BLUE CHEER Out of Focus Dickie Peterson live in NYC 2007 shot by Bill Baker

www.dickiepeterson.com and Bill Baker share this awesome clip of my friends performing at "Rebel" in NYC, "Out of Focus"......enjoy! -Bill

[@erwinsnelders6895]

Dickie Peterson was one of the nicest people I ever met.

[@Buzzramjet]

Five years later to answer but I agree. I met him when they did a small tour and were in L.A> at the Coconut Teaszer playing. Had him autograph their first album. Bought he and Paul drinks. Hell of a nice guy and a lot more humble than I expected for the first heavy metal band creds.

[@loudassasin]

He still sounds as good as ever! R.I.P. Dickie! x

[@Billvis77]

Some day I hope to sync another camera angle and the audio from my DAT recorder, and it will be even better! Thanks for watching, BLUE CHEER FOREVER!

[@buriedverydeep]

October 2009/October 2019 Ten Years have passed but You are ALWAYS in our hearts and souls..Rip Brother

[@iamthelazerviking23]

I was there. My old band opened up for BC on this tour & it was one of the most magical months of my life. RIP Dickie Peterson & long live the spirit of Blue Cheer!

[@pennyhere7146]

Care to share the name of your band?

[@larryleitch3803]

@@pennyhere7146 Hello Penny here, I would like to know the name of the band, also....fact..or.coincedence,?

[@Billvis77]

I also recorded the show on my DAT recorder, so I have awesome audio. It's not lost forever as well as their last NYC show. Maybe some day the audio can be synched to the video.......thanks for watching! -Bill

[@billbrooks6756]

Bill Baker I was there the band hung outside took pics way cool! Thanks Bill!

[@MickPosch]

In '69 I was thirteen and I was spending a few days at my grandparent's house. I'd brought along a stack of 45's to try out on their state-of-the-art stereo (better than my General Electric plastic Wildcat phonograph, but you'd laugh at it today). My grandfather asks me for a disc so we could try it out. I was searching through the pile to find something I thought he might like, but too late...at random he grabbed this. I can still picture him dancing around pretending to get into the music!

[@JanetEsq]

I feel like he is still alive. How could anyone with that much expression and liveliness be gone?

[@Billvis77]

Thanks Janet, his death is a huge loss to me, I feel like we were just getting started.....I do a lot of bass guitar work and I do it with him in mind. I think he'd be interested in some of the cool projects and that I built the bass he was meant to have and it was played by a bassist in a major world touring band....BB

[@larryleitch3803]

Dude, as you know...we are taught to live mi vida Loca as we know. So, do me a favor and don't punch out any time soon... like another 30 years.

[@CrazyBear65]

Story goes, these dudes were Jim Morrison's favorite band to watch perform.

[@dadcamsk822]

hahahahahaha

[@oldpavilion6696]

@@dadcamsk822 It better be true.

[@philiphoward1731]

I believe that these guys were so good

[@philiphoward1731]

I swear to God I saw on KZbin about two years ago they were interviewing Barry Manilow and Barry Manilow said blue cheer was one of his favorite bands I’m a look for that interview but I swear to God I did see it

[@bflo1000]

This song was off of their great album Vincebus Eruptum. IMO BC just wasn't the same w/o the heavy screeching guitar of Leigh Stephens.

[@billbrooks6756]

I was there. Met the band got pic awesome guys!

[@Billykid514]

I was there cool dudes

[@georgesvoboda7182]

Load- and Slammed into some memories, wow all these years!

[@robin2012ism]

LOUDER THAN GOD!!!!!

[@coryorosco2740]

great guy almost played in a band with him but already just promised a bass player for a tour those were the days !

[@mikebinns9209]

Excellent trippin music

[@nightmetal7]

wow wonderful post for my researching thank you so much so I am deaf my left ear is ok ! I do American Sign Language for my life is so beautiful !! Thank you !! Rock on !!

[@davidplowman347]

what's the story with the 2015" blue cheer".Blue Cheer without Dickie is NOT Blue Cheer

[@keithborrelli6866]

This is awesome! It's a crime that I never saw these guys. I've been a fan for ages. Does this whole show circulate? I'd love to hear/see the whole thing.

[@danielclergeau5504]

yeaaaaahhhhh!!!!

[@precisionbrown6829]

Bill Baker sorry to hear about the loss, it sucks when you lose talent and a friend

[@larryleitch3803]

One of Augutus Stanley Osley creations, his own Blue Cheer. It you ever had any blue cheer..then and only would you believe in healing power of psychedelics.

[@gustavoherrera957]

heavy!!!!!!

[@thelastrebelshow1627]

They named a hit of acid after these guys. Blue micro dot became Blue cheer. Far Out.

[@pennyhere7146]

Since I discovered Blue Cheer not too long ago, (where the hell have I been? ), it never occurred to me why blue dot became blue cheer. Really interesting.

[@MrKmanthie]

Blue Cheer was a "brand" of acid that the legendary Owsley Stanley whipped up. I believe the acid came first -plus, if you look on the back of Vincebus Eruptum there's this wigged out, psychedelic "poem" credited to Owsley...

[@rockinronist]

@@MrKmanthie So right Know Name. There is a BC profile on You Tube and Dickie says that the Acid name for Blue Cheer came first. BUT the name Blue Cheer originated in the 1960s from the laundry detergent Blue Cheer. I saw an unopened box of it years ago, but the seller wanted $80 for it.

[@keithleeuwen877]

Cool !

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

very good............................................

[@bilmccombe8130]

Weren't they in the Guiness World Book of Records as the Loudest Rock Band in the World?

[@janineallen1381]

Oh, Uncle Dickie, it is!

[@lichtmaxx]

Dickie is the best, leider ist die Qualität der Aufnahme sehr schlecht

[@philiphoward1731]

SMarshall amplifiers Rogers drums son Sunn PA It does not get any better than this

[@LAFNHS]

Have I mentioned that Andrew McDonald gives you more of what you listen to Blue Cheer for ?

[@omegalamda3145]

Play 1.5 speed of the original vincibus eruptum. Slower sounds badassed.

[@johndoe-rp3hz]

Bill ...it CAN be synced.

[@MrKirkenstein]

i was at this show and the next night in Boston - it sounded a lot better than this... hahahhahahaa!!!! ...

[@Billvis77]

Oh yeah, and no audio levels on my old Hi8 video camera .....

[@deadfungi1]

They got credibility

[@RH-xs8gz]

So this is where Black Sabbath learned to play metal.

[@mnpd3]

Fuzz-Tone lives on. I can't see pedals but it does sound like one of the original Fuzz Faces with Germanium transistors that defined the sound of Rock on the 60's. I remember the one I had back then which I augmented with a Cry Baby Wah-Way. Get a Fender Super-Reverb amp driven with a Strat or Tele and what else could an aspiring rock star need? LOL I always claim that the Army draft ruined my chance at fame, but of course I'm exaggerating a lot. LOL

[@kenaiello4851]

Guitar player should use a Gibson SG for that warm fat sound like the original

[@dagdunesbury8570]

Long Live Th33 Blue Ch33r,Baby!!

[@spacepatrolman]

1:38 OOF

[@johndoe-rp3hz]

Too bad you didn't take a few seconds to monitor your levels. Now it's lost forever ...

[@Billykid514]

It was loud as shit!

[@Hyporama]

duck Mcdonald

[@monkeyliver1986]

Drink Pepsi and what?

[@thegreatchain7112]

The original guitar 🎸 player was better