List of proto-punk bands

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

List

? and the Mysterians [1] The 101ers [2] The 13th Floor Elevators [3] Alice Cooper [4] [5] The Amboy Dukes [6] Blue Cheer [7] Captain Beefheart [8] The Chocolate Watchband [9] Crushed Butler [10] David Bowie [11] Death [12] Destroy All Monsters [3] The Dictators [13] Doctors of Madness [14] Dr. Feelgood [15]

The Droogs [16] Eddie and the Hot Rods [17] Electric Eels [18] Flamin' Groovies [3] The Fugs [19] [20] Woody Guthrie [21] Hawkwind [3] The Hangmen [22] The Hollywood Brats [23] John's Children [24] Kilburn and the High Roads [25] The Kingsmen [26] The Kinks [27] MC5 [28] The Modern Lovers [29]

The Monks [30] The Music Machine [31] Neu! [3] New York Dolls [32] [33] The Night Walkers [3] John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett [34] Pink Fairies [35] Paul Revere & The Raiders [36] Rocket from the Tombs [37] Los Saicos [38] Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs [3] The Shadows of Knight [39] The Shaggs [40] Simply Saucer [41]

Patti Smith [42] [43] The Sonics [44] Chris Spedding [45] The Spiders from Mars [11] The Standells [46] The Stooges [47] Suicide [48] [33] Television [42] Thee Midniters [49] Them [39] Third World War [50] The Troggs [51] The Tubes [52] The Up [53] The Velvet Underground [54] The Wailers [26] Ton Steine Scherben Zakary Thaks [3]

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