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Poll Question: Who was the first prog band?
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Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

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


correct, with slightly more weight to Harum
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Matthew T Matthew T wrote:

I myself am curious when the actual term progressive came into use to describe the genre as when I bought a lot of my early prog albums they were just a new type of rock album but  I will say ........Its Only Rock and Roll but I like it,...like it.........yes I do Big smile
When I was a high school it was definitely known as Progressive with a capital "P" in the UK - that would be somewhere between '69 and '71, but certainly before '72.
Smile  Thanks Dean, I never actually heard the term used and really did not know that it was an actual genre till the internet. They kept me in the dark down hereLOL. It really was Porcupine Tree that renewed my interest with a venegeance in progWink
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Originally posted by LiquidEternity LiquidEternity wrote:

The Mothers of Invention.

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Procul Harum or The Moody Blues at about the same time.
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Points: 3577 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 15 2009 at 17:04
Originally posted by LiquidEternity LiquidEternity wrote:

The Mothers of Invention.
 
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Originally posted by Matthew T Matthew T wrote:

I myself am curious when the actual term progressive came into use to describe the genre as when I bought a lot of my early prog albums they were just a new type of rock album but  I will say ........Its Only Rock and Roll but I like it,...like it.........yes I do Big smile
When I was a high school it was definitely known as Progressive with a capital "P" in the UK - that would be somewhere between '69 and '71, but certainly before '72.
What?
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All the artists mentioned are great, and get played a lot around my ivory tower, but I voted for "Other."  Since that can indicate anybody I want, I choose to designate it "All of the Above."  There is no single inventor of Prog as there is no single inventor of Rock 'n' Roll, or Jazz, of Music itself.  There's no single inventor to the Internet, Television, Radio, Automobile, etc.  There are, however, artists significant to the development of Prog, several of which are named here.  I would add The Nice, Mothers of Invention, and Soft Machine, too, but it's not my poll.
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I really do not know,it just evolved for me from rock and psychedelic music and some where in that time it happened.King Crimson's "in the Court of the Crimson King seems to be a defining moment but Frank Zappa was full swing and Miles Davis went fusion. Confused

I myself am curious when the actual term progressive came into use to describe the genre as when I bought a lot of my early prog albums they were just a new type of rock album but  I will say ........Its Only Rock and Roll but I like it,...like it.........yes I do Big smile
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I invented prog.
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Points: 24646 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 15 2009 at 16:15
It's hard to give anyone the credits for inventing prog.
Pink Floyd and The Nice (UK), Frank Zappa (USA), and the Collectors (Canada) belonged to the first bands that walked the prog path.
The Beatles and the Moody Blues among many others were prog-related as well.
Yes, Genesis and King Crimson appeared a little later.
 
I vote for Pink Floyd.
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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 15 2009 at 16:12
Originally posted by LiquidEternity LiquidEternity wrote:

The Mothers of Invention.


End the thread here.
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Points: 66605 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 15 2009 at 15:57
It was either Thomas Edison or Nikolai Tesla depending on your point of view.
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The Mothers of Invention.
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