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The Electric Flag, formed in 1967 , were a Blues Rock group led by Guitar ist Mike Bloomfield . Bloomfield formed Electric Flag after his stint with The Butterfield Blues Band . Although their mix of blues rock with Psychedelia never achieved a great deal of commercial success, their earliest album had a significant influence on Rock Music .

The groups was contemporaneous with the earliest formation of Blood Sweat And Tears with Al Kooper. By 1969 , the Flag broke up and Kooper left BS&T leading to the Super Session album by Bloomfield, Kooper and Stephen Stills. Bloomfield and Kooper also toured together.

The Electric Flag song "Flash, Bam, Pow" appear in the bridge sequence of the movie Easy Rider (1969), with Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.


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