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Blue Cheer
Origin San Francisco, California
U.S.
Genre(s) Psychedelic rock, proto-metal
Years active 1967-1972
1988-Present
Label(s) Polygram
Philips
Associated acts The Other Half
Members
Dickie Peterson
Duck McDonald
Paul Whaley
Former members
Joe Hasselvander
Randy Holden
Burns Kellogg
Norman Mayell
Tony Rainier
Bruce Stephens
Leigh Stephens
Gary Yoder

Blue Cheer is a San Francisco-based rock group that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and again from the mid-1980s to the present. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Psychedelic rock is a style of Rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music PolyGram was the name from 1972 of the Major label recording company started by Philips as a holding company for its music interests in 1945 Philips Records is a Record label that was founded by Dutch electronics giant Philips. Dickie Peterson (born 1948 Grand Forks ND is the bassist and lead singer for Blue Cheer. Andrew MacDonald aka Duck MacDonald, is an American heavy metal / Hard rock Guitarist, who has played in several bands the most well-known Leigh Stephens is an American Guitarist and songwriter Stephens became famous as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the San Francisco Psychedelic The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) They are credited as being pioneers of 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. Crystal Ballroom, originally built as Cotillion Hall, is a historic building in Portland Oregon, United States. 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. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Owsley Stanley (born Augustus Owsley Stanley IIII, January 19, 1935) also known as The Bear, was an underground LSD chemist the first [1]

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History

The band's sound 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 Paul Whaley. A bass player (bassist is a Musician who plays a Double bass, Bass guitar, keyboard bass or wind Dickie Peterson (born 1948 Grand Forks ND is the bassist and lead singer for Blue Cheer. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles Leigh Stephens is an American Guitarist and songwriter Stephens became famous as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the San Francisco Psychedelic A drummer is a Musician who plays a Drum or drums particularly a Drum kit ("drum set" or "trap set" Marching percussion Their first hit was a cover version of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" from their debut album Vincebus Eruptum (1968). In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released Raymond Edward "Eddie" Cochran ( October 3, 1938 He took music lessons in school but quit the band to play drums " Summertime Blues " ( 1958) is a 12-bar Blues standard song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart about the trials and tribulations Vincebus Eruptum is the debut album of proto- metal / psychedelic band Blue Cheer, released in January 1968. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The single peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, their only such hit, and the album peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200 chart. The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard

The group's sound was hard to categorise, but was definitely blues-based, psychedelic, and loud. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression Modern psychedelia For "psychedelics" see Psychedelic drug.

Summertime Blues was backed with Dickie Petersen's original song Out Of Focus. Petersen also contributed the eight-minute Doctor Please and Second Time Around, which features Paul Whaley's frantic drum solo. Filling out the album, the band cranks out blues covers Rock Me Baby and Mose Allison's Parchement Farm.

The group underwent several personnel changes after the 1968 release of Outsideinside, and then yet more changes during and after 1969's New! Improved! Blue Cheer (different guitarists on side 1 and 2). Outsideinside is the second album by Blue Cheer, released on PolyGram in August 1968 Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. After Leigh Stephens was replaced by Randy Holden, formerly of Los Angeles garage rock band The Other Half, in 1968, Blue Cheer's style changed to a more commercial hard rock sound à la Steppenwolf or Iron Butterfly. Randy Holden is a guitarist best known for his involvement with the West Coast proto-metal group Blue Cheer on their third album New! Improved! Blue Cheer Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Steppenwolf is a rock band that helped establish Heavy metal music in the late 1960s along with bands like Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly Iron Butterfly is an American Psychedelic rock and early Heavy metal band well known for their 1968 hit " In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida For the fourth album Blue Cheer, Holden, who had left during the third album, was subsequently replaced by Bruce Stephens. Stephens later quit and was replaced by Gary Lee Yoder, who helped complete the album. Gary Lee Yoder is a musician who was part of several 1960s San Francisco Psychedelic rock bands including Kak, Oxford Circle, and Blue

The new line up of Peterson, Ralph Burn Kellogg, Norman Mayell, and Yoder in 1970 saw the release of The Original Human Being and then 1971's Oh! Pleasant Hope. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. When Oh! Pleasant Hope failed to dent the sales charts, Blue Cheer temporarily split up.

