The groundbreaking cover didn't just reinvent a rock and roll classic; it helped usher an entirely new genre into the ...

Paul Whaley, drummer for Bay Area power trio Blue Cheer, died on Monday, January 28 at age 72 at his home in Regensburg, Germany. The San Francisco Chronicle reports, via the band’s co-founder and ...

Paul Whaley, Blue Cheer's drummer from 1967-69 and also through several reunions, has died. He was 72. He passed away at his home in Regensburg, Germany. Eric Albronda, who was the band's original ...

The founding late-Sixties lineup of the San Francisco power trio Blue Cheer — singer-bass guitarist Dickie Peterson, drummer Paul Whaley and guitarist Leigh Stephens — was so loud that the band ...

Blue Cheer’s Dickie Peterson says his band has at least one thing in common with the James Gang: “Both bands play what I call ‘lateral blues.'” This is Peterson’s pet phrase for classic hippie-greaser ...