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THE BIRTH The early days and stumbling footsteps. ANG SUE BANAT (ed cople worry about the machines taking over ou ete eee et Ce eer tne) crackle hummed through an amplifier and the first foot whomped down on a distortion pedal, then pet es eee et rad ey ee tere er ead Perea eters tes Pree en eC ee ee Sen eee eee a Stones and Kinks, who took Cochrane stuttering guitar motif SR oe ee eon ec eet as cere eee ee ee ee ee pee rn a Pan ST en ee sense asa child dropping a Letraset onthe floor and kicking the pieces around), but for some it was Blue Cheer’s murderous take ‘on theaforementioned Summertime Blues, even fit dd have allthe nuance ofa Mrs Brown's Boys gag. There's no denying its popularity or power though, i ike being hit by a truck that proceeds to reverse and rollover you again and agin and again. Blue Cheer were quickly snuffed out but, across the water, artists a eed eee ce eae ee they could stack their ever more sophisticated amplifiers and Peete ence eter Cesu sete eee ee eee ms traditional blues that had been seeping out from the Delta for ere ent eet er eet en ras Cee eee ee Peeters Pe oot ee a eed Cee eee rene ety Pe ete ae eee rene that the popular press ran away screaming, while hordes of young. eee teat steerer tts ee et etme first Sabbath album gave rise to heavy metal and everything that ees eee eC Cee ee ert eee eras ofthe bus, atitsruddiest, snaking through the The Wizardthen Reese re a ey ts een oe a Pore ter es Lae Lt ee eee ‘bands like Captain Beyond and Sir Lord Baltimore nipping at theheels ofthe Zeps and the Sabs, planging rock into the heart Seer ee ee eee ee ee ee ee nes) Cer ee eee audience bangs their head in unison? ‘None. Its one-off the bastard child, ever invited home at Cee none! Saath drmmer Bill Ward. Sabbaths minor chords apocayprc workgview and relentless gloom strucka nerein ‘generation haunted bythe deaf, bythe end Everybody was caught off guard by the revolution. Iwasa time of wild ‘experimentation, Heavy metal wen nto bunch of directions One ofthe fist ofshoots of eary metal was downer rack, term coined by Blick ofthe peace and lve era bythe encroaching funk of politcal and financial instability. And then, as Harrington explains, there were the drugs “Davwner rock was allabout Quads. mean, they were clled downers. The drug went along with Drink wine, do Forget Sabbath, Cream and Led Zep; heavy metal was invented by some Quaaludes listen to Black Sabbath, bands now lost in the mists of time. Classic Rock tracks down ee members of Iron Butterfly, Bloodrock, Leaf Hound and the JPT spirtual que, utinthiscasek asa Scare Band to get the lowdown on the birth of very loud music db Soc ous. asada WORDS: SLEAZEGRINDER ILLUSTRATION: FIFTYSEVEN DESIGN. nthe beginning thee was ove, hope and happiness there was noheayy” Tewasthe 1960s~ nobody puticularlynoeded heavy: they had The Beals, The Rolling tones and ‘marijuana. Butby the talend ofthe decade things go ugly. Suddenly there was war sex, dug, iolence, tension, revolution and fighting inthe sets, And soheavy cameo pass Heavy metal hat immortal hoary bast ‘of lust power and violence, vasbornin those murky last moments ofthe 1960s The debate over who coined the term and ‘whatband was the first to bash out the ‘nial fuzzed-oat power chord wal ikly ‘age on forever but one thing we know fr Certain stat metal’ firs fv ears lai the ‘iabolical groundwork fr everything that ‘would come ater: Doom rock, stoner metal power-prog,sam-boogl. ‘very hand mean, gutbucket form of heavy ocknoll youcan think of orgintedin thabriefb rile perio betwen 1968 and 1973 when innocence nd optimism ‘was suddenly yesterdays news, and rock was ready forsome darkness, Cream was the first definable beavy band” aims Joe. Harrington full contact rock journals from Porn, Maineinthe USA. Atte time of writing this he was editing Kapa magazine eis also the author of the mammoth, and quite ila, Sn Co The Birt & Death (OfRoskN Rall which s arguably the most ‘complete and thorough examination of rock music ever penned Inthe book, he traced the beginnings of smetalbackto the power blues of Creams Disa Gens albu: "They had heavy sols, serious musicianship and Druidc imagery, allthings that would bocome trademarks ‘of metal years later And this was stil 1966, However, metal didnt start unt 90 yeas er By 1968, you had four bands that could definably be called heavy metal (MCS, Steppenwolf, ron