Joe HasselvanderW
Joe Hasselvander

Joe Hasselvander is an American musician who has been playing professionally since nine years old in 1966. He was self-taught, playing the violin and later the drums. He has been the drummer of the NWOBHM Raven from 1987 until 2017, and was a member of the influential doom metal band Pentagram.

Randy HoldenW
Randy Holden

Randy Holden is an American guitarist best known for his involvement with the West Coast acid rock group Blue Cheer on their third album, New! Improved! (1969). Additionally, he is a painter. His album Population II from 1970 is considered to be one of the earliest examples of doom metal.

Ethan James (producer)W
Ethan James (producer)

Ralph Burns Kellogg, also known as Ethan James, was a musician, record producer, and recording engineer best known for his work on the Minutemen's seminal album Double Nickels on the Dime. He also produced and engineered albums for Black Flag, The Bangles, Rain Parade, Dos, and many others. Many of these recordings were undertaken at Radio Tokyo Studio, the recording facility he founded in the early 1980s.

Duck MacDonaldW
Duck MacDonald

Andrew "Duck" MacDonald is an American heavy metal/hard rock guitarist, who has played in several bands, the most well-known of which being Blue Cheer.

Dickie PetersonW
Dickie Peterson

Richard Allan Peterson known as Dickie Peterson was an American musician, best known as the bassist and lead singer for Blue Cheer. He also recorded two solo albums: Child of the Darkness and Tramp.

Nick St. NicholasW
Nick St. Nicholas

Nick St. Nicholas is a bandleader, bass guitarist, singer and songwriter; best known for his partnership in Steppenwolf.

V. ValeW
V. Vale

V. "Valhalla" Vale is an American editor, writer, interviewer, musician and, as Vale Hamanaka, was keyboardist for the initial configuration of Blue Cheer, before it became famous as a power trio. He is the publisher and primary contributor to books and magazines published by his company, RE/Search Publications. Vale is the host of the television talk show Counter Culture Hour on Public-access television cable TV channel 29 in San Francisco. The show is edited by his partner Marian Wallace. Vale is Japanese-American.