Big Five Proto Prog Bands

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 Atavachron wrote:

Interesting;  the retrospective from 2010 includes material from 1967 ("America") and claims to have stuff from '66 ~ presumably at Falkirk's in November ~ but that material doesn't seem to appear on the 2-disc set.   Either it's a misprint or a some kind of mix-up.
Or something more "mendacious".

They have a "interesting" explanation for claiming to have played a cover of a song in 1967 when the original version was first recorded by S&G in Feb 1968 and released in April of that year - hearing pre-release copy of "Bookends" is one thing, but hearing a copy before it was recorded is something else. If you've heard the version you will be undoubtedly impressed by the sound quality, mix and balance achieved by an audience member with a 1960s portable tape recorder and how the audience of a small 150-seater Soho club can sound like 5,000 screaming teenagers at the Hammy O. 

It is strange that when a band is claimed to have invented Prog, inspired Fripp and influenced Wakeman, Emerson and everyone in The Syn and Mabel Greer's Toyshop (ie Yes) that they don't include tracks recorded in 1966 on a recent retrospective compilation. Recordings of old 1-2-3 songs do exist that Billy Richie recorded in the mid-90s but they haven't been released either.