I'm in the middle of it at this moment and will add more to this.

 

It's a bit strange that we do not talk about these folks more, just like my continuing discussion of Tom Dowd, that offers one of the clearest visions of American music anywhere in the 50's and 60's ... that helps explain so much of what became the experimental, drug and progressive scene that also was NY, LA and SF and the rest of America.

 

On top of it, look where they got so much inspiration ... Kraftwerk ... "new music" and "sound" ... and many other things. The clearest shot that a lot of the music in London, was not just about the Londonites and that some of these folks deserve some credit to an extent, and sometimes more than the musicians and bands themselves. And Kraftwerk goes way back to 1970 ... though they never hit big until later. But, then, it was "experimental" like so many other things, and most people that would listen to it today would think ... bunch of kids playing around with sounds, not music!  And, later, that kid learned how to work with that sound ... and that is what Pink Floyd did, too, with sound effects ... !!!

 

Hard to imagine that we never thought or consider Joe boyd and Georgio Gomeslky, or discussed them here, and here are two of the most important visionaries in the 20th century music ... much of it that we ened up calling "progressive" ... but the person that had the ear to make sure these were heard ... ??? ... never mentioned!