This Mix Tape was inspired by my trip out to San Francisco this summer. SF just oozes with an energy and feel that makes you understand how the psychedelic rock movement originated and blossomed there. Anyone that has seen a show at The Fillmore can attest to that, that room’s just filled with the ghosts of the past. So with that in mind, I thought we’d take a trip back to the ’60s for some tunes from the some of the bands from that era…

We kick things off with a scintillating version of Combination Of The Two the first track off of Big Brother & The Holding Co.’s major label debut Cheap Thrills. From there, we’ve got the highly underrated Quicksilver Messenger Service with the six-plus minute instrumental Gold And Silver that features some fantastic acid drenched guitar work from John Cipollina.

Next up, we’ve got two of the more poppy efforts to come out of the scene. First, the band that should have broken big, but never lived up to the hype – Moby Grape with Omaha. Then we’ve got one from Sopwith Camel with the jazzy-folk-rocker Hello, Hello; which became the first Top 40 hit for any of the San Fran bands of the era. Finally, we close things out with two bands that came to define the city and the psychedelic rock movement – Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead. We’ve got a live version of The Airplane’s 3/5 Of A Mile In Ten Seconds and The Dead with their psychedelic rave up Cream Puff War off their debut album.