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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd. Left: Nick Mason, Right: Roger Waters, Top: David Gilmour, Bottom: Richard Wright (RIP) 1943-2008

### Disbanded

1995 (reunited in 2012, active until 2014)

### Rating out of ten

9

Pink Floyd was an English band formed in London in 1965. They are one of the favorites of "Le Wrong Generation Kids", who are basically edgy 13-year old middle schoolers who still look at rage comics who claim there was no bad music before the year 2000 and that there exists literally no good music in the 2010s. Other bands they love to ruin the image of include The Beatles, Nirvana, Queen, and others, and they like to claim they are intellectuals and special for listening to this kind of music.

In spite of this, Pink Floyd are still one of the best bands to ever exist and pioneered Progressive Rock in the late 60s, even though there are people who argue that Pink Floyd aren't actually prog, even though for all intents and purposes they are. Dark Side of The Moon despite being overhyped by all the druggies the world over is nevertheless a hugely important piece of music that will be remembered until the day the sun explodes and destroys the earth.

Pink Floyd began in 1965 with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and some bunch of dudes whose names you'd forget immediately. However, Nick Mason and Richard Wright joined down the track. They released 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn', their debut album, in 1967. Shortly afterwards, Syd, thanks to taking too much fucking acid, went on a DOWNWARD SPIRAL AND LOST IT COMPLETELY, managing to fart out one more tune, 'Jugband Blues' (on their second LP A Saucerful Of Secrets, 1968) before he was eventually kicked out and replaced by David Gilmour (although for a brief period, they were a five-man outfit with both Syd and Dave). But Syd just went fucking downhill in the end. Without him, Pink Floyd became one of the most fucking famous rock groups of the 1970s, churning out smash hit albums one after another, such as the aforementioned Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here.

During the Wish You Were Here sessions, a fat and bald fucker showed up in the studio and none of the Floyds knew who the fuck it was until Gilmour found him out to be SYD BARRETT. He had went from your average looking frilly-clothed perm haired psychedelic rocker in 1967, to fucking Homer Simpson before the Simpsons even existed. It was so bad Roger cried, no joke. He hung around for a bit, but disappeared after a wedding reception for Gilmour and his wife in the studio.

By 1976, punk rock had emerged and sought to fucking annihilate progressive rock and stadium rock, but Pink Floyd weren't finished yet. Far from over. During punk's initial first wave, they released Animals and The Wall, two of the most critically acclaimed albums ever made.

They were still quite successful in the 1980s, but in the end they disbanded in 1995. Syd died in 2006 from cancer and Richard Wright died in 2008 ALSO from cancer. They released one final album, The Endless River, in 2014 and then disbanded. Roger has become extremely politically involved, David Gilmour is David Gilmour, and Nick Mason has a car hobby.
The Police

**The Police** are a British-American rock band formed in 1977. For pretty much their entire run, they consisted of British musicians Sting (bass, vocals), Andy Summers (guitar) and American Stewart Copeland (drums), with only Henry Padovani being an early member before Summers pretty much replaced him (but in a Pink Floyd type scenario, there was a brief period with all four members). Summers is also notable for being 10 years older than the rest of the group and having had experience in the 1960s, having brief stints in Soft Machine and Eric Burdon & The Animals.

They became famous for blending punk and reggae with their own twist, becoming famous in the late 1970s with songs such as Can't Stand Losing You, Message In A Bottle and Walking On The Moon. Andy's usage of a flanger on the latter two created a chorus effect which would go on to be like the fucking de facto guitar sound of the 1980s.

Speaking of the 80s, as the aforementioned decade took hold, they had their biggest hit with Every Breath You Take in 1983. It was famously morphed into a tribute by Puff Daddy to Biggie Smalls after he got his ass shot. It is also publicly known that a certain man with Tourette's prefers the P. Diddy version, to the point where he pissed himself upon hearing that it was 'THAT STING PIECE OF SHIT' when he was held calling Colgate Toothpaste, because the one with tartar control made him feel like a piece of shit.

They split by 1986 because they couldn't stand each other anymore, but managed to reunite in 2008, which was celebrated to the point where they became the highest earning live group for a while. They split again and haven't done anything together since. Fun fact: Stewart Copeland does the music for Spyro the Dragon.
Roger Dean

Roger Dean (born August 31, 1944) is an English artist, designer and publisher. He's best known for his work on posters and album artwork for bands and musicians.

He started doing Art for musicians in the late 60s. Some of the bands and artists he's made album covers for include, Yes, Osibisa, Asia, Uriah Heep, Rare Earth, Atomic Rooster, Gentle Giant, Steve Howe (he did some solo stuff), Rick Wakeman, and many many more.
Chicago

Chicago is an American Jazz Rock band founded as The Chicago Transit Authority in 1967 (they later shortened their name due to threats of legal action by the actual CTA). They were quite possibly one of the biggest bands on earth in the 70s, and have sold over 40 million albums.

Terry Kath (their first guitarist) was a favorite of Jimi Hendrix; Jimi even said Terry Kath was better than him. Sadly, Terry died of an accidental gunshot wound to his head in 1978, robbing the world of another guitar legend. They're also notable for being one of the only Rock 'n' Roll bands to feature horns in their main lineup. While most Jazz Rock bands will usually feature only a saxophonist, Chicago go to the next level and include Trumpets and Trombones.

