This is probably their best firing on all cylinders gig. Gotta love the Ozrics. Epic stuff when the tickly guitar starts at 33:45 then goes stratospheric. TY The Ozrics for the experience. Edit: most of it is stratospheric.
@becky51483 ай бұрын
I would really like to know how many bands were influenced by Blue Cheer.
@becky51483 ай бұрын
One of the first albums that I ever bought back in Junior High.
@ronald18503 ай бұрын
Niel Merryweather was a great bass player and song writer
@boomer31502 ай бұрын
I had 2 of his LPs in the 70s...great stuff!
@patkelly83095 ай бұрын
Snakepit was like a video game tune and people were actually lifting their feet up looking out for snakes - Drugs eh? lol Fantastic tune and gig.
@TheMUSICHEART8 ай бұрын
One of the True Unrecognized Gems of the late 1960's. It's one of the best "Whayever You Wanna Call It" Rock 'n' Roll album sides ever recorded. These guys were so far ahead of their time that by the time Randy Holden joined them for New Improved, they were changing lanes again. Randy Holden only recorded three songs but the band moved, mellowed and musically took a bluesy left turn on their next LP with Fool, Hello LA Bye Bye Birmingham, and Same Old Story. Thanks for posting the entire side!
@rossp19918 ай бұрын
Solid bass player !
@jherekcarnelian8828 ай бұрын
This was the Ozrics I fell in love with. Best line up ever!
@lewisdye56278 ай бұрын
Would love to have seen Pan's People prancing around to this on top of the pops in the 60s. It evokes that era sublimely. it effortlessly beats most retro rock bands into a cocked hat
@pelimies18189 ай бұрын
This band should be played in every Kingspan wall commercial.
@titntin5178 Жыл бұрын
I was here! Fantastic to find this after so many years....
@rocknrollhippy771 Жыл бұрын
I really really love this band. Not as keen on some of the later techno driven moments, but on the whole, (apart from Technicians of the Sacred and the majority of Paper Monkeys), for me, they've never really dropped a bollock! Saw them with Gong at Manchester Academy a couple of weeks ago for the first time in a while, and they were absolutely on fire. Technology has allowed their big screen backdrop to really fly these days, a mind blowing long version of Kick muck really helped everyone peak🤣love this though, as I didn't get to start seeing them live till the late 90's given my age. They were great when John Egan was around, although with all due respect I wish he'd keep his gob shut🤦😝✌️
@waynesilverman3048 Жыл бұрын
I never ever liked instrumental s apart from interstellar overdrive tune ,ozrics I can listen as I love psych any way but I stiil like the organic version of them on that 1985 KZread vid live at rainbow fest Norwich
@stevenblakeakahashburns Жыл бұрын
Seen Ozrics many times. Gonna see them again tomorrow in Glasgow 😀
@IdoBenZvi89 Жыл бұрын
is there a version without that annoying video special effects ? or anything from the good years with roly on bass?
@jarrettgardner0628 Жыл бұрын
It truly is tragic - a huge waste of talent and opportunity that in the entire year from late 1968 to late 1969 that Blue Cheer Mach II lineup with Randy Holden for the replaced Leigh Stephens were only able to record 3 songs. 1 song being a brief Elizabethan acoustic piece that lasts all of 45 seconds with a gong being sounded that lasts the last 30 seconds. So in essence in a whole year, Blue Cheer Mach II Lineup only accomplished what amounts to recording a 2 song single. These songs were then tacked into the 3rd Blue Cheer studio album, "New & Improved" as an afterthought to pad out the 2nd side of the album. After Blue Cheer Mach III lineup had vastly changed musical direction on Side I of the studio album from a heavy & psychedelic blues / proto heavy metal band into a laid back California hippie rock band. So the album comes off as completely schizophonic due to the huge difference in musical direction between Blue Cheer Mach II & Mach III lineup. The reason for such little musical productively by Blue Cheer Mach IN lineup comes down to the fact that the manager at the time would not allow the band to rehearse but only play a succession of monstrously loud and heavy live gigs. The other reason being 2/3 of the band members other than Randy Holden were strung out on hard drugs namely cocaine and heroin thanks to their band manager who clearly wasn't looking out for the best interests of the band members or the band. Miraculously, the 2 heavy psychedelic songs that Blue Cheer Mach II lineup of Dickie Peterson, Paul Whaley, & Randy Holden were able to properly record in the studio turned out to be amazing songs that were clearly ahead of their time!! Imagine what Blue Cheer Mach II lineup would have been able to achieve had the band been allowed to rehearse and come up with further heavy music that no doubt would have been visionary!!
