Line #8 Music/BlueCheer


1	[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Blue_Cheer_8962.jpg]]
2	->''"Blue Cheer is heavy. Cosmic. Kinetic. It affects the visual and physical senses. Spiritually aware.\
3	And we have already sold 100,000 albums."''
4	-->--Text of [[https://fontsinuse.com/uses/12879/ad-for-vincebus-eruptum-by-blue-cheer this magazine ad]] promoting ''Vincebus Eruptum''
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6	Blue Cheer was an American PsychedelicRock[=/=]BluesRock band from UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, active from the late [[TheSixties 1960s]] until 2009, when longtime member Dickie Peterson died of prostate cancer. Their first album, ''[[CanisLatinicus Vincebus Eruptum]]'', was a major influence on HeavyMetal music, with its thick guitar assaults.
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8	!!Srudio discography:
9	* ''Vincebus Eruptum'' (1968)
10	* ''[=OutsideInside=]'' (1968) (half studio album, half LiveAlbum)
11	* ''New! Improved! Blue Cheer!'' (1969)
12	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Blue Cheer]]'' (1969)
13	* ''BC #5 The Original Human Being'' (1970)
14	* ''Oh! Pleasant Hope'' (1971)
15	* ''The Beast... Is Back'' (1985)
16	* ''Highlights and Lowlives'' (1990)
17	* ''Dining with the Sharks'' (1991)
18	* ''What Doesn't Kill You...'' (2007)
19	* ''Blue Cheer #7'' (recorded in 1978, released in 2012)
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21	!!Their work provides examples of:
22	* CanisLatinicus: ''Vincebus Eruptum'' is a nonexistent Latin phrase. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The closest use of the phrase in real life could be either "vinculis erupto", which translates to "bonds broken up", or "vinculis erumpti", which translates to "prison break" (which is oddly appropriate, given their cover of the prison song "Parchman Farm"). As an in-joke, if you type in "Vincebus Eruptum" as your input on the Latin to English setting on Google Translate, the phrase is translated as [[EasterEgg "Blue Cheer"]].[[/labelnote]]
23	* CoverVersion:
24	** Their rocking covers of Music/EddieCochran's "Summertime Blues" and Mose Allison's "Parchman Farm". Not to mention their covers of Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}} "Satisfaction", Music/BobDylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"and Albert King's "Born Under a Bad Sign" .
25	** Their [[RearrangeTheSong version]] of "Summertime Blues" was in turn covered by Music/TheWho and Music/{{Rush\|Band}}.
26	* IAmTheBand: After the dissolution of the original trio, Blue Cheer became a RevolvingDoorBand, with Dickie Peterson as the only member to appear on all the albums. When he died, the group split up permanently.
27	* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: Inverted with their cover of "Satisfaction", which slowly starts up then goes into the usual Cheer overdrive.
28	* HeavyMetal: A major influence on the genre; in fact, some consider them to be one of the very first heavy metal bands.
29	* RearrangeTheSong: They gave "Summertime Blues" an acid rock makeover with plenty of guitar pyrotechnics, including replacing a few of the lyrics with instrumental solos.
30	* RockTrio: During their first two albums and parts of the third.
31	* TropeMaker: Of Heavy Psych, a subgenre of PsychedelicRock, that relied on EpicRocking and thick guitar assaults. It served as a historical link between 60s rock and metal music.

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