They're yet another band who have changed members very frequently, and are also one of those bands with a fuck ton of members, currently consisting of 10 people, like Supertramp do now.
Boston

Boston in 1977: L-R Barry Goudreau, Tom Scholz, Sib Hashian (RIP 1949-2017), Brad Delp (RIP 1951-2007), Fran Sheehan.

### Rating out of ten

9.4

Boston is an American band founded by Tom Scholz in 1976. Tom formed the band as kind of his own little side project. Ironically, he was an engineering student at MIT who had no interest in Rock n Roll, but took piano lessons as a child and later became interested in recording engineering.

Tom has stated that he wrote a few songs, and then put together a band to play them. He then recorded Boston's legendary debut in his home studio. So in a sense, Boston isn't so much a band as they are a side project of an MIT graduate who just so happened to be an amazing guitar/organ player who had an interest in studio recording.

Boston is a band that takes for fucking ever to release new material. Their first album was made in 1976, their second was in 1978, but their next album wasn't put out until 1986 due to the fact the band were caught up in a lawsuit. They worked on the album for exactly 6 years.

Their next album, Walk On, was released in 1994, and took 3 years to make between 1990 and 1993. Their next album took 5 years between 1998 and 2002, and their most recent album took 10 years between 2003 and 2013.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer

ELP in 1970: L-R Keith Emerson (RIP 1944-2016), Greg Lake (RIP 1947-2016), Carl Palmer

### Rating out of ten

8.5

Emerson, Lake and Palmer was an English Prog Rock supergroup that consisted of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer. The band came together in 1970 after Keith Emerson and Greg Lake met the previous year and had auditioned several drummers before settling on Carl Palmer.

Being a supergroup, they all came from several established bands, Keith Emerson was keyboardist of The Nice, Greg Lake was the bassist for King Crimson, and Carl Palmer had previously drummed with Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster.

They were known for Keith Emerson's amazing keyboard skills and lengthy songs, Karn Evil 9 being nearly 30 minutes. Keith Emerson was known to stick knives inside his organ to keep a note and would have his organ bolted onto the side of a wall and be spun around with him on it.

Sadly, Emerson and Lake died in 2016, leaving Palmer as the only remaining member, leaving the band unable to ever reunite. Palmer would have success with other bands like Asia in the 80s.
Magma

Magma is a French band formed in Paris in 1969 by Drummer Christian Vander. They are quite possibly one of the strangest bands you'll ever hear. Along with Camel, you'd have to be a huge proghead to know about them. They single-handedly pioneered an entirely new genre, Zeuhl, which is a style of Prog Rock that is described as what an Alien Rock Opera would sound like.

They also have made up a constructed language, Kobaian, for use in their music. The word Zeuhl itself means Celestial. Kobaian is a phonetic language made by elements of the Slavonic and Germanic languages able to express some things musically. The band came about by Christian Vander's vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future which deeply and profoundly disturbed him. The band's albums tell of a story of people who flee a doomed earth to settle on the planet Kobaia, but conflict later arises when the Kobaians, descendants of the original colonists, encounter other Earth refugees.

As you can tell, this band is not for everyone and will scare off anyone without the taste for such eclectic stuff. The band has gotten into some controversy in the past, like when Christian Vander described the people of Africa and India as Degenerates, or when a bunch of crazies called the band a bunch of nazi sympathizers for embracing fascist aesthetics and ideologies in their album art, which the band has called myths and misinterpretations of their style.
The Wiggles

**The Wiggles** are singlehandedly the best, most profilic, most innovative, most legendary band in the history of the homo sapien race ever emitting a soundwave. Forming in 1991 in Australia, their technical innovations and extremely philosophical songwriting have become vital to the idea of music itself.

They've dabbled into multiple genres; children's music, pop, rock, progressive, technical death metal, indie, alternative, grunge, you name it. They've done it all. If it weren't for the Wiggles, we would not have Cattle Decapitation.

One such example of the Wiggles' general unmatchable prowess is 'Fruit Salad', in which Murray Cook's shred guitar playing gives the song the feeling and emotion that it hopes to evoke. 'Hot Potato' is another one, combining the aspects of Greg Page's Kurt Cobain-esque wailing vocals and the Foo Fighter's post-grunge sound into a Weezer-esque blend of alternative rock that Rivers Cuomo would drool at.

The band have released multiple VHS tapes and DVDs through the joint division of ABCKids/Earache Records, which demonstrate the band's ability to dabble into every genre with ease. One such video is one of their earlier efforts, 'Big Red Car', from 1992, a 40 minute grindcore epic revolving around the Wiggles' quest to acquire a vehicle to destroy the members of rival band Napalm Death with.

But it is the band itself that should be held in high regard, as the most experienced musicians of any band in history. The unforgettable lineup of Greg Page, Anthony Field, Murray Cook and Jeff Fatt are the greatest men to ever exist ever, and their music will be playing until the world ends.
The Mars Volta

**The Mars Volta** was an American prog rock band formed in El Paso, Texas in 2001 by guitarist Omar-Rodriguez Lopez and singer Cedric-Bixler Zavala. By far one of the most iconic bands of the 2000s, they pretty much took prog rock, smashed it into a million tiny pieces, and then rebuilt it for the 21st century; their style consisted of fast paced almost punk like energy and ridiculously technical chromatic guitar solos (essentially, they're just about the heaviest you can be and still be considered a rock band and not a metal band).

