Blues rock band rooted in San Francisco. Many consider their Summertime Blues cover to be the dawn of heavy metal.
A plausible assumption is that the band took its name from Procter & Gamble detergent Cheer ('It's new - it's blue!'), but the more frequently read explanation is the more likely one: that Blue Cheer was high quality LSD, the use of which was heartily recommended by Owsley Stanley, a Grateful Dead sound engineer.
Stanley made the drug himself and it is generally assumed that the total amount he made was half a kilo, an amount adequate for 500 hits of 100 microgram. Far out, man!
A plausible assumption is that the band took its name from Procter & Gamble detergent Cheer ('It's new - it's blue!'), but the more frequently read explanation is the more likely one: that Blue Cheer was high quality LSD, the use of which was heartily recommended by Owsley Stanley, a Grateful Dead sound engineer.Stanley made the drug himself and it is generally assumed that the total amount he made was half a kilo, an amount adequate for 500 hits of 100 microgram. Far out, man!
Active: 1966-1972; 1974-1975; 1978-1979; 1983-1994; 1999-2009, USA
Site: http://www.vickibrennerent.com/bluecheer/bluecheer.htm
See also: Grateful Dead
1 comments:
Owsley would have laughed at 100 mic doses back then. As far as I know Blue Cheer was a private batch and probably in the 500+ mic range.
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