Well attestedNamed from the place
San Francisco sound
noun · first attested 20th century
A ballroom scene in one city became the national label for psychedelia.
The improvisational psychedelic rock made in San Francisco in the mid 1960s.
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San Francisco sound
Bands playing the Fillmore and the Avalon stretched songs into long improvisations behind liquid light shows, and the press named the result after the city. The scene was short; by 1970 its best known groups had scattered or signed to distant labels.
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