Blue Cheer

Blue Cheer

Blue Cheer

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Summertime Blues (2023 Mix) album art
  • Summertime Blues (2023 Mix)
  • December 2023
  • 2 Songs

Top Songs

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Summertime Blues
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Rock Me Baby [Album Version]
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Parchment Farm [Album Version]
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Out Of Focus [Album Version]
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Doctor Please [Album Version]

Albums

  • The '67 Demos

    Jan 2019 • 3 songs

  • Live at Rockpalast

    Mar 2017 • 10 songs

  • What Doesn't Kill You

    Apr 2014 • 10 songs

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Blue Cheer

Biography

San Francisco-based Blue Cheer was what, in the late '60s, they used to call a "power trio": Dickie Peterson (b. 1948, Grand Forks, ND) (bass, vocals), Paul Whaley (drums), and Leigh Stephens (guitar). They played what later was called heavy metal, and when they debuted in January 1968 with the album Vincebus Eruptum and a Top 40 cover of Eddie Cochran's hit "Summertime Blues," they sounded louder and more extreme than anything that had come before them. As it turned out, they were a precursor of much that would come after. Unfortunately, Blue Cheer itself didn't get much chan...
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