This also came across my memory screen as of late. I could live inside the riff.
I realize that Randy Holden had a chance to improve the song after recording with Blue Cheer but the Pop II version does something for me Blue Cheer never could. See for yourself:
Holden's versz is superior in every way. The vast majority of scientists support this view.
One of the best Blue Cheer songs was also a Randy Holden joint:
Blue Cheer's big hit was "Summertime Blues..." They have good songs but when your big hit is a cover? Kind of embarrassing. The Who was ALREADY PLAYING "Summertime Blues" on tour and at festivals (including at Monterey Pop in California, where BC is from, in the year before BC started playing it). Doubly embarrassing. Trying to think of a modern analogy but people don't cover songs in the same way these days.
For the record, I like Blue Cheer. But basically Randy Holden joined, improved, transcended, and surpassed one of the so-called most important bands in the realm of heavy guitar music. And then he went dark for like thirty years, and then he released an album with this next-level cover art:
Astounding.
