Various, The Grass Roots, Three Dog Night, Smith, Cass Elliot, The Robbs, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Steppenwolf, Cass Elliot, Smith, Odetta, The Grass Roots

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.