Dickie Peterson was my Bandmate, Business Partner, Friend and Teacher the driving force behind Blue Cheer who some called the godfathers of Metal, Punk, Grunge and Stoner. I've heard underrated, overrated, the greatest and the worst band of all time but one thing is for sure there was no middle ground on opinions of his band.

I like to think a hundred years from now researchers will try to figure out how it got from Muddy Waters to Godsmack and they will find Hendrix and Cream, Zeppelin and Sabbath and then they will scratch their heads and think something's missing and then they'll see it, it won't be shiny and beautiful but raw and crude and a bit misshapen but there it is the missing link between all that was and all that is Blue Cheer. Then it will all be documented, put on a shelf, collect dust and eventually be forgotten.

First and foremost Dickie was a Bluesman, a champion of the Blues and a Knight of the Blues Table who just happened to worship at the Temple of the Loud. He once was asked at an interview I was at with him how he felt about working with a heavy metal guitarist and he sort of chuckled and said " Duck? Duck is just a blues guitarist in disguise." and in that instance he taught me more about myself than even I knew and profoundly changed the way I thought about myself, no easy feat me being a stubborn Scotsman. There are so many stories I could tell you about my adventures with Dickie and someday we'll sit down and drink a Scotch and I will tell all (if I can remember) but some things are just for me like the memories of first Love, your first born child being laid in your arms, and the passing of those you loved, those feelings are private and sacred and mine alone so I leave you with this.

Dickie is waiting for us and when we get there he will turn and face God and say
WE'RE BLUE CHEER AND THIS IS WHAT WE DO! And launch into Babylon. (Hopefully God will provide the gear and lots of it!)

Andrew "Duck" MacDonald

Dickie Peterson, the bassist/vocalist and founding member of BLUE CHEER, passed away this morning (Monday, October 12) at 5 a.m. in Germany. He was 61 years old.

Although the cause of Peterson's death has not been released, he had reportedly been battling cancer for the past several months. [Blabbermouth]

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You need the heavy? Austin is bringing it this year! To recap, we have
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In 2006 I wrote about the heavy metal pioneers in Blue Cheer being back in action. That hasn't stopped. They're currently on tour and playing the Knitting Factory in NYC tonight (Nov 5, 2007) - with Awesome Color (who are also playing Highline Ballroom on November 23rd). The first person to email BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: blue) right now will win a pair of tix to tonight's show. All tour dates below....

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Solid PR presents a three-floor event at Knitting Factory in NYC on November 2nd. That's a lot of music for $13.00.

MAIN SPACE: Blue Cheer, An Albatross, Jacob's Ladder, Totimoshi, Ad Astra Per Aspera, plus DJ Big Blackhawk and DJ Jasepi

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"Mr. Banhart, who got so much attention in 2004, remains the king of the scene and has extended his reach beyond it. He was recently invited to perform at a Chanel fashion show, to help organize the British alternative-pop festival All Tomorrow's Parties and to perform at this weekend's Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee. He was even romantically linked, for a moment, to the starlet Lindsay Lohan. Along the way the neo-hippie revival he represents is gaining cultural traction. Vice, the magazine, clothing line, record label and all-around hipster franchise, has scheduled psychedelic-rock acts (the veterans Blue Cheer and Roky Erikson, and Boredoms, a Japanese band) among the top acts at the Intonation Festival it sponsors next weekend in Chicago. And "Just Another Diamond Day," a 1969 song by Vashti Bunyan — an eccentric British singer who's a folksy patron saint of the new scene — is now playing in a T-Mobile ad." [NY TIMES]

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"Blue Cheer was a San Francisco-based rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s, who helped to pioneer heavy metal music.....They finished recording an album in Virginia in Winter 2005..." [Wikipedia]

Blue Cheer is touring this summer. They'll hit Maxwell's in Jersey, Northsix in Brooklyn, and CBGB in Manhattan. On June 25th they're playing the VICE Intonation Music Festival of all places. That puts them on a bill with Annie, Bloc Party, Boredoms, Ghostface, Jon Brion, Jose Gonzalez, Lady Sovereign, The Streets, The Sword, and more. When they're all hanging out backstage, Blue Cheer can brag that Pitchfork likes them best.

All tour dates below....

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