re: Who has the more diverse, detailed music? Steely Dan vs. Led Zepplin, Beatles, etc

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I don't think Pink Floyd would even exist without The Beatles.

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They were closer to contemporaries than you might think. You see, the origin of a lot of those British acts was the explosion of the blues - a lot of American blues artists starting hitting the UK circuit in the late 1950s and early 1960s - it's obvious when you hear Keith Richards, Syd Barrett, David Gilmour, Robert Plant - and, at times, George Harrison that as much as Scotty Moore and Buddy Holly had influenced them, the Kings, Muddy Waters, etc. Heck, Pink Floyd is a combination of Pink Anderson and Floyd Council - because Barrett had records by those cats in his collection.

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I am not talking about opening doors.I'm talking about borrowing musically.

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That certainly happened in the '70s - but I'm not sure Pink Floyd was necessarily doing this - they had gone psychedelic themselves, and appeared to be carving their own path after Barrett imploded.