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Originally Posted by elphenor
man I'm talking about influential in a popular music sense
though underground stuff always like seeps in and you see it everywhere when you look
I'm talking about among the people who will read books on Art and **** this tiny circle jerk, I mean, VU is as important as important as Olisver Wasow's "#146"
I mean plus I don't even like King Crimson and that's what's important
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Lol boi this one performance changed the entire trajectory of popular music and culture. Before this there was The Beatles for the vast majority of people and maybe Hendrix. Then you have KC make their debut live and nobody knew what to make of it.
I like V.U. and a lot of Reed's solo stuff, but they weren't bringing classical or jazz influences into rock music. They were mostly covering The Beatles and The Doors and padding things out with repetitive grooves. Meanwhile, guys like Fripp were flipping over the entire chessboard of what people thought "real music" was capable of.