Dining with the Sharks

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Dining With the Sharks
Blue Cheer - Dining With the Sharks CD cover.jpg
Studio album by
Blue Cheer
Released1991
Genre Blues rock, heavy metal, stoner rock
Length47:43
Label Nibelung
Blue Cheer chronology
Highlights and Lowlives
(1990)		Dining With the Sharks
(1991)		 What Doesn't Kill You...
(2007)
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Dining With the Sharks is the ninth studio album by American rock band Blue Cheer. It features a cover of Jimi Hendrix's classic "Foxy Lady". [2]

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily on the genres of blues, rhythm and blues, and from country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical styles. Musically, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse–chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political.

Blue Cheer band

Blue Cheer was an American rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues rock or acid rock style, and are also credited as being some of the earliest pioneers of heavy metal, with their cover of "Summertime Blues" sometimes cited as the first in the genre. They have also been noted as influential in the development of genres as disparate as punk rock, stoner rock, doom metal, experimental rock, and grunge.

Jimi Hendrix American guitarist, singer and songwriter

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Big Noise" (Dickie Peterson, Bruce Stephens, John Rewind) – 4:51
  2. "Outrider" (Dickie Peterson) – 6:19
  3. "Sweet Child of Reeperbahn" (Dickie Peterson, Dieter Saller) – 4:12
  4. "Gunfight" (Dickie Peterson, Dieter Saller) – 6:53
  5. "Audio Whore" (Dickie Peterson) – 3:53
  6. "Cut the Costs" (Dickie Peterson, Dieter Saller) – 3:41
  7. "Sex Soldier" (Dickie Peterson, Dieter Saller) – 5:05
  8. "When Two Spirits Touch" (Dickie Peterson) – 3:52
  9. "Pull the Trigger" (Dieter Saller) – 5:20
  10. "Foxy Lady" (Jimi Hendrix) – 3:51

Personnel

Dickie Peterson American musician

Richard Allan Peterson known as Dickie Peterson was an American musician, best known as the bassist and lead singer for Blue Cheer. He also recorded two solo albums: Child of the Darkness and Tramp.

Paul Gene Whaley was an American drummer best known as the drummer for rock band Blue Cheer. He was the son of country music singer Paul Edward Whaley. He grew up in the towns of Vallejo and Winters, California. He played drums with a Davis, California band called the Oxford Circle. Whaley is credited on the Oxford Circle album Live at the Avalon 1966. When he left the Oxford Circle to join Blue Cheer in 1967, the former band dissolved. He was the longest-standing member in Blue Cheer following Peterson's death at age 63. Whaley died of heart failure in 2019 at the age of 72.

Additional personnel
Tony McPhee English blues guitarist

Anthony Charles McPhee is an English blues guitarist, and founder of The Groundhogs. An early version of this band backed Champion Jack Dupree and John Lee Hooker on UK concerts in the mid-1960s. He is often credited as 'Tony (T.S.) McPhee'. He was given this name by the producer Mike Vernon who suggested adding 'T.S.' to his name when McPhee released a duet single with Champion Jack Dupree in 1966 called Get Your Head Happy, in order to make it look more like an official blues name. It stands for Tough Shit.

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r316526
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