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Blue Cheer is tagged as: psychedelic rock, hard rock, blues rock, classic rock, psychedelic

Blue Cheer is an American blues rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s, who helped to pioneer heavy metal music. Based in San Francisco, original personnel were singer/bassist Dickie Peterson, guitarist Leigh Stephens, and drummer Paul Whaley. A power trio, the band was named after a variety of LSD promoted by underground chemist and Grateful Dead backer Owsley Stanley. This variety of LSD took its name from a popular laundry detergent. Their first hit was a cover version of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” from their debut album Vincebus Eruptum (1968). The single peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, their only such hit, and the album peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200 chart.
The group’s sound was hard to categorize, but was definitely blues-based, psychedelic, and very loud. The band has been subsequently acclaimed as an influence on garage rock, punk rock, heavy metal, and grunge. Julian Cope has written, “In 1968, nothing but nothing in America and Britain sounded as brutal as Blue Cheer except for The Velvet Underground.”
The group underwent several personnel changes after the 1968 release of Outsideinside, and then through yet more changes during and after 1969’s New! Improved! Blue Cheer (different guitarists...
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Top 10 Blue Cheer Songs
Summertime Blues
Out Of Focus
Rock Me Baby
Doctor Please
Parchment Farm
Second Time Around
Just A Little Bit
The Hunter
Babylon
Magnolia Caboose Babyfinger
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Top 10 Blue Cheer Albums
Vincebus Eruptum
Outsideinside
Good Times Are So Hard To Find
Blue Cheer
New! Improved!
The Original Human Being
Outside Inside
Oh! Pleasant Hope
Live in Japan
New! Improved! Blue Cheer
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