Dickie Peterson (bass,vocals), Andrew 'Duck' MacDonald (guitar,vocals), Paul Whaley (drums)
Influences
"The blues, mostly. Chicago stuff like Jimmy Reed early on..big city jazz...the Yardbirds also. Early rhythmn n blues...Stax/Volt stuff like Otis Redding. Duck Dunn from Booker T & the MGs as far as bass players. As far as rock, Little Richard. You have to be influenced by Elvis and Chuck Berry in some way. Alot of younger musicians... bands like the White Stripes. Even Aerosmith. I get alot of inspiration from just jamming w/ different people. Younger people. Myself or any of my contemporaries were into the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.. they made rock music accesible. Janis Joplin probably influenced Paul. She just pissed me off..." Dickie
Peterson Feb 4,2005
Sounds Like
"A tidal wave. We make every effort to make our sound a physical experience. That's one thing people always say about walking away from Blue Cheer. That's not a nice band."
Date: Aug 1, 2006 1:28 PM
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"I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU"
BLUE CHEER DVD: ROCKS EUROPE
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CLASSIC ROCK MAG: AUGUST 2009
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PHOTO BY JONATHAN KOZLOWSKI--- To be used for Promotional Purposes. Publishing of Photo Must Include Credit.
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HIGH TIMES AWARDS
Dickie Peterson Of Blue Cheer : "We're more interested in the gig tomorrow night than being in the hall of fame."
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ATTENTION BC PEOPLE; THE DICKIE PETERSON MYSPACE SITE IS NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH DICKIE PETERSON OR BLUE CHEER!!!!! HE DOES NOT READ IT NOR DOES HE ENDORSE IT!!!!!
Please keep in mind that the members of Blue Cheer do not maintain this profile but are aware of its content and appreciate and welcome all comments and correspondence.
"THIS IS THE ONLY BLUE CHEER SITE ON MYSPACE THAT IS SANCTIONED BY BLUE CHEER THEMSELVES"
Any questions for the band may be submitted here and either l or a member of the band will do the best to get
them answered for ye all...
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CHECK OUT www.bluecheer.us IF NOT JUST FOR THE HISTORICAL VALUE, THE PHOTOS, POSTERS AND SUCH BUT GO ONTO THE MESSAGE BOARD AND SEE IF YOU CAN BRING SOME GOOD CONVERSATION TO THE CHEER TABLE.
Cheers and
Peace,
1%
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ROADBURN NOTE-
If I look emotional in the snap of Dickie and me, is that I had a job
getting to you, man! A few days before the fest, my boyfriend does his
ankle in and can't ride...so I load him and his crutch on the back on
my
bike, get on the ferry to France, cross Belhium and holland, in gale
force
winds and roads crawling with trucks, get to the venue and hear: 'Hi
we're
Blue Cheer and this is what we do' - haha. 1%.
Rock on,
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Can't wait to see you in Los Angeles!
I got married 4 months ago and I thought you might find it interesting and amusing that "Vincebus Eruptum" was the soundtrack to our wedding night :) I hope you are having a good tour.
Cheers,
Drew
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"please come back to San Diego, I want to bask in your sonic glow, I'd love to do a full on psychadelic light show for you that is 60's x 40 years better and more visually aggressive if you come here. You have the touch for loud, most bands mis-use it, they don't ajust their music to be optimum loud. With you I can hear every note and drum beat clearly even when its scary loud, you've listened and got the perfect sound. Best hard rock show I've ever been to."
Bill
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CHEER. PETER HARASIM (GERMAN PROMOTER) AND CREW(CHRIS AND TOSS) FOR EUROPEAN LEG OF TOUR (SPRING OF 2008)
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CHEER AND CREW(CHRIS AND MARK) FOR SOUTHEAST LEG OF 2006 TOUR
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"Blue Cheer and Slayer are like the vitasmin c and thaimin of rock, glad to see I will be getting my nutritional needs met".........Bill W.
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BLUE CHEER STILL RULES!
"I finally caught you guys in Cambridge Ma, round March. The Hottest & Most Fun rock gig I've ever seen. Been wanting to see ya since I first heard Outside/Inside in 69. Even got to take 1 of my sons-you can be sure the next time they will both be along! And yeah, as I left I was saying "Leigh who?"
Vinny
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A NOTE WRITTEN TO CHEER....
