Artist - Blue Cheer

Date - 1984/05/17

Venue - The 9:30 Club, Washington, DC USA

Setlist And Fingerprints -

Track 01 - Introduction One
Track 02 - Babylon
Track 03 - Parchman Farm
Track 04 - The Girl Next Door
Track 05 - Out Of Focus
Track 06 - Red House
Track 07 - Doctor Please
Track 08 - Summertime Blues (cut)
Track 09 - Introduction Two
Track 10 - Heart Of The City
Track 11 - Rock Me Baby
Track 12 - Ride With Me
Track 13 - Blues Cadillac
Track 14 - Bony Maroney
Track 15 - Second Time Around
Track 16 - Nightmare (cut)

Lineage -

TDK D90 90 min. normal bias cassette tape 3rd gen >
SONY TC-WE805S stereo cassette deck >
Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (recorded tape onto HD here) >
Cakewalk Pyro 2005 (tracked huge wav files here) >
Trader's Little Helper (aligned on sector boundaries,
Flac Frontend encode level 8)

Quality - 7.5-8.5/10 very good to very good plus audience recording

CD 1: Set One: 8 tracks, 46:11
CD 2: Set Two: 8 tracks, 44:55
TT: 91:06

This is probably close to the ENTIRE concert. Tracks 8
and 16 cut off abruptly very close to the end of the songs.
I do not know if any other songs were played after them.
If you know ANYTHING about this show (were you there ?
do you have an entire setlist ?) PLEASE post a response !

What can you say about Blue Cheer? The progenitors of heavy metal
before the phrase was even coined, a powerhouse power trio whose
music defined the term psychedelic, a band so loud that it could be
heard three miles away when playing at outside venues ! Dickie Peterson,
Leigh Stephens and Paul Whaley were like gods to me in 1968, when I
listened to them in 8th grade. In music class, we had a kind of
show-and-tell where each of us brought in our favorite music and played
selections for all of our little friends. After I played 3 Blue Cheer cuts on
the high-grade stereo, my classmates looked at me like I was crazy. I
suppose, in the parlance of the time, that I had "blown their minds". Well,
it's 39 years later and a lot of blown minds are still wandering around,
so let me tell you as much as I can about this recording.

I got this tape in trade at least 17 years ago from a good taper
friend of mine. I was NOT at this show so I can't tell you anything
about that but what little I DO know about this tape is as follows:
there's no distortion, no flutter or "warbling" that I can hear,
no speed problems or fluctuations and no hiss. This show sounds
better when listened to through headphones but it sounds pretty
good through regular speakers. Vocals are fairly clear and sometimes
very clear. Instruments are pretty clear. There is a general overdriven
sound to this recording (not distortion) that stems from the fact that
this had to have been recorded on an inexpensive analog deck. The band's
high volume didn't help. It's not the best tape I ever heard but far from
the worst. It is NOT a "for completists only" tape !! I WILL put up
a sample for those of you who may be reticent about d/ling this.
This is ALL I know about the history of this tape.

I included the setlist from a show that occurred 13 days after this one
in NYC, a show that I upped ~ 8 months ago. I did this for purposes of
comparison. The setlist is basically the same but the order has been
switched around.

Track 01 - Rock Me Baby.flac:0a91e8900af76d38921c4601008aaed8
Track 02 - Girl Next Door.flac:a68877a7dfb15607e2eef494b0829174
Track 03 - Just A Little Bit.flac:c4725bb1a36aa0c56609921435c8aaff
Track 04 - Blues Cadillac.flac:6fa0aa7442a4b365eabc55c0f5140708
Track 05 - Boney Maroney.flac:67abda3fa3562b4485a93525a396325d
Track 06 - Nightmare.flac:ae4cdc0841370ca717536c7562eccffa
Track 07 - Ride With Me.flac:381f165ea66391710807f973b2982e8a
Track 08 - Second Time Around.flac:7806ef610a038e5a01a8d6798dc2ceca
Track 09 - Summertime Blues.flac:1537eac31ab9105dcac159b6b918f89e
Track 10 - Babylon.flac:c174d11a128531701e79396dbf8ee4ea
Track 11 - Parchman Farm.flac:906af0d32e36875b5425b69b1204f49e
Track 12 - Out Of Focus.flac:9726bd2d70d188d3b40cb61baec8c7ea
Track 13 - Red House.flac:04f2ea485da9c1a330496de962311195
Track 14 - Doctor Please.flac:db21dff72db643c03bc81408d88c572d
Track 15 - Heart Of The City.flac:d1506513286d00866f27ca906b18f7c1

Based on this, I think that this 9:30 Club show is virtually
complete. See what you think...

If you have a better sounding copy of this concert, by all means
post it ! If you have the entire show, for God's sake POST IT !!!
Thanks a lot. Feel free to post your opinions of this show, win,
lose or draw. I'm just trying to pay back the great trading
community here. You seeders are winners !

Finally, please don't buy, sell or convert this show to mp3 or any
other lossy format. Please seed this as long as you can. Please trade
this freely as this show MIGHT be fairly uncirculated. This concert will
be a welcome addition to any Blue Cheer fan's collection. Enjoy the show...