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Post by rowenafair on Nov 11, 2009 11:42:32 GMT -5
eric - yes, 6-piece jibes with my memory, but whaley was definitely playing drums. did you do a little subset? having a hard time picturing it. but if you were there we must have met then if only in passing...
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Post by ericalbronda on Nov 11, 2009 12:07:11 GMT -5
Rowenafair, yes subset , Whaley liked me to set his drums for him so I'd play them sometimes . It was in the afternoon at a sound check, lasted maybe 50 minutes , very low key only a few in the audience at the time ---anyway nice to make your acquaintance then and again now.
Cheers,
Eric
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Post by mikethedrummer on Nov 11, 2009 14:02:28 GMT -5
Got this picture off the Internet, probably eBay, awhile back. It's marked as being from Portland, and judging from the length of their hair and the equipment, I'd certainly think it's from 1967. Does this look familiar Eric? Rowenafair?  |
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Post by ericalbronda on Nov 11, 2009 15:17:56 GMT -5
Mike , great Pic , Standing next to Dickie in background is ,Standing -Jerry Russell, Next to him Standing is Gut ---on the ground is Moi.
Great find , thanks ------
Very Early on ---however , If in Portland then where are the others as Six pieces ??
The Drum set is one he brought from Oxford Circle --before the double Rodgers .
I do not remember the house or that day unless it was a quick publicity shot .
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Post by rowenafair on Nov 12, 2009 11:59:09 GMT -5
it's a bitch when your memory is more like swiss cheese or old lace than anything else!....well it says portland, so no reason to doubt the caption writer, could be portland or a lot of other places from what i can see...but it's not 6 guys and i remember a stage of some sort...cool pic - though the "guy" eric says is jerry looks like a girl to me, tits'n'all...unless he can see someone i can't!
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Post by ivy on Nov 12, 2009 14:54:54 GMT -5
Got this picture off the Internet, probably eBay, awhile back. It's marked as being from Portland, and judging from the length of their hair and the equipment, I'd certainly think it's from 1967. Does this look familiar Eric? Rowenafair? Mike, that picture is taken in back of a record store that was doing a Blue Cheer promo ... apparently that's something they did then, hey Eric? Set up and jam at a record store, meet n greet in exchange the store front lined the music. I thought I sent you this photo (?) given to me by a guy who was there at the time. Or not, doesn't matter ... Will try to remember the name of the record store but don't bet on it. But yea, definitely Portland 1967 |
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Post by mrmaltese on Nov 12, 2009 14:56:59 GMT -5
great find Mike! Very cool picture of BC and Thanks for posting on all the BC gigs from the early days it really is great to see all the dates that they performed - a lot of the gigs seemed to be pretty localized to the SF bay area especially in '67
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Post by ivy on Nov 12, 2009 14:57:59 GMT -5
Dickie and Jerre, Jay and Troy were Peterbilt in 1972, although there may have been a gig at the Memorial in SF with Dickie and Jerre billed as Blue Cheer in that time frame. Seems I remember that ... but they moved to SoCal as Peterbilt after that and played up and down West Coast as Peterbilt. When that crashed and burned, the formed BC with Rueben Fuentes, you know the story ... 1974
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Post by ivy on Nov 12, 2009 15:15:03 GMT -5
Here is a continuation of the Mike's list, this one focusing on the 80's on. Again, plese help fill in the gaps if you know any! ----------------------- GREAT Job! Mike and Ken ... awesome ... do you want the Dickie gigs and the Mother Ocean with Tony Rainier, the gigs at the River with Tony and other local stuff? Just in case ... Every Tuesday night in 2006 he went on down to the River to a very interesting character named "stinky"'s house. Local character, well respected businessman, Stinky's passion was music and musicians. He built a very nice rehearsal studio, named by the way Tumbleweed after Jerre Peterson, where locals came and jammed the night away. They were so honored that Dickie played with them. A labor of love as many were not so good. Tony came a time or two or three as well. Another local, Uncle Mark, once a roadie with the 80's Blue Cheer, long time jazz festival promotor but mainly a good long time loyal friend of Dickie in the street kind of way often asked Dickie to play musician appreciation/support gigs as well. And he never said no. He asked Mark to introduce him as Dickie Peterson from Mother Ocean, don't know why. Oh, yea, and remember that the week after dp got here in 2005, he played with a young band in San Francisco as his Welcome Home gig. Blew the younguns away. The gig he was most proud of was a time in 2006 when he was invited to sit in at a Blues Festival. he played the entire time and got big respect from the old time bluesmen. they invited him back, meant the WORLD to Dickie ... respect for him as a bass playin' blues man, not a rock n roll icon. He really had a thing about that ... one of the mantra's he quoted about Duck was: "Duck tells me the truth, he don't blow smoke. If i suck I suck. When he tells me I did good I know it means something" To sit in with respected blues players who at first sort of glared at him, or ignored him and end up with respect ... that was gold to him. |
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Post by mikethedrummer on Nov 12, 2009 22:31:06 GMT -5
Ivy - You know, I probably got that picture from you originally. My apologies - too much stuff and not enough memory!
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Post by ericalbronda on Nov 13, 2009 3:29:53 GMT -5
Roenafair--well the secret is out now --we all liked to dress up in woman's clothes and I believe Jerry forgot to change before the photo shoot.
but really I believe the cottage cheese has melted in my brain .
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Post by rowenafair on Nov 13, 2009 13:47:37 GMT -5
yes, i see... an extreeemely subtle piece of crossdressing that!
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Post by ivy on Nov 14, 2009 18:12:06 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D hahahahaha ... what a TRIP trying to piece together all the gigs, places and times ... the only thing i come away with is that all through all the changes Dickie kept on rockin' albeit a bit tilted a good deal of the time ... but the music stayed true to him ...
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Post by otherhalf on May 29, 2010 14:55:22 GMT -5
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