Great stuff from the 60s before prog

there is a lot of stuff from before prog, often not even proto-prog, that I love, for example The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Vanilla Fudge, Cream, Iron Butterfly, The Doors, Steppenwolf and many more. these bands were very creative and innovative, even if they were not prog, and I like them just as much as the prog bands. we have a lot of this stuff in our collection. somehow the older I get the more I like this stuff

The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Country Joe & the Fish, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Pretty Things, Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Kinks, the Animals, Dylan, the Band, Wigwam, Blues Section, Tasavallan Presidentti, Family, Colosseum, Art, Spooky Tooth, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Janis Ian, Laura Nyro, Traffic, Love, Yardbirds, 13th Floor Elevators, Stooges, MC5, Buffalo Springfield, Red Krayola, Leonard Cohen, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Moody Blues, Beach Boys, the Ventures, Stones, Kaleidoscope, Blossom Toes, Zappa, Donovan, Hansson & Karlsson, Sly and the Family Stone, the Nice, Procol, Small Faces, Canned Heat, Donovan, H.P. Lovecraft, Electric Prunes, Incredible String Band, Nico, Pearls Before Swine, Chocolate Watchband, Sonics, Blues Project, Troggs, the Deviants, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Ceyleib People, the Turtles...

The 60s, I could be here for an hour just listing groups.  Normally I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday but I'll try to list a few groups that come to mind.

now for some great stuff .. thanks to Tom for turning me on to this group.  One of the few of that era I had missed in my love of that era of music from SF.