They grew out of Omar and Cedric's previous post-hardcore outfit, At The Drive In. In 2001, At The Drive In abruptly broke up, and Omar and Cedric decided to go in a more complex direction, thus, the Volta was formed.

Their 2003 debut, De-Loused In the Comatorium, was a massive success, and has gone down as a modern rock classic. It told the story of Cerpin Taxt, who enters a week long coma after overdosing on a mixture of morphine and rat poison.

Frances the Mute followed in 2005, and featured the 32 minute leviathan of a song Cassandra Gemini, which was meant to be one single song before the stuffshirt execs forced them to split it into movements because otherwise they would only be paid for an EP (even tho the record was 76 minutes long).

They released several more albums after, Amputechture in 2006, The Bedlam In Goliath in 2008, Octahedron in 2009, and Noctourniquet in 2012. In early 2013, Cedric and Omar began having disagreements over everything, and Cedric announced on Twitter that he was no longer a member of the Volta, effectively ending the band. In early 2018, however, Cedric has stated that the Volta will "be back soon" once they finish up all activities for At The Drive In.
Creedence Clearwater Revival

CCR in 1969: L-R Jon Fogerty, Doug Clifford, Tom Fogerty (RIP 1941-1990), Stu Cook

### Rating out of ten

8.8

Creedence Clearwater Revial, or CCR, was an American band formed in 1967. They were known for their bluesy sound that made them appear to have originated in the American south, despite the fact they were from San Francisco.

They were also known for their anti-Vietnam songs such as Fortunate Son, which have become some of the most recognized songs of all time and made them the voice of a generation.

The band was short lived, and split ways by 1972, but will forever be remembered. Tom Fogerty (Jon's Brother) passed away in 1990, Jon went on to lead a successful solo career, and Doug Clifford and Stu Cook would go on to reincarnate the band as Creedence Clearwater Revisited in 1995.
The Who

The Who and their new ride. L-R: Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle (RIP 1944-2002), Keith Moon (RIP 1946-1978), Pete Townshend

### Disbanded

1982, came back a few times until around 1996 when they came back for good

### Rating out of ten

10

**The Who** formed in 1964 in good old Shepherd's Bush, and played a fair part in the British Invasion. Once the whole Beatles craze died down, The Who started getting more experimenting, and were mostly described as pop art. Guitarist Pete Townshend started a trend where the band would smash the shit out of everything after playing their definitive hit "My Generation", which screams punk as fuck.

They were originally a mod group. Mods were a subculture where young naughty short-haired men rebelled....which makes it technically a precursor to the 70s first wave British punk.

So the Who technically did influence punk rock, although this is rarely acknowledged because The Who are not as mentioned much as a band like Led Zeppelin.
UFO

UFO in the early-mid 70s: Phil Mogg and Michael Schenker pictured center.

UFO is an English band formed in 1969. Initially starting off as a Space Rock act, they quickly turned into a Hard Rock act with the addition of German Guitarist Michael Schenker, who had recently left his previous band The Scorpions.

They've been led their entire existence by vocalist Phil Mogg, who has been with the band since it's inception. They've also helped influence bands such as Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Metallica, Dokken, Slayer, Guns N Roses, The Offspring, and many more.
Van Halen

Van Halen in 1978: L-R David Lee Roth, Alex Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen, Michael Anthony.

### Rating out of ten

10

Van Halen is an American band founded in Pasadena California in 1972. They went through many different names before settling on Van Halen, including Mammoth and Genesis until they realized another band was already using that name (yes, **that** Genesis, not some unknown band that just so happened to be using the name).

They completely reinvented guitar playing, and almost singlehandedly saved the rock world from being taken over by Punk and Disco (not that the rock world being taken over by Punk would necessarily be bad, it would certainly be better than the rock world being taken over by Disco).

People like to call Van Halen a Hair Metal band. They were certainly a precursor to Hair Metal, but that's not really the word for them, though every Hair Metal band ever formed has been influenced by VH in some way.

They were one of those bands that started off years before the release of their first record. VH played in clubs in the Southern California area for years, but were never able to get a record contract until 1977. Gene Simmons of Kiss helped them make a Demo, but nobody thought they would ever make it. Boy, how wrong they were.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

The Experience in 1968: L-R Jimi Hendrix (RIP 1942-1970), Noel Redding (RIP 1945-2003), Mitch Mitchell (RIP 1946-2008)

### Genre

Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Rock-That-Sounds-Like-Metal

### Rating out of ten

9

The Jimi Hendrix Experience needs absolutely no introduction. Formed in London in 1966, the band kicked off the career of the one and only James Marshall Hendrix, who singlehandedly completely changed perspectives of how the guitar should be played.

Anything you could say about The Experience has pretty much already been said. Jimi was so influential in his playing that many players after him have done at least something that he already did.

The band released only 3 albums, but all of them are legendary in their own right. They broke up in 1969, but reformed in 1970. As many of you know, on September 18th, 1970, Jimi died, and the band split up forever.

