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Skin Alley |
1968 |
As with other Clearwater Production groups, Skin Alley had their roots in the London underground and free festival scene. After recording two albums for CBS the band signed with Transatlantic, who licensed two albums to... |
United Kingdom |
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Sky |
1978 |
British-Australian supergroup featured the talents of Francis Monkman, Tristian Fry, Kevin Peek, Herbie Flowers, and classical guitarist John Williams. |
United Kingdom |
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Smith, Judge |
1948 |
Christopher John Judge Smith, founding member of Van Der Graaf Generator, departed the band shortly after their first single, however remained close to the fold. His solo work is mainly large stage musicals. |
United Kingdom |
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Snowball |
1977 |
Combining the talents of Roye Albrighton of Nektar, Curt Cress and Kristian Schultze of Passport, and Dave King of Embryo, Snowball were a supergroup of sorts, straddling jazz/fusion realms. Latter albums did not... |
Germany |
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Socrates (Drank the Conium) |
1969 |
Greece's premiere rock band |
Greece |
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Soft Machine, The |
1966 |
One of two Canterbury bands formed from the Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine's earliest days were in the psychedelia of London's underground of the late 60s. By Third however the band matured into one of Britain's finest... |
United Kingdom |
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Sorrenti, Alan |
1950 |
Welsh-Italian singer released a few Rock Progressivo Italiano albums before launching a successful pop career. |
Italy |
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Sound Of Contact |
2012 |
Reprising his father's roles with Genesis, Sound Of Contact is Simon Collins' new project with Dave Kerzner, Kelly Nordstrom and Matt Dorsey. After a cancelled US tour, their future seems tenuous at best. |
United States |
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Space Ritual |
2002 |
Nik Turner-led band that includes Terry Ollis, Mick Slattery, Dave Anderson, Thomas Crimble and other Hawkwind stalwarts and all. |
United Kingdom |
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Spektakel |
1969 |
Detlef Wiedecke (guitar), Eduard Schicke (drums), and Werner Protzner (bass), were all members of Oldenburg`s underground rock scene. |
Germany |
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Spring |
1969 |
Spring was best known for their eponymous album's mighty Mellotron sound, and their members post-Spring careers. |
United Kingdom |
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Squire, Chris |
1948 |
Bassist for Yes recorded one excellent solo album. |
United Kingdom |
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Stackridge |
1969 |
Originally called "Lemon Stackridge", this Bristol based band recorded several albums during the 70s, including the George Martin produced Man With The Bowler Hat. |
United Kingdom |
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Starcastle |
1974 |
Hailing from Champaign-Urbana in Illinois, Starcastle burst on to the radar with their brand of prog; very much Yes-like. |
United States |
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Steeleye Span |
1969 |
Led by Maddy Prior and Tim Hart, with Rick Kemp, Bob Johnson and Peter Knight one of Britian's finest folk-rock bands. |
United Kingdom |
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Stomu Yamashta's Go |
1975 |
Daring to combine progressive, fusion and electronic sounds, this supergroup fronted by Japanese percussionist Stomu Yamashta included such luminiaries as Steve Winwood, Klaus Schulze and Al DiMeola. |
Japan |
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Strawbs |
1967 |
One of Britain's original folk-rock groups |
United Kingdom |
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Streetwalkers |
1973 |
Roger Chapman and John "Charlie" Whitney's post-Family venture |
United Kingdom |
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String Driven Thing |
1967 |
Formed by Chris and Pauline Adams, this Glaswegian folk rock band found some traction in the early 70s on Charisma Records. It featured Graham Smith on violin, though later 70s lineups would be without the Adams. |
United Kingdom |
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Stud |
1970 |
Former Taste members Charlie McCracken and John Wilson joined up with ex-Family guitarist Jim Cregan, and later John Weider. |
United Kingdom |
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Summers, Andy & Robert Fripp |
1981 |
Bournemouth natives Andy Summers of the Police and Robert Fripp of King Crimson collaborated on a pair of albums for A&M Records in the early 80s. |
United Kingdom |
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Sun Treader |
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Named after a Carl Ruggles work, Sun Treader featured Peter Robinson on keyboards and Morris Pert on drums. |
United Kingdom |
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Supersister |
1967 |
One of Holland's finest groups, Supersister's original music had much in common with the earliest Soft Machine albums. |
Netherlands |
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Supertramp |
1969 |
Founded in 1969 by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, Supertramp were the benefactor of a Dutch millionaire, Stanley August Miesegaes, who bankrolled their initial lineup. After two unsuccessful albums, the band changed... |
United Kingdom |
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Syn, The |
1965 |
With Pete Banks, Chris Squire as a core, The Syn were the pre-cursor to Maybel Greer's Toyshop (and Yes), releasing a handful of singles in the late 60s. The latter-day reformation was primarily a vanity project for... |
United Kingdom |
