For many “The San Francisco Sound” evokes improvisational pieces, twirling in the park and enormous amounts of psychedelics.

There was another sound coming out of SF just a few years later, in the grit of North Beach, away from the flowers of The Haight.

This is “The San Francisco Sound” of GEN 11. Loud, tight, verse, chorus, hit ‘em hard, get out quick and do it all over again Rock & Roll. ... more