The Original Human Being Explained

The Original Human Being
Type:	Album
Artist:	Blue Cheer
Cover:	Blue Cheer - The Original Human Being CD cover.jpg
Released:	September 1970
Recorded:	1970
Studio:	Mercury Sound Studio West, San Francisco, California
Genre:	Psychedelic rock, blues rock, hard rock, country rock
Length:	44:30
Label:	Philips
Producer:	Gary Lee Yoder, Eric Albronda, Norman Mayell (track 1)
Prev Title:	Blue Cheer
Prev Year:	1969
Next Title:	Oh! Pleasant Hope
Next Year:	1971

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 different, song for Blue Cheer: "Babaji (Twilight Raga)", which features extensive use of sitar and synthesizer. These instruments were only used one other time in the song "I'm the Light" on the album Oh! Pleasant Hope.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Good Times Are So Hard to Find" (Kent Housman, Norman Mayell) – 3:22
2. "Love of a Woman" (Dickie Peterson) – 4:35
3. "Make Me Laugh" (Ralph Burns Kellogg) – 5:06
4. "Pilot" (Gary R. Grelecki, Gary Lee Yoder) – 4:49
5. "Babaji (Twilight Raga)" (Mayell) – 3:46 (instrumental)

Side two

1. "Preacher" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 4:01
2. "Black Sun" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 3:31
3. "Tears in My Bed" (Kellogg) – 2:06
4. "Man on the Run" (Peterson) – 3:58
5. "Sandwich" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 5:01
6. "Rest at Ease" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 5:35

Personnel

Blue Cheer

• Dickie Peterson – bass, guitar, lead vocals (tracks 2, 3, 9)
• Gary Lee Yoder – 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

• Eric Albronda – producer
• Mark Harman, George Horn – engineers
• Russ Gary – mixing and editing at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, California