Blue Cheer

Blue Cheer was a San Francisco-based heavy metal group of the late 1960s. Original personnel were singer/bass guitarist Dickie Peterson, guitarist Leigh Stephens, and drummer Paul Whaley; this incarnation has been cited as a prototypical p

Blue Cheer was a San Francisco-based heavy metal group of the late 1960s. Original personnel were singer/bass guitarist Dickie Peterson, guitarist Leigh Stephens, and drummer Paul Whaley; this incarnation has been cited as a prototypical power trio. The band was named after a variety of LSD promoted by underground chemist and Grateful Dead backer Owsley Stanley; this variety of LSD took its name from a popular laundry detergent.

Their first hit was a cover version of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues" from their debut album Vincebus Eruptum (1968). The single peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, their only such hit, and the album peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200 chart.