Bruce Stephens
Blue Cheer was an American Rock music, rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic rock, psychedelic blues rock or acid rock style, and are also credited as being some of the earliest pioneers of heavy metal music, heavy metal, with their cover of "Summertime Blues" sometimes cited as the first in the genre. They have also been noted as influential in the development of genres as disparate as punk rock, stoner rock, doom metal, experimental rock, and grunge. History Main career (1966–1969) Blue Cheer were formed in 1966 by Dickie Peterson. Peterson had previously been with the Davis, California, Davis-based band Andrew Staples & The Oxford Circle along with future Blue Cheer members Paul Whaley and Gary Lee Yoder. The original Blue Cheer personnel were singer/bassist Peterson, guitarist Leigh Stephens and Eric Albronda as drummer. Albronda w ...
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Dickie Peterson
Richard Allan Peterson (September 12, 1946 – October 12, 2009)R.I.P. Richard ‘Dickie’ Peterson (Blue Cheer) (1948 – 2009)
; www.inlog.org. known as Dickie Peterson was an American musician, best known as the bassist, lead singer and only constant member of . He also recorded two solo albums: ''Child of the Darkness'' and ''Tramp''.

Biography

Born in , Peterson played bass from the age of thirteen onward, and knew at the age of eight that he ...
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