Blue Cheer – Pilot (US 1970)

Blue Cheer is an American blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and has been sporadically active since. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and are also credited as being pioneers of heavy metal music.

The Original Human Being or BC#5 was Blue Cheer’s fifth album. It was released in 1970 and shows Blue Cheer exploring a more psychedelic and laid back rock n roll with horn sections on a few of the songs. This album features a very unusual, and different, song for Blue Cheer: Babaji (Twilight Raga) features extensive use of sitar and synthesizer. These instruments were only used one other time on Oh! Pleasant Hope in the song I’m the Light.

Dickie Peterson – Bass, Lead Vocals, Guitar
Bruce Stephens – Lead Guitar
Paul Whaley- Drums
Gary Lee Yoder – Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals, Harp
Ralph Burns Kellogg – Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Bass
Norman Mayell – Guitar, Percussion, Sitar, Producer, Drums