Editing Blue Cheer (section)

===The return of Blue Cheer (1999–2009)===
In 1999, Peterson and Whaley got together with guitarist MacDonald to resume touring as Blue Cheer. This band configuration remained largely constant from 1999 until Peterson's death in 2009.

In 2000, Blue Cheer was the subject of a tribute album, ''Blue Explosion – A Tribute to Blue Cheer'', featuring such bands as [[Pentagram (band)|Pentagram]], [[Internal Void]], Hogwash and [[Thumlock]].

Peterson and Leigh Stephens were together once again in Blue Cheer with drummer [[Prairie Prince]] at the [[Chet Helms|Chet Helms Memorial Tribal Stomp]] in San Francisco's [[Golden Gate Park]] on October 29, 2005, and their lively performance drew old rockers like [[Paul Kantner]] and others from backstage to observe. They did some recordings in [[Virginia]] in Winter 2005 with [[Joe Hasselvander]] of [[Raven (band)|Raven]] and [[Pentagram (band)|Pentagram]] on drums, due to Paul Whaley choosing to remain in Germany. While Hasselvander played on the entire album, his contribution was reduced to drums on five songs, with Paul Whaley re-recording the drum parts on the balance of the album.  This was because Whaley was set to rejoin the band and it was felt that he should contribute to the album, prior to touring.  The resulting CD, ''[[What Doesn't Kill You... (Blue Cheer album)|What Doesn't Kill You...]]'', released in 2007, features contributions from both Whaley and Hasselvander as a consequence.<ref>[http://www.bluecheer.us/archive/andrewmacdonald_files/duck/DUCK.htm Duck MacDonald Autobiography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725195648/http://www.bluecheer.us/archive/andrewmacdonald_files/duck/DUCK.htm |date=July 25, 2011 }} at Bluecheer.us.</ref>

Blue Cheer's video for "[[Summertime Blues]]" made an appearance in 2005 documentary ''[[Metal: A Headbanger's Journey]]'', where [[Geddy Lee]] of [[Rush (band)|Rush]] referred to the group as one of the first heavy metal bands.