Butterfield Blues Band came out of Chicago, but the reason I included them in the poll was because they played many of their gigs around the bay area, Winterland, Fillmore etc. and I guess you could call them an adopted San Fran Band.

After I made up the poll and posted it I hit my self on the head and said you idiot you forgot Moby Grape. I didn't know if I could edit a poll so I left it alone. I had a feeling you would pick up on it, Syd.

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I'll go ahead and add them in the poll... I don't like just adding stuff without consent of the thread creator... We mods have "the power" and we should be very careful how we use it...

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Quicksilver Messenger Service was the most "definitive" group to my ears - the sound and the spirit. Santana also carries a lot of San Fran energy / synergy (not that the other mentioned groups don't) and I found myself wanting to toss him a vote, but Quicksilver gets the nod here.

I'd have to go with the Greatful Dead, I'd say they're the band most associated with San Francisco. I was just in San Francisco recently and there's a whole museum type place dedicated to the band. I think there is one dedicated to Janis Joplin too.

Country Joe & The Fish. They created some of the best psychedelic music i've ever heard. Way ahead of Jefferson Airplane or The Quicksilver Messenger, imo.

I went with Santana, mostly because i figured no one else had yet. But it was a toss up between the Dead and Carlos and friends.

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I really like Country Joe but I wouldn't put them in the same class as the Airplane or Quicksilver... Although the original EP version of "Section 43" is among my very favorite psychedelic songs of all time...


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Jefferson Airplane