Blue Cheer ‎– New! Improved! Blue Cheer Label: Philips ‎– 852 136 BY Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 1969 Matrix: 10 AA 852136 1Y 320 10 AA 852136 2Y 320 Vinyl = NM Cover = NM Blue Cheer was an American rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues rock or acid rock style.They are also credited as being some of the earliest pioneers of heavy metal, with their cover of "Summertime Blues" sometimes cited as the first in the genre.They have also been noted as influential in the development of genres as disparate as stoner rock,experimental rock,and grunge.