Buterfly and Blue Caer ll fourleft big foorprins onthe heavy rock eail-Butonly one of them can Play the same song for an enite sho Formed in San Diegoin 196, Iron Butter began teas psychedelic ‘and, but achieved a spectacle mitamorphosisjust to years ter when ‘asst Lee Dorman joined the band and they recorded thelegendary 17-minute proto-metal cassie In-A-Gadde-Da-Vdaaswiring acd attack ‘of ncessant win guitars and gor Fingered organ planking Lee remembersits cretion well "That song ws actually only about a rinuteand.halflong when started Pd just joined and the guitar player had just joined in August so wekind of experimented with that song o kind of get theband together. The song took an alife ‘ofitsown just hep going and going. The engineer just eft the tape rolling the prexlucer wasnt even there when we recorded it ~The other miracle was that we playeit allshe way through without any mistakes Except fora couple of guitar and vocal ‘overs, what ou hears what we played Ifwe had odo than pices, we might still bethere Lee cites freeform FM radio shows forthe song’sinexplcabe succes. nA-Gadle-Da-Vis stayed on American chars fortwo ear. Asto fron uteri status as metal pioneers, Dormans diplomatic about Thave heard it said that ron Burefly are the fathers of heavy metal but we were certainly not alone in hat: ‘With the succes of on Buttery the music industry serambled to find similar ‘in to plander.“Therecord companies wereallowned by old men unt The Beals Joe Harrington explains ‘Asi progressed they hired hippies to run the Tnbels Suen, everything pes, because they have noidea whars gogo hit Fueled by Altamont and Manson ‘While Harrington cts Sabbath asthe undisputed poner of dewener rock he Iaives iis Texan band Bloodrock tht defines the genre. “Bloodrock were the alkime champions of negativity he clans, (Okay e's find un thats true and git straight from th horse's mouth John Nitzingerisalegend in Texas rock Hislongand sored history includes bre out eventful solo career inthe carly 7osthat spawned the gry hits ous Cod and LA Texas Boy, as well as tits with Car Palmerand Alice Cooper But he ismostwel-knownastheman who orchestrate the carer of Bloarock, one ofthe most ile proo-metal bands to ‘ever pena seven-minite song about bleeding to death, From his home in Lake Worth [itzinge explains how he gor blood from, the rock fim Rutledge came up tome when I was playing at the Cellar and asked iflwould wrtesome songs for his “We had fun, we made love to beautiful women, we travelled to the edge of the Cosmic Universe and returned semi-intact.” Jeff Lintrell, JPT Seare Band band, So sid sure and got with‘. tore them alin how wo ply the songs and heirinsruments Vocals Rutledge and his band were han picked in 1969 by Grand Funk. Rairoad manager Terry Knight, who imagined his scruffy young ires asthe meanest oadest heavy metal band possible a srt of Sex Pistols fortheFeak seneration, “Ttaught ther howto play the songs and we went out toa akehouse here infor Worth every weekend a jammed formonths and months, ptingitall together” Nizingersays Eventually the band released eight albumsthroughoutthe 7Osand briely > Get your wings: iron But formed, but they are mos remembered forDOA,asong from ther 197Dalbum Block 2, which became an enduring and highly uni icon FMrado, DOA. {sever minutes of pure pain, doomy, faneralorgan-fulled creepy crawler complete witha besing ambulance sien and hopeless ies ike The shat ed ‘nd moi whe Tm ing God is heaven, ah tmehowta di heavy metal With litle abel suppor and youre looking forthe darkest spot dsrbuton isa wonder they were moment of 70srock, look no further heard tall. Ase Harrington points out [Niznger remembers how the song came “Tere was no heavy metal section athe Blue Cheer powerock. Many bands relesed analbumortwo and disappeared imothe ether bands with sinister names 3 and screaming guitars lke Antrobas, ron Cha Josef, Neceomands, The Fircbinds, Warhorse, Armegedon, Mourning Sun, pitt, jam, Prime Savage Grace and Black Meret These are the forgoten pioneers of tobe: “im came tomecne day and sid record store in 1972, You ust had tolook Thm gonna write the sickest. most ows attherecord and figure out song can think of’ And be damned if While most proto-metal bands bedi write DOA, anit became it: succumbed to dso, punk, obscurity or ‘Asto why sucha nihilistic song could James Taylorby the mid-70s, afew of them ever catch on Nizinger ashis theories ‘managed to endure. Some were even tcame out on Halloween, which was rediscovered by new audences 30 years good. anditgocbanned because ithad the lotr Thre such bands are PT Scare Band, Sirens init And when youre deiving down Leaf Hound ad Bang thestet and you hear sens onthe ado, PT Scat Band was the death etl of wel carsstarted pling oer Thesong cory 7Oshad rok Formed Kansas became atric haar Sothey banned \ yy, Giy Msc in 1973 herneary ‘which made people want tal he more: \ U) tre-orm peel went further {sto oodeocksrepuation asthe . i than any bands before them The ‘moodle early metal Nitzer \ ply named burl constrced sds thatthe and courted the dak : toring walls of erring ecaie, Sideom ocason, but isguickto point ug gitar noise but played mostly couthat ter myers image was, foe ike minded stones inthe rhea largely fan creation, space, aving them one of he most "Thereis some dark, tongue incheck obscure proo-metal innovator, stuffin there says about the early hi As Scare Band drummer eff Lire Bloodrock bums. “At the tine, we were : recalls" Weplayedliveslmos everynight, ‘very serous, We wanted to get down to r itwasjost thar we didi down ithe the iy gritty and really look atthe dark P basement with only afew tripped-out side of things. We didnt wantto bea freaks in attendance" Like thelr forebears sunshine band,helaughs.“Thisband i in Sabbath and Bloodrock the Scare Hand always was mysterious Butit was the fn were ntafrad ro explore the dark sie in ‘hae made them that way The fans bil ap an their musi. Their fs album, loping this image. We dnt know we were onthe 4 Ss, sounds ike the death ofthe darkside really we were just young guys American deamat150decbels doing our thing Iewasthe crowd that But Lie tells me the idea was nocco efined us that way bumthe audience out. "Nah, wejust ‘Asta chemical influences, well, thas a werent eating regularly. he laughs. "We stony left untold. "Drugs? Quaahades?” i lvedin a warzone of gunfireand [Nitznge bristles atthe question" don't stake-ots, pimps and hoes, When you talkabout drugs, Hel this band hasbeen had to walk somewhere you walked with ‘ean and sober fr years now purpose. twas ight toward the endothe Downer rock was no the only direction : Vietnam debacle andthe times were metal went in, By 1971, iad fractured somewhat oppressed. Relive itor not we Sno dozens of diferent micro-genres and thought we were really upand just Fad become a worldwide phenomenon psychedol. We never purposely intended Saalden the record bins were filed tobam peopl out. We deftly wanted swith wld newbands.Asjoe toscarethem, though. Harsingon pat ithe ez, the more The}? Scare band reunited after 2 controversial the mor off-the-wall the years apart andar currently shopping for music was, the ttn Inbclstorelease anew album, Dorman split fom ron Buerly and ter French legend inthe annals of formed the groundbreaking proco-mesal, having fronted three seminal psychedelichoogie band Captain Beyond Trans from 1970-74:Cacts, Atomic SirLordBakimore often citlasthe Rooster and his on creation, Lea Hound godthers of stoner rock, seated up in The hater’ sole album, 1970 Growers Of NewYork. In Washington DC, Pentagram “Mashoom, is now acknowledged asan ‘oue-Sabbathed Sabbath an aid the undisputed dassic of heavy rol and ‘groundwork for American doom metal hasgone on tonfluence countless bands, From Germany Tiger Smith mixed had inching nary every major player inthe rock wth psychotic glam. South Africa stoner rock movement, rom Kjusst0 spawned the acdpunk metal of Sock Monster Magnet Butas French explains, Japan's ower Travelin Band mixed the ban ay green imagery was more ‘Mile astern shythms with crushing horror show then dope show, “hename Leaf Hound was not what 2 some people ave prsumettoe,he [ys "Theides ofthe name coming rma short hotor str by Ray Bradbury called Their, about ado had returned fromthe dead covered nuda eves” Frhermore, French sys, the bands image ke Blodrocks was large digscen ofcourse was around but we ‘everrellyooktot The drugcrazed Jmmgeof Let Hound that some people sexmtohave assumed couldn befurher fromthe tras the band was stright asadyewhen we wroteand payed and ‘corded ouralbur” “Thughaseres musky circumstances, Leaf Hound was droped fromtheirlabelonthe ev ofthat album's rele. “We oud oat cho curcomplceand wer dismay tat our album was not ow going tobe reeased feral French oes "Theband trokeupafer bearing this andirncally abouta yar afer te