If You're Going To San Francisco...

...you'll be at what was in 1967, the epicenter for the fabled Summer of Love. But if you just want to hear what it was like musically, Rhino Records has got just the thing--don't they always?--for you.

Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 is a 4 CD set tracing the development and rise of the city's wide-ranging music scene of the era, and features not only the usual suspects--the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Santana, the Steve Miller Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sly and the Family Stone, Country Joe and the Fish--but also lesser known acts such as It's A Beautiful Day, We Five, Syndicate of Sound, Count Five, the Mojo Men, and the Chocolate Watchband, that made San Francisco such an exciting hotbed of musical activity in the late '60s. Of course, there's a Gap store on the mythical corner of Haight and Ashbury these days so put your hippie dreams to rest.

We smell a Christmas present coming on...