People From Davis, California: Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Cheer, Michael Franti, Dj Shadow, Peter S. Beagle, Carol W. Greider, Charles Tart

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Cheer, Michael Franti, Dj Shadow, Peter S. Beagle, Carol W. Greider, Charles Tart, Denise Curry, Lois Wolk, Dave Scott, Karen Joy Fowler, Paul Scheuring, Ruthlane Uy Asmundson, Butterscotch, John Lescroart, Jessica Utts, Sean Stewart, Paul Moller, Myril Hoag, Jason Fisk, Mariko Yamada, Tony Cline Jr., Gary Lee Yoder, Helen Thomson. Excerpt: Blue Cheer Blue Cheer were an American psychedelic blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and were sporadically active from that point on until 2009. Based in San Francisco , Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and are also credited as being pioneers of heavy metal (their cover of "Summertime Blues " is sometimes cited as the first in the genre ), punk rock , stoner rock , doom metal , experimental rock , and grunge . 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 is named after a street brand of LSD and promoted by renowned LSD chemist and former Grateful Dead patron, Owsley Stanley ." Jim Morrison of The Doors called the group, "The single most powerful band I've ever seen." History Golden years (1966 1969) Blue Cheer came together in 1966. It was co-founded by Eric Albronda and Jerry Russell , music aficionados who wanted to become involved with the San Francisco music scene of the 1960s. Both moved with Dickie Peterson from Davis, California , to San Francisco. Peterson had previously been with the Davis-based band Andrew Staples