2009 Sucked, Blue Cheer Are Still Awesome

2009 Sucked and I listened to Vincebus Eruptum constantly to fight off all the tearz. That record came out in 1968. Gotta thank Mark Arm from Mudhoney who sorta recommended Blue Cheer to me when we were discussing sweet punk rock pedals.

But 2009 sucked because Dickie Peterson passed away, their excellent bassist and lead singer.

Watch this video of Summertime Blues and then fight somebody:


Andrew "Duck" MacDonald wrote this ode to Mr. Peterson (via brooklynvegan.com).

RICHARD ALLAN “DICKIE” PETERSON

Dickie Peterson was my Bandmate, Business Partner, Friend and Teacher the driving force behind Blue Cheer who some called the godfathers of Metal, Punk, Grunge and Stoner. I’ve heard underrated, overrated, the greatest and the worst band of all time but one thing is for sure there was no middle ground on opinions of his band.

I like to think a hundred years from now researchers will try to figure out how it got from Muddy Waters to Godsmack and they will find Hendrix and Cream, Zeppelin and Sabbath and then they will scratch their heads and think something’s missing and then they’ll see it, it won’t be shiny and beautiful but raw and crude and a bit misshapen but there it is the missing link between all that was and all that is Blue Cheer. Then it will all be documented, put on a shelf, collect dust and eventually be forgotten.

First and foremost Dickie was a Bluesman, a champion of the Blues and a Knight of the Blues Table who just happened to worship at the Temple of the Loud. He once was asked at an interview I was at with him how he felt about working with a heavy metal guitarist and he sort of chuckled and said “ Duck? Duck is just a blues guitarist in disguise.” and in that instance he taught me more about myself than even I knew and profoundly changed the way I thought about myself, no easy feat me being a stubborn Scotsman. There are so many stories I could tell you about my adventures with Dickie and someday we’ll sit down and drink a Scotch and I will tell all (if I can remember) but some things are just for me like the memories of first Love, your first born child being laid in your arms, and the passing of those you loved, those feelings are private and sacred and mine alone so I leave you with this.

Dickie is waiting for us and when we get there he will turn and face God and say
WE’RE BLUE CHEER AND THIS IS WHAT WE DO! And launch into Babylon. (Hopefully God will provide the gear and lots of it!)

Andrew “Duck” MacDonald

Default Posting: Jersey Shore News

As I predicted, Jersey Shore has taken over the country like a blast of Guido hair spray to the face.

Rhode Island has been represented by Pauly D, the great DJ from Johnston. Yesterday, he tweeted pictures with Michael Cera, morphing him into a guido, like Zordon creating the Power Rangers.



But the real story here is Pauly D's twitter page. Note the picture on the left side. Also, I enjoyed his happy holidays recording, listen to it here.

Who wants to go see him DJ?

Where Did I Go?

Dear Readers,
News news news, slow slow slow. Here's a great Silver Jews music video:

RIP Vic Chesnutt

This news bummed me out:
Musician Vic Chesnutt Dies

10 of the Coolest Occurences in the Year 2009, Part One

Chunklet.com is easily the best musical website on the internet and they recently posted their 20 Most Surreal/Ironic/Hilarious Moments of 2009.

Chunklet started out as a pretty stellar music zine, based outta the Athens, Georgia area.

I'm going to steal their year-ender idea and simplify it into my 20 coolest parts of 2009.

Here's part one, look out for part 2 the next couple days.

10 Kool Things:

1. Reading everything I could find by Lester Bangs, the best music critic I've ever stumbled across.


2. Watching Inglorious Basterds, Big Fan, and A Serious Man, my three favorite films of the year, in that order.

3. Getting annihilated by Dan Deacon at his performance in Pawtucket, RI, at Machines with Magnets, with a big group of friends. Guest appearances by White Mice, The What Cheer? Brigade, and fire made the night pretty nuts.

4. Buying The Jesus and Mary Chain's Honey is Dead (above) and The Vaselines' The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History, both on cassette at Turn it Up! Records in Northampton.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Reverence




5. Moshing at Dinosaur Jr at the Middle East in Boston with my friend Corey.

6. Purchasing The Sonics' Here are the Sonics and Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum on vinyl at Mystery Train Records in Amherst. RIP Dickie Peterson.






7. Smashing my head to Lightning Bolt TWICE, once at UMass-Amherst, once in Providence.


8. Watching Jersey Shore, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Lost, my top three television shows of 2009, in that order.


9. Chugging a Yaeger Bomb after the Bulls-Celtics Game 6 went into triple OT. During the first OT I promised my friend Chris I would throw down said drink if we went into triple OT. Best NBA series I've ever seen.

Here's a picture of Kevin Garnett almost committing murder:


10. Enjoying WMUA-hosted concerts: Parts and Labor at the Blue Wall and Lightning Bolt with a buncha other grand bands at the Chaos First Fest. God Bless College Radio.

Jersey Shore Stripper - I Think We Have a Situation

The single greatest reality television program of all-time, MTV's Jersey Shore, has given us some of the most inspirational entertainment of this century.

Now there's footage of Mike "The Situation" as a stripper before his days on Jersey Shore.

New Rule: I will only post TMZ reports relating to Jersey Shore.

Voyeurism has never felt so greasy!

The Christmas Crap Continued: Screaming Females Live

Cokemachineglow.com has some of the best music journalism around. Their year-end awards are right-on and hilarious. They don't take themselves too seriously.

Here's a video they put up of the Screaming Females pulling off "Bell" live on some MTV channel.

Follow that up with the legendary MTV clip of a high-as-hell Beck getting the interview treatment from Thurston Moore. Mike D guest stars.

Rock The Deuce - MTV Shows

Thurston Moore with Mike D Beck
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