@Phreno_Xeno2 жыл бұрын
I used to listen to this on the "Fun With Mushrooms" album as a young man. Still great imo. 👽🧠🧘♀️
@frontdesk96622 жыл бұрын
31 years ago today
@newsles22 жыл бұрын
Lovely, thanks. First saw them in '91.
@tomstegeman43442 жыл бұрын
The camera guy is a smacked-ass. What a bloody mess.
@Splinkvision2 жыл бұрын
Why has this only got 18 views FFS is the world mad!
@BuzzWreck612 жыл бұрын
Nice full stereo version…no chasing back and forth between speakers (which ain’t bad either).
@tylermerritt74983 жыл бұрын
New to these guys. I'm 59 and love this shit. Don't know how they slipped by till now
@Alji3dom3 жыл бұрын
Tell the bongo player to get his coat.
@waynesilverman30483 жыл бұрын
Is he playing out if time?
@tomstegeman43442 жыл бұрын
I feel the same sentiment about the camera guy. What a smacked-ass.
@Alji3dom3 жыл бұрын
John is completely off his box on hallucigens mushrooms or acid.
@obbor43 жыл бұрын
Cheer sounded like Quicksilver Messenger Service, to me, on this one. I thought this was one of their better efforts.
@godetonter47643 жыл бұрын
WTF was Randy Holden , this sounds like Flaming Lips Grunge
@mdog1113 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant performance! Credit where credit's due: this was almost certainly filmed by Bill Woods and his team at a gig promoted by Grob and Jennifer who staged many psychedelic events in London in the late 80's and early 90's under the moniker of Brainbox Pollution.
@paullegg96822 жыл бұрын
What happened to Bill Woods ? Any contact for him? i was on his label taste/divine
@tomstegeman43442 жыл бұрын
After watching this, I really wish he hadn't had filmed it. Even for 1991, the quality sucks. And the annoying shaking of the camera and blurry zooming in/out doesn't help to make the experience "psychedelic", nor do the windows 95 media player laser graphics that are pasted over everything. What a mess. "Bill" needs his ass kicked. Even 30 years later.
@kavakavaband3 жыл бұрын
space is deep
@pablomartinezhernandez67093 жыл бұрын
Pioneros del stoner metal
@mannyruiz19543 жыл бұрын
A shame that Randy didn't stay longer with Blue Cheer.
@mannyruiz19543 жыл бұрын
@David Wang Never knew that. I've heard his album Population 2, which I think is what Blue Cheer could've been, but who knows.
@MrMaricopa1003 жыл бұрын
@David Wang Nor was Randy a member of the original trio that made Blue Cheer famous in its day.
@mannyruiz19543 жыл бұрын
Shame that Randy didn't last longer with Blue Cheer.
@On_Dust2 жыл бұрын
The original lineup will always be the best Cheer lineup. Although they got back together and they gave us 'what doesn't kill you...' in 2007. This album is a killer. Filled with biker metal.
@mannyruiz19542 жыл бұрын
@@On_Dustyeah I agree. It's like saying the original Sabbath lineup sorta.
@On_Dust2 жыл бұрын
@@mannyruiz1954 Yes. The original Sabbath lineup will always be the best. My favourite by them is their first album. Especially the songs 'Wicked World' and 'N.I.B.'
