"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 to 10'": The story of Blue Cheer - the band who invented heavy metal

Blue Cheers standing in a street circa 1970.

Blue Cheer might have been named after a particular batch of LSD produced by Haight Ashbury acid guru Owsley Stanley, but they were unlike any other San Francisco band to emerge in the 60s. They were the sound of the Jimi Hendrix Experience filtered into an elongated, deafening, primitive howl; they were Motörhead 10 years before Motörhead. And in 2009 the band told Classic Rock their story.  

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