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

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

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?

I think Floyd were certainly important, and Genesis were too. But they weren't as popular as those 3 were at the time.

Yes and KC were the most influencial within the genre of prog, though it could be argued that Floyd have influenced more bands overall, a lot of non-prog bands.

Yes influenced a lot of the symphonic prog bands, KC influenced a lot of the more avant and heavy prog bands, while Floyd were more influencial to the slicker, more atmospheric prog bands. Pariticularly the neo prog era of the 1980s.