Most influential Prog Bands

60s- King Crimson

   i would say < None >  &  < All >   , it depends always on when , where , why & how !?  the time factor is always succeeding in developing Progressive Music to the best  (1968 - 1982)  to the worst  ( 1982 - 1992)  to stability ( 1992 - 2002)  and to madness ( 2002 - 2012)  and Yes , i like so many bands active since 1991 till now-a-days , but most of them were not able to Establish a style of their own , except for the Porcupines and Dreamtheater , and all the rest , they only have their moments in Studios , and they can't even get close to what was achieved  back then ( 1968 - 1982) bands like the Floyds , Crimsons , Tull , VDGG , ELP ....ETC ........  ARE ONLY taking advantage from the old Success , and i believe they can't be creative anymore , cause i've seen most of them in concerts around the Globe , nothing interesting so far , but we must enjoy what we have in hands now !  and to be honest really in this !  if we haven't got people like Ian Anderson , Steve Hackett , Peter Gabriel , Robert Fripp , Peter Hamill , Steve Howe , Frank Zappa , Andrew Latimer  and some other Pioneers around the Globe during the Period 68' - 82'  , i believe that Progressive would ceased back then !  but Fortunately , we had Artists like Steven Wilson in the last two decades to carry on doing what we really enjoyed back then !  it always depends on the Right Timing , the Right Place and the Right People , this is what Progressive meant to be !

Edited by trackstoni - May 22 2012 at 04:02

verslibre wrote: StyLaZyn wrote: Rush was the ultimate influence. Before Rush was around, the idea of Rush was subconsciously implanted into the Beatles, then the Moody Blues, and Crimson. Once Rush came out, all current Prog bands were influenced by them. All future Prog will be influenced by Rush.   Preach the word, brother!

Pink Floyd and King Crimson; therefore, they are the top 2 best prog bands IMO. 

Edited by Dayvenkirq - May 23 2012 at 04:16

PS and by the way, 123 did influence both of them.

He means the band 1-2-3, later called Clouds. 

rogerthat wrote: Because KC began earlier than Yes.

rogerthat wrote: Dayvenkirq wrote: rogerthat wrote: Because KC began earlier than Yes. I don't know if that is true. In '68 there was Giles, Giles & Fripp, and by that time Yes put out their first album, which was very much proggy. Yes's first album was released on 25th July 1969.  It was also apparently recorded in the spring of 1969.  ITCOTCK came out only a bit later the same year, so I grant that KC could not have influenced the first Yes album but the reverse is certainly not true and ITCOTCK is also much more fully realized than the Yes debut.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - May 25 2012 at 00:26

Yes were formed in 1968, Crimson in 1969. As with much of music history, the recording sequences are misleading - again, as with 1-2-3 and these bands, Fripp et al regularly saw Yes grow long before either recorded. 

silverpot wrote: Well, everybody in the business went to see Pink Floyd perform at the UFO club in 1967.