The Electric Flag

When guitarist Mike Bloomfield left the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1967, he wanted to form a band that combined blues, rock, soul, psychedelia, and jazz into something new. Before even playing any live concerts, the group recorded the soundtrack for the 1967 psychedelic exploitation movie The Trip, which afforded them the opportunity to experiment with some of their ideas without pressure. Their debut album, A Long Time Comin', predated Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago's big-band rock sound, mixing it as they did not just with jazz-rock but with soul-rock-psychedelia that sometimes (but not always) employed prominent horns. One further album, The Band Kept Playing, was issued in 1974 before the band split for good.