...Would have made it big. Real big. Unlike most of the bands that arose in San Francisco in the late fifties, **Blue Cheer** played loud and furious blues-based psychedelia. **Vincebus Erupton**, in it's day, was quite unlike anything else out there. Their version of **Summertime Blues** is still my favorite.The track I've posted here, **Sun Cycle**, was the soundtrack to some incredible...
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In keeping with "ROCKNROLLPIMP's":http://mog.com/ROCKNROLLPIMP tradition I thought I would post a video. This is something that I hole near and dear into my heart especially as I was rasied on a bottle of mercury. And fluff. Anyway. (metal speak here) I fuckin' love Blue Cheer. Particularly their first album. Check it out if you love some serious heavy metal from the late sixties. The ba...
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A version of the proto-metal rock trio, Blue Cheer, whose debut album, 1968’s Vincebus Eruptum, included a recording of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues,” (which The Who would cover on Live At Leeds), will hit the road in early April. There’s just one problem, the touring group will not include original guitarist Leigh Stephens. The current group will include original singer/bassist Dic
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written in the late 1950s by Eddie Cochran and his manager Jerry Capehart it was covered many timesMore famously by the Who on Live at Leeds but prior to that this cover made the charts
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Here's an article on Blue Cheer I was working on much of last year which has finally been published. It’s another dry run for a book I've been trying to bash out which deals with some of San Francisco's lesser known acid rock bands (all publishers and/or agents are welcome).The highlight of writing this piece came when I found myself watching TV with BC mainstay Dickie Peterson in his apartme.
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From Blabbermouth: Dickie Peterson, the bassist/vocalist and founding member of BLUE CHEER, passed away this morning (Monday, October 12) at 5 a.m. in Germany. He was [63] years old. Although the cause of Peterson's death has not been released, he had reportedly been battling cancer for the past several months. BLUE CHEER was an American blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in ...
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Blue Cheer are possibly one of the dirtiest sounding bands I have ever heard. Everything that makes a rock song good - distortion (check), heavy drums (check), over confident but not necessarily skilled guitar solo (check). This track just has balls, that's all I'm saying. True southern rock greatness.
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Prioneering heavy bass player Dickie Peterson has passed away in Germany.Dickie Peterson, the bassist/vocalist and founding member of Blue Cheer,passed away Monday morning (October 12) at 5 a.m. in Germany. He was 61years old. Peterson had reportedly been battling prostate and livercancer, and according to Blue Cheer's message board, had developed a fatalinfection following a surgical procedure...
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It is with a sad, heavy heart that we report that Rock 'n' Roll lost a true legend today, as Dickie Peterson, the singer and bassist for pioneering metal/psychedelic band Blue Cheer, died in Germany this morning, October 12th. He had been battling liver cancer for several months. He recently turned 61 on September 12th.Inspired by the heavy blues improv of Cream and Hendrix, legendary proto met...
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Dickie Peterson, co-founder of pioneering San Francisco based heavy-as-fuck psych stoner metal juggernaut Blue Cheer passed away this morning in Germany. He was 61. Fuck Columbus Day, I’m bumping their 1968 LP Outsideinside all day in commemeration of Peterson and Blue Cheer (who I saw two years ago at The Dame in Lexington and felt [...]
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We didn’t report on this one yesterday, but rest assured we didn’t miss it: Blue Cheer frontman Dickie Peterson passed away yesterday of liver cancer. He was 63.Blue Cheer are often credited as being the forefathers of proto-heavy metal, heaving gone on to inspire Black Sabbath with their work in the late 1960s. They were [...]
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