List of proto-punk bands

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

List

• ? and the Mysterians
• The 101ers
• The 13th Floor Elevators
• Alice Cooper
• The Amboy Dukes
• Blue Cheer
• Captain Beefheart
• The Chocolate Watchband
• Crushed Butler
• David Bowie
• Death
• Destroy All Monsters
• The Dictators
• Doctors of Madness
• Dr. Feelgood

• The Droogs
• Eddie and the Hot Rods
• Electric Eels
• Flamin' Groovies
• The Fugs
• Woody Guthrie
• Hawkwind
• The Hangmen
• The Hollywood Brats
• John's Children
• Kilburn and the High Roads
• The Kingsmen
• The Kinks
• MC5
• The Modern Lovers

• The Monks
• The Music Machine
• Neu!
• New York Dolls
• The Night Walkers
• John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett
• Pink Fairies
• Paul Revere & The Raiders
• Rocket from the Tombs
• Los Saicos
• Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
• The Shadows of Knight
• The Shaggs
• Simply Saucer

• Patti Smith
• The Sonics
• Chris Spedding
• The Spiders from Mars
• The Standells
• The Stooges
• Suicide
• Television
• Thee Midniters
• Them
• Third World War
• The Troggs
• The Tubes
• The Up
• The Velvet Underground
• The Wailers
• The Who
• Ton Steine Scherben
• Zakary Thaks

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