The Unfan

Some of The Beatles' stuff dabbled in prog.

ADELE

You do have a point there but the Beatles were listening to the floyd in Abbey road and that was their inspiration for Pepper as Lennon said.

jackhammer

The Beatles were inspired by The Beach Boys and not Floyd to raise their game. McCartney has said this many times. Floyd just happened to be recording at the same time at Abbey Road. Rock Music is the blues amplified and distorted. Simple as that. No one can lay claim to being first.

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ProggyMan

Floyd wasn't one of the 5 first prog bands.

Urban Hat€monger ?

You wanted to debate who was first not who was the most popular. And I mentioned them to counter your Sabbath argument , not The Who.
Same thing

Both copy from the other , Where do you think for example The Rolling Stones , The Yardbirds , The Beatles & other British acts got their ideas from. I'll give you a clue it was from early American Rock n Roll & Blues artists , Not Cliff Richard & Adam Faith which was what was popular in the UK when those bands first started.

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ADELE

So the Who were the first?
I knew Urban Hatemongrol would agree with me.
But hairspray rock isn't glam.
It is bands like poison.
Glam is Glam.

Urban Hat€monger ?

The Rolling Stones , The Yardbirds , The Downliners Sect

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Rainard Jalen

The whole point seems a little trivial whatever way one looks at it. At the end of the day, rock owes its existence to the American music that came before in the earlier 20th century.

Who knows what British music would have come to sound like were it not for the existence of jazz, the blues and so forth. My guess is probably nothing particularly like The Who.

ADELE

I'd love you guys and girls to write a book about rock history.
It all began in a feild in Africa and developed from there.
the end

I am talking about definitive moments when things changed and became somtheing new. The who were mods which is a UK scene of very sharp arrogant proud hip types but they became rock n roll that inspired all the led zeppilen and then black sabbath and stadium rock. Forget music ancestory.
Like art is categorised into periods but all have to do with what went before and so does film making. Marlon Brando didn't invent method acting but he created it in history for us to see. That is how it got into the dictionary and became known.
Therefore looking back we only have names and dates and history because of him and it.
Who remembers ragtime music?
Why doesn't it have a section in this forum?
Because it is forgotton. Same with skiffle which was huge once. What took pop music as it was called and turned it into hard rock n roll then followed by the zeppilen et al?
THE WHO

Urban Hat€monger ?

It does , General Music.

You can start a thread about it there if you want

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