Posted on 10/12/2009 11:15:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
Dickie Peterson, the singer and bass player of Blue Cheer, who are considered another one of the first heavy metal bands, sadly passed away this morning in Germany at the age of sixty one. The cause of death has yet to be announced but he had been ill for some time.
Blue Cheer released their first album, "Vincebus Eruptum" in 1968 and released a further five albums until a hiatus. The band returned with a new album in 1984 and released two more albums in 1990 and 1991 before another break. The bands last record was a collection of re-recorded material entitled, "What Doesn't Kill You..." in 2007. Peterson himself had also recorded two solo albums entitled, "Child Of The Darkness" and "Tramp".
it was ‘drink’ I believe. the censorship weenies got sideways over that and informed one and all that it was really ‘dream’. right. the stones once on sullivan around that time had to change the words in ‘let’s spend the night together’ to ‘let’s spend some time together’ iirc. men fighting and dieing in vietnam, the nation imploding and that was a concern. good God....
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