* The San Francisco-based band Om mentions Absalom in their song " Kapila's Theme " from their debut album Variations on a Theme.

IJustGotFired is a free service of MonkeyBrains, a San Francisco-based Internet service provider.

He brought out the San Francisco-based City Magazine in the ' 70s.

A California vermouth producer is Sutton Cellars made by Carl Sutton, a San Francisco-based winemaker.

* Method Products ( branded as " method "), a San Francisco-based corporation which manufactures household products

Construction began in 1969 and finished in 1972, and was overseen by San Francisco-based contractor Dinwiddie Construction ( now Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company ).

Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC is a San Francisco-based firm that tracks the volume of do-overs by public companies.

Kapor was the original Chair and is currently on the Board of Directors of Linden Lab, a San Francisco-based company which created the popular virtual world Second Life, and a member of the Advisory Board for the Wikimedia Foundation.

* " Museum of the African Diaspora ," Online exhibits and other resources from the San Francisco-based museum.

Sothira Pheng ( bass and vocals ) and Jimmy Crucifix ( guitar ) now play with Proudflesh, a San Francisco-based " Hard Punk Rock ' n ' Roll " band with drummer Erik Lannon ( Mordred / The Bay City Rollers ).

This business arrangement pitted the band and CD Presents in a pitched battle against San Francisco-based promoter Bill Graham, who negotiated with concert venue owners and San Francisco government officials to deprive PiL of a concert location.

Upside was a San Francisco-based business and technology magazine for venture capitalists.

On the basis of its fantastic string of film and television hits in the 1960s, the company was an attractive property, and in 1967 Krim and Benjamin sold control of UA to the San Francisco-based insurance giant, the Transamerica Corporation.

Her brother is John Newmeyer, Harvard Ph. D, a San Francisco-based epidemiologist, author, and Napa Valley winemaker.

The commercial, conceived by the San Francisco-based advertising agency Venables Bell & Partners, was based on the book " Goodnight Moon ".

Boxer's first novel, A Time to Run was published in 2005 by San Francisco-based publishing company Chronicle Books.

Initially Santana's San Francisco-based band blended Latin salsa, rock, blues, and jazz, featuring Santana's clean guitar lines set against Latin instrumentation such as timbales and congas.

Live / Dead is the first official live album released by the San Francisco-based band Grateful Dead.

* Om Records, a San Francisco-based dance music record label, home to artist like J Boogie, Kaskade, and King Kooba

The team is owned by San Francisco-based William H. C. Chang through the consortium D. C. United Holdings.

The grouping around the Weinsteins forming the San Francisco-based Socialist Action.

The Tubes are a San Francisco-based rock band, whose 1975 debut album included the hit single, " White Punks on Dope ".

By 1986, Zapata was one of the bad loans that shook the foundations of San Francisco-based Bank of America, with a debt of more than $ 500 million and a fiscal year loss of $ 250 million.

Five years later, the Bank of America that exists today was the result of the merger between the San Francisco-based Bank of America and the Charlotte-based NationsBank.

Other notable musicians from Fremantle include bassist Martyn P. Casey, member of The Triffids and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ; American-born slide guitarist Lucky Oceans ; indie pop group San Cisco ; rock musician and manager Vince Lovegrove ; and Australian Idol finalist Cosima De Vito.

Primus is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, currently composed of bassist / vocalist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry " Ler " LaLonde and drummer Jay Lane.

" Edge produced two albums with guitarist Adrian Gurvitz, Kick Off Your Muddy Boots ( 1975 ) and Paradise Ballroom ( 1976 ); Hayward composed the acoustically textured Songwriter ( 1977 ), which would be followed up in later years by Night Flight ( 1980 ), Moving Mountains ( 1985 ), ( which Hayward dedicated to Peter Knight ) Classic Blue ( 1989 ), The View From The Hill ( 1996 ), and Live In San Juan Capistrano ( 1998 ); Lodge released Natural Avenue ( 1977 ); Pinder produced The Promise ( 1976 ); and Thomas collaborated on two projects with songwriter Nicky James, producing From Mighty Oaks ( 1975 ) and Hopes, Wishes and Dreams ( 1976 ).

