A lot of times yes, but a lot of it is very disiplined in it's approach.... Frank Zappa for example refused to let any of his musicians use drugs, and of course, his musicians were always top of the line in terms of pure ability... Freak Out is one of the most important influences on the genre along with Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and Days Of Future Past, in fact, many would argue that it is the "first" prog album.... Sure it dosent sound very prog, but it introduced many of the elements that defined progressive rock.... Frank Zappa in many ways created the blueprint for prog, bands like King Crimson simply took Zappa's philosophy and developed it much further, abandoning Zappa's more "rock" oriented tendencies for something that was closer to free form jazz, folk and classical than blues, r&b and gospel like most rock music was at the time, eventually leading to prog as we know it today.
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