Also known as: Charlatans, The
Origin: San Francisco, CA, USA
Though not as well-known as other San Francisco bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane , the Charlatans are widely accepted as being one of the first 60s psychedelic rock groups and true pioneers of their craft, forming in September, 1964. This honor is due in large part to their six-week residence at the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, where patrons took steady doses of then legal LSD while listening to the band's lively sets. These early "happenings" in the summer of 1965 were the precursors to the Acid Tests and other live shows that routinely combined music and mind-a…