one video trader. Thank you for information about another songs from this show. I will try to find them.

[@jmgmarcus808]

Ok, the first real sludge metal heavy shit I think is a song called Dropout Boogie on Captain Beefhearts first album safe as milk, I think it's 65-66, check it out people.

[@TDghf]

dude never heard that one before, damn heavy came out in 1967. u heard The Flies "stepping stone" that's from 66 has some pretty stoner riffing for that time.

[@iconicshrubbery]

This is an Apparition from a purple-hazed bygone era ! In blazing technicolour, with a stoned cameraman, just 3 far-out guys creating an incredible mood.

[@BetoKaosZDejavu]

Very hiper good Band. Super soud

[@paistecat]

Only saw them at the Teenage Fair...but it was with Randy Holden, Norman Mayell, and they had the keyboard also...they opened with Parchment Farm..however...

[@389383]

Sure wish the original trio had stayed together for a few more years and albums. After the second album they lost focus and became like hundreds of other mediocre bands.

[@Sprenklefish]

Actually, Leigh Stephens left because Dickie and Paul were way more into getting high and the drugs became more important to them. Makes me wonder if there was tension between the band here because Leigh barely ends the song and just does a kind of "fuck it" on the guitar. Check out the very end. No one ends a song like that if they just killed it. Seems kinda pissed to me. Yep, this was the classic lineup. The rest of the output of the band was shit after this album, until Beast is Back which rocked pretty fucking hard.

[@sludgeriff]

I thought the very same thing. Leigh just didn't care it seems. I would give anything to have experienced the original trio at full power!

[@TheeMikeForce]

I never seen this early Mudhoney performance!

[@martyswaney1098]

Beyond cool.

[@marcoantoniodeluca19]

gracias!!!

[@econoroller]

if you dig this there's word that the Owsley Stanley Foundation is in possession of some dynamite live Blue Cheer from their heyday, engineered by Owsley, or at least blasted to the max through his primo sound system, which was the best at the time. You can search them on the web and bug them about it, I did. The foundation is presently going through thousands of recordings from Owsley's archives, they are restoring and digitizing them for official release YAY!!!!

[@JohnBGood-ry9wj]

Heavy Blues.....the birth of heavy metal

[@cranialcompany]

righteous find!!

[@bodegakyh1200]

The first band of Heavy metal was born in 1968 with Blue Cheer in the Balcebu Eruptum

[@pfordsq]

@notfragile33 I think you've got something. Leigh said he'd quit , Dickie said they'd fired him. They probably agreed it was the end of the line. I imagine it was messy (A friend saw Dickie and Leigh have a shouting match , Leigh walked offstage , the others finished the show w/o him !). Dickie offered to bring Leigh back into the band , as a regular member and as a guest. He declined . They did do the Chet Helms memorial gig together( w/ Prairie Prince)...

[@tatassin2]

Awesome! This is the shit. Thanks for posting this. Was "Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger" on "Outside Inside" ? Love this band. Check out Live in Tokyo Japan. They do a killer version of "Babylon"

[@myrrhakerenko5553]

Yes "Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger" was on "Outside Inside". Right - monumental rendition of "Babylon/The Blues ain't nothing" on this Japanese CD!

[@GlobalTubeTruth]

Fuckin' Awesome!!!

[@SaulScurry]

Sweet thanks for sharing!! Are there anymore like this?

[@paistecat]

Man what an album OUTSIDEINSIDE was...

[@NintendoGameTube1]

Yes, really a great album.

[@josephevans4217]

Wow! Cool from height Ashbury's feather's step nephew JJ

[@ИгорьВоронин-л6й]

Весь рок с 50 60 годов начелся сильнейшая группа

[@ТрифонПокрышкин]

Игорь Воронин согласен

[@sirfrancisdrake4285]

Chit Man Dis GOOOOOOd.

[@madmikeastoria]

Good shit!

[@edithvaler4708]

That drumm is fuckin' awesome

[@hudent]

Guys I love this shit as bad as the video sounds who cares I just love to see Blue Cheer doing their thing..I just love Dickie he had so much soul..God Bless him wherever he is.

[@michaelcraig9449]

Original beginning of metal!

[@superjudge555]

AND...Dickie did see this video. He even remembered the time when it was filmed....

[@stephenkane2464]

you know i don't wanna goooo