List of proto-punk bands explained

This is a list of notable proto-punk artists and bands.

List

• ? and the Mysterians^[1]
• The 101ers^[2]
• The 13th Floor Elevators
• Alice Cooper^{[3] [4]}
• The Amboy Dukes^[5]
• Blue Cheer^[6]
• Captain Beefheart^[7]
• The Chocolate Watchband^[8]
• Crushed Butler^[9]
• David Bowie^[10]
• Death^[11]
• Destroy All Monsters
• The Dictators^[12]
• Doctors of Madness^[13]
• Dr. Feelgood^[14]

• The Droogs^[15]
• Eddie and the Hot Rods^[16]
• Electric Eels^[17]
• Flamin' Groovies
• The Fugs^{[18] [19]}
• Woody Guthrie^[20]
• Hawkwind
• The Hangmen^[21]
• The Hollywood Brats^[22]
• John's Children^[23]
• Kilburn and the High Roads^[24]
• The Kingsmen^[25]
• The Kinks^[26]
• MC5^[27]
• The Modern Lovers^[28]

• The Monks^[29]
• The Music Machine^[30]
• Neu!
• New York Dolls^{[31] [32]}
• The Night Walkers
• John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett^[33]
• Pink Fairies^[34]
• Paul Revere & The Raiders^[35]
• Rocket from the Tombs^[36]
• Los Saicos^[37]
• Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs^[38]
• The Shadows of Knight^[39]
• The Shaggs^[40]
• Simply Saucer^[41]

• Patti Smith^[42]
• The Sonics^[43]
• Chris Spedding^[44]
• The Spiders from Mars
• The Standells^[45]
• The Stooges^[46]
• Suicide^{[47] [32]}
• Television^[48]
• Thee Midniters^[49]
• Them^[39]
• Third World War^[50]
• The Troggs^[51]
• The Up^[52]
• The Velvet Underground^[53]
• The Wailers^[25]
• Ton Steine Scherben
• Zakary Thaks^[38]

