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    Blue Cheer Founder Dickie Peterson Dies at 61

    Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:19:36

    Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Eddie Cochran, Jim Morrison, Ritchie Blackmore


    Blue Cheer Founder Dickie Peterson Dies at 61

    Dickie Peterson, bassist and frontman for legendary heavy metal pioneers Blue Cheer, died Monday, Oct. 12, at the age of 61. Peterson, who founded the proto-metal outfit in 1967 in the Bay Area, passed away in Germany after battling liver cancer, ...Full Story at Spinner.com »

    Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Eddie Cochran, Jim Morrison, Ritchie Blackmore