''Oh! Pleasant Hope'' is the sixth album by American rock group Blue Cheer, and their final album until 1984's ''
The Beast Is Back
''The Beast Is Back'' is the seventh album by a newly reformed Blue Cheer, 13 years after their previous album, ''Oh! Pleasant Hope'' (1971). It contains re-recorded versions of some of the band's most popular songs from their late-1960s heyday a ...
hard rock
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and includes more
folk rock
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elements. This is an unusual Blue Cheer album in that
Dickie Peterson
Richard Allan Peterson (September 12, 1946 – October 12, 2009)sitar
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and
synthesizer
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, although on the previous album ''
The Original Human Being
''The Original Human Being'' is Blue Cheer's fifth album. It was released in 1970 and shows Blue Cheer exploring a more psychedelic and laid‑back rock and roll with horn sections on a few of the songs. This album features a very unusual, and di ...
'' the song "Babaji (Twilight Raga)" also featured extensive use of the aforementioned instruments.
Gary Yoder
Gary Yoder (born July 4, 1955) is an American former basketball player. He is best known for his collegiate career at the University of Cincinnati, although he played for three different colleges during his career.
High school career
A standout ...
) – 4:22
#"Believer" (Gary R. Grelecki,
Gary Lee Yoder
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Yoder was born in Pasadena, California. Oxfo ...
) – 3:41
#"Money Troubles" (Dr. Richard Peddicord) – 4:02
#"Traveling Man" (Gary R. Grelecki,
Gary Lee Yoder
Gary Lee Yoder (January 25, 1946 – August 7, 2021) was an American musician who was part of several 1960s San Francisco psychedelic rock bands, including the Oxford Circle, Kak, and Blue Cheer.
Yoder was born in Pasadena, California. Oxfo ...
) – 3:10
#"Oh! Pleasant Hope" (Dr. Richard Peddicord) – 2:39
#"I'm the Light" (Kent Housman, Norman Mayell) – 5:39
#"Ecological Blues" (Norman Mayell) – 2:26
#"Lester the Arrester" ( Ralph Burns Kellogg) – 3:02
#"Heart Full of Soul" (
Dickie Peterson
Richard Allan Peterson (September 12, 1946 – October 12, 2009)Dickie Peterson
Richard Allan Peterson (September 12, 1946 – October 12, 2009)Norman Mayell – drums, guitar, sitar, vocals
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Gary Yoder
Gary Yoder (born July 4, 1955) is an American former basketball player. He is best known for his collegiate career at the University of Cincinnati, although he played for three different colleges during his career.
High school career
A standout ...
– acoustic and electric guitars,
harp
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organ
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Biology
* Organ (biology), a part of an organism
Musical instruments
* Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone
** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument
** Hammond ...
,
piano
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,
synthesizer
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Douglas Killmer
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