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10 US psych and proto bands
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Poll Question: Choose your favorite of these psych/proto bands
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
1 [2.56%]
3 [7.69%]
2 [5.13%]
2 [5.13%]
0 [0.00%]
17 [43.59%]
3 [7.69%]
3 [7.69%]
1 [2.56%]
7 [17.95%]
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It's A Beautiful Day. Progressive mixed with flower power. Excellent. And I love that fiddle.
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I'm not really sure what flower power is but yes that one song "white bird" is at least proto prog in my mind.

Anyway, the Mothers of Invention is the winner by a wide margin with Vanilla Fudge coming in at second with Spirit and Iron Butterfly tied for third. I'm actually a bit surprised their weren't more votes for Love and Spirit. 


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Spirit for me.....love what they did on the first 4 albums.....but QMS, Love, Mothers...and even Butterfly were great bands. Sadly Touch only did the one LP....would have been interesting to see where they would have gone next on a second LP.

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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

no Jefferson Airplane?? Ouch
 
From this lest, Spirit, QMS and Vanilla Fudge in that order....
 
HP Lovecraft might also have been a valid choice for this poll

Yep, or even the Pop Art Experimental band, the thirteenth floor elevators, Fifty Foot Hose, The United States of America, the Ultimate Spinach and several others. However, you can't remember everyone but I think I did ok considering the results. I didn't include J.A. for the same reason I didn't include the Doors, Janis, Jimi, GD, etc. I wanted bands who were a little bitter lesser known(just like many of the prog polls on here).


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Yeah I haven't heard all these bands but I'm a big enough Zappa fan that I went ahead and voted for The Mothers. Hard for me to imagine that any of the other bands are even close to that kind of genius. 
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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:

I'll go with the fudge...almost hilariously acid-drenched.
 
I used to adore these guys and even today I find their musical chops outrageously brilliant. The singing though  Like dialing The Moodies' more romantic gestures up to 11...and then in full blown harmony uuhhh  Funny how something one used to love now makes you cringe. The music though still is as powerful as the first time I heard it. Those drums man!
I was listening to "The Sky Cried/When I Was a Boy" again, and yeah, the vocals are like a guy on a bad acid trip in which EVERY SINGLE WORD is sung with naked clench-fisted desperation. To me it meshes well with the acid rock workouts, but being in the progressive metal team, I'm pretty much desensitized to histrionic vocals thanks to all of these power/prog metal wailers I've sifted through for evaluation. The Vanilla Fudge guy is like a national treasure compared to some of these operatic air-raid sirens.Tongue
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QMS for me, natch, JC being a life-long idol.  2nd would be Spirit.  The original lineups are 2 of the most electrifying bands that I've ever seen live.  Moby Grape were great, and terrific live, but probably the least prog of any of the bands in the poll.  Jefferson Airplane is often thought of as being more mainstream because of their 2 hit singles, but After Bathing at Baxters and, to a slightly lesser degree, Crown of Creation are very progressive.  I agree with Sean that H.P. Lovecraft would have been a valid choice for the poll, but they wouldn't have changed my vote.
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The Mothers. Obviously!!!
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Fathers of...i mean Mothers...
I like Iron butterfly and Love too
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