ArtistInfo

Blue Cheer

Band, 1967-1972 US, San Francisco
Rock

Blue Cheer was an American rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues rock style, and are also credited as being some of the earliest pioneers of heavy metal, with their cover of "Summertime Blues" sometimes cited as the first in the genre. They have also been noted as influential in the development of genres as disparate as punk rock, stoner rock, doom metal, experimental rock, and grunge.

Members

	Gary Holland dr, bvoc *1958 NL
	Prairie Prince dr *1950 US
	Joe Hasselvander dr, perc *1956 US
	Bill Carmassi dr
	Dickie Peterson voc, b 1946-2009 US
	Paul Whaley dr *1946 US
	Leigh Stephens g US
	Terry Rae dr, voc
	Randy Holden voc, g *1945 US
	Gary Yoder voc, acg
	Norman Mayell dr, perc US
	Bruce Stephens g, voc
	Ralph Burns Kellogg org, p *1946
	Eric Albronda voc *1945 US
	V. Vale key *1944 US
	Ruben De Fuentes g *1953 US
	Jere Whiting voc, h
	Andrew Duck MacDonald g *1953 FR
	Tony Rainier g, voc
	Eric Davis dr
	Dave Salce dr
	Mike Fleck dr
	Jerre Peterson g, bvoc
	Dieter Saller g, perc DE
	Klaus Kassbaum b *1943 CA