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Sockratease, leadaemon, I hear ya on the '70s progressive stuff. Quite a few of my favorite bands are of that genre; such would include:
--The Mahavishnu Orchestra --Yes --Jethro Tull --Genesis (the Gabriel era, and their first two post-Gabriel albums) --Hatfield And the North --Egg --National Health --Melodic Energy Commission --Wallenstein --Pulsar --Soft Machine --Camel --Happy The Man --SBB --Refugee --Gentle Giant --Focus --Le Orme --PFM --Agitation Free --Emerson, Lake, and Palmer --Van Der Graaf Generator --Henry Cow (pref. their early material) --Pink Floyd (everything BEFORE _Dark Side Of the Moon_)
And now, my favorites in other genres:
--Jefferson Airplane --Jimi Hendrix --Country Joe And the Fish --The Grateful Dead (especially their live performances from 1966-74, and TRIPLE ESPECIALLY their more improvisational material like "Dark Star," "The Other One," and "Playin' In the Band") --The Mothers Of Invention --Love --Bob Dylan (up to _Blonde On Blonde_) --Van Dyke Parks --Stew --Ali Akbar Khan --Ravi Shankar --Colin Walcott --Kool And the Gang (their early stuff) --Parliament/Funkadelic (pref. early '70s) --Eugene McDaniels --Aretha Franklin --Divine Styler --Soul-Junk --S.O.U.L. --Funk Inc. --Curtis Mayfield --L.A. Carnival --Stark Reality --Rotary Connection --Minnie Riperton --Gil-Scott Heron --Earth, Wind, and Fire (pref. their early albums) --Mahalia Jackson --Rev. James Cleveland --Tangerine Dream --Alien Planetscapes --Tortoise --Thinking Plague --Stereolab --David Axelrod --Donald Byrd --Weather Report --Miles Davis --Herbie Hancock --Chick Corea --Wayne Shorter --Tony Williams' Lifetime --John Coltrane --McCoy Tyner --Bobby Hutcherson --Billy Bang --Andrew Hill --Keith Jarrett --Dave Douglas --Mary Lou Williams --Marcus Belgrave --Doug Carn --The Awakening --Phil Ranelin --Dwight Trible --Charles Lloyd --Horace Tapscott --Calvin Keys --Henry Franklin --Roy Ayers --Larry Young --Love Cry Want --Adam Rudolph --Jeff Parker --Jeff Gauthier --Eric Von Essen --Alex Cline --Nels Cline --Eberhard Weber --Terry Riley --Pauline Oliveros --Morton Subotnick --Steve Reich --Vladimir Ussachevsky --Charlemagne Palestine --Danielson Famile --Lou Harrison --J.S. Bach --Handel --Haydn --Beethoven --Mahler --Sibelius --Debussy --Ravel --Aaron Copland --Olivier Messiaen --Arvo Part
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