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Post by FeedbackLourde on Jul 9, 2006 18:47:01 GMT -5
Did he play "the Ballad of Dwight Fry?"
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Post by poopypants on Jul 9, 2006 20:56:13 GMT -5
Thanks for the explanation! Rarely do I leave for a road trip without tickets in hand or a confirmation number for tickets @ will call but the Toledo show was road trip for bonding with my high school buddy who I have had a stormy relationship because of substance abuse issues in the past so even if I didn't get to see Blue Cheer it was a much needed quality time with an old friend![/quote] Hey Govner, I kinda did the same thing when I went to see BC at the opening gig on this tour in D.C. on 6/16/06. An old friend of mine went along with me who I really haven't hung out with in a while. We go back 23 years and attended many concerts and rock clubs back in the late 80's. Substance abuse reared it's ugly head too in some ways in our friendship, but the substance abuse was on my part  Nonetheless, that's all in the past, and although my buddy and I are going in different directions in our current lives, it was still a gas to hang out and see a kick-ass show with him. My buddy had never seen nor heard BC before, and he has attended literally hundreds of concerts in the last 10 years, and even he said the BC show was one of the best he'd seen. Anyway, I sincerely hope ya get to see BC soon! Poopy |
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Post by Smoky on Jul 10, 2006 2:01:53 GMT -5
Yeah they did a good job in Minneapolis. It was better then I expected. Their guitar player had big shoes to fill and did a great job...(I was afraid he was going to add alot of sappy 80's guitar riffs). Paul wailed on the drums...amazing and Dickie kicked ass but I couln't hear his vocals very well. I was hoping they would play magnolia caboose babyfinger. Great show.
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Post by govner on Jul 10, 2006 5:53:46 GMT -5
Did he play "the Ballad of Dwight Fry?" He did but only the point of "I got my hat & I got my coat" to the chorus which he deleted. He did have a 26 song setlist that only had 6 songs from the 80's to the present and 10 of the songs from the 70's was from the classic Billion Dollar Babies lineup! And of course he "lost his head" on the guillotine! If you love Alice don't hesitate to go! www.alicecooper.com/tourdates.html |
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Post by Mak 10 on Jul 10, 2006 11:06:27 GMT -5
I just woke up from having my atoms rearanged in Minneapolis last night. Fucking awesome! I just couldn't believe Whaley, best drumming I've seen. Dickie was beyond compare. Duck was killer. The music blew through me like the wind. We were right up front for half the show, then stood back for the remainder. Cheers...EIO From you, this is gold .. |
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Post by eio on Jul 10, 2006 11:37:02 GMT -5
Hey Mak 10...At least I can remember this show. I don't remember much of the show I saw in Mpls. in 1968-69. This show was great, it wasn't too crowded and you could walk around and stretch and get a beer easy. I was tempted to follow them to Des Moines but was just too wasted from the night before. Anyone who hasn't seen them yet, get your tickets and go.
Cheers
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Post by govner on Jul 10, 2006 15:56:15 GMT -5
Hey govner..this thread is about blue cheer gigs!!! talk about alice cooper somewhere else. When the aministrator of the boards asks an Alice Cooper question I will answer it!  And when I get to see Blue Cheer then maybe I will have a review of their show too!  Until then I will just post whatever I feel like posting about as long as it is not distruptive to this bb!  |
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Post by Mak 10 on Jul 13, 2006 13:12:50 GMT -5
Hey Mak 10...At least I can remember this show. I don't remember much of the show I saw in Mpls. in 1968-69. This show was great, it wasn't too crowded and you could walk around and stretch and get a beer easy. I was tempted to follow them to Des Moines but was just too wasted from the night before. Anyone who hasn't seen them yet, get your tickets and go. Cheers Questions ... was it fairly well sold out but comfortable? I mean, hate to think of a half full house ... also, what about TShirts and such? MySpace says there will be merch ... Mak 10 |
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Post by Mak 10 on Jul 13, 2006 13:15:33 GMT -5
Now this is really cool  A band reborn
Proto-metal pioneers Blue Cheer finally get some payback
by Will K. Shilling
Dickie Peterson is the 59-year-old bass player for Blue Cheer, the late ’60s, proto-metal band that pre-dated Sabbath and out-sludged Zeppelin. These days, though, he talks like a 20-something kid amazed by his band’s newfound popularity.
Doors aren’t even open during a sound check at the Magic Stick in Detroit, and Peterson’s already distracted by one well-wisher after another. They all want to shake his hand or tell him a brief anecdote of how his band relates to their life.
Peterson’s bandmate Duck McDonald has passed him a cell phone to talk about where Blue Cheer has been—and how their “return” has been so surprising.
“Man, it was not like this last time we went out on tour,” Peterson chuckles. “We toured last, oh, sometime in the late-’80s, and I swear to you, seemed like the world couldn’t have cared less.”
Blue Cheer’s 1968 cover of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues” pierced the top 40 briefly, but their fuzzed-out, menacing stoner-rock was just way too heavy and ahead of its time. Until bands like The Stooges, MC5 and Black Sabbath tore the nation’s earlobes apart a few years later, Blue Cheer was truly an anomaly, shunned by the taste-making machinery of pop radio for decades to follow.