band had isd, therecord appeared, ut ofcourse now there was no bandto promote” reach went onto payin Big Bertha with Cozy Powel a wells Atomic Rooster and Cacti til fk Leaf evind never got thei de. Then in 198, theband finaly gotthe recognition they deserved"Raor aller ragazne ra, ‘outofthe Ba tomy surprise to lle ‘what fantasicand they thought leaf Houndwas, andinvtsd metodo what was to become guteamajor ‘Gros Of Mimo was released in 19940 crcl acai, French reormed Let Hound with an all new line-up in 207 released anew bur, Le Hod nls ‘Meanwhile ofthe fina band in or daly tio, ang? Wetracked dom Tony Doro drummer orth Piladlhia sncalcombo, who immediate "Wehadtobethefis band tose shotgunson tage. Wed guy dresein bac shooting ashotgun. Beene were sumed Bang see” Bang formed wo weeks afer Woodstock "We were basal doing ‘Back Sabbath then ying gure out wa we were allaboxs” Tony reveal Loud msi and smoke, that wasthe theme ofthe band ‘Ate filly tying to get somewhere intr hometown and erring moe thantheirshareof strangers, includngasinger who wert crazy and end up ina mental insite’ Tony took Bangand atenton he md taveling {oMiamitofinda record disributocto Sgnbishond. Somehere ange way they ran ut cf potand pled erin Daytona. "So we score abagon te boardval,and now ‘ee looking for papers heremembers. Sowe sey the record store and theres a signin the window fora Bate OF The Bands Wego into alk othe gy tl hima eat oy ‘Ozzy wallsas pa coo ra ok © ‘we wantin. Hehas areal sooty atte and telus twas lst week, we weretoo Tae. And then he ays He, Rod Stewarts Playing overin Adana, why don’ you go there a play wih him? “Sowe'resleeping ina tent and sy. ‘Were going to Atlanta to play with Rod Stewart We get tothe place wherche's Playing: seats 17,000 people. start knocking on doors until find this guy ‘who think the promoter tel him ‘We're Bang from Phil ke you to hear usp. fyoulikeus, well playonthe shows ifnot well go away! So weset up, we do ourset forthe guy.andhelovesus. He says Yeah okay, you ean open up the shovt’ That night was Rod Stewart & The Faces, Deep Purple, Southern Comfort. and us. We ad like sx inches tthe fone ofthe stagetosetup: ‘fe that fel night, the band began ‘opening formsjor band like Steppenwa and ke & Tina Turner and eventually got ‘Signed to Capitol records, They released fouralbumsof hard, politically charged rock, but pitin 1974, when heavy metal fellowtoffavour. andthe abel asked they could writes song ike Helen Reddy's feminischit Am Won, We couldn “Tony shrugs resigned. Twenty-five ears ler we got back together and carried on, “The oficial history of heavy metal will probably contin to pace theles eS “The song took on a life of its own. It just kept going and going. The engineer just kept the tape rolling.” = Lee Dorman on Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppetn on page one but there isa rich secrethistory of thehard sul ‘outthere, buried unde stacks of ol, crackling vinyl These are the forgotten ghosts of metal Dusty relics from the dark ages of rocknol. Ancient astro Hosting sounds into the vos. Burbands bike Bloodrock, PT Seare Band, Leaf Hound and Bang rememlser And so do growing caltoffans who arereiscovering the ‘mising links of metal one aired ‘Wehad atonoffun, wemadeloveto besutifl women we traveled tothe edge ofthe Cosmic Universe, and returned Ssemintat"says JPT Scare Band Jeff Line. “We experienced interesting times, made great musi and recorded oct Terry, Paul and arestlalive we aesill bestfriend and we cans play scary ‘music together. loc of coo cas that we met along the way didnt make it Everything as turned out justin ll thingscomsidered” Tron Butteri’s Lee Dorman has sina -yof hs band andits epic proxo-metal signature song, “Itapart of history, tll never go away. One hundred yeas from now, someone wll pall ost In-A-Gaddo-Do- Vida, play eto loud, and sgetthrown in ail” ‘Man, [il et email from pooplethat say: Tjust wanted ttl you tha you blew ‘Black Sabbath ofthe stage that ight in Columbia” Tony D Lore remark 38 we ‘wind up the Bang story. ‘And dd you? ‘Oh yeah, we defintely lew them off the stage, Nodoube aboutit? @ hey were the blowing Gods (OfFuck, There were nobig ‘ugly noisesinrocknell before Blue Chee. They created sonicbrtaliy cling ther teenage angstinto an angry fstfsludgeand Feeback and huting iat stunned toned hippies lke wave of mutation. Everythingabout them was ‘badass. They had Hells Angel fora manager, they