Paul Whaley

Paul Whaley was an American rock drummer, born January 14, 1947 in Albany, CA, USA. 1964-67, he was the drummer in garage rock band The Oxford Circle in the university city of Davis near Sacramento, the state capital in northern California. One of the other was Dehner Patten. They released a sought after LP in early 1969, and called it quits soon after.

Blue Cheer started out as a band of six, but after Whaley and Peterson had seen Randy Holden was one of the guitar players.

To cut a long story short, in 1969 Gary Lee Yoder ed his friends in Blue Cheer on guitar, vocal and mouth harp, and stayed for 2 years with the band - now a quartet - turning toward a more commercial heavy prog/hardrock style, much like Jerre Peterson. Gary Yoder quit after 2 years in 1971, and disappeared from public life, just as Leigh Stephens had done 2 years before him. Paul Whaley came and went in Blue Cheer for 36 years, until he died from heart failure January 28, 2019 in Regensburg, , where he'd been living for many years.

He was the son of country music singer Paul Edward Whaley.