by Max: 

On November 13th, Blue Cheer will be playing the Magic Bag with Scott Morgan’s Powertrane.  I don’t know a whole lot about Blue Cheer: San Francisco power trio, famous for a cover of Summertime Blues almost 40 years ago.  There’s one more thing I know about Blue Cheer, they were heavy, very heavy.  No one in 1968 were even close to this heavy…maybe the MC 5.  Imagine pillars crumbling into the ocean.  I’m not sure what they sound like now at all.  According to a freak at a record show early last summer, two of the original members are involved.  I’m more interested in seeing Scott Morgan.  He was a member of the Rationals and an integral member of  Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, writing most of their early, and some of their best, material.  He’s still got it, too, from what I can tell.  As a result of the profound, welcomed, interest in Detroit Rock and Roll, he’s teamed up with members of the Hellacopters in the past few years to form a band whose mission it is to give this guy a chance to properly record his SRB material in a studio, the Hydromatics.  The two albums he’s done with them are fantastic.  His two Powertrane albums are well worth finding also.  Scott Morgan is responsible for some of the best music to come out of this area ever and I can’t wait to pay homage.  Let me know if any of you are interested.  Here is Powertrane performing the SRB hit Dangerous