Summertime Blues tribute post

October 12, 2009

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W8jcDS2It0] Summertime Blues originally was a song by Eddie Cochran, but made famous by Blue Cheer. As a tribute to their bassist and lead singer Dickie Peterson, who died today, you can find some versions by The Who, T-Rex, Eddie Cochran, Rush, Bruce Springsteen and of course Blue Cheer over here. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAdZ4ZgH7Tk]

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R.I.P. Richard ‘Dickie’ Peterson (Blue Cheer) (1948 – 2009)

October 12, 2009

Bassist and singer Dickie Peterson of heavy riffmachine Blue Cheer past away this morning at 5am in Germany. Blue Cheer was one of the first powertrio’s in rock-‘n’-roll and laid a blueprint of heavy metal/stoner with Vincebus Eruptum and Outsideinside in 1968. They were of great influence for bands such as Monster Magnet, Fu Manchu [...]

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May 25, 2012

Exitmusic – Passage This duo consists of husband and wife Devon Church en Aleska Palladino, from (Shit, again?!) Brooklyn, New York. With EP From Silence, which they released a year ago Exitmusic showed us their first sign of life.. Passage, their debutalbum, is a bit more bombastic, but still got the sultry sound. Next to this sultry [...]

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