Vincebus Eruptum [Original recording remastered]

Vincebus Eruptum [Original recording remastered]

Track Listings

1. Summertime Blues

2. Rock Me Baby

3. Doctor Please

4. Out of Focus

5. Parchment Farm

6. Second Time Around

7. All Night Long [*]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Remastered with Bonus Track 'all Night Long'. LP Style Sleeve.

Tracks:

Summertime Blues
Rock Me Baby
Doctor Please
Out Of Focus
Parchment Farm
Second Time Around

Customer Reviews:

loud.......2007-06-30

My dad describe Vincebus (pronounced Winky-bus) Eruptum by Bljue Cheer as early grunge.

I tend to agree. For an album that came out in 1968, it really sets the standard for hard rock. It's loud, dirty and full of feedback.

This is an essential.

Industrial Strength paint remover !.......2007-06-14

Saw these guys and the Wall O' Marshalls in the Racine Armory-GAWD! I swear the paint peeled off th wall
and Peterson's hands were reduced to bloody hamburger as he demolished drumsticks. Leigh Stephens
walked among the guitar gods. In a pinch I'd place Vincebus next to Deep Purple In Rock as the birthplace
of Metal. The album cover has a place of reverence on my wall.

The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?.......2007-04-05

It was instructive to be a 17 year old boy when first encountering this artyfact in the time of its release. Free from pre-conception (save experiencing the AM Single "Summertime Blues"), I was quite astonished and happy to have found "something entirely different" in my musical life. Friends dismissed this hunk of tribal neolithic vinyl as imitative of the Who (themselves cover artists of Summertime Blues), Jimi Hendrix, Cream and others, but for myself - I heard none of that.

What I DID hear was the volcanic, anarchic chaos that I struggled to enunciate myself. Sure, I could tell that this wasn't "music the way its usually made". It wasn't "pretty" and it wasn't "artistic", but damn, it sure did blow the door off. And, it was music to be shouted and bludgeoned, rather than merely to be sang and played cleverly. In short, I could really "get into" this. And what I didn't know was these guys were approximately my age when they conceived and recorded these epic monstrosities. They were "relating" to me, to phrase it in the psycho-babble of a slightly later time.

What did I hear on this Philips Long Player? Unbridled lust for life and youth in the process of exploding in an extra-cultural fashion.

I have to say, a very few of my friends, other than the legions of Blue Cheer critics, came out where I did on this: "This **** is great!" And, to tell you the truth, I have never tired of Vincebus and its crazed, demented follow-up: Outsideinside. I bought and wore them out in vinyl, in cassette and CD. I still listen to them with a dazed look on my face.

And a word of caution, 99% of those who hear this say "This is terrible!" or just merely clear out of the area.

Electric Mud.......2007-03-28

On this their debut these guys played slower, louder and with more distortion than you ever did. They named themselves after a very particular form of Owsley's little helper, but you can pretend it was after the laundry detergent. They will definitely clean out your ears - - no question. What they'll do to the rest of your head is your problem.

1958 revisited and revised.......2006-11-22

Blue Cheer were a psychedelic-era power trio in the mold of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream. Although they are often credited with pioneering the heavy metal genre, that honor would have to be reserved for Hendrix and Cream. The band did take decibel levels to unparalleled extremes, however, beating other power trio's such as Grand Funk Railroad and Mountain to the mega-punch by a year or so. Their reason for cranking up the volume, however, may have been as much to hide the still rather obvious musical limitations of the band members as it was to venture into uncharted seas. It is much more entertaining, after all, to hear Leslie West or Eric Clapton shred paint from rafters than the Cheer's Leigh Stephens.

While Blue Cheer was the name of a laundry detergent, it was also slang for a particular strain of LSD. It's about as likely that the band had phosphates rather than acid in mind as it is that 'Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds' wasn't a John Lennon acronym for LSD. Just look at their hair. But these boys weren't solid psychedelic rockers. Their bent was much more in the blues-rock tradition, as evidenced by bassist Dickie Peterson's compositions 'Out of Focus' (which features a tasty bridge as one of the few instrumental zeniths on the disc), 'Doctor Please' (a meandering 7:53 foray into grunge 'n' sludge, a fitting complement to lyrics which basically add up to beggin' for drugs), and 'Second Time Around', about an on-and-off again relationship, which tacks some psychedelic sound effects on the end, seemingly as an afterthought rather than a coherant extension of the piece.

