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Beefcake wrote:

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Yeah, that 60s-70s San Francisco music is unlistenable shit. And a good example that location has nothing to do with sound. CCR came out of the Bay Area around the same time, but were an awesome band that still holds up today.

Sly and the Family Stone
Steve Miller
It's a Beautiful Day
Jefferson Airplane (not Starship)
Santana
Blue Cheer
Grateful Dead (Working Man's Dead and earlier albums)
Counting Crows
Dead Kennedys
Journey
Residents
Third Eye Blind
The Tubes (though I think they were originally from Phoenix)
Green Day
Primus
Rancid
Faith No More

did I say I liked them? I do not like Journey. A lot of those bands were good at first, then became bloated mundane boring fat cats, though when I saw Steve Miller in 1970 he was already fat.

and being that the Doobie Brothers claimed (falsely, though they are from a city just to the south) to have been a San Francisco band, aren't you saying they suck too?

Thanks for sending me on a hunt. From their official website (look under the biography tab):

We feel fortunate to have had solid support from the listening public for our efforts with songs ranging in style from the bluesy rock of Long Train Runnin' to the country tinged Black Water to the gospel/jazz rooted Takin' It ToThe Streets, and songs that truly defy classification

And to those of us who lived in the 60-early 70s in the San Francisco / San Jose / Santa Cruz area, it was all considered the same area musically kinda like the British Invasion a few years earlier lumped together the Beatles, Stones, Herman's Hermits, and Petula Clark. All the bands played all around the norther/central California area and knew each other. Plus at the time they first hit the big time, it was way cooler to be considered to be from San Francisco rather than San Jose, so they did originally give the impression they were from SF, and may have moved there after they hit it big.