were despised bythe other ‘bandsin their scene, and they. played solo that people an from them in fae Proto-pank,proto-metal rd proto-tehab, Blue Cher tok acid wore ght pans cranked their walls oF Marsal stacks and proved once and forall tht wien tcameto all hings rock exces was alvaysbes Formed by singerybassplayermad visionary Dickie Peterson in San Francisco in 196, Blue Cheer~namedaferthe bans favourite brand of LSD ‘was at ist a gangly si piece blues revue with much tenage enthusiasm and lide direction. ter sein i Hendrix perform forthe fst ime, the bar's prime movers Peterson, drummer aul Whaley and gukarist Legh Stephens = thinned theline-up and discovered ther sound wall shaking throb ofa end beatiness tht sounded exactly ike the world ending Anchored bya sweat soaked ellforleather cover of Ee Cochran’ teenage lament Sionmerine Bus, Blu Cher’ definitive sonic manifesto Vinabus Erg arrived in 1968. Irwasthe Blues defined by acid-ed biker goons, anit ‘hanged the world. Two yar ater the band was efetvely ever members shell-shocked, disillusioned, rpped-of and super-feaked. And t would take 40 years fr them to pull pecesback together vas this 18 year old sata" Dickie laughs. "We id have abit ofan arrogance, butit was nurtured by people ke that criticising us Despitebeingheaverand louderand more stoned than everyone else, Blue ‘Cheer hada song inthe carts, and so they were freed to make the rounds on ‘Top 40 radio shows and prme-ime television programsjustlike any other bad. was noc always pecect it “We were on Ameria Bandsarid” Dickie remembers, “And Dick Ca [ABs host didn ike ws ara. My manager was Hells Angel and we were Siting there smoking a hash pipe, and Dick lark comesin and say, 1's people like you that give rock nls bad name Welooked at him an smiled, nd ‘si, Thanks aoe, Dick: We did che Steve Alle show too, and that was real [ick nthe ss, When they introduced us, tee Allen said, Lads ard gemlemen, Blue Cheer. Run foryour li’ “Media relations was just one of the hard esons the young band had tolear. “We werehasicallystoetkids” Dickie explains." We were never around the [kind of money we were getting There was lot of Fanci mismanagement. Allthesongs wroe lost my’ publishing forall of those. dat know it when, ithappened. There was lotof business not just with usbut with alot oF ‘ands inthe 60—that was just slipsho: 1968 asst in fll-sing when Blue Cher were marched ackint the sudo for thei second album and already there were signs of wear and eatin ‘theband. Guitarist Leigh Stephens had quit fearing deafness he continued 0 play withthe louder shan-God band, He was replaced by Randy Holden. ‘Vie nanan was recorded in tree day, with very tle mixing. For tei follow-up, telabel demanded someactual production. This proved dificul. “We had never done studio proton," Dickie exphins.“Iewasall new to tus We couldnttum our amps up the way we wanted toand get the tones we wanted, Sothe record company rented per in New York Harbour aso we ‘went out therewith a mobile unit and recorded all thebasic tracks. Andthen We .wentback into the Record Factory and dill the sweetening which wasalo.” “Theresul was 1968'sblisering Osis perhaps the only album in «exitence recorded outside in New York Harbour, because the band were 00 “Dick Clark said we gave rock’n’roll a bad name. We smiled and said ‘Thanks a lot, Dick?’.”?- vicsie peterson Blue Cheers original an present drummer, Paul Whey, speaks in aagged ‘whisper that suggests ie done the hard way. Much ike bis perpetal partner in-crime hand leader Dickie Person, Paul now ives in Germany fromthe psychedelic madness ofthe US west coast that spam them, "He met gi, meta gi.” he explains, simply. "Tm mach happier here. Tat American syle oi just makes me ners," Between ong and thought pauses, Pal recalls how the Blue Cheer story began, Dickie and his brother showed up in Davis, Calif, in 1966,"he says “They just showed upon the streets ofthis small town, these wo troll. These ‘wolong haired freaks” Paul and Dickie became acquainted and when Dickie moved to San Francisco to soak up the fre lve-and-cheap-drugsatmosphere and forma band, he gave atl acallT was dong nothings the time, so agreed and moved don thereto ths commie he was living in jined the band he was ‘nanditeventuallybecame Hu Cher. twas sues band. We went othe ‘Monterey Pop Festal and saw Hendrix ther, and decided we wanted to bea three-piece. al happened really fast. Within ix