RUSH Drummer Remembers BLUE CHEER's DICKIE PETERSON

October 21, 2009

RUSH drummer and BLUE CHEER fan Neil Peart wrote the following piece for RollingStone.com in memory of singer/bassist Dickie Peterson, who died after a battle with liver cancer on October 12:

"In the summer of 1968, I was going on 16, living in a small Canadian city (St. Catharines, Ontario),and had been playing drums for a couple of years. I owned a small set of Rogers drums, a plastic AM radio that I played along to, a tiny mono record player, and 12 LPs. On the bookshelf in my room, facing my drums, I stacked those LPs with the covers facing outward, rotating different ones to the front.

"Both fans and haters of my future work with RUSH would find those LPs telling, and nod their heads or roll their eyes accordingly: THE WHO's 'My Generation', 'Happy Jack' and 'The Who Sell Out'; 'Are You Experienced?' and 'Axis: Bold as Love' by THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE; THE GRATEFUL DEAD's and MOBY GRAPE's eponymous debuts; JEFFERSON AIRPLANE's 'Surrealistic Pillow'; 'Fresh Cream' and 'Disraeli Gears'; the first album by TRAFFIC (called 'Reaping', in a Canadian-only variation, the cover showing the band posing on a Massey Ferguson combine); and 'Vincebus Eruptum', the first album by 'the world's loudest band,' BLUE CHEER."

Read the entire story from RollingStone.com.

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