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Poll Question: Who was the first prog band?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 10:20
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Frank Zappa!!!????
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 10:33
King Crimson was the first real prog band. Yust like black sabbath was the first real heavy metal band. You can argue all you want but we all know its the truth.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 13:15
The Who, Miles Davis and The Nice would be my suggestions.
King Crimson is the first real prog band in any case. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 13:25
Gregorian chanters.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 15:12
SleepyGOD - WHO INVENTED ALSO SWINE FLU, POLITICIANS, GLOBAL WARMING, AND ALL OTHER THINGS. JUST BE THANKFUL HE INVENTED PROG TO KEEP US ALL HAPPY AND DEBATINGBig smile

In serious mode, I'm not going to vote because it's an impossible question. My Dad reckons Elvis, but, then again, he thinks that all strarted and ended with ElvisLOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 15:22
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My poor old boy thought it all started and ended with Glen MillerWink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 15:46
Whoever invented music in the first place.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 15:59
You all have it wrong, Steven Wilson invented a time machine which he used to go back to the late sixties to invent a new style to take root back then because music was so sh*tty in his time, he went under the guise of "Robert Fripp", and then invented a robot which took his place after he went back to the future. This style became prog which then progressed as it did, and then everyone thought that PT and SW was the natural evolution of it but in reality he invented it.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 16:55

It would be impossible to identify anyone who invented prog.  From the list presented Pink Floyd were playing consistently progressive rock earliest.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 17:08
Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

Nobody. An evolution, not an invention, IMO
 
So Darwin then?
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 17:56
Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M 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.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 20:49
While I agree that the advent of prog was more of a confluence of ideas that occurred simultaneously  among various artists (Zappa, Beatles, KC, etc...) I'd like to put another name out there...

The Beach Boys

(waits for the laughter to stop)

Pet Sounds from 1966 was really far ahead of its time in elevating pop music by increased complexity in arrangements, both vocal and instrumental, as well as introducing a level of engineering that was leaps and bounds over most of its contemporaries. McCartney has said that this record was a direct influence on the direction that Sgt. Pepper would take.

Something to think on...(just not too hard, pleaseWink)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 16 2009 at 22:57
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

It was either Thomas Edison or Nikolai Tesla depending on your point of view.


You forgot that guy with the kite, Benjamin Franklin.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2009 at 02:09
Retailers invented prog.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2009 at 03:21
Originally posted by Nipsey88 Nipsey88 wrote:

While I agree that the advent of prog was more of a confluence of ideas that occurred simultaneously  among various artists (Zappa, Beatles, KC, etc...) I'd like to put another name out there...

The Beach Boys

(waits for the laughter to stop)

Pet Sounds from 1966 was really far ahead of its time in elevating pop music by increased complexity in arrangements, both vocal and instrumental, as well as introducing a level of engineering that was leaps and bounds over most of its contemporaries. McCartney has said that this record was a direct influence on the direction that Sgt. Pepper would take.

Something to think on...(just not too hard, pleaseWink)
 
I'm not laughing - I think it's a valid point. There wasn't much around as refined as that in 1966
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2009 at 03:33
Brian Wilson was undoubtedly a major player in progressing rock, a secret American prog weapon masked in sugary pop..  genius!

  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2009 at 07:35
Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

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


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2009 at 07:52
It all started with the German Bonds and their "Sonata Facile", influenced by Mozart (1966)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2009 at 10:29
So many people and no-one in particular, I have to fo with Others.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2009 at 21:02
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.
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