''The Original Human Being'' is

Blue Cheer 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 ...

's fifth album. It was released in 1970 and shows Blue Cheer exploring a more psychedelic and laid‑back

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with horn sections on a few of the songs. This album features a very unusual, and different, song for Blue Cheer: "Babaji (Twilight Raga)", which features extensive use of

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and synthesizer. These instruments were only used one other time in the song "I'm the Light" on the album ''

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''.

Track listing

;Side one #"Good Times Are So Hard to Find" (Kent Housman, Norman Mayell) – 3:22 #"Love of a Woman" ( Dickie Peterson) – 4:35 #"Make Me Laugh" ( Ralph Burns Kellogg) – 5:06 #"Pilot" (Gary R. Grelecki,

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) – 4:49 #"Babaji (Twilight Raga)" (Mayell) – 3:46 (instrumental) ;Side two #"Preacher" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 4:01 #"Black Sun" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 3:31 #"Tears in My Bed" (Kellogg) – 2:06 #"Man on the Run" (Peterson) – 3:58 #"Sandwich" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 5:01 #"Rest at Ease" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 5:35

Personnel

;Blue Cheer * Dickie Peterson – bass, guitar, lead vocals (tracks 2, 3, 9) *

– guitar, harmonica, vocals, harp, lead vocals (tracks 1, 4–8, 10–11), producer * Ralph Burns Kellogg – organ, piano, synthesizer, bass *Norman Mayell – drums, guitar, percussion, sitar, producer on track 1 ;Production *

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– producer *Mark Harman, George Horn – engineers *Russ Gary – mixing and editing at

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, San Francisco, California

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Original Human Being 1970 albums Blue Cheer albums Philips Records albums