@zetetick3953 жыл бұрын
What can I (or anyone) say, they really are the fucken best @~@
@waynesilverman30483 жыл бұрын
Did they take psychedelics before they went on stage ?
@zetetick3953 жыл бұрын
@@waynesilverman3048 Nowadays we've mostly all heard about that some folk 'micro-dose' daily with certain psychedelics, yeah? Well it's said to be Historical fact that it was the Ozrics who invented it's sister- spa-regimen: 'Macro-dosing' - The blood-shroom ratio has to be maintained at 3/1 at all times.... ...Although none of them can now remember which part was the three and which the one.........so further therapeutic experimentation is definitely called for. I'd do it myself, of course, but have a over-busy I.T. business life crafting utterly spurious smartphone apps and need to remain as unoriginal as possible in my levels of neuro-plasticity :(
@zetetick3953 жыл бұрын
SEAWEED! YAAASSSS!! \😸/ Delicious Tentacles slow-writhing iridescent neon slime across my tripping skin! .................Mmmmmmm, you're my favourite Octapus, Monsieur Ozrico! 🐙
@livewirejams70322 жыл бұрын
Not Seaweed on this mate. Joie...
@zetetick3954 жыл бұрын
Early Ozrics were just undefeatable live, fucking awe inspiring! I THINK I was here for this one? Honestly the whole period has just melted into a vast psychedelic swirl lol 🍓🕊 😅 worth it 🤣
@michaelbeale422 жыл бұрын
I may have been too. Fuck knows, good chance. Hahaha
@tomstegeman43442 жыл бұрын
Maybe you'd remember if you were there if the camera guy wasn't such a smacked-ass. What the fuck was he thinking?
@mexkris23 Жыл бұрын
If they were supporting Caravan, then I think I was there.
@waynesilverman3048 Жыл бұрын
Zet,them superstrawbs,nice and strong!
@PompousPicard14 жыл бұрын
Fuck, I used to have this on VHS! Living in a tiny state in the US, in the mid '90s as a teenager, I figured this was the closest I might ever get to seem them live.
@scottwylie85684 жыл бұрын
This was the first gig I ever attended.
@zetetick3953 жыл бұрын
No better place to start, eh? :D
@mbolden3933 жыл бұрын
I was there too! I almost feel melty and sweaty just reminiscing 😊
@Pfth3 жыл бұрын
Me too! It was a transcendental experience... (don't honestly remember a lot about it other than being mesmerized by auditory and visual hallucinations! lol)
@musicboyuk4 жыл бұрын
Best era of Ozrics by far
@pedrotierra21174 жыл бұрын
Ozric Tentacles siempre maravilloso
@jbradbury24 жыл бұрын
One of the best intros ever, generator John is absolutely crucial to the mix.
@MarcT77612 жыл бұрын
Lord Hagos
@emilyanya39005 жыл бұрын
1.21 in orgasmic
@cybersurfer6665 жыл бұрын
Saw them loads in the 80s and 90s .. awesome band
@LustyClassyCat5 жыл бұрын
I liked the period when the flute guy was around. But the 80's will always be my favorite. After around 2001 it just not the same.
@jbradbury24 жыл бұрын
Agree, In fact you could go a bit further and say late 90s onwards ozrics music had a different feel, not quite as many nice suprises in their songs. My last ozric purchase was "Become the other"
@TheMcmikerg4 жыл бұрын
I can understand nostalgia for the early stuff, but I honestly don't think they've ever done a duff album. It's ALL brilliant, even if later Ozrics is more techno / sequencer-driven. "Waterfall Cities" is especially great.
@pagancidergod88403 жыл бұрын
@@TheMcmikerg And Spirals In Hyperspace too - a real return to form.
@LustyClassyCat3 жыл бұрын
Tho his recent album is very nice, y'all check out Shimmer Into Nature album, Ed Wynne solo album. it reminds me of the 90s era of them.
