Can't believe I'm just now discovering this mind-melter from self-proclaimed guitar god Randy Holden, who briefly joined Blue Cheer on side two of their "New! Improved!" LP.
The story goes that after becoming disenchanted with Cheer, he peaced out, teamed up with drummer Chris Lockheed, and rented an opera house to record this mammoth using a wall of 20 Sunn amps. The title, Population II, being "a reference to the fact that there were only two members in the band as well as being an astronomical term that defines a special kind of Star Group cluster type, having Heavy Metal in its composition." Even crazier than the amp wall is that Lockheed supposedly played both drums and keyboard simultaneously during live shows, though how he did this I just can't imagine.
Anyways, this is pure 70's doom unlike anything I've heard. DIG IT
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