In eastern Canada, there was The Perth County Conspiracy lead by a Brit, Cedric Smith, who was also an actor. a co-op of back-to-the landers, actors, activists, anarchists, Milton Acorn, Lord Buckley types.. Cedric did Shakespeare roles at the Stratford festival early on, and I heard he was fired for driving a motorcyle on stage during a performance of Hamlet... Sometimes the band would play in 2 different towns on the same night by splitting up for the evening..

Frazer and Dubolt were another duo that pushed the psychotropic envelope... also Sean Gagnier with his song 'San Mescalito' and the home-made 'ghost shirt' that he wore..

I was in a band called 'The Urge' in the late 60's around Montreal..about the same time as 'The Rabble'
We played acid blues, lots of original stuff, most of 'The White Album' on 2 old 50's gold top Les Pauls, all stripped down and modified... I swapped mine later for a 12 string Gibson acoustic and headed out to Vancouver in search of something else...and to give my head a rest... sometime later in the early 70's I joined up with an 18 piece band... another co-op of session players and hot sidemen in Quebec. We were called 'Ville Emard Blues Band' and did every stlye of music you could imagine... a real circus, from solo acoustic to free jazz, kick-ass rock, classical, chansonier, anything goes in Franglais (French/English) Funkebek... groundbreaking and wall shaking... that was mostly my experience from the 'thick of it' in my corner of the universe... I don't believe I'll ever really come down from all of it.... nor do I want to.... heh, heh.... R.