Various, Grand Funk Railroad, Pousette-Dart Band, Bob Seger, "Oklahoma!" Orchestra, Raspberries, Mink DeVille, Pousette-Dart Band, Starz, Pousette-Dart Band

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.