Who was the first Prog Rock band?

That's very nice of you , but mp3's too large for email, and I don't have MSN (My dad forbid that). Maybe you have SoulSeek?

Vib', who is Elvis Presley ?

 

Before that the term was coined...I think that the first bands and artists who are near (in spirit) to prog rock are of course Frank Zappa and his Mothers of invention, also the first traffic album (made in 1966), Arthur Brown, the psychedelic 13th floor elevator (conceptualy), Black widow.

dude wrote: ME ME ME, I WAS THE FIRST PROGROCK BAND!!! I RELEASED THE FISRT PROGROCK ALBUM"AT THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON CAVE" BACK IN 73418 BC SO BLAME ME FOR EVERYTHING!!!!

Death penalty!

Stormcrow wrote: For what it's worth -  I've just read over at the AMG site that Zappa's "Freak Out", from 1966 and the Moody Blues' "Day Of Future Passed", from 1967, are recognized as the first two true "progressive rock" albums. What do you all think?

I think that's THE TRUTH . But I think Piper from The Pink Floyd belongs there too.

WOULD THAT BE THE LEGAL FIRM OF FINDUM, FLEECUM AND FLEE?

I'd have to go with:

1.- The Birds - "Mr Tambourine Man" (Bob Dylan's won't lemme lie)

2.- Rainbow (ask Mr Cozy Powell)

and somehow...

3.- UFO

would like to read the reply for this

Maani, Dude, Jim. Sorry ya'll.

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I got there first.  

Quote: I believe David Gilmour from Pink Floyd is featured on that one.

I think you're 30 years out - Mr Gilmour featured on the remake of the album by the Pretty Things done in the late 90's. Besides members of Tomorrow (Keith West and to a lesser extent Steve Howe) were working on "Teenage Opera" (which had two chart singles in the UK 1967), predating "SF Sorrow", but against that argument is the fact that the whole album then took nearly 30 years to appear.

Why do so many American progressive rock fans neglect (or unaware) of their own high innovative band Touch, who recorded their eponymously titled album 1968/9 and released in 1969? And one highly academic book on progressive rock Progressive Rock Reconsidered by  Kevin Holm-Hudson invests a whole chapter on United States Of America (who could be a candidate for the earliest proto-RIO band), as another candidate. Then Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing At Baxters" is very experimental rock for the period.

Edited by Dick Heath

Aaron wrote: i usually just say that King Crimson's In the Court.. was the first prog album, but honestly, i dont care Aaron

 

Jerry Lucky (author of the Progressive Rock Files) puts the case for the Moody Blues Days of Future Past in the Ghostland's Editorials - released 18 months or more before ITCOTCK . But as most Brits ignored it (firsthand knowledge: I worked in  record store at the time and  it was difficult to give the album away) when it was first released, i.e. another British band that had to find success in the US before being accepted back home. It may be the first prog album by default rather than by deliberate intent by the band - e.g. Decca records were trying to broaden the appeal of it Phase Four stereo label, by taking a has-been/underused/increasingly unsuccessful  pop group (with Denny Laine the MB's had one major hit "Go Now") and marry them with its popular music orchestra.