For more than 40 years he’s been making eardrums ring and, according to his physician, growing calluses on his own. But Blue Cheer founding bassist/vocalist Dickie Peterson shows no desire to turn ...

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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.

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 ...

Holden was ahead of his time. Blue Cheer might be considered one of the fathers of heavy metal, but guitarist Randy Holden is one of the world's unsung fathers of doom. Holden's 1970 album Population ...

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 ...