The Official Pink Floyd Thread (country, dance, house, rock)

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by boo boo

Pink Floyd may be the most well known prog band, but they're not the most influencial or important band to prog, King Crimson and Yes both surpass them in that regard.

Pink Floyd is the only band I know that is cited as an influence out of those three bands you mentioned (Yes, Floyd, & Crimson) . They're mentioned almost exclusively. Their are a couple of bands I can't remember, but anyway the Australian band, The Church, mentioned Pink Floyd as one of their major influences (along with The Beatles and The Stones). But then the bands that mention Pink Floyd wouldn't be bands you like, so that is why you don't know of them.

Floyd had such a long career. it stretched back into the 60's, and they're different genres they were major part of like Free-form jamming, Psychedelic, Space Rock, Progressive, & Arena Rock. Pink Floyd had a another genre they helped out with which is Punk, not because of musical influence but through a reactionary dislike of Pink Floyd. Some punks at the time used to write "I hate" on Pink Floyd concert shirts. Maybe they picked on Pink Floyd because they were the most popular. Because they had a hit with "Money" & their work in the 60's they became the flagship of the Prog genre, and probably were single out in the clash of ideas between Prog and Punk music fans. But then agian because of their fame and being more well known they are more likely to influence other bands/musicians.

I think it should be noted that Robert Fripp is an influential guitarist not only for what he did in King Crimson but with other artist like David Bowie, Peter Garbiel, etc, too.

And why is Garbiel era Genesis always left out as an important Prog band?