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Originally Posted by Anteater
Influence-wise, I'd give more props to The Velvet Underground, The Residents and Captain Beefheart than Zappa on the avant-garde side of things. But then again, If I had to stretch my arm out broadly, I'd say Jimi Hendrix (his whole damn career), King Crimson (20th Century Schizoid Man and the titular In the Court of the Crimson King were both landmark tracks) and Pink Floyd had more influence on rock than The Beatles by a landslide.
Actually, why even mention The Beatles at all in a thread like this?
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Funny King Crimson, Hendrix and Floyd all were influenced by the Beatles and used many of the elements of their psychedelic style.
George Harrison said and it's on You Tube when he recorded "Within You Without You" it was his goal to merge Traditional Indian Music with a Western Pop song. I don't know why this is a bad thing for some people? Using odd time signatures, exotic instruments and non western scales wrapped around melody driven music To me it's brilliant they were able to do it and it's a form of innovation.
Is it the Beatles fault that Zappa did not have the influence of them? You don't seem to get that pop music is a form of music. The Beatles merging progressive, experimental with pop music is a concept. They succeeded at it. Zappa non-pop experimental music did not. The Beatles experimental style of backward tapes, Indian Instruments, tape loops, and mellotron on "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" were done in 1966 before the Nice, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and King Crimson.
The Beatles already recorded songs with strong Avant Influence "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Love You To", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "A Day in the Life". The Beach Boys were miles late with "Smiley Smile. Like who cares if the Beatles also did their share of pop music. The Beatles also experimented. They did not play one type of music. Ah by the way this was before Pink Floyd and years before King Crimson were recording.