But something changed when the band started playing out again in February of this year: the gigs sold out fast—and lines of fans poured seemingly out of nowhere to welcome them as heroes. Where in the hell these folks were before, Peterson apparently refuses to wonder aloud.
“Every night I do what I guess other bands call the PR part of the night,” he explains. “But it’s not work for me to meet these lines of people now; I’m signing basses and guitars for these guys. I mean, guys half my age, if that....”
The alt-rock revolution of the ’90s may have laid the groundwork for Blue Cheer’s current buzz. Add the dirty, retro-Delta minimalism of The White Stripes and another wave of Nuggets-era nods to garage rock, and maybe it’s not all that surprising that the band’s finally gotten its due.
“I have had more people tell me in the last few days that they brought their kid to hear us,” Peterson gruffly drawls, his voice hoarse but his tone giddy. “They say things like, ‘Because of you, I started a band,’ or ‘I decided I wanted to play the bass.’”
Peterson says it’s amazing to see others react to him the way he reacted to his own heroes back in the day—like the time his manager had to practically shove him in front of Muddy Waters backstage.
“I’m standing there just intimidated as hell,” Peterson recalls. “And Muddy says, ‘Whatchu want?’ And I say, ‘Advice?’” Muddy had just one thing to tell him: “Play the gaps, and don’t run all up and down on over your leads, man—they’ll never give you no more work if you walk all over the guitarists, man.”
Peterson says that advice stuck with him. As he tells one gushing-fan story after another, it’s tempting to make a karmic connection between that humility and the amazing grace bestowed so belatedly upon his band.
Finally.
“One guy surprised the hell out of me, man,” Peterson confesses in a hushed, half-whisper. “He said he just wanted to thank me for writing songs that actually mean something, instead of just trying to sound cool or be outrageous. He told me that it’s rare that music means that much to him, but our songs do.
“Man, he couldn’t have given me a higher compliment than that.”
Blue Cheer play with Goblin Cock, Earthless and Heathen Kings of Olde at The Casbah on July 21. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. $15. 619-232-HELL.
7/12/06 |
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Post by eio on Jul 13, 2006 13:37:47 GMT -5
It wasn't sold out. I saw the merchandise table but I forgot to check it out. I got way into the music and forgot about anything else...oops.
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Post by martini on Aug 3, 2006 22:24:29 GMT -5
I just wanted to drop a quick note of thanks to Blue Cheer for touring the US this Summer. I have been a fan for 17 years (I'm 33 now) and was able to see them in Portland and Seattle last week. It was a dream come true to see the band. They kicked major ass. I had only planned on attending the Portland show, but after the gig I needed another dose, so I drove to Seattle after work on Friday to see them tear another joint apart.
What was particularly cool was the amount of young people at the shows (I'd guess 85% were 35 or younger at the Seattle gig), people who likely had never seen the band before.
Blue Cheer is a viable force that needs to keep the momentum going. I hope they hit the road again soon and release their new CD. Although their history runs deep, they are a new band to many people. After seeing them twice, I just had the feeling that everyone who saw the band probably told a friend, "Hey, you gotta check these guys out. They are unbelievable." And they will bring their friends to the next gig. The crowds will multiply gradually as the word hits the street about how hard Blue Cheer still rocks. I hope to see a new tour very, very soon. This is just the beginning. . .
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Post by j0ex on Aug 20, 2006 18:04:18 GMT -5
North 6 in NYC-----great show! everyone i know who saw it was blown away. sorry took so long to post, unaware of site.
i'll be going to the knitting factory show, on my brother's birthday. can't wait. cheers! joe
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Post by Mak 10 on Aug 27, 2006 18:14:24 GMT -5
Whoa ;D, that's a strange choice of photos on the BC MySpace ... *Duck* is front and center with Dickie a fuzzy background and Paul nearly unrecognizable.
Maybe Duck has succeeded where Holden failed? the take-over of Blue Cheer, silent, without a bullet
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Post by Sandy on Aug 27, 2006 19:19:39 GMT -5
I don't see anything wrong with any of the myspace photos. Is there some negative vibes supposed tp be coming out of there? That is what I'm picking up from Mak 10. There are alot of pictures of Dickie on there. What has Duck succeeded in? I must be a dumb 1%. He is taking over Blue Cheer?
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Post by Swinehundt on Aug 27, 2006 19:37:43 GMT -5
Sounds like someone has a problematic crush on Dickie :-)
Duck hasn't taken over...more like merged in to where he is 1 equal 3rd of the band. And hey, at least plays more like a BC guitarist then some certain ex-players ever did, assuming they were aspiring to that. Give the man his due.....
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Nonetheless, that's all in the past, and although my buddy and I are going in different directions in our current lives, it was still a gas to hang out and see a kick-ass show with him. My buddy had never seen nor heard BC before, and he has attended literally hundreds of concerts in the last 10 years, and even he said the BC show was one of the best he'd seen. 
