Best Source for "Blue Cheer"

Are you talking about CD or vinyl? On vinyl your choice would be originals or Akarma, right? On CD, I think there were some 80s(?) Polygram issues, and then some more recent ones on Akarma in Digipak/Karmapack.
I can't comment on the sound as I've only heard the Akarma CDs (not exactly hi-fi recordings to begin with...), but if packaging is important to you, Akarma would be the way to go. Outside Inside's gloriously trippy cover is reproduced rather nicely on the Karmapack.

 

I think I read in the last issue of ICE that some label was putting these out on CD as a twofer. I don't have the magazine here to look at it up, but maybe someone else remembers seeing it also.


...........Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger

 

I think that the "OutsideInside" CD on Repertoire is the best that I have heard for that title. You may also want to check out the Polygram compilation CD from 1990, entitled "Good Times Are So Hard To Find - The History Of Blue Cheer", which was remastered by Dennis Drake. This compilation sounds nice, and does contain many songs from the first 2 Blue Cheer LPs.




Ed Hurdle
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