BLUE CHEER Announce East Coast Tour

BLUE CHEER has just announced they will be touring the East Coast and coming to New York for this year's CMJ Marathon on Thursday, November 2nd!

"In 1968, nothing but nothing in America and Britain sounded as brutal as Blue Cheer except for the Velvet Underground." - Julian Cope

"These guys well may have been the first true heavy metal band" - Lester Bangs

BLUE CHEER are legendary cult heroes of all things rock n' roll. Formed in the late 1960's in San Francisco, the band helped blaze the trail of heavy metal music in America. A "power trio" named after a brand of LSD created by Owsley Stanley (Grateful Dead), the band broke through to the masses in 1968 when their cover of the song "Summertime Blues" climbed to #14 on the Billboard top 100 (the song appeared on the band's debut release "Vincebus Eruptum" and would later be covered by the Who in 1970).

While going through several lineup changes through their career, BLUE CHEER went on to release a catalogue of stellar albums that would go on to impact the world of heavy music (and many largely successful bands) forever, including "Outsideinside," "New! Imroved! Blue Cheer," "The Original Human Being," "Oh! Pleasent Hope," and also performed w/ legends such as the MC5, Jefferson Airplane, Vanilla Fudge, Ike & Tina Turner, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Clear Light, Captain Beefheart, and more.

After a temporary split in 1971, the band reunited in '79 and toured the world w/ the likes of The Yardbirds, Biohazard, Danzig, Mucky Pup, and other heavy bands of great stature at that time.

Currently, the band is together and active, and within this past year, have toured the US w/ the likes of Witch (featuring J Mascis), Dead Meadow, Goblin Cock, and others, as well as performing at Vice's 2006 Intonation Festival (alongside the likes of Bloc Party, Ghostface Killah, The Boredoms, Dead Prez, Annie, High on Fire, and others.)

The current Blue Cheer lineup features 2/3 of the original band, Richard "Dickie" Peterson on lead vocals and bass, and Paul Whaley on drums. The two are joined by Duck MacDonald on guitar and have plans for an upcoming release in 2007.

Blue Cheer US Tourdates:
11/2/06 New York, NY the Knitting Factory - Solid PR / CMJ Showcase with An Albatross, Jacob's Ladder (secret special guest on Jade Tree Records), Totimoshi, Ad Astra Per Aspera, Moon and Moon, and more!
11/3/06 Baltimore , MD Talking Head
11/11/06 Philadelphia , PA the Khyber
11/12/06 Charlottesville , VA Satellite Ballroom
11/13/06 Chapel Hill , NC Local 506
11/14/06 Atlanta , GA the Earl
11/16/06 Tallahassee , FL Beta Bar
11/17/06 New Orleans , LA One Eyed Jack's
11/18/06 Memphis , TN Hi Tone Café
+ more to follow!