Blue Cheer looms large in the annals of hard rock, laying down the sonic foundations of heavy metal, and serving as a crucial influence on the birth of punk, grunge and stoner rock. While the rest of the rock world was mellowing out and embracing the spirit of the Summer of Love, the seminal San Francisco power trio was churning out ballsy blues-rock anthems whose fuzz-heavy, adrenaline-charged intensity helped to alter the course of contemporary music.

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Blue Cheer - The 67 Demos - LP
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Item #: LP-BEAT-148C -

    THE '67 PROCREATION THAT BIRTHED HEAVY METAL! Traded in dark circles for decades, these raw and rambunctious demos finally got the studio restoration they deserved! Blue Cheer’s primordial recordings display the thunderous power that conceived a genre. Pressed on colored vinyl as a single-sided LP to give you the unadulterated uninterrupted ’67 "in the moment" experience!  San Francisco was ground zero for the Summer of Love in 1967, but while everyone else was turning on, tuning in and...