Jimi's Drummer and Bassist, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, are also dead, leaving them with no surviving members. At the end of the day, Jimi's band was massively influential, and will always be remembered until the end of time.
Infest The Rats' Nest (King Gizzard album)

**Infest The Rats' Nest** is the upcoming 15th album by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard as confirmed by the band in a Reddit AMA in late April 2019. The album will take a more heavier turn than Fishing For Fishies, as evidenced by the single Planet B (which the band confirmed would be on the new album).

The title was initially believed to be Auto Cremate, but was in June 2019 revealed to be titled Infest The Rats' Nest and the release date was confirmed as August 16, 2019.
Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo Springfield around 1967: Neil Young centered and Stephen Stills far right

### Rating out of ten

6.4

Buffalo Springfield was a Canadian-American folk band formed in 1966. It is notable for being one of Neil Young's first bands, and Stephen Stills' first notable band, while the other guys are not worth mentioning as they never really did anything else noteworthy.

Their biggest song was "For What It's Worth", a very famous Vietnam song. Throughout their two years of initial existence they released three albums before disbanding for nearly 50 years. They would eventually reunite in 2010, but disbanded again by 2012.

Stephen Stills and Neil Young would later become famous as both Solo Musicians and as members of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, or just Crosby, Stills and Nash when Neil Young wasn't in the band.
Nirvana

L-R Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain (RIP 1967-1994), Dave Grohl

**Nirvana** was a decade defining grunge band formed in Aberdeen Washington in 1987. Nearly everything you could say about this band has already been said a million times by other people.

They exploded onto the scene in 1991 with Nevermind, almost singlehandedly making the whole hair metal scene yesterday's news (although hair metal was already undergoing the weight of it's own excesses by that point) and basically redefined the definition of alternative music since.

Their 1989 debut, Bleach, featured a much more punk sound and was far less refined. When Nevermind dropped in 1991, it more or less officially was the true January 1st, 1990. Nirvana pretty much became the defining band of the 90s.

Everyone knows the rest of the story, Kurt put a shotgun to his mouth, the band ended in 94 immediately after, and Dave Grohl became one of the biggest rock stars in the world with the Foo Fighters which continues to this day.
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Rock that sounds like metal

In the rock world, there is **rock that sounds like metal**. Especially during the years between psychedelic rock and heavy metal, there were bands that sounded like what would become the genre.

They are usually referred to as proto-metal, or heavy-psych, of course, but there are other bands that played a similar sound but are usually considered hard rock, either because of their other work sounding tamer or because the bands themselves do not be wish to be known as heavy metal.

Rock that sounds like metal seems to be the most prevalent between the 1967 - 1969 period, because it was before Sabbath, but still has that in-your-face punchiness to it.

Bands such as The Who can be known as this. The Who, especially in the 1969-1972 peak period, had a furious, thunder-like sound that could almost rival Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, with Keith Moon's crazy ass drumming, John Entwistle's deep ass bass sound, Pete's furious windmilling and power chord bashing and Roger Daltrey's suddenly deepened voice like his balls dropped a second time (compared to 1967). Their live album Live At Leeds showcases this perfectly, especially the last part of the My Generation jam. While The Who's studio work sounded pretty much pleasant and tame (with a few rockers), they were beasts live despite the fact they are considered proto-punk more than proto-metal because of My Generation and I Can't Explain.
Kansas

Kansas around the late 70s, L-R Top: Steve Walsh, Kerry Livgren, Dave Hope, Phil Ehart, Bottom: Robbie Steinhardt, Rich Williams.

### Rating out of ten

9.5

Kansas is an American Progressive Rock band formed in Topeka in 1973. Known for the presence of Violinist Robbie Steinhardt, they can almost be seen as the American counterpart to Jethro Tull, as they had an instrument not commonly seen in Rock music, in Tull's case it was the Flute and in Kansas' case it was the Violin.

The band has very few original members today. Keyboardist/Guitarist Kerry Livgren quit for good in 2000, Bassist Dave Hope quit to become an Anglican Priest also in 2000 (though he does perform with the band when they pass through his area), Robbie Left in 2006, and Keyboardist/Vocalist Steve Walsh quit in 2014. The only original members are Guitarist Rich Williams and Drummer Phil Ehart.

Although their biggest hit is Dust In The Wind, among today's generation their most popular song seems to be their second biggest hit, Carry on Wayward Son.

Unlike Styx and Supertramp, WatchMojo have mentioned them twice, but only as an honorable mention and the second time around they only appeared once not even as an honorable mention.

Kerry Livgren converted to Christianity in the late 70s, and the band began to become more and more christian as a result of this, which resulted in Steve Walsh's departure in the early 80's, and he was replaced by Christian Contemporary singer John Elefante. Ronnie James Dio has actually contributed vocals on Kerry Livgren's solo album, Seeds of Change.
Aerosmith

Aerosmith in 1973: L-R Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Joey Kramer, Brad Whitford and Tom Hamilton

### Disbanded

Never Disbanded (though may be very soon since they are embarking on a farewell tour)

### Rating out of ten

9

Aerosmith is an American band fromed in Boston in 1970. They are considered an American classic and have been given such titles as the Bad Boys from Boston and America's Finest Rock 'n' Roll band. They created the song Dream On which despite it's overplay in commercials for years is a very good song.