@LustyClassyCat3 жыл бұрын
@@TheMcmikerg some albums i did not like at all were The Floors too Far Away and Paper Monkeys.
@ozricness6 жыл бұрын
0:21:13 :-D
@ednewton44556 жыл бұрын
FFS! I remember queueing for this gig only to be told sold out not far from reaching the front 😟 However, did catch a blinding show a year or two later at the Town and Country (I seem to recall that Hawkwind were at the Hammersmith Apollo the same night!)
@ednewton44552 жыл бұрын
Forgotten I'd written that post. Looking forward to the box set with this included 😀
@yogbarog1002 жыл бұрын
@@ednewton4455 indeed, I have the VHS, but the boxed set is most welcome
@myrrhakerenko55536 жыл бұрын
I can only compare this to the Tower of Babel!
@zachmcfatridge6 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thanks for the upload.
@joewhittaker47606 жыл бұрын
Just to report that iIfound out today - 5th December 2017 - that Spit James -soloist here - a.k.a. Ian Cruickshank - a leading authority and exponent on Gypsy Jazz Guitar had died earlier this year. I never met the guy to tell him that this is my choice for all time greatest electric guitar solo. Majestic and so full of emotion.
@hplovehandle6 жыл бұрын
Of all the Ozrics gigs I've been to I think the Fridge ones were the best. Good acid,good mates and amazing music.
@ednewton44556 жыл бұрын
Big Dave , I loved the Fridge 😀
@tjwykoff32035 жыл бұрын
What's the live music scene like there is there more bands like this
@giancarlogavardoni3297 жыл бұрын
perché non posso scaricare i concerti dei Ozrictentacles?
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Was this supporting Caravan? If so, I was there,
This is probably their best firing on all cylinders gig. Gotta love the Ozrics. Epic stuff when the tickly guitar starts at 33:45 then goes stratospheric. TY The Ozrics for the experience. Edit: most of it is stratospheric.
I would really like to know how many bands were influenced by Blue Cheer.
One of the first albums that I ever bought back in Junior High.
Niel Merryweather was a great bass player and song writer
I had 2 of his LPs in the 70s...great stuff!
Snakepit was like a video game tune and people were actually lifting their feet up looking out for snakes - Drugs eh? lol Fantastic tune and gig.
One of the True Unrecognized Gems of the late 1960's. It's one of the best "Whayever You Wanna Call It" Rock 'n' Roll album sides ever recorded. These guys were so far ahead of their time that by the time Randy Holden joined them for New Improved, they were changing lanes again. Randy Holden only recorded three songs but the band moved, mellowed and musically took a bluesy left turn on their next LP with Fool, Hello LA Bye Bye Birmingham, and Same Old Story. Thanks for posting the entire side!
Solid bass player !
This was the Ozrics I fell in love with. Best line up ever!
Would love to have seen Pan's People prancing around to this on top of the pops in the 60s. It evokes that era sublimely. it effortlessly beats most retro rock bands into a cocked hat
This band should be played in every Kingspan wall commercial.
I was here! Fantastic to find this after so many years....
I really really love this band. Not as keen on some of the later techno driven moments, but on the whole, (apart from Technicians of the Sacred and the majority of Paper Monkeys), for me, they've never really dropped a bollock! Saw them with Gong at Manchester Academy a couple of weeks ago for the first time in a while, and they were absolutely on fire. Technology has allowed their big screen backdrop to really fly these days, a mind blowing long version of Kick muck really helped everyone peak🤣love this though, as I didn't get to start seeing them live till the late 90's given my age. They were great when John Egan was around, although with all due respect I wish he'd keep his gob shut🤦😝✌️
I never ever liked instrumental s apart from interstellar overdrive tune ,ozrics I can listen as I love psych any way but I stiil like the organic version of them on that 1985 KZread vid live at rainbow fest Norwich
Seen Ozrics many times. Gonna see them again tomorrow in Glasgow 😀
is there a version without that annoying video special effects ? or anything from the good years with roly on bass?
