Various, Grace Slick, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Jefferson Airplane, Jorma Kaukonen, David Bowie, Paul Kantner, Lou Reed, Jefferson Starship, Ramones

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.