{"id":10513,"date":"2009-10-13T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T22:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=10513"},"modified":"2009-10-13T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T22:01:17","slug":"blue-cheers-dickie-peterson-dies-at-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=10513","title":{"rendered":"BLUE CHEER&#8217;s Dickie Peterson Dies At 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/BlueCheer-Color2008WEB.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Cheer\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDickie Peterson, the founding bassist and vocalist for incredibly heavy, riff-laden American hard rock trio BLUE CHEER, passed away early on Monday (October 12th) morning. The group&#8217;s first hit was a cover version of Eddie Cochran&#8217;s &#8220;Summertime Blues&#8221; from their debut album Vincebus Eruptum in 1968. The single reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, their only notable hit, and the album peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200 chart.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe band, along with BLACK SABBATH, will always be regarded as one of the pioneers of the heaviest music on the planet: HEAVY METAL!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTMD salutes Dickie Peterson and sends our condolences to his fans, friends and family.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bluecheer\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bluecheer<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dickie Peterson, the founding bassist and vocalist for incredibly heavy, riff-laden American hard rock trio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}