It truly is tragic - a huge waste of talent and opportunity that in the entire year from late 1968 to late 1969 that Blue Cheer Mach II lineup with Randy Holden for the replaced Leigh Stephens were only able to record 3 songs. 1 song being a brief Elizabethan acoustic piece that lasts all of 45 seconds with a gong being sounded that lasts the last 30 seconds. So in essence in a whole year, Blue Cheer Mach II Lineup only accomplished what amounts to recording a 2 song single. These songs were then tacked into the 3rd Blue Cheer studio album, "New & Improved" as an afterthought to pad out the 2nd side of the album. After Blue Cheer Mach III lineup had vastly changed musical direction on Side I of the studio album from a heavy & psychedelic blues / proto heavy metal band into a laid back California hippie rock band. So the album comes off as completely schizophonic due to the huge difference in musical direction between Blue Cheer Mach II & Mach III lineup. The reason for such little musical productively by Blue Cheer Mach IN lineup comes down to the fact that the manager at the time would not allow the band to rehearse but only play a succession of monstrously loud and heavy live gigs. The other reason being 2/3 of the band members other than Randy Holden were strung out on hard drugs namely cocaine and heroin thanks to their band manager who clearly wasn't looking out for the best interests of the band members or the band. Miraculously, the 2 heavy psychedelic songs that Blue Cheer Mach II lineup of Dickie Peterson, Paul Whaley, & Randy Holden were able to properly record in the studio turned out to be amazing songs that were clearly ahead of their time!! Imagine what Blue Cheer Mach II lineup would have been able to achieve had the band been allowed to rehearse and come up with further heavy music that no doubt would have been visionary!!
I used to listen to this on the "Fun With Mushrooms" album as a young man. Still great imo. 👽🧠🧘♀️
31 years ago today
Lovely, thanks. First saw them in '91.
The camera guy is a smacked-ass. What a bloody mess.
Why has this only got 18 views FFS is the world mad!
Nice full stereo version…no chasing back and forth between speakers (which ain’t bad either).
New to these guys. I'm 59 and love this shit. Don't know how they slipped by till now
Tell the bongo player to get his coat.
Is he playing out if time?
I feel the same sentiment about the camera guy. What a smacked-ass.
John is completely off his box on hallucigens mushrooms or acid.
Cheer sounded like Quicksilver Messenger Service, to me, on this one. I thought this was one of their better efforts.
WTF was Randy Holden , this sounds like Flaming Lips Grunge
What a brilliant performance! Credit where credit's due: this was almost certainly filmed by Bill Woods and his team at a gig promoted by Grob and Jennifer who staged many psychedelic events in London in the late 80's and early 90's under the moniker of Brainbox Pollution.
What happened to Bill Woods ? Any contact for him? i was on his label taste/divine
After watching this, I really wish he hadn't had filmed it. Even for 1991, the quality sucks. And the annoying shaking of the camera and blurry zooming in/out doesn't help to make the experience "psychedelic", nor do the windows 95 media player laser graphics that are pasted over everything. What a mess. "Bill" needs his ass kicked. Even 30 years later.
space is deep
Pioneros del stoner metal
A shame that Randy didn't stay longer with Blue Cheer.
@David Wang Never knew that. I've heard his album Population 2, which I think is what Blue Cheer could've been, but who knows.
@David Wang Nor was Randy a member of the original trio that made Blue Cheer famous in its day.
Shame that Randy didn't last longer with Blue Cheer.
The original lineup will always be the best Cheer lineup. Although they got back together and they gave us 'what doesn't kill you...' in 2007. This album is a killer. Filled with biker metal.
@@On_Dustyeah I agree. It's like saying the original Sabbath lineup sorta.
@@mannyruiz1954 Yes. The original Sabbath lineup will always be the best. My favourite by them is their first album. Especially the songs 'Wicked World' and 'N.I.B.'
