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Beethoven's Nightmare

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The first and the only Deaf Rock band in the world consisting of three talented deaf musicians from Canada and California.\After three decades of performing before deaf audiences across the United States of America, the all-deaf rock and roll band, Beethoven's Nightmare made music history in November 15, 1994 with the recording of its first album, "Turn It Up Louder" at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood. The 10-song CD and music video was released May 22, 2005 in Honolulu at Hawaii Public Radion. "I want to be an American in a Rock and Roll Band" and "Turn It Up Louder" are the lead songs on the 10-song CD. \In 1969, the year that the Woodstock Music Festival changed music history and American society, three Berkeley, California teens launched their own American dream of becoming rock ‘n' roll stars. "It didn't matter that we were deaf," said Ed Chevy, Beethoven's Nightmare's original bass player, who now resides in Honolulu with his wife and two children. "We talked and dreamed of becoming rock ‘n' roll stars. We were just like every other American teenager in the late '60s. We were experiencing the underground music revolution visually." Three-plus decades and five name changes later, lead guitarist Steve Longo, bass player Ed Chevy and drummer Bob Hiltermann have lived their way into being the world's first and only deaf rock band—Beethoven's Nightmare.