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The mid- to late 60s was an era of explosive growth and experimentation in rock music. Bands drew influences from free jazz artists such as John Coltrane and Sun Ra and avant-garde composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The Velvet Underground, which at one point counted John Cale, Angus Maclise and Tony Conrad among its members and was associated with Andy Warhol and LaMonte Young, fused elements of minimalism and avante-garde music with standard rock song structures. The sounds of Indian music and Arabic music were also widely admired and adapted. Even such popularly successful bands as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were able to incorporate outside and foreign influences into their songs without sacrificing their broad fanbase. Other important experimental bands in this period include MC5, The Monks, The Fugs, The Godz, Red Crayola, The Stooges, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band and The Mothers of Invention. These bands were also the inspiration for Plastic People of the Universe, which emerged in the 1970s behind the Iron Curtain.

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