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Protopunk is a term used to describe a number of performers who were important precursors of punk rock, or who have been cited by early punk rockers as influential. Often, protopunk bands were not considered punk themselves. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
Most protopunkers are rock and roll performers of the 1960s and early-1970s, though some earlier performers have been cited. Garage rock in general has been cited as quite influential in the development of punk rock. Many such garage rock artists can be found on the Nuggets compilations. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that enjoyed its original period of wide success in the United States and Canada, from 1963 to 1967. ...
Protopunk has proven difficult to define, and many widely different groups have been so dubbed. Most had a certain attitude or appearance seen as important, as opposed to any specific musical tendencies. The "Saicos" a peruvian band, was the first protopunk band in the world in 1964, with the hit "Demolición" (Demolition). Significant examples include Eddie Cochran (frequently called the "godfather of punk", Lou Reed (often called the "Father of Punk") and the Velvet Underground, The Fugs, Iggy Pop (commonly nicknamed the "Godfather of Punk" and claimed as influential by many early punk artists) and his band the Stooges, as well as the Who and the Kinks (both bands often share influencing such groups as the Ramones and the Clash), the Sonics, Alice Cooper, the MC5, Blue Öyster Cult, the Monks, Rocket from the Tombs, David Bowie, the Modern Lovers, electric eels, Doctors of Madness, T. Rex, Link Wray, the New York Dolls, and to an extent, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Also important is Patti Smith, who is sometimes called the "Godmother of Punk." Eddie Cochran Edward Ray Eddie Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an early American rockabilly musician and an important influence on popular music during the late 1950s and early 1960s. ...
Lewis Allan Lou Reed[1] (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ...
The Velvet Underground and Nico (from left to right: John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen Tucker) The Velvet Underground (Affectionately known as The Velvets, or V.U. for short) was an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s. ...
The Fugs second album (1966) The Fugs was a band formed in New York City in 1965 by Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. ...
James Newell Osterberg, Jr. ...
The Stooges are an American rock band that was first active from about 1967 to 1974, and then reformed in 2003. ...
The Who are an English rock band who first emerged in 1964. ...
The Kinks were an English rock group formed in 1963 by lead singer-songwriter Ray Davies and his brother, lead guitarist and vocalist, Dave Davies, with bassist Pete Quaife. ...
The Ramones (L-R, Johnny, Tommy, Joey, Dee Dee) on the cover of their debut self-titled album (1976), cementing their place at the dawn of the punk movement. ...
The Clash were an English punk rock band who were active from 1976 to 1986. ...
This article is on the garage rock band The Sonics; see Seattle SuperSonics for the basketball team. ...
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), is a rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ...
MC5 (short for Motor City Five) was a hard rock band formed in Detroit, Michigan, USA in 1964 and active until 1972, comprising Wayne Kramer and Fred Sonic Smith (guitars) Michael Davis (bass), Rob Tyner (vocals), and Dennis Thompson (drums). ...
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The Monks are a rock n roll band, primarily active in Germany in the mid to late sixties. ...
Rocket From The Tombs was an American rock band that formed in the summer of 1974. ...
David Bowie (David Robert Jones 8 January 1947) is an English Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ...
Led by Jonathan Richman, the protopunk band The Modern Lovers came out of Massachusetts in the early 1970s. ...
The Electric Eels were a punk band in the 1970s - 1980s. ...
The Doctors of Madness were a protopunk rock band formed in 1974 in a cellar in Brixton, south London by the composer and lead singer/guitarist Richard Strange, known as ‘Kid’ Strange. ...
T. Rex (originally known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, also occasionally spelled T Rex or T-Rex), were an English rock band fronted by Marc Bolan. ...
Link Wray and His Ray Mens The Swan Singles Collection 1963-1967 Fred Lincoln Link Wray Jr (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was an American rock and roll guitar player most noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars in his hit 1958 instrumental Rumble, by Link...
The New York Dolls are a rock band formed in New York City in 1972. ...
Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist. ...
The Mothers of Invention were a rock and roll band active from the 1960s to the 1990s. ...
Patricia Lee (Patti) Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American musician, singer, and poet. ...
Some protopunk bands also fall into the categories of glam rock or UK pub rock. Glam rock (also known as glitter rock), is a style of rock and roll music, which initially surfaced in the post-Hippie early 1970s. ...
Pub rock was a mid- to late-1970s musical movement, largely centred around North London and South East Essex, particularly Canvey Island and Southend on Sea. ...
Remarkably, both Pere Ubu and Suicide (and to a lesser extent Television) have been classified as protopunk and post-punk, but both bands' unusual, experimental qualities have rarely seen them classified as "textbook" punk. Pere Ubu are a rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. ...
Suicide is an American rock music group intermittently active since 1971 and composed of Alan Vega (vocals) and Martin Rev (synthesizers and drum machines). ...
Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial punk rock explosion. During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock...
The Monks have also been described as a protopunk band. Their album Black Monk Time(1966) had vocal delivery that was strangled, wailing and frantic, contrasted to deep chanting. The band also utilised a great deal of guitar feedback and dissonance.
Protopunk, combined with garage rock, hard-edged New Wave and the garage rock revival, helped lead the way to the modern garage punk movement. Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that enjoyed its original period of wide success in the United States and Canada, from 1963 to 1967. ...
New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ...
Garage rock was a simple, raw form of rock and roll created by a number of American bands in the mid-1960s. ...
Garage punk is a subgenre of punk rock that is closely related to garage rock. ...
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