You've heard all this before from such notables as the Seeds, Blue Cheer, Question Mark and the Mysterians, and the Kingsmen.

Also from San Francisco, Blue Cheer played psychedelic-influenced rock in a blues-rock style.

He later admitted that he was not a fan of the 1960s music scene, stating, " I wasn't thrilled by Blue Cheer, so I found an alternative, even if it was Bing Crosby.

One of England's heaviest progressive rock bands, High Tide, fused the elements of " metal progenitors such as Cream, Blue Cheer, and the Jeff Beck Group " into their sound.

Blue Cheer was an American heavy metal band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009.

Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and is 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.

Blue Cheer came together in 1967.

Peterson had previously been with the Davis-based band Andrew Staples & The Oxford Circle, as well as future Blue Cheer members Paul Whaley and Gary Lee Yoder.

The original Blue Cheer personnel were singer / bassist Dickie Peterson, guitarist Leigh Stephens and Eric Albronda as drummer.

Albronda continued his association with Blue Cheer as a member of Blue Cheer management, as well as being the producer or co-producer of five Blue Cheer albums.

It is said that Blue Cheer decided to adopt a power trio configuration after seeing Jimi Hendrix perform at the Monterey Pop Festival.

Blue Cheer there were different guitarists on side 1 and side 2 ( Randy Holden and Bruce Stephens ) due to Holden's unanticipated departure from the band.

For the fourth album Blue Cheer, Bruce Stephens left and was succeeded by Gary Lee Yoder who helped complete the album.

Pleasant Hope failed to dent the sales charts, Blue Cheer temporarily split up in 1972.

They played only material from the first two " heavy " Blue Cheer albums, opening their shows with " Summertime Blues ".

Blue Cheer was once again inactive in the early 1980s.

He had conducted the 20-piece band in a series of concerts at Blue Lake park during the summer months.

* The Blue Grass Boys, the band led by Bill Monroe that defined the Bluegrass genre

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

For instance, on 1977's Out of the Blue, the logo was turned into a huge flying saucer space station, an enduring image now synonymous with the band.

Parts of the canal are still used to transport cargo, but it is now primarily used as a tourist and recreational attraction, dubbed Sveriges blå band (" Sweden's Blue Ribbon ").

Lee also plays bass on Canadian rock band I Mother Earth's track " Good For Sule ", which is featured on the group's album " Blue Green Orange ", released in 1999.

After failing to catch Warner Bros. Records on three previous reviews, Jeff Blue, now the vice president of Warner Bros. Records, helped the band sign a deal with the company in 1999.

Also, Engin Yörükoğlu stayed in Paris, and the drummer of Mavi Işıklar ( Blue Lights ), Ayzer Danga, joined the band to replace him.

At 17, he spent a year playing in Eddie Randle's band, the Blue Devils.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

Secret Theatre 1994 compiled rare tracks and demos, while Orange and Blue 1996 contained previously unreleased material including a flower-power cover of Kurt Cobain's song " Lithium " originally recorded by Cobain's grunge band of the same name, Nirvana.

* 1950 – Rudy Sarzo, Cuban-born American bassist ( Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne's band, Whitesnake, Dio, Blue Öyster Cult )

The band's 1983 hit " Blue Monday ", the best-selling 12-inch single of all time, is one example of how the band transformed their sound.

The band was fronted by Egyptian singer Kyra Pharao ( born 17 January 1971 ) and the American rapper Deon Blue ( born 20 January 1970 ).

In 1997, after almost two years of silence, they released their second album, albeit without Deon Blue, who by then had left the band.

In 1988, the band Blue Öyster Cult recorded an updated version of their 1974 song " Astronomy ".

Garvey formed Motivation and joined Blue Orchids, moving to New York, shortly afterwards, to continue with the first band.

With Canadian country rock superstars Blue Rodeo as a back-up band, Music Express called the 1989 Juno appearance a symbolic " passing of the torch " from The Band to Blue Rodeo.

At the time, they were playing in a band called " Sounds Of Blue " which had a few dates booked, but no bass guitarist.

Whiteman was perhaps best known for having premiered George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in New York in 1924, and the orchestrator of that piece, Ferde Grofé, continued to be an important part of the band in 1928.

1 ), Steve Jolliffe ( wind instruments and vocals on Cyclone and the following tour ; he was also part of a short-lived 1969 line-up ), Ralf Wadephul ( in collaboration with Edgar Froese recorded album Blue Dawn, but it was released only in 2006 ; also credited for one track on Optical Race ( 1988 ) and toured with the band in support of this album ), and Linda Spa ( saxophonist who appeared on numerous albums and concerts between 1990 and 1996, as well as 2005 onwards ).

With * Poland ,* the band moved to the Jive Electro label, marking the beginning of the Blue Years.

* Big Bang ( South Korean band ), when T. O. P says Trauma from Blue in Bigbang's 5th mini album

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

ABU sports teams play under the name Blue Tide.

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

Avro began work proper in 1955, with the assigned Rainbow Code name of " Blue Steel " which it would keep in service.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Listerine brand name is also used on toothpaste, Listerine Whitening rinse, new Listerine Fluoride rinse ( Listerine Tooth Defense ), Listerine Agent Cool Blue ( children's teeth tinting rinse ), PocketPaks, and PocketMist.

This name represents the Blue Mosque which is widely known to be the grave of Hazrat Ali ( prophet Mohammad's son-in-law.

The Cozy Cone Motel design is the Wigwam Motel on U. S. Route 66 in Arizona with the neon " 100 % Refrigerated Air " slogan of Tucumcari, New Mexico's Blue Swallow Motel ; the Wheel Well Motel's name alludes to the restored stone-cabin Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba, Missouri.

Most ( but not all ) machines sold to run TOPS-10 were painted " Blasi Blue ", whereas most TOPS-20 machines were painted " Terracotta " ( often mistakenly called " Chinese Red " or orange ; the actual name of the color on the paint cans was Terracotta ).

Male dancers cavort through the town dressed as one of two ' Obby ' Osses, the " Old " and the " Blue Ribbon " ' Obby ' Osses ; as the name suggests, they are stylised kinds of horses.

Fans are generally encouraged to sing along, and at some ballparks, the words " home team " are replaced with the team name, as is the case with the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, and several other Major League Baseball teams.

Enos ' radio code name was " Blue Fox ".

For many years, the more popular blue variant was common enough to have a breed name of its own: the " British Blue ".

At the same time, Royal Blue, another name once given to tints produced from lapis lazuli, has evolved to signify a much lighter and brighter color, and is usually mixed from Phthalo Blue and titanium dioxide, or from inexpensive synthetic blue dyes.

French Blue, yet another historic name for ultramarine, was adopted by the textile and apparel industry as a color name in the 1990s, and was applied to a shade of blue that has nothing in common with the historic pigment ultramarine.

In much of Europe, phthalocyanine blue is better known as Helio Blue, or by a proprietary name such as Winsor Blue.

On warm days Eucalyptus forests are sometimes shrouded in a smog-like mist of vaporised volatile organic compounds ( terpenoids ); the Australian Blue Mountains take their name from the haze.

IBM, also known as " Big Blue " has simplified their logo over the years, and their name.

Dorset Blue Cheese has been awarded Protected Geographical Status, ensuring only cheese originating from Dorset may use the name.