Fave 60's band..

 

Just listen to Disraeli Gears and tell me Tales of Brave Ulysses or SWLABR dont blow your mind with gooey passion or musical bliss.

 

Since Micky (who is my future husband, in case you were wondering...) is at work now, I'll answer on his behalf. The guys in the picture are legendary Italian band Area, one of the best outfits ever to come out of my country. If you don't know them, they are highly recommended.... Here they are included in Jazz-Rock/Fusion, but their music shows numerous other influences.

 

As for the poll question.... Out of this list, psych Pink Floyd on top of all, then The Doors and The Who.

Course not. Don't get befuddled by the historical rewrite and extensive fiction, combined with the all-encompassing attitude to prog, of PA- created since 2004.  In the late 60's and early 70's, whilst broad in our ideas what underground music was, progressive music (soon to be progressive rock) was increasingly  restricted  to post-psychedelic underground bands of particular styles of music. Therefore Krimson, Renaissance, subequently Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, plus the second rankers of Camel and BJH, and then a lot of third rankers. In the meanwhile Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin were carving a parallel path with the new fangled heavy rock. And there were a handful of bands such as T2, somewhere between heavy rock and progresssive rock. (Should not omit the more art rock types of bands, partly  to evolve into glam rock, e.g. Roxy Music, Ziggy period Bowie, maybe Sweet and a reinvented T Rex , later the early line-up of Be Bop Deluxe). Floyd , (as did Soft Machine) were the leading underground psychedelic bands of '68 and '69, luggage which they carried with them for sometime after the heyday of UK psychedelia. Whilst Soft Machine disbanded, only to come back as an avant jazz fusion group, Floyd retained their image as psychedelic band  and loyal fan base well into the early 70's, and were particularly affected by Syd Barrett's departure.

 

If you were there the you would have realised Pink Floyd were certainly not included amongst the ranks of prog bands, they were top of their own genre, British psychedelia . So forgive me, I'm not bowing to a history written in the last decade.

 

 

 

 

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