Still sealed Japan press in jewelcasewith OBI-strip

Rock & roll had grown louder andwilder by leaps and bounds during the ’60s, but when Blue Cheeremerged from San Francisco onto the national rock scene in 1968with their debut album, Vincebus Eruptum, they crossed a line whichmost musicians and fans hadn’t even thought to draw yet. VincebusEruptum sounds monolithically loud and primal today, but it musthave seemed like some sort of frontal assault upon first release;Blue Cheer are often cited as the first genuine heavy metal band,but that in itself doesn’t quite sum up the true impact of thismusic, which even at a low volume sounds crushingly forceful.Though Blue Cheer’s songs were primarily rooted in the blues, whatset them apart from blues-rock progenitors such as the RollingStones and the Yardbirds was the massive physical force of theirmusical attack. Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and the MC5 may haveanticipated the sound and fury of this music, but Blue Cheer’ssecret was not just being louder than anyone else, but stayingsimple enough to give each member the space to do damage both asindividuals and as a group. Paul Whaley’s drumming combined acrashing dustbin tone with a constant, rolling pummel thatsuggested Ginger Baker with less finesse and more bludgeoningvelocity. Dickie Peterson’s basslines were as thick as tar andbubbled like primordial ooze as he bellowed out his lyrics with afire and attitude that compensated for his lack of vocal range. Andguitarist Leigh Stephens may have been the first genius of noiserock; Lester Bangs once wrote that Stephens’“sub-sub-sub-sub-Hendrix guitar overdubs stumbled around each otherso ineptly they verged on a truly bracing atonality,” and thoughthat doesn’t sound like a compliment, the lumbering chaos of hisroaring, feedback-laden leads birthed a more glorious monster thanmany more skillful players could conjure. Put them together, andBlue Cheer’s primal din was an ideal corrective for anyone whowondered if full-on rock & roll was going to have a place inthe psychedelic revolution. From the opening rampage through EddieCochran’s “Summertime Blues” (which miraculously became a hitsingle), to the final one-two punch of “Parchment Farm” and “SecondTime Around,” Vincebus Eruptum is a glorious celebration of rock& roll primitivism run through enough Marshall amps to deafenan army; only a few of Blue Cheer’s peers could come up withanything remotely this heavy (the MC5’s Kick Out the Jams and sidetwo of the Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat were itsclosest rivals back in the day), and no one could summon so muchthunder with just three people. If you want to wake the neighbors,this is still the album to get, and it was Blue Cheer’s simplestand most forceful musical statement.

Track list:
1. Summertime Blues
2. Rock Me Baby
3. Doctor Please
4. Out Of Focus
5. Parchment Farm
6. Second Time Around

Condition cover: mint / stillsealed

Condition cd: mint

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