They are sometimes classed as Glam Metal even though they only ever had a Glammy sound in the 80s on Permanent Vacation. They are one of those bands that have always had a very stable lineup but changed lineups only a few times. Joe Perry and Brad Whitford both left in 1979 and 1981 and were temporarily replaced by Jimmy Crispo and Rick Dufay until 1984 when they came back.
Cream

Cream in 1967: L-R Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce (RIP 1943-2014), Eric Clapton.

Cream was an English Supergroup that consisted of Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce founded in 1966. Their career was short lived (like most supergroups tend to be), and they split ways by 1968, but they left an impression on the rock world that will forever be remembered. They were also the first functioning supergroup.

They popularized the Wah-Wah pedal alongside Jimi Hendrix, and they inspired bands such as Rush, The Allman Brothers, and Black Sabbath.

The Bass, like with The Who, was very loud, which made Cream sound Booming, Hard and pretty much different from everyone else. Like with how The Who have an overlooked influence on Punk, Cream kinda have a bit of an overlooked influence on early Heavy Metal (hell, Black Sabbath was considered a bad copy of Cream in their early days, which just shows how heavy they were) that isn't talked about much. While most of Cream's recorded stuff is mostly pretty tame, they were super heavy live. They were also managed by future Mountain bassist Felix Pappilardi.

The band had one off reunions in 1993 and 2005, but sadly Jack Bruce passed away in 2014, killing any hope of another reuinion ever again.
Uriah Heep

Heep in the early 70s: L-R Mark Clarke, Mick Box, Lee Kerslake, Ken Hensley, David Byron (RIP 1947-1985)

### Rating out of ten

9

Uriah Heep is an English band founded in London in 1969. They are another case of a band naming themselves after a person, like Jethro Tull, who took their name from the 18th century agriculturalist. Heep took their name from a character from Charles Dickens' book "David Copperfield".

They took the name due to the fact they formed the year before the 100th anniversary of his death, and everyone in England was hyping it up at the time. Heep in their early days rose to be among the top bands of the early 70s alongside Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, but became more and more a cult band as the decade drew to a close, becoming full on cult by the 80s.

Their debut album was met with mostly negative reviews when it came out due to how heavy it was, especially in America; one reviewer threatened to commit suicide if the band made it big, which she probably followed up on, who knows.
Sleep

Sleep circa 1992: L-R Al Cisneros, Chris Hakius, Matt Pike

**Sleep** is an American doom band formed in 1990 currently consisting of Al Cisneros (bass), Matt Pike (guitar), and Jason Roeder (drums). They're among the leading acts in modern doom metal, along with bands such as Electric Wizard, YOB, and others.

They grew out of an earlier band called Asbestosdeath, which lasted from 1989-1990. Their debut album, Volume One, featured a sludge metal sound, and the second album, Sleep's Holy Mountain, was hugely influential to the stoner metal genre.

In 1996, the band began concieving their magnum opus, Dopesmoker, an album consisting of one single hour long song about marijuana breathing Jawa-creatures crossing the desert to the riff filled land. By the time they were done with it, their label refused to release the album, and the band broke up by 1998.

In that time, Matt formed High on Fire, Al formed Om, and Dopesmoker was picked up by various indie labels and finally released. In 2009, Sleep reformed and played a shit ton of shows. On 4/20 of 2018, Sleep released their comeback album, the Sciences, to great success.
Gentle Giant

GG, 1970, L-R: Gary Green, Phil Shulman, Ray Shulman, Kerry Minnear, Derek Shulman, Martin Smith (RIP 1946-1997)

### Rating out of ten

8.2

**Gentle Giant** was a British prog band formed in 1970. They're one of the most popular prog bands amongst die hard progheads; their own ethos was to "expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of becoming very unpopular".

Their style of prog was more based around the technicality of it all, hit singles were the exception rather than the rule. They're obviously not well known among the general public, but Wikipedia has an incredibly detailed article on them.

Around 1977, after The Missing Piece came out, GG entered a phase of their career known as "hardcore selling out", with Giant For a Day and Civilian being pure pop albums (Giant For a Day even has an attempt at punk on it). In 1980, GG disbanded after exactly 10 years of activity.
Pentagram

**Pentagram**is an early heavy metal band that came from Alexandria, Virginia, forming in 1971. They were pretty early on in the doom metal scene, and recorded a shit ton of demos before releasing their self-titled debut in 1985, which, later on, became known as Relentless. It's a revolving door lineup, the only consistent member being singer Bobby Liebling.

Some of their demo songs include 'Hurricane' and 'Livin' In A Ram's Head'. They took fucking fourteen years to put out a first album, that's like how long Boston takes to record one! They're not exactly a largely known band but they're known enough that The Other Wiki (yes, TV Tropes reference, eh?) has an article on them.

In October 2017, Bobby, who's known for his drug doings, got done in for beating his 87-year-old mom and he got slapped with an 18-month jail sentence. However, the band still lives on. According to the other members, Bobby was becoming a pain in the ass, going off the rails on drugs.
Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa was an American musician, activist and filmmaker. Like The Beatles, he played in just about every genre from not just rock, but also to 20th century classical and musique concrete. He was the face of all things free-thinker and individual. He's the kind of face dictators fear.

