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Poll Question: Your favourite Prog band with a marginal importance of guitar?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
8 [10.81%]
1 [1.35%]
22 [29.73%]
35 [47.30%]
5 [6.76%]
3 [4.05%]
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    Posted: August 16 2012 at 04:22
I must admit that I prefer rather strong guitar than keyboards, but some of these bands are also interesting and important in Prog Rock.
 
Notice: Tangerine Dream and The Nice had more than "marginal role" of guitar, therefore they are excluded from here.
 
My favourite keyboard-led band is also Quatermass, but who knows them today, due to only one released album and one hit "Black Sheep of the Family", later made famous by Ritchie Blackmore?


Edited by Gandalff - August 17 2012 at 02:07
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Yeah, not a brilliant poll about bands without guitar seeing as my fave from these, Kraftwerk, had lots of it implemented in their music prior to their synth pop days(that is before 75). ELP used guitar to great effect as well - be that rather sparingly, but just have a listen to Tarkus for instance.

Going with Van Damme Generator, but when I saw this poll I immediately thought of Elephant9.


Edit: ok I just spotted the marginal thing in your query, but still.....

Edited by Guldbamsen - August 16 2012 at 04:32
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Let's not forget Supersister and Soft Machine
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...or UK without Holdworth. Egg, Ars Longa.

Voted ELP


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Originally posted by Gandalff

I must admit that I prefer rather strong guitar than keyboards, but some of these bands are also interesting and important in Prog Rock.
 
Notice: Tangerine Dream and The Nice had more than "marginal role" of guitar, therefore they are excluded from here.
 
My favourite keyboard-led band is also Quatermass, but who knows them today, due to only one released album and one hit "Black Sheep of the Family", later made famous by Ritchie Blackmore?

So how about a post O'List Nice? The majority of the material is without guitar.
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Rare Bird. Approve


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This is easy--Kraftwerk---very imp band in music and prog---like some of ELP don't get Vdgg---
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This is pretty much what I've had in mind for some time.. to have a 3-piece group; keyboards, bass and drums with everyone (or at least two) playing other instruments as well. I just have to find a drummer and a bassist. Voted for ELP.
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Van der Graaf Generator form this list, but I think Soft Machine would have given them a run for their money.
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Van der Graaf Generator with ELP and Triumvirat as second and third.
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What about these amazing Finns?:
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Of these, Kraftwerk is an easy choice, but I would have voted for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, had it been an option.
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VdGG, then ELP and Triumvirat.
 
 
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Egg.

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Solution, Trace and Rare Bird (though all three did use guitars occasionally) are all better than any of those in the poll for me.
 
Greenslade would be brilliant if it were not for Dave Lawson's voice, though. It has the same effect on me as Peter Hamill's.
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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil

Egg
Originally posted by Dean

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