The Grateful Dead is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead, released by Warner Bros. Records on March 17, 1967.

Robert Christgau wrote of the album:

One of the year's few supposedly psychedelic LPs that wasn't actually a pop LP (cf. Sgt. Pepper, Forever Changes, Mellow Yellow), the already legendary San Francisco band-collective's debut stood out and stands tall because its boogieing folk rock epitomizes the San Francisco ballroom ethos—blues-based tunes played by musicians who came to rhythm late, expanded so they were equally suitable for dancing and for tripping out... - Wikipedia

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Jefferson Airplane Takes Off is the debut studio album by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released on August 15, 1966, by RCA Victor. The personnel differs from the later "classic" lineup: Signe Toly Anderson was the female vocalist and Skip Spence played drums. ..

Jefferson Airplane Takes Off is regarded as being more grounded in straightforward folk rock than the band's subsequent releases. Music critic Jim DeRogatis noted that the album is "dominated by Balin's simple folk ballads", which he observed "were tarted up by Anderson's fetching harmonies and the dexterous playing of Casady and Kaukonen." Katz dubbed the band's sound "fo-jazz", which Anderson described as rock with "folk roots [and] jazz chords"... - Wikipedia

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Happy Trails is the second album of the American band Quicksilver Messenger Service. Most of the album was recorded from two performances at the Fillmore East and Fillmore West, although it is not clear which parts were recorded at which Fillmore. The record was released by Capitol Records in 1969 in stereo.

The first side of the album consists entirely of a live performance of Bo Diddley's song, "Who Do You Love?". In a self-deprecating poke at the rendition's extended length, it is listed as the "Who Do You Love Suite", with individually titled "movements" which give writing credits to the soloist on each segment. The performance of Bo Diddley's composition breaks down into a guitar solo by Gary Duncan in a style somewhere between jazz and rock.. - Wikipedia

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I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die is the second studio album by the American psychedelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish, released in November 1967, six months after the band's debut album, Electric Music for the Mind and Body. It is another prime example of the band's experimentation which features organ-heavy psychedelia and Eastern melodic lines, with more acoustic guitar than the debut...

The album demonstrates the band using satirical humor to express their outspoken views toward the Vietnam War and other topics of the counterculture. Although many of the tracks were not as well-known, they were still accessible and showcased Country Joe McDonald as a lead vocalist. With the creativity of the band reaching a peak, the band began touring nationally and internationally - Wikipedia

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Electric Music for the Mind and Body is the debut album by the American psychedelic rock band Country Joe and the Fish. Released in May 1967 on the Vanguard label, it was one of the first psychedelic albums to come out of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The album was received warmly on release with the Berkeley Gazette in glowing praise, ..echo chambers, distortion, and other electronic embellishments...the mood is essentially psychedelic, with the texture of smoky colored glass."

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Bruce Eder felt that the album is "one of the most important and enduring documents of the psychedelic era". Country Joe later boasted "If you want to understand psychedelic music, and you haven't heard Electric Music for the Mind and Body, then you probably don't know what you're talking about." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlMF9FDyefk&list=PLL-NbN8uTOii5DL19sM8_tencbbGMxcDk&index=1

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Moby Grape is the 1967 debut album by rock band Moby Grape. Coming from the San Francisco scene, their reputation quickly grew to immense proportions, leading to a bidding war and a contract with Columbia Records.

Gene Sculatti and Davin Seay write in their book San Francisco Nights, Moby Grape "remains one of the very few psychedelic masterpieces ever recorded."..Justin Farrar considered that "(i)t's no understatement to hail the group's 1967 debut as the ancestral link between psychedelia, country rock, glam, power pop and punk... - Wikipedia

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