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Originally Posted by jackhammer
I may have to give them a listen to satisfy my curiosity but they have always been a band that I have never felt compelled to get into even though my dad has seen them live a couple of times and he's not into prog. Maybe that's the reason  |
Well you totally need to check them out and Days of Future Passed is the place to start. They started off as a R&B influenced psychedelic rock band. But with Future Passed they took a giant leap forward. It introduced many of the conventions of prog. They were the first popular band to use the Mellotron on a regular basis, one of the first to embrace classical music influences, the first to make concept albums with recurring motifs throughout and to use the kind of odd time signatures and exotic rhythms that they did.
I think it goes like this.
Moody Blues and Procol Harum = Invented prog.
King Crimson = Made it into a movement.
Yes and ELP = Got it into the mainstream.