Have any early Math Rock bands explicitly said they were influenced by King Crimson?
First to do Math Rock?
Lucas Anderson
Parker Wright
The bigger question is which band was the first to bring Math Rock into the Midwest Emo scene.
Jaxson Allen
its essentially what fripp was doing in the 80s but in the 60s instead
Jonathan Garcia
It’s just Zappa trying to be the avant-garde composers that he liked.
Benjamin White
Black Flag was a kind of precursor to math rock, especially during the punk jazz stuff, and KC was somewhat of an influence there.
But Discipline is more math rock in a lot of its aspects rather than who it influenced. e.g. Hansson and Karlsson being considered prog even though they didn't influence anybody, really.
Jose Perry
So basically King Crimson > Black Flag’s jazzy period > early Math Rock like Slint?
Jacob Williams
this is basically math rock with a bluesy twist
Mason Hall
yeah i agree, and he ended up accidentally creating math rock in the process.
Isaac Ortiz
Basically, yeah.
But if we're talking about Black Flag, then Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black and Red (especially Larks Pt. II, Fracture and Red's title track) are all definitely proto-math rock. There's also Exposure, which has "Breathless" which definitely sounds like math rock.
Aaron Walker
This
Listen to the 2nd half of veteran's day poppy and tell me that isn't a slint riff