Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue Cheers standing in a street circa 1970. They were the bellowing Gods Of Fuck. There were no big ugly noises in rock’n’roll ...

Before there was Black Sabbath, there was Blue Cheer, a San Francisco band that helped pave the way for metal with its heavy psychedelic blues-rock sound. Sadly, the band’s classic and longtime ...

Paul Whaley, drummer for Bay Area power trio Blue Cheer, died on Monday, January 28 at age 72 at his home in Regensburg, Germany. The San Francisco Chronicle reports, via the band’s co-founder and ...

The founding late-Sixties lineup of the San Francisco power trio Blue Cheer — singer-bass guitarist Dickie Peterson, drummer Paul Whaley and guitarist Leigh Stephens — was so loud that the band ...

Here's more background on the classic album, via press release: "Godzilla just walked into the room. People just stood there with their eyes and mouths wide open." To hear Randy Holden describe the ...

Holden was ahead of his time. Blue Cheer might be considered one of the fathers of heavy metal, but guitarist Randy Holden is one of the world's unsung fathers of doom. Holden's 1970 album Population ...

Dickie Peterson, the bassist and lead singer for Blue Cheer, the San Francisco power trio best known for its high-volume 1968 hit rendition of the rock ‘n’ roll classic “Summertime Blues,” has died.

Dickie Peterson, the bassist/vocalist and founding member of Blue Cheer, passed away Monday morning (October 12) at 5 a.m. in Germany. He was 63 years old. Peterson had reportedly been battling ...