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Yes to - Purple, Led Zep, Yes.... Do Jethro Tull qualify....? Someone played me "Living in the Past" and I loved it....back then.
But back then, thanks to Radio 3 and a newly opened, fantastically well-stocked record library, I discovered something called "classical music" and sold off all those albums....
Do Zeppelin qualify as prog rock? I think they're as good as it gets but their influences (always a vexed question with them anyway, especially when it came to attribution) are more traditional blues/folk/rock than experimental.
Do Zeppelin qualify as prog rock? I think they're as good as it gets but their influences (always a vexed question with them anyway, especially when it came to attribution) are more traditional blues/folk/rock than experimental.
My top choice is as always King Crimson:In the Court of the Crimson King, with Wake of Poseidon good but not quite as good copying similar ideas but Greg Lake’s departure disrupting the flow.
Then Moody Blues first few Deram albums In search of the lost chord, On the threshold of a dream and ‘To our children’s chlidren’s children’ and ‘Question of Balance’ their next few were OK but a bit repeat formula and possibly did not progress a lot thence.
Caravan’s Land of Grey and Pink’ is a favourite of mine.
Pink Floyd pre Dark Side saw a good prog development, ‘Ummagumma’ and the ‘Relics’ collection is good as are the ‘Nice Pair’ their first two albums. Jethro Tull ‘Stand Up’ shows the transition from Blues to Prog and I always think of Colosseum as a Prog Band ‘Those about to die..’ and ‘Valentyne Suite’ good examples. The boundaries in the late sixties were all over the place - pop evolved into rock. Blues, jazz, folk all came together. The key to what was prog, was from what was possible. Better amplification systems and the development of melletrons and moogs meant that bigger sounds were possible and orchestral sounds could be imitated. The evolution of the Beatles was part of Prog, Yardbirds, Deep Purple - the list goes on.
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