How did you find Prog?

For me, I had an interest in music that was more complex than pop for some number of years now.
I first remember listening to Yes quite a lot when my father brought home a copy of Fragile.
In 2005, I first heard Dream Theater's SFAM and from then onwards, knew I would want to hear more of progressive rock.

Older brother. Back in the mid-70s, he began to turn me on to Yes, Rush, Genesis, Queen, ELP, etc etc.....

I guess it was Tool... I don't really know. I knew about Dream Theater long before Tool but I've never liked them. I got into Opeth shortly after Tool and then I found more and more Prog bands. Tool led me to bands like Isis which led me to post-rock bands like Mono. Opeth led me to Porcupine Tree which led me to other "softer" prog bands and also to extreme prog bands like Negura Bunget and Arcturus. I get a lot of recommendations from friends and also online with stuff like this. 

It was when I was having a look at my dad's vinyl collection and came across ITCOTCK and it's fantastic cover art. I listened to it and liked some of the songs. Then I discovered that my dad also had the Red album and I loved it! At that time I was a hard rock/heavy metal fan who played the drums and I was grabbed by the jazzy style of bill bruford's drumming. I asked my drum teacher about it and he gave me names of bands like Rush Genesis and Yes, but never really like them. Then I searched on the internet for King Crimson music and came across this website.. from then on I was swallowed by prog

We've had this topic about 150 times now....

My "first" introduction to prog came about completely by accident. I was on vacation with a friend in Tennessee. While there, we stopped at this run down mall and inside was a tiny record store. In it was a bunch of bands I had never heard of before (King Crimson, ELP, etc.). After browsing around I finally settled on buying Dream Theater's "Scenes From A Memory" and Blind Guardian's "Tales From the Twilight World." I was immediately blown away.

Of course, I had to find more music like this and at the time I was really into the heavier music. Slowly, through PA and getting to talk to other prog fans I have met along the way, I began listening to the "classics" like Genesis, Zappa, Yes, etc... and loved them even more.

My mother introduced me to Pink Floyd  With A Collection of Great Dance Songs when i was very young(too young to remember). Unfortunately, I didn't here Pink Floyd again till I was about 14, when I was listening to whatever everyone else was listening too and I had a compulsion to buy the Dark Side of the Moon, which totally blew my mind.

 After that for a few years I listened to some Classic Rock, but almost exclusively  Pink Floyd. I didn't know it then, but I was selecting mostly Prog bands from what I heard on the radio and the Rhapsody Channels that are available from Rhapsody(I had a year free with my mp3 player), such as Kansas and Rush.

After I grew bored with that, I googled "Prog Rock" and found this website, which I used to as a reference to help build my library of great prog.

Well for me it al started back in 2000 when I heard APC's mer de noms which lead me to Tool and then to King Crimson...

Prog is my life. I'm sure there's something in my DNA code that makes me instinctively love prog.

In all seriousness, though, my parents were HUGE fans of Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, and Jethro Tull, and listening to those bands at an early age helped me in my later discovery of other amazing prog bands like Genesis and Kansas...