Much of the music we consider the soundtrack to the ‘Summer Of Love’ was created by bands based in Southern California.
Iron Butterfly was a Southern California band formed in the mid-1960s who jumped on the heavy, psychedelic bandwagon and created one of the benchmark songs of the time, *In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.*
The psychedelic sound was not confined to the West Coast of California.
In 1967 the so-called ‘Summer Of Love’ took place in California, specifically in San Francisco.
Jim Morrison penned the lyrics to *Love Street*watching hippies go by his house in Laurel Canyon in 1967.
Country Blues great Reverend Gary Davis played a couple of different styles over the years