"White Rabbit" & "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane

This video combines two icons of 1967 popular culture--Jefferson Airplane and the Smothers Brothers, whose comedy hour premiered that year. In my opinion, Jefferson Airplane played the best sound that came out of San Francisco. Within a few years their popularity was eclipsed by Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.

Both of these songs are from their psychedelically-titled album Surrealistic Pillow. Jerry Garcia was their mentor for that album. The sounds from it typify the San Francisco sound that came from other bands like Country Joe & the Fish, Moby Grabe, and the Sopwith Camel. The San Francisco sound was a lot more twangier than the electrified sound coming from Swinging London at the time.