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"Mike Bloomfield came up to me at the Avalon Ballroom and says, ‘You can’t do that’. I said, ‘C’mon, Mike, you can do it, too. All you gotta do is turn this knob up ...

They were the bellowing Gods Of Fuck. There were no big ugly noises in rock’n’roll before Blue Cheer. They created sonic brutality, coiling their teenage angst into an angry fist of sludge and ...
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R.I.P. Paul Whaley, drummer of proto-metal band Blue Cheer dies at 72

Before there was Black Sabbath, there was Blue Cheer, a San Francisco band that helped pave the way for metal with its heavy psychedelic blues-rock sound. Sadly, the band’s classic and longtime ...
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BLUE CHEER Guitarist Randy Holden Streams Early Doom Metal Track "Blue My Mind" From 1970

Holden was ahead of his time. Blue Cheer might be considered one of the fathers of heavy metal, but guitarist Randy Holden is one of the world's unsung fathers of doom. Holden's 1970 album Population ...