Who invented prog?

earlyprog wrote: Prog was a cultural phenmenon. It was expressed in music, first (circa 1964) via segments of songs (Animals, Beatles, Yardbirds, Who, Beach Boys), then (circa 1966) entire songs (Soft Machine, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Doors) and finally (1968) via entire albums (possibly, Ars longa vita Brevis, East Of Eden 'Mercator Projected', Vanilla Fudge 'Renaissance', The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, HP Lovecraft II, Touch, Soft Machine).   But it seems that prog rock as an album concept was introduced on ItCotCK.   On the live scene, possibly Soft Machine and Pink Floyd were playing entire gigs of 'prog' in 1966.

Edited by el dingo - May 20 2009 at 07:03

npjnpj wrote: It was either John Peel or Lester Bangs, I think.   And if it wasn't one of them, it was Al Gore one afternoon while he was taking a break from inventing the internet.

the Rolling Stones  since they are famous for not changing/progressing so  much in  and resultetd in   musicians that went to form KC, VDGG, GG, Yes and Genesiswho were  inspired to make somthing more challenging music for ther own sake but still play under the umbrella called Rock (n Roll)

Slartibartfast wrote: Thomas Edison

Brilliant!

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: Prog was a product of musical evolution, and for that reason a process, you can't say it started here or there.   Iván

I agree, it's like asking where does life begin? But it's a annoying answer. It's more fun to speculate on the subject


Edited by rdtprog - May 18 2009 at 15:44

King Crimson. You have got to be kidding. Listen to Revolver than Rubber Soul, then give your head a shake. King Crimson, ha !!!!!!!!!

Prog wasn't invented by a band. It was the product of new mindset the youth had. It's a traditon:

Edited by kingfriso - May 18 2009 at 00:50

ghost_of_morphy wrote: No one person invented prog.  A lot of groups assembled and refined elements of prog, from the early '60's onward.   On the other hand, if you want to know who released the first prog album, it was The Moody Blues.

Right.  There is no firm answer, I think its a personal opinion thing.  For me there was great significance in the changing form and long wailing of "Interstellar Overdrive", which if I remember my books was happening live in clubs as early as fall 1966.  That is where things begin from my perspective even if many will write off IO as just psych.  A line is crossed.

It doesn't begin with Crimson in my book, many things were popping before '69.

So many people and no-one in particular, I have to fo with Others.

Hercules wrote: Procul Harum or The Moody Blues at about the same time.