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Blue Cheer is the fourth album by American rock band Blue Cheer. It was recorded at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco and released in December 1969 by Philips Records. Gary Lee Yoder contributed songwriting for the opening and closing tracks and would later join the group as guitarist on their next album The Original Human Being.[1]

Blue Cheer
Studio album by Blue Cheer
Released	December 1969 (1969-12)
Recorded	1969
Studio	Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre	Psychedelic rock, hard rock
Length	36:15
Label	Philips
Producer	Michael Sunday, Eric Albronda
Blue Cheer chronology
New! Improved! (1969) Blue Cheer (1969) The Original Human Being (1970)

Release and reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	B[2]

According to Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia, the album was released in December 1969.[3] Reviewing for The Village Voice the following June, Robert Christgau gave the album a "B" grade and wrote: "There ought to be hundreds of groups like this one—hard, competent, slightly commercial—but there probably aren't more than 20. This is not especially original, but it's good, and I'll bet they're a stone happy gas live."[2] AllMusic's Mark Deming later gave it three-and-a-half out of five stars and appraised it in comparison to the band's harder previous records, calling it "a fun album that generates an impressive groove ... a more laid-back and relaxed effort, but it still rocks with a strong and steady roll."[1]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Fool" (Gary R. Grelecki, Gary Lee Yoder) – 3:26
2. "You're Gonna Need Someone" (Norman Mayell, Bruce Stephens) – 3:31
3. "Hello LA, Bye Bye Birmingham" (Delaney Bramlett, Mac Davis) – 3:29
4. "Saturday Freedom" (Stephens) – 5:47
5. "Ain't That the Way (Love's Supposed to Be)" (Ralph Burns Kellogg, Dickie Peterson) – 3:11

Side two

1. "Rock and Roll Queens" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 2:44
2. "Better When We Try" (Kellogg) – 2:48
3. "Natural Man" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 3:36
4. "Lovin' You's Easy" (Stephens) – 3:50
5. "The Same Old Story" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 3:53

The 2007 Japanese mini-LP sleeve reissue of Blue Cheer contains the mono non-LP single "All Night Long" (Kellogg) b/w "Fortunes" (Peterson) along with the single versions of "Fool" and "Ain't That the Way" as bonus tracks.

Personnel

Blue Cheer

• Bruce Stephens – guitar, backing and lead (2, 4, 7, 9) vocals
• Dickie Peterson – bass, lead vocals (1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
• Ralph Burns Kellogg – keyboards
• Norman Mayell – drums

Production

• Michael Sunday – producer[4]
• Eric Albronda – assistant producer, backing vocals
• John Craig – cover design[4]
• Russ Gary – engineering[4]
• Richard Germinaro – liner note art[4]
• Baron Wolman – photography[4]

References

Further reading

• Bangs, Lester (April 30, 1970). "Blue Cheer Blue Cheer > Album Review". Rolling Stone (57): 60.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links

• Blue Cheer at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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- [en] Blue Cheer (album)

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[es] Blue Cheer (álbum)

Blue Cheer es el cuarto álbum de la banda de rock Blue Cheer, lanzado en diciembre de 1969 por Philips Records. Es el primer álbum que dejó de contar con sus miembros originales a excepción de Dickie Peterson, pasando a integrarse plenamente ya no como un power trio sino como un cuarteto al estar conformado por del guitarrista Bruce Stephens, el teclista Ralph Burns Kellogg (que ya venían de perticipar en el disco New! Improved!) y completando la alineación con el baterista Norman Mayell en reemplazo de Paul Whaley, quien abandonó a Blue Cheer poco después del lanzamiento de New! Improved! a causa de la inestabilidad de la banda frente a los problemas que estaban atravesando en cuanto a la formación, la dirección y el estilo musical.

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