Eric Albronda

Eric Albronda 1968, © Jim Marshall

Eric Albronda 1968
© Jim Marshall

Released July 2012!

Remastered from original master tapes, this material was recorded in 1979 and remained unreleased to this day.
Sometimes referred to as the original “Beast is Back”album, the tapes were presented to various labels when
Megaforce signed the band for an album deal in the mid 1980’s. Released on 150gram multicolored vinyl and a beautiful gate fold cover.
Numbered and limited to only 500 copies
Blue Cheer 7 Blue Cheer 7 back

 

Blue Cheer Inside Right

Blue Cheer Inside Left

Spinning image designed by Judy Herzog and Carol Watts as the original album cover art for Blue Cheer 7, 1979'

Spinning image designed by Judy Herzog and Carol Watts as the original album cover art for Blue Cheer 7, 1979

 

 

 

Albums produced or co-produced by Eric Albronda :

Blue Cheer - Outside Inside 8/68
Blue Cheer - Blue Cheer 12/69
Blue Cheer - The Original Human Being 9/70
Blue Cheer - OH ! Pleasant Hope 4/71
Blue Cheer - The Beast Is Back 2/85
Leigh Stephens - Red Weather 2/69
Pilot - Pilot 10/71
Blue Cheer - Cheer #7 (recorded 4/1979) 7/12

Recent Albums / Videos produced by Eric Albronda :

Reader's Digest - Yosemite National Park (Video)   1990

Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park

 
A video done by Reader's Digest on Yosemite National Park, which we did an original classical music score
(Video Sound Track) for, with George Michalski of Leigh Stephens' band Foxtrot, The Allman Brothers Band,
Sky Sunlight Saxon and The Seeds, . . . .

 
When The Power Goes (/88) When The Power Goes
George Michalski grand piano
Vince Wallace tenor sax

A Classical / Jazz piano CD on Blue Jazz Records. George was a Blue Cheer fan when he was 12 or so, was a musical prodigy, concerts in Japan at 9 years old, etc. He went on to write and perform on some of Barbara Streisand's albums. Also, he was a session musician on some of Blue Cheer's early demo tapes. He was in Leigh Stephens' band Foxtrot. George is a good friend of Don Johnson, Miami Vice, Nash Bridges fame and is currently musical director for the Nash Bridges national TV show with Don Johnson.

 
Yosemite (/92) Yosemite
George Michalski grand piano
Kristina Kopriva violin

A Classical piano and violin interpretation of the music composed for the Yosemite video.

 
San Francisco (/02) San Francisco
George Michalski . . . and a cast of thousands

Soundtrack to the City of San Francisco.

 
Douglas Tilden - The Man and His Legacy by Mildred Albronda

Eric Albronda was born on November 18, 1945 in California and raised in San Francisco. At age 6 serious music studies began. All through early Grade School he studied music and played / performed in the school band and school orchestra.
While attending the University of California, Berkeley, a keen interest developed in the San Francisco music scene of the mid and late sixties.
Eric began to associate with the Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey, Neil Cassady and various musicians of the San Francisco music scene, including Andrew Staples and the Oxford Circle of Davis, California.
Eric Albronda and his music partner Jerry Russell wanted to be active in the music scene in San Francisco and began to methodically start a band. First came Dickie Peterson from Andrew Staples, who moved to San Francisco with Eric and Jerry. Next came Leigh Stephens and Blue Cheer was born. Eric began playing drums with the band but was later replaced by Paul Whaley which formed the now famous Blue Cheer.
Eric went on to be part of Blue Cheer's management team and later developed an interest in producing the music. After securing a contract for Leigh Stephens, Eric and Leigh moved to England where they produced Red Weather with various studio musicians from England. England was where Eric learned most of his production skills. Also in England Eric did sound work at the Royal Albert Hall and also produced a record for Bruce Stephens called Pilot. 5 years were spent in England learning the art of music production. Eric returned to The United States and produced several Blue Cheer Records and also other projects.

Short summary made from an online interview with Eric Albronda


 
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