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Poll Question: How Influential Were The Beatles On Prog Rock?
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2005 at 03:25

Originally posted by easy livin easy livin wrote:

What do you consider to be the second medley Cert? The whole of side 2 is one of them (presumably), but I've always thought of side one as separate tracks.

I hear side 2 as "Here Comes the Sun", then two distinct medlies; "Because" -> "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window", then "Golden Slumbers" -> "End", with "Her Majesty" as a kind of cheeky finale.
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Points: 132 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2005 at 05:01
Without Revolver and SPLHCB prog (and some other styles) would not appear and develop so fast. The influence is huge.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2005 at 15:57

If you'll look at the influences of Robert Fripp, who for the most part created prog, the Beatles are the largest influence.

The Beatles basically formed two roads, the pop road which now consists of all the comerical artists, and the experimental road which influened King Crimson and Yes and The Nice and Genesis and led to musical progression. Of course prog, the road less taken, has made all the difference.
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Originally posted by Riph Riph wrote:

If you'll look at the influences of Robert Fripp, who for the most part created prog, the Beatles are the largest influence.


The Beatles basically formed two roads, the pop road which now consists of all the comerical artists, and the experimental road which influened King Crimson and Yes and The Nice and Genesis and led to musical progression. Of course prog, the road less taken, has made all the difference.



Good point, but you're forgetting one non-prog road they formed. And that was the result of their meshing with Bob Dylan (British rockers didn't even know what pot was 'til he came along!), folk rock. This spawned artists like The Band, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and maybe even Renaissance and Jethro Tull (come to think of it, folk rock may not be so non-prog after all).
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