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Blue Cheer is a psychedelic rock artist from San Francisco, USA formed in 1966. 27 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
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Vincebus Eruptum
1968
Blue Cheer
1969
The Original Human Being
1970
Outsideinside
1968
What Doesn't Kill You...
2007
The Beast Is Back
1985
Dining With the Sharks
1991
New! Improved!
1969
Oh! Pleasant Hope
1971
Lone Star Cafe, New York 1984
2024
Three Giants, One Tour - Live in Germany in 1992 (Live)
2021
The '67 Demos
2019
Live at Rockpalast (Live, 11.04.2008, Bonn)
2017
Live & Unreleased '68/'74
2016
Hello Tokyo, Bye Bye Osaka - Live in Japan 1999 (Live)
2016
Live at Anti Waa Festival 1989 (Live)
2014
Highlights & Lowlives
2014
Blitzkrieg over Nuremberg (Live)
2014
7
2012
The History Of Blue Cheer: Good Times Are So Hard To Find
1994
Hightlights and lowlives
1990
Blue Cheer was an American rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and is also credited as being pioneers of heavy metal (their cover of "Summertime Blues" is sometimes cited as the first in the genre), punk rock, stoner rock, doom metal, experimental rock, and grunge. According to Tim Hills in his book, The Many Lives of the Crystal Ballroom, "Blue Cheer was the epitome of San Francisco psychedelia." Jim Morrison of The Doors called the group "The single most powerful band I've ever seen" and Eric Clapton defined them as "probably the originators of heavy metal". "Blue Cheer" was the name of a variety of LSD made by chemist and Grateful Dead patron Owsley Stanley and the band was probably named for that (although the name existed earlier, as the name of a laundry detergent for which the LSD variety itself was named).
