Various, Kevin Johnson, Darryl Way's Wolf, Osibisa, Iron Butterfly, The Guess Who, Dana Gillespie, Isotope, Manu Dibango, Mick Ronson, Cat Stevens, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Curved Air

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.

San Francisco Psychedelia

Ballroom bands who stretched blues and folk into twenty-minute jams, pressed before anyone edited them down.