Various, Chicago, Al Kooper, Blood, Sweat And Tears, Janis Joplin, Santana, Beck, Bogert & Appice, Poco, Loggins And Messina, The Who, Chicago, Santana

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.