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Blue Cheer Founder Dickie Peterson Dies At 61

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A very young Gary first discovered mighty 1050-CHUM-AM out of Toronto, then saw those Beatles on Ed Sullivan, the next day turned an old tennis racquet of his dad's into his first guitar, soon formed his first band from two words out of "I Am The Walrus," later quit University to follow a friend's bar band to Newfoundland, ended up in London and followed Joe Strummer's advice to start Canada's first self-published music magazine "The Pig Paper," got cold and moved southwest to Surf City to almost tour Australia with Jan & Dean, had some time in New York City and had the first album he ever produced released on Melodiya Records, meanwhile wrote a song for a Brady Bunch movie, was featured instead in a movie about Jandek, sang sessions with Pat Boone, Jim Carroll and Andrew Loog Oldham, paid recorded tribute to the Bay City Rollers, Gene Pitney and R. Stevie Moore, contributed to books on Dylan, bubblegum, Johnny Dowd and The Viletones ...yet somehow still has names left to drop all across his very own Backpages Blog.

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2 Responses to Blue Cheer Founder Dickie Peterson Dies At 61

  1. Sad news as Dickie was a true rocker, and Blue Cheer was louder than god to be sure.

    The first time I saw them way back when they had 4 double stacks of Marshalls (for Dickie and Leigh) on each side of the drums.

    I was up in the front audience section and when they turned them on there was a deafening buzz that made the hair on my arms stand up – honest.

    The rest of the show was a gift from heaven for a teenager who was in love with the “noize”.

    Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end…

    RIP Dickie!

    AP

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