Did the Beatles really Invent Prog? Or not? |
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dr wu23
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 14:47 | ||||
Best overall summation on this topic so far..... |
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Svetonio
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Svetonio
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 14:44 | ||||
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SteveG
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 14:40 | ||||
Being the first fully Prog band does not necessitate that the band invented the progressive rock song. Who ever did that is who invented Prog.
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Imperial Zeppelin
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 14:32 | ||||
Yes. They also invented psychedelia and toasters.
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Svetonio
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 14:21 | ||||
'64!
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Friday13th
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 14:08 | ||||
I warn you all I do NOT approve of the bestiality referenced in this video, but if ya'll love early Zappa and have not heard The Fugs, they arguably beat early Zappa at his game. Released March 1966. Definitely more ahead of its time than anything on Freakout. |
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Friday13th
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 13:52 | ||||
Yeah, I've heard the King Kong suite from Uncle Meat. "Dog Breath" is another good proggy tune from that and one of my favorites from Zappa. If you ask me, King Kong is early jazz fusion (quite a feat in itself) with very small hints of classical (negligible really if you consider most jazz artists were influenced somewhat by classical). I wouldn't quite say it's full on prog in the same way ItCotCK is, but it is cool to know he was playing this stuff live in '67. I still think "Brown Shoes" is probably a better example of '67 proto-prog. I side with people saying Zappa was definitely an influence, but a little too avant-garde and reliant on humor to be what we usually consider prog. BUT no doubt Zappa and these other proto-prog artists were totally progressive in spirit.
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Pastmaster
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 13:23 | ||||
Completely agree And yes, Gentle Giant does rule, they deserve more appreciation.
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Gentle Yes
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 13:16 | ||||
I think there is no doubt that psychedelic rock was the predecessor of progressive rock, i mean you can clearly hear some progressive elements in mid 60's bands... Now I think that saying that SFF was the first prog song (or album) is farfetched. The Beatles were a classic psychedelic-pop band, maybe too classic.. don't get me wrong, i like the Beatles, who doesn't? but i couldn't say that they have anything to do with prog.. SFF is maybe a little bit different from ohter Beatles songs as they wrote it in the psychedelic-colours-drugs etcetera era. Nevertheless it's just another Beatles song.
It's too difficult to say with precision who wrote the first prog song or album.. most say it was Zappas Freak out! but Strawberry Alarm Clock who formed in 1966 (same year as Freak out!) have a lot more prog elements (for me). The same goes for The 13th floor elevators who existed before Freak Out! Anyway.. i think most of you would agree that finding the actual prog birth is almost impossible... The only thing i can say for sure is GENTLE GIANT RULE. |
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 12:53 | ||||
Who did Freak Out influence?... The Beatles for one
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micky
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 12:37 | ||||
then you would have been hammered for incorrect choices. The Nice in 1968. and if you hear anything of Zappa or the Beatles in Ars Longa Vita Brevis.. let me know. I've never heard a smidge of it. This was ... the right anwer IMO as far as the talking points so far.. excellent post
The Beatles indirectlly by their creativity, massive influence, and overall material success...laid the foundation by giving artists the freedom of the medium to explore oh which many in England in the late 60's ran with. Zappa was a leading avant guarde artist.. had really very little to do with prog. Of course we have embraced him..as we have the music of RIO-AVANT...ut don't confuse him with prog. He wasn't... Edited by micky - July 07 2015 at 12:38 |
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 11:35 | ||||
The Beatles' effect on rock music was profound. Yes, profound. Zappa felt compelled to offer a mirror copy of the Sgt. Pepper's album cover for We're Only In It For The Money (we only parody that which has the most influence and popularity). Brian Wilson nearly went mad trying to keep up with The Beatles. Mick Jagger and The Stones spent most of the 60s making albums in emulation of The Beatles, basically going from tree to tree and pissing on the same spots The Beatles had already left their mark.
And King Crimson have often noted their adoration of The Beatles: “The Beatles,” remarked Robert Fripp, “achieve probably better than anyone the ability to make you tap your foot first time round, dig the words sixth time round, and get into the guitar slowly panning the twentieth time”, and Bill Bruford commented, “It was felt after Sgt. Pepper anybody could do anything in music. It seemed the wilder the idea musically the better.” So, as a proto-prog influence The Beatles were immense, but as others have commented nothing grows in a vacuum. The lyricism of Bob Dylan, the studio experimentation of The Beatles, the electrifying pyrotechnics of Hendrix, the mini-operas of The Who, the harmonies of The Beach Boys and the integration of orchestra and mellotron by The Moody Blues all were synthesized into rock within a few short eventful years, culminating in what eventually we would term prog-rock.
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SteveG
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 10:04 | ||||
I have a sixties (?) bootleg of the Grateful Dead that sounds 'pretty damn prog', so are the Dead a prog group? I don't think so. Let's get back to the revered MOI album Freak Out! Dean went out of his way to expand on the meaning of archetype, to my benefit. Exactly what was archetypal about the music on Freak Out!? And who did it influence? KC? Genesis? Yes? Or anyone else shortly after it's release? No one that I can think of that enjoyed anything resembling mass popularity. Can and Pere Ubu's influences came from albums put out a few years later. And why should this album be considered full blown progressive rock instead of Proto Prog? If it comes down to a question of the Beatles vs Zappa, as who had the greater influence on progressive rock, the only thing I can say is "Frank who?" (With all due respect, to keep things civil and fun.) Jesus, Really? And if it comes to the fact that Freak Out! is a concept album, both Woody Guthrie and Frank Sinatra beat Zappa to it.
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 09:17 | ||||
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Svetonio
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 05:23 | ||||
Well, Frank Zappa had nothing to do with that melancholic, pastoral and moony English Symphonic rock that was born with above mentioned Strawberry Fields Forever, and which in 70s become the most popular subgenre of the progressive rock, but it's undebtedly that The Mothers of Invention was the very first progressive rock band ever.
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PrognosticMind
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 03:51 | ||||
Epic win. Thanks for this!
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 02:44 | ||||
Can I just say no then leave without defending my position ;) Prog was always a bit of a polyvalent beast. Some of it emerged from British blues groups like The Graham Bond Organisation, some of it was driven by electric blues, some of it (such as PG's vocals or The Crazy World of Arthur Brown) by soul. I think the whole Beatles -> prog thing is kind of a short hand for the ton of psychedelia that influenced different bits of the prog rock borg. ---
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Windhawk
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Posted: July 07 2015 at 01:18 | ||||
Hmmm... Typical 60's boy band music...? Edited by Windhawk - July 07 2015 at 01:19 |
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Svetonio
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