The Loudest Band of All Time?

I was putting together today's playlist and for no reason at all thought of a band from back in 1968 that promoted itself as "the loudest band in history."

After googling around a bit I learned that Blues Cheer guitarist Leigh Stevens and bassist Dickie Petersen cabled between 8 and 10 100-watt Marshall heads together, turned the volume to infinity, and kept on going until either their speaker coils caught fire or their amplifiers' tubes exploded.

Blue Cheer played so loud drummer Paul Whaley nailed his drum kit to the stage floor to keep it from vibrating away. There's one article indicating Blue Cheer had to cut their show at Chicago's Kinetic Playground short because the rearmost wall farthest from the stage cracked floor to ceiling due to the vibration ... and that a number of people had already left the show with their ears bleeding

I'm guessing that was some serious volume.

Today's playlist includes Blue Cheer's 1968 AM radio hit:

Summertime Blues

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That wasn't much fun, was it? Let's switch over to Enya, and give our ears a break.

Shepherd Moons
Storms in Africa
How Can I Keep from Singing?
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