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Rock guitarist Leigh Stephens was a founding member of the power trio Blue Cheer, a hard rock band
Rock Legend Dickie Peterson, Co - Founder Of Blue Cheer Succumbs To Cancer At 61
It is with a sad, heavy heart that we report that Rock 'n' Roll lost a true legend today, as Dickie
Blue Cheer's Dickie Peterson Dead At 61
DICKIE PETERSON, the bassist/vocalist and founding member of BLUE CHEER, passed away this morning
MINT TATTOO - Mint Tattoo (1969)
The MINT TATTOO was born as an offshoot of the legendary 60's proto punk acid band Blue Cheer. Bru
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum Release date:January 1968 Genre: Hard Rock Code:b0573678 * Summertim
Biography Blue Cheer
Blue Cheer is a San Francisco-based rock group of the late 1960s and early
1970s, who helped to pioneer heavy metal music. According to Tim Hills in
his book, The Many Lives of the Crystal Ballroom, "Blue Cheer was the
epitome of San Francisco psychedelia. The band was rumored to have been
named for a brand of LSD and promoted by renowned LSD chemist and former
Grateful Dead patron, Owsley Stanley. Another rumor is that the Blue Cheer
was a blend of heroin and methamphetamine with just a pinch of arsenic "for
an extra glowly feeling", taken intravenously. A "blue cheer" is also
obscure and somewhat archaic British slang for a fart.
The band's sound, however, was something of a departure from the music
that had been coming out of the Bay Area: Blue Cheer's three musicians
played heavy blues-rock, and played it very loud.
Original personnel were singer/bassist Dickie Peterson, guitarist Leigh
Stephens, and drummer P
