PAUL WHALEY - Drummer For Proto-Metal Band BLUE CHEER Dead At 72

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San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that Paul Whaley, whose thrashing drum sounds lifted the San Francisco blues rock trio Blue Cheer out of the psychedelic rock haze and into the realm of proto-heavy metal, died Monday, January 28th, at his home in Regensburg, Germany. He was 72. The cause...

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