Oh! Pleasant Hope - Blue Cheer video free download

John Ammer

Anybody else out there enjoying H P P D ???

Marvin Gershowitz

I have to defend this GREAT SONG --- Noo noo no.  --- I grew up in the Worlds number #1 Pot Smuggling Areas of the World remembers how only a few funny songs about smoking people knew... but this was a DEFINING SONG a call for common sense and a Celebration of those changes that have cost human and monetary evil in volumes. - - marv!

Marvin Gershowitz

I didn't know I was in a minority.... I just kept thinking they were getting more real and would Freak Out in different ways.

Marvin Gershowitz

One of the GREAT BANDS in AMERICA and who were so much more than were their beginnings.I am so lucky as a musician to have once owned virtually every album ever shown on Billboard between 1967 and 1980. Back then there many many fewer releases than now and it was possible in a little Border Town where unorganized the Music Industry Dumped Records (called cut-outs) and I could purchase 6 month old albums from 10 to 30 for a $1 dollar.

FANTASYPANTHERGRIND

The picture at 1:20 is actually of the band Peterbilt, which featured Dickie Peterson on bass/vocals, his brother Jerre Peterson on guitar to the left & Ruben De Fuentes on the right. I was with Dickie on tour in Chicago when someone from (I believe) the Chicago Sun w/the original 8x10 glossy of that picture arrived and showed it to him after the show. Dickie said he hadn't seen that picture in decades & actually welled up seeing the picture of he & his brother together.

FANTASYPANTHERGRIND

I spent some time on the road with Dickie back in '06/'07 and asked him about the later era stuff. He told me he would love to have gathered a band of guys to play this era stuff, but it was highly impractical. Despite the cold shoulder the later era BC recordings get by younger stoner-rock enthusiasts, he still had an affection for those tracks.

sirlordwhitman

I don't understand why Dickie's new friends during this period just didn't go ahead and changed the name of the band so they didn't confuse fans of the first two albums.

neptunebob

I have to laugh when I see these comments about Dickie paying homage to The Band and so forth. For starters, the song is by Richard G. Peddicord, not Dickie P., and the lead vocal is by Gary Yoder. Dickie is barely there at all.

eurorocker79

They still wrote some good stuff after the loud albums, everybody ages and gains perspective.

spacemonkey1463

Dickie was paying homage to the Band, so what? This is not a rip-off, and Dickie was only one of many people who were utterly knocked on their ass by the Band. And for those of you who think a fuzz box and a stack of marshall amps = 'heavy', you're mistaken. Heavy is in the content of the music, not what gear you use. This track represents progress and evolution of Dickie and the band as players & writers. Summertime Blues was a great track but it hardly represents the sum talent of this band.

Endurance (Band)

@gabiotta it so is to xD

thraxman

@notfragile33 How many times did you copy/ past that comment? Anyhow... kay, thanks, bye.

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progjazzfusion

@gabiotta - yeah dickie said he loved that album by The Band ("Music from Big Pink") so much that it caused him to go that way with blue cheer...the old Blue Cheer guitarist randy holden said dickie would not shut up about the Band, so they parted ways over musical differences (and probably drugs, money, etc). I wish they would have stayed heavy and not gone country/folk like this stuff. i only like the first 3 albums (2 and a half to be precise).

ZSOSER69

Oh pleasant hope, when we gonna get our dope. Thanks Dickie and Blue Cheer for real music that still lives on. I bought every BC album as soon as they came out. Still have them all and will play them till I die.

thraxman

@gabiotta but dude, like, it's THE Blue Cheer lol... glad you could dig it though :)

Gabiotta

This is a blatant rip od The Weight by The Band. Still enjoyed it.

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