Talk:Traffic (band)
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Wasn't Joe Cocker in Traffic? --67.42.33.65 11:11, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Nope. Check warr.org
No, but Steve Winwood played with Joe Cocker. Other members of Traffic may also have played with Cocker. 02.06.06 LT Munich, Germany
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[edit] A couple of points
It may be the case that Traffic were influenced by The Band, but they 'got it together in the country' in April 1967, which is at the same time The Band moved into Big Pink, and certainly not an imitation of them. I've changed the wording here.
In addition, I've changed the date of the band forming to 1967. Winwood, Capaldi and Mason may have had a few jams in late 1966, but Winwood was still in the Spencer Davis Group until March 1967, and recorded and toured with them in early 1967. Traffic weren't officially unveiled as Winwood's next move until April 1967. [See CD booklets to 'Dear Mr Fantasy' and 'Eight Days A Week' (Spencer Davis Group)] Clear air turbulence 23:14, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I'm going to add some references here and expand the article, as I did with Family (band)
--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 15:01, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Traffic an influence on progressive rock?
I don't really see this one as being true. I can't find a cite for it anywhere - I always viewed Traffic as more of a psychedelic band. What do you all think? I don't hear many prog bands citing Traffic as an influence.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 15:11, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I Agree
Traffic was not an influence on progressive rock, I agree. Traffic does not have enough in common with the prog rock genre to be linked to it in any major way. If Traffic were to be classified at all, I'd think it would be more appropriate to call their music psychedelic rock, art rock, and jazz rock. User: Uriah is Boss 4 October 2007 —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 15:18, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, the whole article needs expansion. It has the potential to eventually become a featured article but I doubt enough people are interested.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 21:21, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
I wholeheartedly agree! And what happened to the photo of Traffic? Someone put it back! The article is dull without it. User: Uriah is Boss 15:52, 27 November 2007
[edit] This is the right article for me to try to get to FA status
Per User:Yannismarou/Ten rules to make an article FA, I think it's probably the best choice right now. I both know a lot about the subject and believe that finding sources online should be easy enough.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 17:54, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- But I don't know if I'm going to muster up the courage or find the time to attempt it now that I'm busy. The fact that an article I worked hard on, King Crimson, didn't reach FA was disappointing... GA is cool though.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 19:28, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
- I have serious doubts about whether I'm going to find the time to do this, but I'd love to see this article at FA. I don't have any book sources, but I'm sure there's enough on the internet to make FA or at least GA possible.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 21:34, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