The band exists on a much higher plane when it comes to cover tracks, which claim one-half of the selections offered. All three of these numbers have been, or would be, covered by other, more competent performers, even when it comes to Blue Cheer's singular claim to fame, their number 14 cover of Eddie Cochran's 1958 scorcher, 'Summertime Blues'. Despite Cheer's commendable effort, The Who's 1970 version from 'Live At Leeds' blows their version away. Blowing away anything by Blue Cheer is no small accomplishment, but The Who did it in a big way. Blue Cheer returned to 1958 to pick up another widely covered rock track, B.B. King's 'Rock Me Baby', partially credited to Joe Josea (although King has claimed sole credit for the composition), and also covered by the likes of Deep Purple, Lee Michaels, Ike and Tina Turner, and Eric Clapton. It's one of the better tracks on the disc, but it comes up short to what performers like Clapton and even Lee Michaels did with it. Finally, we have a version of Mose Allison's 'Parchment Farm', about doing time on a prison farm in Mississippi. It contains the interesting sentiment that "all I did was shoot my wife... she wasn't any good", yet "I didn't do anything wrong". Not sure who can identify with that...

Blue Cheer is an interesting artifact in 1960's rock, and if you're into loud, distorted guitar music, you probably won't be offended by any of this, and may actually enjoy much of it. Unfortunately for most of us, better versions of the cover songs offered here are readily available, and Blue Cheer's own compositions are clearly second tier. Three stars, primarily for bravado. Worth a listen, but sure to gather a lot of dust on your shelf.

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Vincebus Eruptum
Blue Cheer
Manufacturer: Akarma Italy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Summertime Blues
Rock Me Baby
Doctor Please
Out of Focus
Parchment Farm
Second Time Around
All Night Long [*]

Album Details

Remastered with Bonus Track 'all Night Long'. LP Style Sleeve.

Average customer rating:

IS IT THIS SIMPLE..WELL IN A WAY!!
Two-way dose of Blue Cheer
Heavy sludge
THE BIRTH OF HEAVY MUSIC?
For the record

Vincebus Eruptum/Outsideinside
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Tracks:

Summertime Blues
Rock Me Baby
Doctor Please
Out of Focus
Parchment Farm
Second Time Around
Feathers from Your Tree
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Album Description

UK twofer combines the San Francisco hard rock act's first two albums, 'Vincebus Eruptum' & 'Outsideinside' (both originally released in 1968), with the CD-ROM video for 'Summertime Blues'. Track Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

IS IT THIS SIMPLE..WELL IN A WAY!!.......2005-11-28

Man..a band that birthed a gerne LEFT IN THE DUST!! Just like COVEN(AMERICAN as well!!) who released their evil debut before BLACK SABBATH(did Sabbath copy them???)

I love how these guy's were AMERICAN..we really did create so much of the UNDERGROUND music attitude!!

I hate modern music..BUY THIS COMBO TODAY!!!!!!

''FROM THE PAST COME's THE STORM's''

Two-way dose of Blue Cheer.......2005-05-02

What a concept; combine the first two (and most classic) Blue Cheer albums on one disc so you can put it on, turn it up and trip out on the heaviest rock of the late 60s. In fact, Blue Cheer's brand of heaviness has rarely ever been matched. They were heavier than their hard-rock contemporaries, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple. Perhaps Black Sabbath was heavier when they came along but Sabbath was heavy in a sludgy, negative way whereas Blue Cheer was heavy in a vibrant, life-affirming fashion. Most "metal' bands followed the Black Sabbath route, and Led Zeppelin paved the way for more sophisticated hard-rock but there never was, and probably never will be, anything quite like Blue Cheer. As primitive as they were, the Cheer kicked it out thick and heavy with a true sense of rock and roll. You can't go wrong with this CD. "Vincebus Eruptum" is raw, agressive distortion and feedback drenched blues-rock. "Outsideinside" is just as gutsy but trippier and more sophisticated comparably (Even some piano tastefully blended in with the sonic mayhem.) Much is made of the fact that these guys were not very good musicians. But, the sum product is amazing. Some folks also complain about the way these albums were recorded, with the sound whooshing back and forth between the left and right channels. However, I dig it. You can get dizzy listening to this stuff through headphones. In conclusion, if you want to own some of the greatest hard rock ever recorded, this is it. The sound quality is primitive but the energy that this band had is unbeatable. "New Improved Blue Cheer" has some great songs too but these are the essential Blue Cheer albums on this disc.