He started out scoring for ultra low budget independent films in the early 60s before he was asked to take on guitar duties for San Diego band The Soul Giants in 1965. He then later took control of The Soul Giants, and saw them renamed The Mothers of Invention. He would also express a life long disregard for authority after 6 months in jail on bogus porn production charges. Zappa and the Mothers released Freak Out! in 1966, which besides being way ahead of it's time was also the second rock double album ever released (Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde being the first). The album featured sectioned songs over a year before the Moody Blues did on Days of Future Passed, which is one of the earliest Prog albums ever issued.

Zappa disbanded The Mothers in 1969, but performed with two more incarnations of them between 1970 and 1975, one of which featured former Turtles members Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan (Eddie and Flo) who you may know as the creators of Happy Together, one of the most well known pop songs of all time.

Zappa released dozens upon dozens of material throughout the years (a lot of them being live recordings) until he was diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer in 1990 and passed away in 1993.

He will forever be remembered as one of the great minds of the 20th century and a major enemy of censorship and narrow mindedness.
Characters

This page lists reoccurring or major characters from the series and serves as an index for all character-based articles.

"*.*"

—About Characters.

## Gallery

### Heroes

Ash KetchumBrookChopper Tony TonyFlam Cutty/FrankyGokuGray FullbusterKal-El/Clark Kent/SupermanLucy HeartfiliaLuffy D. MonkeyNamiNaruto UzumakiNatsu DragneelOrion Pax/Optimus/Optimus
PrimeRobin NicoRuby RoseSanji VinsmokeSonic the HedgehogSteven Rogers/Captain AmericaUsoppVelvet CroweZolo Roronoa

### Allies

BlamencoCat ViperChristopher "Chris" ThorndykeGeneral FreemanJozuMarcoMavis Vermilion
(Deceased)Newgate Ward/Whitebeard
(Deceased)Nicholas Joesph "Nick" FuryRayleigh SilversRoger D. Gol
(Deceased)Prof. Samuel OakSeres
(Deceased)ShanksSummer Rose
(Deceased)Thatch
(Deceased)Trace D. Portgaz
(Deceased)Vista
### Anti-Heroes

BuggyChaser SmokerSir Crocodile/Mr. 0Clint Zaragoza
(Deceased)Erston Outway/GaiusGarp D. MonkeyProf. Gerald Robotnik
(Deceased)HinaProf. Hugo StrangeIssho/FujitoraJ. Jonah JamesonKamonKuzan/AokijiMihawk DraculePrecht Gaebolg/Hades
(Deceased)Raven BranwenSengokuShadow the HedgehogTashigiTsuruZaveid
### Villains

Alexander Joseph "Lex" LuthorArtorius CollbrandeBlack DoomBorsalino/KizaruBurgess G. ZassGiovanniDr. Ivo "Eggman" RobotnikDoc QJohann Schmidt/Red SkullMegatronus/MegatronMoria GeckoOgre VanRaffitRoman Torchwick
(Deceased)Sakazuki/AkainuSalemShikiShiryuStrongerTeech D. Marshall/BlackbeardZeref Dragneel/Spriggan
(Deceased)
### Other featured characters

Bardock
(Status Unknown)BrolyMinato Namikaze
(Deceased)Sasuke UchihaToneri Ōtsutsuki
(Incapacitated)Turles
(Deceased)
Blue Cheer

Blue Cheer in 1968: L-R Dickie Peterson (RIP 1946-2009), Leigh Stephens, Paul Whaley (RIP 1947-2019)

### Disbanded

1972 (active sporadically after that until Dickie Peterson's Death)

### Genre

Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Acid Rock, Proto-Metal

### Will be remembered in years to come

They better be, they influenced an entire genre.

### Rating out of ten

9

Blue Cheer was an American band out of San Francisco formed in 1967. They are considered one of the first Heavy Metal bands in existence. Led by Bassist Dickie Peterson the band's entire existence, they are another band that never had a consistent line up. However their most famous incarnation that was active at the time of the release of their debut, Vincebus Eruptum, included Drummer Paul Whaley and Guitarist Leigh Stephens.

Paul Whaley didn't hit his drums like a wimp either, he's one of the hardest hitting drummers you'll ever hear. Rumor has it that they played so loud you could hear them playing in the studio from outside or near one of their shows. One person reportedly walked into the studio and the band caused reverberations before they started playing. The band supposedly took it's name from a brand of LSD that was made by chemist and Grateful Dead patron Owsley Stanley. Is that not 60's as shit or what?

Their first few albums, Vincebus Eruptum, Outsideinside, and New! Improved!, are considered seminal in the development of Heavy Metal. However, by the time of 1970's The Original Human being, the band started taking on a less heavy sound and even making Country Blues songs, kind of like how The Rolling Stones make country songs for some reason even though Rock n Roll bands have no business in writing country. One song off that album, Babaji (Twilight Raga), an Instrumental, contains Sitar and Synthesizers, a far cry from a band that is hailed as the inventors of Heavy Metal.

The band was sporadically active throughout the years, releasing their final album in 2007 before Dickie Peterson's death in 2009 caused the band to disband forever. Ten years later, Paul Whaley died, leaving Leigh Stephens as the surviving original member.
Styx

The band in the Late 70s, L-R John Panozzo (RIP 1948-1996), James "JY" Young, Tommy Shaw, Chuck Panozzo, Dennis DeYoung.

### Genre

Hard Rock (they are considered Progressive rock but they don't really have that many really progressive songs)

### Rating out of ten

10

Styx is a swell Hard Rock band from Chicago formed in 1971, although they are also classed as Progressive Rock even though their longest song is 13 minutes, and also happens to be their only song split into suites.

