Post by gypsyball on Nov 26, 2007 17:25:13 GMT -5
Got this from the Blue Cheer My Space Page.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Cleveland, Ohio
Category: Music
Volume 15, Issue 28
Published November 14th, 2007
Music Calendar
Proud To Be Loud
Blue Cheer At The Beachland Ballroom, Saturday, Nov. 17
Playing loud is an art form in and of itself. If anybody knows that, it's Blue Cheer singer-bassist Dickie Peterson, who's made making eardrums bleed his business for the better part of three decades. "We wanted to make our music physical as well as audio," he says in a recent phone interview from the band's rehearsal space in Maryland. "I can really flip your gut around with my bass. We didn't want to hurt anybody. We wanted our music to caress you. We wanted to make the girls get jumpy and stuff. That's where the whole principle came from." What Peterson says young bands don't understand is that "playing less" is actually the key. "You can't play more," he explains. "We've done many shows where bands wanted to outdo Blue Cheer. They turn it up louder and they play their normal songs and they sound like crap. It's not because they're bad musicians. It's because there's a technique. You get too many overtones if you just crank it up." Blue Cheer generates a wallop of intense sound as only a trio, something that makes its bludgeoning take on the blues all the more impressive. The band's heavy new disc, What Doesn't Kill You, stays true to form, even though Peterson says the band would just as soon hit the road as spend time tinkering in the studio. "I have a strange relationship with recording," Peterson says. "Let's face it, Blue Cheer is a live band. The person listening to what we do, these are the people who make me play, not some producer. I even say it on stage that we are the three-piece and the people are the fourth piece. Without them, what we do is commonly known as masturbation." Lions and Devil Moto open at 9 p.m. at the Beachland Ballroom (15711 Waterloo Rd., 216.383.1124). Tickets: $12. - Jeff Niesel
www.freetimes.com/stories/15/28/proud-to-be-loud
Monday, November 26, 2007
Cleveland, Ohio
Category: Music
Volume 15, Issue 28
Published November 14th, 2007
Music Calendar
Proud To Be Loud
Blue Cheer At The Beachland Ballroom, Saturday, Nov. 17
Playing loud is an art form in and of itself. If anybody knows that, it's Blue Cheer singer-bassist Dickie Peterson, who's made making eardrums bleed his business for the better part of three decades. "We wanted to make our music physical as well as audio," he says in a recent phone interview from the band's rehearsal space in Maryland. "I can really flip your gut around with my bass. We didn't want to hurt anybody. We wanted our music to caress you. We wanted to make the girls get jumpy and stuff. That's where the whole principle came from." What Peterson says young bands don't understand is that "playing less" is actually the key. "You can't play more," he explains. "We've done many shows where bands wanted to outdo Blue Cheer. They turn it up louder and they play their normal songs and they sound like crap. It's not because they're bad musicians. It's because there's a technique. You get too many overtones if you just crank it up." Blue Cheer generates a wallop of intense sound as only a trio, something that makes its bludgeoning take on the blues all the more impressive. The band's heavy new disc, What Doesn't Kill You, stays true to form, even though Peterson says the band would just as soon hit the road as spend time tinkering in the studio. "I have a strange relationship with recording," Peterson says. "Let's face it, Blue Cheer is a live band. The person listening to what we do, these are the people who make me play, not some producer. I even say it on stage that we are the three-piece and the people are the fourth piece. Without them, what we do is commonly known as masturbation." Lions and Devil Moto open at 9 p.m. at the Beachland Ballroom (15711 Waterloo Rd., 216.383.1124). Tickets: $12. - Jeff Niesel
www.freetimes.com/stories/15/28/proud-to-be-loud