From 1988 to 1993, Blue Cheer toured mainly in Europe. During this time, they played with classic rock acts as well as then-up-and-coming bands: Mountain, Outlaws, Thunder, The Groundhogs, Ten Years After, The Yardbirds, Danzig, Mucky Pup and others. Mountain is an American rock band. The band broke up in 1972 reformed two years later broke up soon after that and have since reconvened and resumed Thunder are an English Hard rock band who originally formed in 1989 when Terraplane broke up leaving lead singer Danny Bowes The Groundhogs were a British Blues band founded in late 1963 which toured extensively in the 1960s and continued in existence sporadically to the present day Ten Years After are an English Blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s The Yardbirds are an English rock band noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous Guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck Danzig is an American Heavy metal band that fuses dark lyrics and imagery with Blues-rock influences Mucky Pup began as an American hardcore band formed in Bergenfield, New Jersey in 1985 when brothers John (drums and Chris (vocals Milnes

On the Nibelung Records label they released several albums. 1989 saw the release of Blue Cheer's first official live album, Blitzkrieg over Nüremberg. This album was recorded on Blue Cheer's first European tour in decades. The drum chair was then taken by Dave Salce; bass by Dickie Peterson; guitar by Duck McDonald. Andrew MacDonald aka Duck MacDonald, is an American heavy metal / Hard rock Guitarist, who has played in several bands the most well-known

1990 saw the release of the Highlights & Lowlives studio album, composed of blues-based hard rock, sometimes reminiscent of Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones, and several ballads. The album was produced by notable grunge producer Jack Endino. Jack Endino is a Music producer and musician based in Seattle. The line-up was Peterson on bass and vocals, Paul Whaley on drums, and Duck McDonald on guitars.

Blue Cheer followed up "Highlights" with the much heavier Dining with the Sharks. McDonald was replaced by German ex-Monsters guitar player Dieter Saller. Peterson was on bass and vocals again, and Paul Whaley was again on drums. Also featured is a special guest appearance by Groundhogs guitarist Tony McPhee. The album was produced by Roland Hofmann.

In the early 1990s, Peterson and Whaley re-located to Germany. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 Whaley still lives there while Peterson has since moved back to California. Guitar work has been handled by Duck MacDonald since that time. Blue Cheer are still active as of 2008. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Peterson reunited with Leigh Stephens and performed with drummer Prairie Prince at the Chet Helms Memorial Tribal Stomp in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in Fall of 2005, and their lively performance drew old rockers like Paul Kantner and others from backstage to observe. Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco California, is a large Urban park consisting of 1017 acres (4 They did some recordings in Virginia in Winter 2005 with Joe Hasselvander of Raven and Pentagram on drums. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state Raven are an English heavy metal band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement Pentagram are a long-running American heavy metal band from Virginia, most famous as one of the pioneers of Doom metal. Paul Whaley has since returned to the band as drummer. The group's 2007 CD, "What Doesn't Kill You. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. . . ", features contributions from both Whaley and Hasselvander.

Blue Cheer's video for Summertime Blues made an appearance in 2005 documentary Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, where Geddy Lee of Rush referred to the group as one of the first heavy metal bands. " Summertime Blues " ( 1958) is a 12-bar Blues standard song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart about the trials and tribulations Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Metal A Headbanger's Journey is a 2005 documentary directed by Sam Dunn with Scot McFadyen and Jessica Wise Geddy Lee OC (born Gary Lee Weinrib on July 29, 1953 in Willowdale Toronto) is a Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist Rush is a Canadian rock band originally formed in August 1968 in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, currently comprised of

The band have also been regarded as the godfathers of stoner rock bands like Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Nebula and Monster Magnet have cited their "heavy-fuzz rock" as a massive influence on them. Stoner rock and stoner metal are interchangeable terms describing sub-genres of rock and metal music Kyuss (ˈkaɪəs KAI-us was an influential Stoner rock / Desert rock band originally from Palm Desert California. Fu Manchu is a Southern Californian Alternative rock / Stoner rock band who released their debut single "Kept Between Trees" in 1990 Nebula is a psychedelic Stoner rock band formed by Guitarist Eddie Glass and Drummer Ruben Romano after departing from Monster Magnet is an American Hard rock band Hailing from Red Bank, New Jersey, the group was founded by Dave Wyndorf (vocals

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References

  1. ^ allmusic ((( Blue Cheer > Biography )))
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