Dickie Peterson - The Godfather Of Loud is dead at 63

Ron Whitfield · From: Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA

In 1968, for their 2nd LP, Dickie took the band outside the studio onto Sausalito Pier to record live and get their true sound of Marshall stacks ripping apart at max volume to be captured on tape, thus leading to the title, Outsideinside. They soon became the only band in history to have a recording session stopped by the US Coast Guard.

While an endless series of bad luck and self implosions kept this original and true Rock N Roll band from scaling the heights of fame they deserved, they will always have the fact that this trio of ear bleed grungers influenced MANY other groups to do it the Blue Cheer way, with more than a few of them becoming legenday in the shadows of those rows of 100 watt Marshalls.

Rock in peace, Dickie!
A true original.
www.bluecheer.us/obit.html

Chris Bauer · From: Nashville, TN USA

Like 'em or not - BC were originals for sure.

I still have memories of Paul Whaley and co's surf band (The Hideaways) practicing in the house behind our neighbors across the street. They went on to be the little-remembered-but-influential Oxford Circle which then more or less morphed in a band called Kak and Blue Cheer.(Come to think of it, they were even a bit loud for a surf band...) Probably the first band I ever heard.

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