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Blue Cheer was an American psychedelic blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early
1970sand wassporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and is
alsocredited as beingpioneers of heavy metal (their cover of "Summertime Blues" is sometimes cited as the first in the genre),
punkrock, stoner rock, doom metal,experimental rock, and grunge. According to Tim Hills in his book, The Many Lives of the
CrystalBallroom, "Blue Cheer was the epitome of SanFrancisco psychedelia." Jim Morrison of Th ...read more
Blue Cheer was an American psychedelic blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early
1970sand wassporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and is
alsocredited as beingpioneers of heavy metal (their cover of "Summertime Blues" is sometimes cited as the first in the genre),
punkrock, stoner rock, doom metal,experimental rock, and grunge. According to Tim Hills in his book, The Many Lives of the
CrystalBallroom, "Blue Cheer was the epitome of SanFrancisco psychedelia." Jim Morrison of The Doors called the group, "The
singlemost powerful band I've ever seen."
The band is said to have been named after a street brand of LSD and promoted by renowned LSD chemist and former
GratefulDead patron,Owsley Stanley.
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