What can I (or anyone) say, they really are the fucken best @~@
Did they take psychedelics before they went on stage ?
@@waynesilverman3048 Nowadays we've mostly all heard about that some folk 'micro-dose' daily with certain psychedelics, yeah? Well it's said to be Historical fact that it was the Ozrics who invented it's sister- spa-regimen: 'Macro-dosing' - The blood-shroom ratio has to be maintained at 3/1 at all times.... ...Although none of them can now remember which part was the three and which the one.........so further therapeutic experimentation is definitely called for. I'd do it myself, of course, but have a over-busy I.T. business life crafting utterly spurious smartphone apps and need to remain as unoriginal as possible in my levels of neuro-plasticity :(
SEAWEED! YAAASSSS!! \😸/ Delicious Tentacles slow-writhing iridescent neon slime across my tripping skin! .................Mmmmmmm, you're my favourite Octapus, Monsieur Ozrico! 🐙
Not Seaweed on this mate. Joie...
Early Ozrics were just undefeatable live, fucking awe inspiring! I THINK I was here for this one? Honestly the whole period has just melted into a vast psychedelic swirl lol 🍓🕊 😅 worth it 🤣
I may have been too. Fuck knows, good chance. Hahaha
Maybe you'd remember if you were there if the camera guy wasn't such a smacked-ass. What the fuck was he thinking?
If they were supporting Caravan, then I think I was there.
Zet,them superstrawbs,nice and strong!
Fuck, I used to have this on VHS! Living in a tiny state in the US, in the mid '90s as a teenager, I figured this was the closest I might ever get to seem them live.
This was the first gig I ever attended.
No better place to start, eh? :D
I was there too! I almost feel melty and sweaty just reminiscing 😊
Me too! It was a transcendental experience... (don't honestly remember a lot about it other than being mesmerized by auditory and visual hallucinations! lol)
Best era of Ozrics by far
Ozric Tentacles siempre maravilloso
One of the best intros ever, generator John is absolutely crucial to the mix.
Lord Hagos
1.21 in orgasmic
Saw them loads in the 80s and 90s .. awesome band
I liked the period when the flute guy was around. But the 80's will always be my favorite. After around 2001 it just not the same.
Agree, In fact you could go a bit further and say late 90s onwards ozrics music had a different feel, not quite as many nice suprises in their songs. My last ozric purchase was "Become the other"
I can understand nostalgia for the early stuff, but I honestly don't think they've ever done a duff album. It's ALL brilliant, even if later Ozrics is more techno / sequencer-driven. "Waterfall Cities" is especially great.
@@TheMcmikerg And Spirals In Hyperspace too - a real return to form.
Tho his recent album is very nice, y'all check out Shimmer Into Nature album, Ed Wynne solo album. it reminds me of the 90s era of them.
@@TheMcmikerg some albums i did not like at all were The Floors too Far Away and Paper Monkeys.
0:21:13 :-D
FFS! I remember queueing for this gig only to be told sold out not far from reaching the front 😟 However, did catch a blinding show a year or two later at the Town and Country (I seem to recall that Hawkwind were at the Hammersmith Apollo the same night!)
Forgotten I'd written that post. Looking forward to the box set with this included 😀
@@ednewton4455 indeed, I have the VHS, but the boxed set is most welcome
I can only compare this to the Tower of Babel!
Awesome, thanks for the upload.
Just to report that iIfound out today - 5th December 2017 - that Spit James -soloist here - a.k.a. Ian Cruickshank - a leading authority and exponent on Gypsy Jazz Guitar had died earlier this year. I never met the guy to tell him that this is my choice for all time greatest electric guitar solo. Majestic and so full of emotion.
Of all the Ozrics gigs I've been to I think the Fridge ones were the best. Good acid,good mates and amazing music.
Big Dave , I loved the Fridge 😀
What's the live music scene like there is there more bands like this
perché non posso scaricare i concerti dei Ozrictentacles?