It was in Boston, though, as recounted in "Hammer of the Gods," Stephen Davis's spirited Led Zep hagio-pathography, where the band came to an initial, tentative understanding that it was perhaps something more than the Jeff Beck Group and other blues-based English bands who had met with some success here.

The Barnburners were a blues-based band that performed in Northeast Ohio clubs and released a 6 track album called The Rawboogie EP.

Other major pioneers of the genre had begun as blues-based psychedelic bands, including Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest and UFO.

Wright and his female companion Fritz started a short-lived blues-based band Sunrise which came to an end after Wright's death in a car accident.

Mr. McShann made his name fronting a hard-swinging, blues-based big band in Kansas City during the 30's.

Members of the next generation of blues-based bands, including Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, played a loud form of blues-influenced rock, would lead to the development of hard rock and ultimately heavy metal.

Thomas and Pinder then recruited guitarist Denny Laine along with drummer Graeme Edge and bassist Clint Warwick to form a new, blues-based band.

A blues-based band that broadened its range into pop and rock, the Yardbirds had a hand in many electric guitar innovations of the mid-1960s, such as feedback, "fuzztone" distortion and improved amplification.