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Van Der Graaf Generator were active in 1967

Sorry:

I have this brain-thing: I always mix up "celery" and "lettuce".
Also mix-up the band Family with Audience.


It should be FAMILY 'Music in a Doll's House".

Emerson invented prog, with The Nice.

Beefwhore The Nice, Emerson was in back-up band for P.P.Arnold at the same Marquis venue as was the band - which I have yet to have named - were playing.
So it is most likely Emerson seen them perform. The keysman was doing the shake the Hammond thing to get the reverb-coil effect that was signature for Emerson in The Nice....later on.

Also there was this organist, Don Shinn, doing showman-stuff:funny spoons things and the knives in Hammond and tuning Hammond with screwdriver whilst playing...which Emerson was later to copy.

Don Shinn released two lps in '69.(The debut lp, "Takes a Trip" , was released March '69)

The first the Nice lp was released in '67.

Interesting to note that The Nice's drummer , Brian Davison, came out of Don Shinn's trio!

Come on then. Put us out of our misery. What is the name of the group? See if I have heard of them.

From Wikipedia:

Don Shinn (born Donald Shinn, 15 December 1945, Southampton, Hampshire) is an English keyboard player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and vocalist. He is known primarily as an organist and pianist, and also plays vibraphone. In the early-mid 1960’s he recorded and performed with British Beat groups The MeddyEVILS, The Echoes (backing Dusty Springfield), and The Soul Agents (featuring Rod Stewart). In 1967 he formed his own band The Shinn, which also featured future Uriah Heep bassist Paul Newton, future drummer for The Nice, Brian Davison, and vocalist Eddie Lamb. In 1969 he released two instrumental albums, ‘Departures’, and ‘Temples With Prophets’ (aka 'Don Shinn Takes A Trip'). He was a member of the English band Dada (featuring Elkie Brooks) and appears on their eponymous album released in 1970. He has also worked with Kiki Dee, James Taylor, Engelbert Humperdinck, Stan Tracey, Persian vocalist Parvaneh Farid, Iguana, and Renaissance. He is cited as a pioneer within the progressive rock movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and has been acknowledged by British keyboardist/composer Keith Emerson as a major influence.[1][2][3] Uriah Heep bassist Paul Newton has also credited Shinn as a mentor and teacher. As of January 2012, unconfirmed reports indicate that Shinn is still musically active and based in the Southampton area of the UK.

Okay. Here it comes:

it's all down to a Scots git.

Billy Ritchie.

And the band is CLOUDS.

Some of you are thinking, "You mean the band that did those two weak prog lps, "Watercolour Days" and the other...wotsit one. And the far better "Up Above Our Heads" lp?. But those were 1970, no?"

You are correct.
I stated earlier that it was a performance, not an actual lp.

And its not Clouds, but pre-Clouds:

As early as '66 the band 1-2-3, lead by Ritchie, had a version of Paul Simon's "America" . This was TWO YEARS beefwhore the Bookends lp was released.
'67 they done it live at the Marque.
And it is distinctly prog...or at the very least, rudimentary prog.

I have a sound clip but you have to....suck.

Otherwise, try finding it on the weeb.

I gots a better clip than this, but Blind Chile feels sorry for wee noobies, so here is wot yer gets arf youtube search:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VzKRtqiAk