Walker then moved to San Francisco and joined Raven ( a band which in its short life had a revolving door of personnel but was fronted throughout by the late ex-Quicksilver Messenger Service guitarist John Cipollina ).

On the flight from San Francisco to London in November 1977, and for the next three weeks, Walker wrote lyrics to the new music which the remaining members of Black Sabbath ( guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Terry ' Geezer ' Butler and drummer Bill Ward ) wrote for their next album.

Lead guitarist Jerry Miller and drummer Don Stevenson ( both formerly of The Frantics, originally based in Seattle ) joined guitarist ( and son of actress Loretta Young ) Peter Lewis ( of The Cornells ), bassist Bob Mosley ( of The Misfits, based in San Diego ) and Spence, now on guitar instead of drums.

* Phil Lesh and Friends ( commonly referred to as Phil Lesh and Phriends ) in 1999 featured Phish's Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell, Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Donna Jean Godchaux, guitarist Steve Kimock, and drummer John Molo performing three nights of Dead and Phish material at The Warfield in San Francisco.

While living in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970s, Link was introduced to Quicksilver Messenger Service guitarist John Cipollina by bassist James Hutchinson.

Forming their first band after they were kicked out of a San Francisco-area high school, vocalist / guitarist Josh Zee ( the son of a professional folksinger ) and drummer Dan Thompson played for several years in various local bands before forming the grungy alternative pop band Protein in 1994.

* Frank Marino-Canadian rock guitarist has in interviews talked about his interest in classic San Francisco rock

Other musicians included John Fahey, one of the first " folk " musicians to gain national appeal, Peter Tork ( of The Monkees ), underground legend Tim Buckley, guitarist Link Wray, pop singer and songwriter Billy Stewart, country singer Patsy Cline, guitarist Danny Gatton, doo wop bands The Orioles ( based out of D. C., though from Baltimore ) and The Clovers, Scott McKenzie ( known for " If You're Going to San Francisco "), R & B singer Ruth Brown, and country star Roy Clark.

Bassist Robert Levon Been and guitarist Peter Hayes met at high school in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Lafayette and quickly formed a band ; Hayes having recently left The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Raymond John Pepperell ( born November 17, 1958 in Oakland, California ), better known by his stage name East Bay Ray, is a guitarist best known for his membership in the San Francisco Bay area-based punk band Dead Kennedys.

Guillermo Portabales ( born José Guillermo Quesada Castillo, Rodas, Cuba, 6 April 1911 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, 25 October 1970 ) was a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist who popularized the guajira style of Cuban music from the 1930s through the 1960s.

The Avengers opened for the Sex Pistols in San Francisco at their final show at Winterland, which led to Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones producing a recording session for the band.

Bandleader and singer / songwriter / guitarist " Colorblind " James Charles Cuminale was originally from Rochester, New York but assembled early versions of what would become the Experience in Oswego, New York before relocating to San Francisco.

Guitarist Drake Levin became an accomplished blues guitarist, playing in and forming numerous groups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

On May 18, the band supported heavy metal veterans Metallica at the first of a series of four shows at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California, following a personal phone call to Miller ( who considers Metallica " iconic ") by the band's lead vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield shortly after the Guns N ' Roses Chinese Democracy Tour.

In 1988, he joined the San Francisco based World Music band, The Caribbean Allstars, as guitarist and backing vocalist.

Ward is the lead vocalist and guitarist for San Francisco Bay Area's Crosstops, who have released three full-length albums.

Walter moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2003, where he formed the latest of many Luttenbachers lineups, remaining on percussion with the addition of bassist Mike Green ( Burmese ), and virtuoso guitarist Ed Rodriguez ( ex-Colossamite, Gorge Trio ).

A San Francisco-based combo known as The Topsiders offered Ned Torney a position as the band's guitarist.

Testament was formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1983 by guitarist Eric Peterson and his cousin, vocalist Derrick Ramirez, also a guitarist, originally using the name Legacy.