Heavy sludge.......2004-06-08

"Vincebus Eruptum" is from late '67, and can be seen as the start of hardcore and thrash, if not metal and punk. Screaming (but still GOOD) vocals, fairly simple bass, thudlike drums, and electric guitars with so much feedback it all melts over each other like copper and tin in the furnace. Time changes abound, and the only (slight) exception the the rule herre is rack #2, "Rock Me", an electric blues number that sounds so primitive you can almost believe cavemen heard B.B. King, decided John Lee Hooker could do it better, and found some high tech electronic equiptment and recorded take one.
Then there's "Outsideinside", from '68. Same line-up, but now they are much more mellow (in a psychedelic way). The cover of "Satisfaction" by the Stones is probably heavy enough to be on the first album. Otherwise, there's still a lot of metal (or proto-metal), and even though it's mellower than on the first album, it's still heavier than the overwhelming majority of what was out that year. It's also very good, once you get past lyrics about acid trips and such.
This is so much heavier and wilder, and just looser, than any HM you hear. There was nothing recorded like this in the 60's, except maybe "Kick Out the Jams" by MC5, and after the 60's, as the HM genre became nore defined, the feedback cleaned itself up, and the naive insanity of some of those pre-1970 metal albums couldn't be duplicated.

THE BIRTH OF HEAVY MUSIC?.......2004-05-22

The guy who described Blue Cheer as having "Hendrixian ambition with Count Five talent" pretty much nailed it; nevertheless, "Vincebus Eruptum" is a remarkable document for its simple, in-your-face production and relentlessly heavy sound, and deserves the attention of any heavy music fan. "Outsideinside" suffers a bit from its attempt at a more sophisticated production job but still contains some great tunes and is well-worth checking out, especially for anyone interested in exploring the "San Francisco Sound" (other great examples of this "sound" are Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow", Steve Miller Band's "Sailor", Quicksilver Messenger Service's first album, and Grateful Dead's "Anthem of the Sun"). If you like this disc, though, beware: don't waste your money on any of their other releases, which were uniformly boring and bore no resemblence to the music on this disc.

For the record.......2004-05-14

I would like to set something straight. On the 1st album the song Parchment Farm-this is an old Mississippi blues song, about the state prison in Parchman Mississippi. Not parchment which we all know is an old crude form of writing paper. I believe the constitution, and declaration of independance were written on parchment. Then in 1996 the Cheer album "The beast is back-the megaforce years- comes out with new versions of some of their older stuff including Parchment Farm- after 28 years they still can't get it right.The band Cactus did the song as well as other artists and they have no problem spelling PARCHMAN FARM.

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Vincebus Eruptum
Blue Cheer
Manufacturer: Repertoire
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00002643N
Release Date: 2005-05-31

Tracks:

Summertime Blues
Rock Me Baby
Doctor Please
Out of Focus
Parchment Farm
Second Time Around

Album Details

The 1967 Debut Album from One of the First Bands to Play What Would Be Known in Later Years as "Heavy Metal". Thanks to their Summer of Love Hit Version of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues", the Single's Success Paved the Way for the Group to Record this Full Length Album. It was Certainly One of the Loudest and More Aggressive Than the Average Pop Band Heard on Top 40 Radio at the Time.

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Vincebus Eruptum
Vincebus Eruptum
Manufacturer: Load Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000ALFY5
Release Date: 2003-09-16

Tracks:

Hand of Doomish
Who Farted
Drug Orgy
Shit
Bald Bull
Novice
Black Socks
Vincebus Eruptum

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Vincebus Eruptum
Blue Cher
Manufacturer: Repertoire/Hepcat
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0002B77W6
Release Date: 2002-11-04

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