Notes and References

1. Book: Brackett. David. Interpreting Popular Music. 2000. University of California Press. registration. 164. 9780520225411 . ? and the mysterians proto-punk..
2. Book: Knowles. Christopher. The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll. 2010. Cleis Press. 9781573444057.
3. Book: Abjorensen. Norman. Historical Dictionary of Popular Music. 2017. Rowman & Littlefield. 9781538102152.
4. Book: Waksman. Steve. This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. 2009. University of California Press. registration. 75. alice cooper proto-punk..
5. Web site: Folgar. Abel. Top Twenty Proto-Punk Bands: An Incomplete List. Broward Palm Beach New Times. 3 August 2017.
6. Web site: McIntyre. Ken. Cult Heroes: Blue Cheer - the band who invented heavy metal. Team Rock. 4 November 2016 . 15 August 2017.
7. The reign of Captain Beefheart and how he changed rock music forever. Far Out Magazine. January 2021. Drew. Wardle.
8. Web site: The Chocolate Watchband - Biography & History - AllMusic. AllMusic. 7 May 2017.
9. Book: Strongman. Phil. Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk. 2008. Chicago Review Press. 9781556527524.
10. Book: Buckley. David. David Bowie: The Music and The Changes. 2015. Omnibus. 9781783236176.
11. Web site: Death - Biography, Albums, Streaming Links - AllMusic. AllMusic. 7 May 2017.
12. Web site: The Dictators - Biography & History - AllMusic. AllMusic. 7 May 2017.
13. Web site: Doctors of Madness, the band that prophesied punk – and then disappeared. Simon Reynolds. 19 May 2017. guardian.com.
14. Book: Snow. Mat. The Who: Fifty Years of My Generation. 2016. Race Point Publishing. 9781627887823.
15. Web site: TrouserPress.com :: Droogs. www.trouserpress.com. 28 March 2018.
16. Book: Wardle . Ben . Mark Hollis: A Perfect Silence . 2024 . Rocket 8 Books . London . 9781915156167 . 22 . 2nd . Chapter 2 (1962–1975): One Thousand Eddie.
17. News: Warwick. Kevin. In Jaguar Ride, Brian McMahon of the Electric Eels makes the band's story as defiantly unmarketable as their music. 3 August 2017. Chicago Reader. April 13, 2017.
18. News: Roberts. Randall. L.A. band Wand plugs into retro-futuristic psychedelia; Carole King's City revisited. 3 August 2017. Los Angeles Times. September 26, 2015.
19. Web site: Felsenthal. Julia. Give the Gift of Throwback Collectible Zines. Vogue.com. 11 December 2015 .
20. Web site: Dropkick Murphys on "Proto-Punk" Woody Guthrie, Who Wrote "Shipping Up to Boston". westword.com. November 1, 2022. John. Bear. He’s sort of like the proto-punk.
21. News: Freed. Benjamin. Windian Records Founder Travis Jackson Killed in Collision. The Washingtonian. January 16, 2014.
22. Book: Bovey . Seth . Five Years Ahead of My Time: Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present . Reaktion Books . 2019 . London . 978-1-789-14065-1 .
23. Web site: Orgasm: Dig the wild 60s pop art glam rock proto-punk of John's Children. 5 September 2017. dangerousminds.net. 28 March 2018.
24. Web site: Kilburn & the High Roads, Biography & History. Steve Huey. 12 June 2015. allmusic.com.
25. Book: Weingarten. Marc. Station To Station: The Secret History of Rock & Roll on Television. 2000. Gallery Books. 9780671034443. 3 August 2017.
26. Book: Phillips. Mark. Chappell. Jon. Guitar For Dummies. 2012. John Wiley & Sons. 9781118237588.
27. Web site: John Sinclair: 'We wanted to kick ass – and raise consciousness' . . March 3, 2014 . July 22, 2015 . O'Hagan, Sean.
28. Web site: The Modern Lovers | Biography, Albums, Streaming Links . . 2017-04-12.
29. Web site: Watch the Proto-Punk Band The Monks Sow Chaos on German TV, 1966: A Great Concert Moment on YouTube. Openculture.com. 7 May 2017.
30. David . Fricke . David Fricke . The Music Machine: Where Are They Now? . September 11, 1986 . October 29, 2016 .
31. Ward, Ed, Stokes & Geoffrey & Tucker, Ken. ROCK OF AGES: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll. New York: Rolling Stone Press/Summit Books. 1986. (Quoted in Waldrep, Shelton (Ed.)The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture. Routledge. 2013. p131)
32. Gross . Joe . [{{GBurl|PeGUjNqTnGcC|p=139}} Retro Active: The Twinkeyz and Suicide ]. . 14 . 8 . August 1998 . 139 . 0886-3032 .
33. Web site: The Alternative Sound Of John Otway 1983. 12 June 2015. rte.ie.
34. Web site: Spice. Anton. Proto-punk: 10 records that paved the way for '76. Vinyl Factory Magazine. 31 August 2016 . 3 August 2017.
35. Book: Eddy. Chuck. Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism. 2011. Duke University Press. 978-0822350101.
36. Web site: Rocket from the Tombs - Biography & History - AllMusic. AllMusic. 28 March 2018.
37. News: Kelly. John. You'd have to be crazy not to love Los Saicos, proto-punks from 1960s Peru. Washington Post. August 2, 2017.
38. Web site: Folgar. Abel. Top Twenty Proto-Punk Bands: An Incomplete List. Broward Palm Beach New Times. 3 August 2017.
39. Book: Dean. Maury. Rock and Roll. 2003. Algora Publishing. 9780875862071.
40. Web site: The Best — Or Worst — Band Of All Time Is Back – NPR. Anastasia Tsioulcas. February 17, 2017. npr.org. 27 July 2023.
41. Web site: Heavy Metalloid Music: The Story of Simply Saucer – Eternal Cavalier Press. www.eternalcavalierpress.com. 28 March 2018.
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46. Web site: The Stooges biography . . July 15, 2015 . Erlewine, Stephen Thomas . Stephen Thomas Erlewine .
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48. News: Murray. Noel. 60 minutes of music that sum up art-punk pioneers Wire . . May 28, 2015 . October 28, 2015 .
49. Book: Avant-Mier . Roberto . Rock the Nation Latin/o Identities and the Latin Rock Diaspora . May 6, 2010 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 77 . 978-1-4411-6797-2 . 23 March 2023.
50. Web site: THIRD WORLD WAR DECLARED (AGAIN)! - Vive Le Rock Magazine. vivelerock.net. 28 March 2018.
51. Book: Shuker. Roy. Popular Music: The Key Concepts. 2017. Taylor & Francis. 9781317189541. 3 August 2017.
52. Web site: Jason Ankeny . The Up | Biography & History . . 2017-04-12.
53. Web site: Proto-Punk. AllMusic. 2016-09-25.