Blue Cheer
Blue Cheer is an American blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and has been sporadically active since. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and are also credited as being pioneers of heavy metal music and Punk[citation needed]. According to Tim Hills in his book, The Many Lives of the Crystal Ballroom, “Blue Cheer was the epitome of San Francisco psychedelia. The band was rumored to have been named after a brand of LSD and promoted by renowned LSD chemist and former Grateful Dead patron, Owsley Stanley.”
