| Rola: | Summertime Blues |
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| Traducción: | Blues de verano | |
| Intérprete: | Blue Cher | |
| Compositor: | Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart | |
| Disco: | Vincebus Eruptum | |
| Productor: | Abe 'Voco' Kesh | |
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"Summertime Blues" es una canción escrita por Eddie Cochran y Jerry Capehart sobre las experiencias y tribulaciones de vida de un adolescente en Estados Unidos. Fue escrita a finales de los años 1950 por Eddie Cochran y su agente Jerry Capehart. Al principio era sólo el lado B de un sencillo, pero llegó en su mejor posición al un puesto n.º 8 en el Billboard el 29 de septiembre de 1958. Las palmas fueron realizados por Sharon Sheeley, y la voz de bajo profundo al final de cada verso es la del propio Eddie Cochran. La canción se utilizó en 1980 en la película "Caddyshack". En marzo de 2005, la revista Q la colocó en el puesto n.º 77 de su lista de los 100 Mayores Tracks de Guitarra de la historia Blue Cheer la grabó en el álbum Vincebus Eruptum de 1968. Su versión, que omite toda las réplicas líricas de la versión original de Cochran, en favor de respuestas instrumentales por cada miembro de la banda, fue destacada como uno de los primeros heavy metal y se incluyó una grabación de 2005 en el documental Metal: A Headbanger's Journey. Durante los años 1980 la MTV presentó un vídeo en blanco y negro de la canción, tomada de un programa de TV, en sus Closet Classics. La canción también se destaca en la película "Arrastra(Canturrea)" de 1986, y en la película Night on Earth de 1991 así como en la película I Shot Andy Warhol de 1996. |
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  | Duración: | 03:47 |
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| Año: | 1968 | |
| Formato: | 7" | |
| A la venta: | 01/02/1968 | |
| Lado B: | Out Of Focus | |
| Disquera: | Phillips | |
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Paul Whaley - batería Leigh Stephens - guitarra |
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Well Lord I got to raise a fuss, Lord I got to raise a holler Well I been working all summer just to try and earn a dollar Well Lord I tried to call my baby, I tried to get a date...... Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do Lord there ain't no cure for the summertime blues You know my mom and papa told me, "Son you gotta make some money" (Of course I do. I should, I work like a dog) "Well if you wanna to use the car go riding next Sunday" Well Lord I didn't go to work I told the boss I was sick He said...... Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do Lord there ain't no cure for the summertime blues I gotta take three weeks, I gotta have a fun vacation I gotta take my problem to the United Nations I done told my congressman and he said quote "Dig this, boy......" Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do Lord there ain't no cure for the summertime blues OW! I'd like to take my three weeks, I need to take a fun vacation I'd like to take my problem to the United Nation I tried to lay my congressman and he said quote...... Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do Lord there ain't no cure for the summertime blues Whoa no, there ain't no cure. You got to live with this for the rest of your life! |
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LADO A 1. "Summertime Blues" 2. "Rock Me Baby" 3. "Doctor Please" |
LADO B 1. "Out of Focus" 2. "Parchman Farm" 3. "Second Time Around" |
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Their debut album, Vincebus Eruptum is marked by big, fat, revved-up blues riffs with dueling lead guitar solos that occupy totally separate spots in either speaker, and wholly over-the-top drum rolls that do the same thing. Other elements include unhealthy amounts of fuzz, dirty hippie "yeahs" at just the right moments, and a serious biker rock / LSD vibe. The name of the band even refers to a brand of the drug. Vincebus Eruptum makes Cream and Iron Butterfly and any other late '60s pre-metal band sound like Herman's Hermits by comparison. The original lineup (a trio) recorded the sprawling, more psychedelic Outsideinside before shrieky guitarist Leigh Stephens left and was replaced by loud guitar prophet Randy Holden, who offered some insanely heavy cuts to the group's third album New! Improved! Blue Cheer. By the time the group recorded a self-titled fourth album, bassist/singer Dickie Peterson was the only remaining original member. Recordings from this period are best collected on Good Times Are So Hard To Find: The History of Blue Cheer. The trio transferred into vinyl the heavy wave of fighting electric blues handled down by Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, amplified by an unlikely volume. Act one was titled "Vincebus Eruptum": a controlled load of noisy roar and metal led to press by Philips in 1968 and, probably, one of the highest examples of powerful rock which ever made it on record. The