Song Reviews - I'm The Light

"I'm The Light" Blue Cheer from Oh! Pleasant Hope

Written by Joe Viglione

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:28

Direct link to this article here: http://tinyurl.com/imthelight Listen to "I'm The Light" on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8lBTU23fwU Like Grand Funk Railroad's "Closer To Home (I'm Your Captain)" this song is a brilliant anomaly from a group known for hard power trio rock-turned-blues. This is a spacey, early Pink Floyd-ish bending of exotic instruments to come up with a complex texture that should've been a huge hit for this venerable group. 6:27 PM 10-21-09 It's one foot in the astral world Other one in the breeze "I'm the Light" (Houseman, Mayell) - 5:39 Nice to see my AMG review of this track popping up when you do a Google search on it: But it is the sixth track on their sixth album that is the finest moment ever for Blue Cheer. The harp, exotic instrumentation, and Pink Floyd overtones make "I'm the Light" an extraordinary piece of music. "I'm the Light" is to Blue Cheer what "Stairway to Heaven" is to Led Zeppelin, what "Closer to Home" is to Mark Farner and Grand Funk -- a moment of inspiration and production that stands the test of time and that is hard to match. This is a band famous for hard rock sounds creating a pop masterpiece of psychedelic cosmic consciousness. The song seems almost out of place on this collection, but it is truly one of those songs that demands attention and is worth seeking out. Read more here: http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Oh!%20Pleasant%20Hope:1921001779: R.I.P. Dickie Peterson Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_Pleasant_Hope Wikipedia links to my AMG review "I'm the Light" (Houseman, Mayell) - 5:39 Direct link to this article here: http://tinyurl.com/imthelight Listen to "I'm The Light" on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8lBTU23fwU Here's what the YouTube poster has to say: I'm the light is the sixth track from Blue Cheer's sixth, and last album until 1983, Oh! Pleasant Hope. It was released in 1971 and features less psychadelia and more blues-rock & hard rock. This is an unusual Blue Cheer album in that Dickie Peterson only sings lead on three songs. Another unusual aspect is that the song "I'm the Light" features extensive use of the sitar and synthesizer, although on the previous album The Original Human Being the song "Babaji (Twilight Raga)" also featured extensive use of the aforementioned instruments. This song is also included on their compilation Good Times Are So Hard To Find, released in 1990. The above written by Findusam on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/Findusam

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