Despite largely being classed as a classic rock band, they aren't talked about very often by many people despite being on the same level of popularity as Kiss at one point. The normalfags at WatchMojo.com never even give them an honorable mention or show them in their videos at all, which is complete bullshit. Even Kansas, another band they have never given any spots on their lists to, have been given an honorable mention.

They initially disbanded in 1984, but then got back together in the early 90s with an album of mainly ballads until they realized AOR wasn't cool anymore so they broke up again, but then they got back together in 1995 so everything's cool now.

Another bullshit thing about Styx is that their albums tend to get just trashed on by Rolling Stone. A grand majority of their work is given very low ratings by them, with only Grand Illusion having a fair rating. Allmusic gets it though, they actually give their albums fair ratings. Whoever wrote those reviews on Rolling Stone is a fucking retard.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

King Gizz circa 2014, L-R: Cook Craig, Ambrose Kenny Smith, Lucas Skinner, Eric Moore, Michael Cavanagh, Joey Walker, Stu Mackenzie

### Genre

Psychedelic rock, acid rock, progressive rock, experimental rock, garage rock, post-audiobook, sunshine punk, rock-that-sounds-like-metal

### Rating out of ten

9.5/10

**King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard** is an Australian psychedelic rock band formed in Melbun, Victoria in 2010, consisting of Stu Mackenzie (everything), Cook Craig (guitar), Joey Walker (guitar), Ambrose Kenny Smith (harmonica, keyboards), Lucas Skinner (bass), and Michael Cavanagh (drums).

Pretty much a total divergence from any kind of popular music out today, KG&TLW writes songs that can vary from their love of vegemite to spoken word suites about a cyborg in an altered future who engulfs the entire universe in vomit. Since 2011, they've released 15 albums and 2 EPs, five of which were released in 2017 and two released in 2019.

One thing that sets them apart from most bands (especially today) is that no two albums sound exactly the same. For example, compare Nonagon Infinity to Quarters, or Float Along - Fill Your Lungs to Eyes Like the Sky. Every album focuses around a different theme or sound pretty much.

In 2017, one of the years within a period where trap shit was the dominant sound, King Gizzard released FIVE albums in one year, Flying Microtonal Banana, Murder of The Universe, Sketches of Brunswick East, Polygondwanaland, and Gumboot Soup. Poly is a notable album in that the band released it into the public domain, allowing anyone to make their own copies of the album or whatever they please with it.

The band released two albums in 2019, Fishing For Fishies, and Infest The Rats' Nest, the former featuring a lighter and bluesier sound, and the latter a bombastic thrash metal record concerning climate change.

Eric Moore left the band in August 2020, in order to concentrate solely on running Flightless Records.

King Gizz is, in short, a spit in the face to anyone who says rock is dead and has nothing left to innovate, and gives us yung folk who are in danger of being remembered as trap fags a band to say we experienced when it was new. They're almost comparable to the Sex Pistols or Nirvana in that if you're sick of undercuts, mumble rap, anxiety pop, and the trash indie pop that's being passed as rock today, these dudes are the band for you.
The Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols in 1977. L-R: Sid Vicious (R.I.P. 1957-1979), Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Johnny Rotten.

### Rating out of ten

10

**The Sex Pistols** were a punk band that formed in 1975 in London and are credited for bringing punk to London after it emerged pretty much in New York.

The group, when first formed, consisted of Johnny Rotten the singer, Glen Matlock the bassist, Steve Jones the guitarist, and Paul Cook the drummer.

Steve Jones and Paul Cook already had a band by 1972, stealing equipment from popular groups and artists at the time like David Bowie. They needed some assistance in keeping the band together, so they approached Malcolm McLaren, owner of some clothes shop in London. A few years down the track, they got Glen Matlock on bass and just needed a singer. According to Matlock, they would seek out anybody with short hair and attempt to recruit them. They found their guy when John Lydon came along; green spiked hair and a "I HATE PINK FLOYD" shirt (he later admitted to liking them; he wanted to piss everyone off as Pink Floyd were huge around that time).

## Conclusion

All in all, the Sex Pistols are pretty much one of the best bands in the history of music. If you were sick of disco, flared jeans and long hair in 1976, these guys were the band for you.

Although not the first ever punk band (The Ramones and the Damned were already putting out material a year before Never Mind The Bollocks), they are generally considered as what got punk worldwide attention.

Although they stated they hated prog bands, in later years Johnny Rotten came out to say he loved Pink Floyd. He was even a fan of Magma, the guys who made their own language as a recurring theme in their albums.

Steve Jones came out to liking The Who and all that (Fun fact: Steve hailed from Shepherd's Bush, where The Who also did).

Sid Vicious is obviously dead, thanks to that bitch of a girlfriend he had, but original bassist Glen Matlock was the only one vocal about his music tastes at the time of the Pistols; that was why he was fired from the group....
Hawkwind

Hawkwind when Lem was in the band, pictured next to Dave Brock

**Hawkwind**, also known as "that band Lemmy was in before he got kicked out and formed Motorhead", is a British space rock band formed in 1969. One of, if not the very first true space rock band formed, they wrote songs about how you shouldn't do that, silver machines, how deep space is, and psychedelic warlords whomst'd'v'ely'sest'v'est disappear in smoke.

