They were the bellowing Gods Of Fuck. There were no big ugly noises in rock’n’roll before Blue Cheer. They created sonic brutality, coiling their teenage angst into an angry fist of sludge and ...

Like a musical tsunami swallowing everything in sight, San Francisco’s Blue Cheer submerged all of those happy-go-lucky denizens of the Age of Aquarius with the chaotic soundwaves, howling feedback ...

Paul Whaley, drummer for Bay Area power trio Blue Cheer, died on Monday, January 28 at age 72 at his home in Regensburg, Germany. The San Francisco Chronicle reports, via the band’s co-founder and ...

Before there was Black Sabbath, there was Blue Cheer, a San Francisco band that helped pave the way for metal with its heavy psychedelic blues-rock sound. Sadly, the band’s classic and longtime ...

Blue Cheer, a big influence on metal, grunge, and stoner rock, went through a variety of lineups over the years, but founder Dickie Peterson was always at the core. He was the band's heart and soul, ...

Dickie Peterson, founding bassist and vocalist for incredibly heavy, riff-laden hard rock trio Blue Cheer, passed away early Monday (October 12) morning in Germany, according to various media reports.

The founding late-Sixties lineup of the San Francisco power trio Blue Cheer — singer-bass guitarist Dickie Peterson, drummer Paul Whaley and guitarist Leigh Stephens — was so loud that the band ...

Dickie Peterson, frontman for the hugely influential San Francisco power trio Blue Cheer, died at home in Germany this morning, as Blabbermouth reports and Blue Cheer's publicist confirms. No cause of ...

Rush drummer and Blue Cheer fan Neil Peart wrote the following in memory of singer/bassist Dickie Peterson, who died after a battle with liver cancer on October 12th: In the summer of 1968, I was ...

Dickie Peterson, the bassist and lead singer for Blue Cheer, the San Francisco power trio best known for its high- volume 1968 hit rendition of the rock ‘n’ roll classic “Summertime Blues,” has died.