months we were signedt0 “Mercury Record rl playing loud, aggressive musi. The three os got together and wrote Dacor Pw ad Ago Foss forthe rs alum, and it sold snillons. That Vins Ergun album has brought sto this point” ‘Aswith any revolutionary concep, Blue Cher had its deractors. Swmmerine ‘lus cimbed the charts, and Bhue Cheer were the toast of the town Unless, of course, youasked the bands they actualy had to play wih, People thought we were just making nis” sys Dickie Peterson, rom is home in Germany. “They thought we wera detriment to the scene. just knew ‘we wanted tobe lou, wanted our musi tobe physica. wanted tt be more thanjustanaudioexperence. This s what we set cut tory and do. Weended ‘up being nal of trouble with other musicians ofthe time, remember Mike "Bloom came upto meat the Avalon Ballroom, and he ays, Youcan''do tha. said “Cimon, Mike, youican dot, too. llyou gota dois turn this knob ‘up 10 1 Heated me ever since, He was this great accomplished sian anid Joud to play ina studio."We knew we were doing something that no one ad done befor” Dickiesays."We thought it was so absurd, we just ad to dot Despite being nearly as loud andtwice as fuzy sits predecessor ‘Outside led to dothe risk business Vins. While the band «continued al bre the atmosphere in San Francisco and inthe barn were both adically changing "You knows there were some sds of the 6s that were absolutly amzing, Dickiesays. “You could go down o Haight tree, andifyou were hungry and didnt have ay money you'd be fed. Ifyou were ut of money and yo had {yur wits about yo you'd find place to seep eat night twas nl ard rugs waledin, around 1969-70, tha it started going sour. We were using hy ‘then. don ie the at that was heroin addict for 15 years Ive been aay from that since the lt 70s but that's when hing all went sh. There was Jogo desertion from the revoltion. There were lac of people that went back tocollege or went backto thir paren real estate agency orseling ie insurance, onand on see eal the time. Inne respect understand it Maybe id been educated, woule'vetoo, but Tv never done anything but play music Sol neverhad anywhere to goto, ut anotherside of mesays that, Its serio nthe face ofthe enemy Paul Whaley quit the band in 1970, "We started screwing around with rugs he says. "“And the wrong kindof drugs too. The money was going there ‘was conflict between me, Dickie, and our guitar player at thetime, Randy Holden. The chemist ust was right. There were arguments and we ust didnt want tobe around each other So wejust decided tobrek itup” ‘Soom afer avin the old, Whaley was invite tooin Brit fllepsych band (Quiver Unfortunately drugs hobbled any chance ofthe stuation working and ‘Whaley soon after dropped out ofthe msiescene completly. He spent the next decade lost in an endless oop of dope and rehab Peterson struggled as ‘vel not just with drugs, but with a seven album record contract hat still needed to be fulfilled despite the fat that his band had aleadybroken up. The banal sorta disso an Igoe stuck trying opal micas together touyand get suidone* Dickies. "Thats why out ofthis int scalburs uroftiem ach icon. EST RT dnt thik the asic bad josie. 3 Dickie and amotey crew of rend hangers-on, and studio micas eventual recorded and elessed fourmore ‘Blue Cheer albus em 196910197 ‘ey are cles rise ali jammed with forays nx country roc, ogan-dominaed prog and breezy ‘West Constjange. Although each album contains 3 gemortwo these albunsae cry mothe work of ‘heyoung savages who paves lou hy halo record outside Tose mad bastards were aleady kong _gane, When the whol tying process was ve Dice Feerson acted drained and heartbroken chopped cli owing mane and vanished retreated fora while’ heaknowledges “Like Isa. was aden 1973.1 wem imo rehab and Istacthitorfouryear. At thetime wasnt even sure sil wanted to bea music, When was fished wa that ws soto ncogrito wld go int places and hear bands covery songs would everday ysl, though. was Northern nen Giifomia,jstbenganonymeus Then.aound he aa lue70s taninoatrinlwhoknew wherePaul vas. SaaS Teale up Pal who was ving England. asked im he was ineresedintalking shout puting the ldbandback together He si he ws, 20 over nd weraled about Two weeks ater we were back togstherin the states hashing” “tas out ofthe le” Paul remembers Arthe tie, we ad no contact with each other whatsoever” "Wewerejutyingtogeittogeher"Dikesays. 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