Dear Blue Cheer,
My husband and I ate some mushrooms for your show at El Corazon in Seattle.
Holy Fucking Shit man!
You guys pounded us into the ground.
Our skeletons were still vibrating the next day.
Please come back as soon as you can!
Thanks for kicking ass,
anonymous
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Lumpy Robots [edited 0 times] [6/24/2006 11:25:37 AM]
Reply Subject: Blue Cheer
I saw Blue Cheer last night in Brooklyn, made a last minute decision to skip the Unsane/Brought Low show. I figured I can see those bands again, but I may not get a chance to see Blue Cheer too often. Reunion type shows usually suck (not sure if this is really a reunion, I think they have been playing together a little bit here and there for years). Definitely one of the best geezer rock shows I've seen, if not the very best. Much better than the genteel Cream reunion that they showed on PBS, in my opinion.
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You gentle Men are Still,louder than God!!! WoW What A pleasure, My Mom & Dad Turned Me On to you Fellas, You are the true heart & soul of heavy metal if you .... Will , everyone's got your back on that one, from Ten Years after, black sab; to zeppelin! If You can get blue out Cheer!, you got it going on! Rock on my soulfull Brothers Rock on........ GOD BLESS you & yours, faithfully yours, KELLY
BLUE CHEER!!!! SORRY ABOUT THE PASSING OF DICKIE PETERSON...... R.I.P...... LEIGH STEPHENS LIVES IN CALIFORNIA & YOU SHOULD GET HIM TO RE-JOIN THE BAND!!! IMAGINE 2 LEAD GUITARIST TRADING OFF LICKS!!!! AND THE ORIGINAL GUITAR PLAYING FROM THE FIRST 2 ALBUMS, BECAUSE LEIGH STEPHENS WAS THE ONE WHO PLAYED GUITAR ON THE FIRST 2 ALBUMS!!!!! YOU COULD STILL BE A TRIO & STILL BE THE ORIGINAL BAND!!!! JUST TRADE OFF PLAYING BASS!!!! OR, ADD A BASS & YOU WILL STILL HAVE 3 ORIGINAL MEMBERS!!! DO IT FOR THE FANS!!! AND THEN KEEP TOURING!!! ROCK ON!!!! D.B.
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r.i.p dickie thanks for putting on a great show a few years ago at club rebel in nyc. thanks also to you and the other guys for being so cool takin pics and signing my lps.they are all on my wall as i crank my vintage marshalls in tribute. aint no cure r.i.p.
Just want to give much thanks to you for maintaining such a COOL PAGE in honor of one of THE MOST UNIQUE psychedelic rock bands OF ALL TIME! . . . BLUE CHEER! . . . Dickie Peterson, Paul Whaley & Leigh Stephens are 3 musicians who NO ONE else even came CLOSE to playing like . . . To this day, that fact is SO blaringly obvious every time I listen to the "OUTSIDE INSIDE" album . . . A lot of THE LYRICS on that album are also some of THE MOST PSYCHEDELIC of all time as well! . . . As far as I'm concerned, NO ONE OUT THERE COULD BE ANY COOLER THAN DICKIE PETERSON! . . . As a musician who's played in bands since '67 myself, I'm here to tell you I'D MUCH RATHER HAVE THE MUSICAL CAREER DICKIE PETERSON HAD - NEVER SELLING OUT - RATHER THAN ALL THE MUCH HIGHER PROFILE BANDS & MUSICIANS WHO DID SELL OUT!!! . . . I also feel that Andrew 'Duck' MacDonald obviously fits right in with the aforementioned class here too! . . . I've been the Director of a small musical/theatrical live show production company based in South East Florida for the last 18 years . . . Our company had planned on asking Blue Cheer to perform in a special Progressive-Psychedelic-Art-Rock festival we're planning for this spring . . . when we got the news of Dickie's passing . . . about 8 hours after he left us . . . Dickie had given me words of encouragement over the last 10 years . . . telling me it's good to see me "keeping THE FREAK FLAG flying over all these years." . . . And I was so excited about the idea of finally having the chance to look Dickie right in the eye & shake his hand in honor of the great influence he's had me for so long . . . Dickie . . . No one could be any cooler than you.-Jeff Lutes (AKA: Little Lutes On The Big Fat Bass!)
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