record also gave the group their first and greatest hit, "Summertime Blues". The flexible shape of Eddie Cochrane's Classic (also covered by the Who) worked in by the blacksmith craftmanship of the trio, turned into a sort of memorable 3'43" of mighty metallic explosive rock noise which straight entered in the "Most Celebrated Covers" club. For the flip side of the single (one of the highlights on the album) was chosen "Out of Focus", another aggressive attack of vocals, guitars and percussions brought, high to the cerebral concerns of the body, by instruments used in the likes of detonators. The song was penned by Dickie Peterson while hospitalized for just a mild hepatitis. "Out of Focus","Doctor Please" and "Second Time Around", all originals by Dickie Peterson had anger and violence enough to sustain the metallic revolt of sound and were conceived to compete with the wave of "Trios", Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience, obviously, which were prime inspirations too (expecially Hendrix for Stephens) and favourite Cheers groups. The album also featured a cover of Mose Allison's "Parchment Farm" (Parchman Farm) translated into such a rebellious and storming way to shock purists and tories. "Vincebus Eruptum" climbed up to 11th position in U.S. charts (Billboard) and such remained the highest peak reached by a Blue Cheer album. As a live act, Blue Cheer are still remembered as an upsetting and scandalous matter. Jeff Dalbhy, fan and editor of the liner notes to "Louder than God" (the 1986 Rhino compilation) writes - I was turning deaf, maybe for the rest of my life. Their concert had been the loudest thing I ever had audienced to and, in terms of volume, nothing could never compare with it since. Just three tiny long-haired boys and an imposing wall of amplifiers. Amps were piled up so tight that litterally filled the whole stage. I had never seen something like that and my ears were out of touch. At moments, I wished I had to get away for good ...-. |
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Blue Cher: San Francisco
At one time, Blue Cheer was hyped as the loudest rock band on the planet. Rampant personnel changes stunted their progress but the band's first three albums remain essential listening for devotees of all music that is heavy. Basically inventing acid rock (and heavy metal, too) with their blistering rape of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" in 1968, these NorCal kids pretty much flattened all comers for the crown of world's heaviest band at the time. Blue Cheer fue una banda de rock, pionera del sonido que en los 90's sería conocido como stoner rock por su uso altamente grave de la afinación de sus instrumentos así como el fuerte volumen usado en sus grabaciones. Surgió a finales de los 60's y principios de los 70's. Originaria de San Francisco, Estados Unidos, es considerada como pionera también del heavy metal, punk y stoner. De acuerdo con Tim Hills en su libro, The Many Lives of the Crystal Ballroom, Blue Cheer fue el epitome de la psicodelia de San Francisco. La banda sacó su nombre de una marca de LSD que se comerciaba en esos entonces por Owsley Stanley, renombrado químico del LSD y miembro del equipo de Grateful Dead. El sonido de la banda se acercaba bastante al ritmo imperante en la época alrededor de la zona de la bahía de Frisco: Un blues/rock bastante pesado, y bastante ruidoso. Originalmente formada por Dick Peterson en el bajo y voz, Leigh Stephens en la guitarra y Paul Whaley en la batería lanzan su primer álbum en 1968, Vincebus Eruptum, consiguiendo un hit importante de un cover de Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues. El sencillo alcanzaría el lugar 14 del la tabla del Billboard y su disco alcanzó el lugar ll de la tabla de Billboard. Difícil de categorizar, se considera que tiene una base en el blues, en el stoner rock y el Noise. Después de su segundo lanzamiento, Outsideinside, pasan por cambios en la formación y en 1969 era tan crítico el cambio de miembros que para grabar el disco New! Improved! Blue Cheer utilizaron diferente guitarrista para cada cara del L.P: Leigth Stephens fue reemplazado por Randy Holden de la banda de garage rock, The Other Half y el estilo de la banda se volvió en la vena hard rock comercial de Iron Butterfly y Steppenwolf. Posteriormente Randy Holden sería reemplazado por Bruce Stephens para el cuarto álbum Blue Cheer y más tarde Stephen lo sería por Gary Lee Yorder para terminar la segunda mitad del disco. |
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Eddie Cochran (original); The Beach Boys; The Who; Olivia Newton-John; Stray Cats; Rush; Bobby Fuller; Bon Jovi; Bruce Springsteen; Buck Owens; Chris Spedding; The Clash; Deborah Harry; Dionysos; The Flaming Lips; The Flying Lizards; The Guess Who; James Taylor; Joan Jett; Jussi & The Boys; La Muerte; Levon Helm; Motörhead; Ritchie Valens; Rockapella; The Rolling Stones; T. Rex; The Ventures; Van Halen; Warren Zevon |
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