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Prog's Most Influential Artists of the 1960s
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Poll Question: Which of these artists contributed the most to progressive rock?
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Timestamped 01.01.1970, Pink Floyd had released some albums that can be properly called prog. The Beatles were influential indeed, but their influence on prog was not grown to full extent. King Crimson's seminal debut was released only 83 days before.
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So The Beatles are so far voted as "The Best Prog Band of the 1960s"? Big smile
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I have to give it to The Beatles . . .
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I would say The Beatles initiated it, The Moody Blues and Jimi Hendrix made it move forward, and King Crimson stablished progressive music as a real force in rock history.
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UK: King Crimson

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Interesting... I guess the band/artist that most influenced prog in general would be The Beatles, anyway. When it comes to influence on more specific sub-genres, and/or more personal preferences, it might be The Soft Machine, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Sun Ra, Frank Zappa... I prefer all these over the Beatles, but I'll vote Beatles.

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Only one band in the poll encompassed the majority of prog genres known today: The BEATLES.

Others from the list are notable for conceptualizing/developing only one or few prog genres.

Notwithstanding that most of the artists in the poll were only partially prog i.e. proto-prog in the 60's.
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The Beatles.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Beatles > Zappa & Floyd



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Beatles and The Beach Boys (specifically Brian Wilson) who pushed each other to constantly innovate and push the envelope.  
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Beatles > Zappa & Floyd
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The Moody Blues with the very first Symphonic Prog album: Days of Future Passed (1967)
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my fav prog bands point to the Beatles as major influences so I voted them
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Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Pink Floyd, thanks to Interstellar Overdrive, A Saucerful Of Secrets, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, and the entire Ummagumma album
If anyone could have matched Zappa/Mothers, it would have to be Floyd
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I'm tempted to go for The Mothers of Invention/Frank Zappa. I don't think any other artist/band can match the influence of:

Freak Out!, Absolutely Free, We're Only In It For The Money, Uncle Meat and Hot Rats (+ Lumpy Gravy, to an extent) combined.
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Pink Floyd, thanks to Interstellar Overdrive, A Saucerful Of Secrets, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, and the entire Ummagumma album
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Let's try to consider, if you will, which of these artists' discography from this decade only contributed the most to the formation and development of progressive rock as a movement. 

I know it's difficult but, if the world had ended on January 1, 1970, which of these bands do you think would be considered the most influential to Prog World? 





P.S. Sorry I left off artists like Bob Dylan, Dave Brubeck, Don Ellis, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Incredible String Band, Blue Cheer, Jethro Tull, Pharoah Sanders, Terje Rypdal, Herbie Mann, Larry Coryell, and Santana but a poll-maker's gotta do what a poll-maker does!


Edited by BrufordFreak - January 04 2023 at 15:06
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