People clearly still want to argue about this, so do it here.
http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/s...d.php?t=620574
King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull - all released their first album before 1970
Some points to consider though, before painting yourself into a revisionist corner using current definitions:
1. Underground music back then was far more than just symph rock or Canterbury, it included progressive blues-rock (what we now roughly call hard rock), as well as contemporary folk, acid rock, space rock, psychedelic, psych-soul and art school rock.
2. So what by today's standards we might not consider "prog rock" i.e. the heavy folk of Tull or the space rock of Floyd or the heavy psych of Sabbath was most certainly part of the progressive underground in 69.
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