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Synergy |
1951 |
Larry Fast, one of the pioneers of electronic music and technology, released an exemplary series albums for the Passport label in the mid to late 70s. In addition to production for artists on the label, he has also... |
United States |
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T.2. |
1970 |
Prog trio featuring guitarist Keith Cross, bassist Bernard Jinks and drummer Peter Dunton released one much hearlded album for Deram in 1970, but broke up due to internal strife. Members were previously in Bulldog Breed... |
United Kingdom |
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Tangent, The |
2003 |
Formed by ex-Parallel or 90 Degrees men Andy Tillison and Guy Manning, The Tangent has featured many lineups, mostly with members of the Swedish bands Flower Kings and Beardfish. |
United Kingdom |
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Tangerine Dream |
1967 |
From their "free-rock" beginnings in the Berlin underground to the eventual triple-keyboard standard that signed to Virgin Records, Tangerine Dream earns significant credit in introducing synthesizer/sequenced... |
Germany |
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Tasavallan Presidentti |
1969 |
Founded by guitarist Jukka Tolonen and drummer Vesa Aaltonen, and Frank Robson and Mans Groundstroem from Blues Section in 1969, their early albums bear some Colosseum, Traffic or Jethro Tull due to the strong English... |
Finland |
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Tempest |
1972 |
Jon Hiseman's post-Colosseum rock band featured Allan Holdsworth and then Ollie Halsall on guitar. |
United Kingdom |
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Tolonen, Jukka |
1952 |
Finnish guitarist and founder of Tasavallan Presidentti |
Finland |
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Tomorrow |
1966 |
In the beginning there was psychedelia - inspired by the liberation of drug culture, supported by the new "Underground" and musically, and bringing novel invention to music. Tomorrow were one of London's darlings during... |
United Kingdom |
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Tony Williams Lifetime, The |
1969 |
Tony Williams, John McLaughlin and Larry Young. The birth of fusion. |
United States |
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Tony Williams Lifetime, The New |
1975 |
Tony Williams reformed his Lifetime in the mid-70s with a new lineup featuring Allan Holdsworth on guitar, Alan Pasqua on keyboards and Tony Newton on bass. Marlon Graves replaced Holdsworth for the second album. |
United States |
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Top, Jannick |
1947 |
Bassist supreme |
France |
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Trace |
1974 |
Rick Van Der Linden's ex-Ekseption group. |
Netherlands |
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Traffic |
1967 |
Steve Winwood was already well known as the voice behind Spencer Davis Group before he started Traffic. The band always kept its R&B roots as it moved from the psychedelic pop of the first two studio albums into... |
United Kingdom |
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Transatlantic |
2001 |
The Prog supergroup of the modern era, combining the talents of Mike Portnoy (Dream Theatre), Roine Stolt (Flower Kings), Neil Morse (Spock's Beard) and Pete Trewavas (Marillion). |
United States |
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Trip, The |
1966 |
Originally called Maiocchi and the Trip, The Trip were an Anglo-Italian band based out of Italy. Early member included Ritchie Blackmore (later of Deep Purple fame). After their first album, later albums featured more... |
Italy |
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Triumvirat |
1969 |
The German ELP? |
Germany |
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Turner, Nik |
1940 |
Flute and sax player for Hawkwind, Nik Turner led the Inner City Unit in the early 80s, Los Angeles-based Sphynx in the early to mid 90s, and Space Ritual in the 00s, and various side projects too numerous to list. |
United Kingdom |
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Twink |
1944 |
John Charles Alder, better known as Twink, played in a host of classic British psychedelia bands, including In-Crowd/Tomorrow, The Pretty Things/Electric Banana, Pink Fairies, and ever so short lived Stars, with Syd... |
United Kingdom |
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U.K. |
1976 |
From the remains of King Crimson, a latter-day supergroup. Bill Bruford and Allan Holdsworth left after one album, while Eddie Jobson and John Wetton stick together for another. From there, however, it was on to Asia. |
United Kingdom |
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Unifaun |
2003 |
Named after the portmanteau in Genesis' "Dancing in the Moonlight Knight, Unifaun began as "musical time travelling" between multi-instrumentalist Nad Sylvan and keyboardist Bonamici (Christian Thordin) to "write the... |
Sweden |
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Uno |
1974 |
Elio D'Anna and Danilo Rustici's post-Osanna band, recorded one eponymous album before forming Nova. |
Italy |
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Uriah Heep |
1969 |
Masters of heavy organ rock, Uriah Heep |
United Kingdom |
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Uriel (Arzachel) |
1968 |
Precursor to Egg, Uriel also included Steve Hillage on guitar. The band changed their name to Arzachel for their only album. |
United Kingdom |
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Utopia |
1973 |
In its first incarnation, Todd Rundgren's take on progressive rock |
United States |
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Van Der Graaf Generator |
1968 |
Led by the indefatigable Peter Hammill, perhaps the most original and significant group of the era; even "without the capes". Hammill is a complicated character, and so then is Van Der Graaf Generator: one moment placid... |
United Kingdom |