As stated, Lemmy, of Motorhead fame, was previously a member of Hawkwind, until he was kicked out in 1975 when he was busted for drug possession at the Canadian border.

Yet another revolving door band, Dave Brock (guitar) has been the only consistent member since the band's founding in 1969.
SoundCloud Rap

**SoundCloud Rap** is basically another shitty late 2010s trend on the same level as Anxiety Pop and shares some trends with it. SoundCloud rap is basically a bunch of multi-colored-dreaded cunts who pop Xanax like it's candy (like Anxiety Pop, but mostly for recreational use instead) and make car noises as they mumble words like they're suffering a severe stroke and they are dying soon. The genre is wildly believed to have begun with XXXTentacion, more like Palm Tree Man because his hair resembled a fucking palm tree in this one pic that was on his wiki page.

Other SoundCloud rappers include Lil Pump, Lil Peep, 6ix9ine, Lil Uzi Vert, and Lil Xan. From 2018 and ongoing now, it appears as if the SoundCloud rap wave is going down the drain. XXXTentacion was made XXXTinct, Lil Peep fentanyl'd himself into smithereens, 6ix9ine is gonna go to jail, Lil Uzi Vert said he was quitting music, and Lil Xan's album was a total fucking failure.
The Doors

The Doors in 1966: L-R John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek (RIP 1939-2013), Jim Morrison (RIP 1943-1971)

### Disbanded

1973 (Reunions 1978, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2011, 2013, 2016)

### Rating out of ten

8.4

The Doors were an American band formed in LA in 1965. Another band that needs no introduction, they were very well known for their frontman Jim Morrison's stage antics.

They are also notable for having no bass player. Jim Morrison was pretty much one of the faces of the hippie movement, he was highly energetic on stage, and got into trouble with the authorities.

In 1967, he was arrested in New Haven after he insulted the police. In 1968, he was arrested again in Florida after he allegedly exposed himself on stage, and then again in 1969 when he allegedly exposed himself on stage again in Miami.

On July 3, 1971, Jim died. How exactly he died is still a mystery due to the fact that no autopsy was performed on his body. The band however, unlike other bands, continued on as a trio without him before finally disbanding in 1973.

Ray Manzarek (the keyboardist) died in 2013, leaving Robbie Krieger and John Densmore the only remaining members.
Joseph Tubbs

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Joseph after being accused of withholding a tub of cocaine.

December 3rd, 1992

## Early Life

Joseph Tubbs attended Livingsdale High School starting in the year 1991. At the school, he came into contact with Robert Dickenfart and became close friends.

## The Party

Robert invited Joseph to a house party that his father was putting together, unknowing of Shigeru's sinister plot.

Whilst at the party, Joseph encountered Abyu Siv, and was attacked by her several times.

## Death

Joseph met his untimely demise on December 3rd, 1992 while attending the house party. Despite being only 16, he suffered a massive stroke that resulted in his passing.
Supertramp

Supertramp in 1970, L-R Rick Davies, Roger Hodgson, Richard Palmer James, Robert Millar, Dave Winthrop.

### Disbanded

1988 (reunited many times after until getting back together in 2015)

### Genre

Progressive Rock, Progressive Pop, Soft Rock

### Rating out of ten

9

Supertramp is an English Progressive Rock/Progressive Pop band founded in 1969. Supertramp are one of those bands where memorizing every member is all but impossible since they never had a consistent line up (coupled with the fact that they are a 10-piece now), with the only constant member being Rick Davies. Roger Hodgson left in the 80s so he doesn't count as constant anymore.

Like Styx, Supertramp are never mentioned by the normies at WatchMojo, although since Supertramp are a slightly more underrated band with only a handful of hits, their absence is a bit more understandable but still bullshit.

One strange thing about the band is that literally nobody uploads their music on YouTube, the only place you can listen to their music on YT is the topic channel that is auto generated by YT, but even then, if you go onto some of the other songs buried within the channel, most of them don't work.

Also like Styx, they are classed as Progressive Rock despite not having many long songs (which is what prog is known for), although unlike Styx, Supertramp are generally much more Progressive, and they are more Progressive Pop which justifies the shorter length. Their longest song is Brother where You Bound, from their album of the same name, at 16 minutes.
Journey

Journey in 1979: L-R Ross Valory, Steve Perry, Gregg Rolie, Neal Schon, Steve Smith

### Genre

Hard Rock, Arena Rock, Progressive Rock (early)

### Rating out of ten

8

Journey is an American band formed in San Francisco in 1973. Formed by Ex-Santana members Neal Schon and Gregg Rolie, they started off as a Jazzy Progressive Rock band with Gregg on vocals. However, since they had little success with Prog, they toned down their prog sound and added vocalist Robert Fleischman, but he would only play on a few demos and at a few shows before Steve Perry was picked up.

They did return to Prog a few times, like with the Soundtrack album Dream After Dream. From there, Journey became a huge powerhouse, helping pioneer Arena Rock alongside Boston. They went on to make Don't Stop Believing, which is one of the greatest songs of all time. Despite being huge in their native country, they also seem to have quite the following in Japan (the aforementioned Dream After Dream album was for a Japanese movie, and one of their compilation albums was released only in Japan).