San Francisco has long been a bastion of forward thinking and freedom of expression. The result has been some of the most enduring and influential music of the rock & roll era, from the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane through Sly and the Family Stone, Journey, the Dead Kennedys, and Green Day. Music is baked into the Bay Area's culture to this day. A guide to places that shaped the world-famous sound, the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area will take you where music makers lived, rocked, recorded, met, broke up, and much, much more.