Various, Eric Clapton, The Who, Melanie, John Mayall, The Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Derek & The Dominos, Ginger Baker's Air Force, James Brown

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.