Blue Cheer

Genres:	Music Videos & Concerts • Pop / Rock
Descriptive "tags":	psychedelic rock • hard rock • classic rock • blues rock • psychedelic • rock • stoner rock • heavy metal • 60s • acid rock
Decades Active:	1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	Wikipedia

Biography

San Francisco’s Blue Cheer, originally comprising Dickie Peterson (Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA; vocals/bass), Leigh Stephens (guitar) and Paul Whaley (drums), harboured dreams of a more conventional direction until seeing Jimi Hendrix perform at the celebrated Monterey Pop Festival. Taking their name from a potent brand of LSD, they made an immediate impact with 1967’s uncompromising debut album, Vincebus Eruptum, which featured cacophonous interpretations of Eddie Cochran’s ‘Summertime Blues’ (US number 14) and Mose Allison’s ‘Parchman(t) Farm’. A second set, OutsideInside, was completed in the open air when the trio’s high volume levels destroyed the studio monitors.

Stephens left the band during the sessions for 1969’s New! Improved!, and his place was taken by former Other Half guitarist Randy Holden (b. 2 July 1945, USA). Bruce Stephens (bass, ex-Mint Tattoo) and Ralph Burns Kellogg...

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