How did you find Prog?

Prog finds you, after Uriah Heep,Purple and Sabbath I discovered the Yes album in 1971 the rest is history.From Yes to Genesis(Gabriel's) to Tull to Van Der Graaf to King Crimson and beyond.

It shapes your world. ' Close to the Edge' for me is the finest gem in Prog's glorious crown.It dominated my life for many years.It still does to an extent.

Uriah Heep's Demons and Wizards will always be a rock classic  to me with David Byron my favourite rock singer.However even David cannot get near Jon Anderson,Peter Hammill and Mr.Gabriel.

Prog is timeless,prog will go on I am looking forward to Porcupine Tree when they decide to come back to Scotland.

It was all this site, and people in it... it changed me more than I'd like to admit.

It was in the bottom of my sock drawer. It's always the last place you look!!!!

E

scruffydragon wrote: My first brush with prog came in the early 80's.Happened to find a single laying in the road on the way home from school.My first decent record,Northern lights by Renaissance.I expect somebody used it as a frisby.But I took it home and,errrm.......I wore it out playing it. Many years passed before had my next decent record.Chance discovery of Music inspired by the snow goose by Camel at a boot sale for pence.It was one of those records that sounded more fresh and modern then what was being played on the radio at the time.That was in the 1990's.I was hooked. From there it was buying whatever I fancied the sound of.The funny thing about it all is that I had no idea that nearly all my records were prog until a few years back.It was just a good sound,one that I liked and still do.

Fragile wrote: Uriah Heep's Demons and Wizards will always be a rock classic  to me with David Byron my favourite rock singer.

My musical directions started with cliche' rock stuff like Led Zeppelin, then I got really bored of it  and from Jimi Hendrix I moved to Stevie Ray Vaughan(you can easily see that transition), and got really into blues music.  Then eventually I got into psychedelic rock, and since it's pretty much just the precursor to progressive rock it just flowed on in.  It's really the same movement, just a few years later (and sometimes not even).

Ive always liked synth heavy music. Probably a side effect of playing so much 8-bit nintendo and sega as a kid.

Random start. Somewhere between Jethro and Floyd, I picked up In the Court of the Crimson King and never looked back. In conjunction with that, my friend leant me Porcupine Tree's Stupid Dream and I moved into more modern stuff as well. 

Well, I discovered prog through my first girlfriends mother, strangely enough  She was a photographer for a dutch heavy metal magazine and she (and her daughter obviously) were always playing progressive metal stuff when I was over at her place.

The first band I heard there which really got my attention, was Symphony X with the V album. The first time I heard the song Evolution I was just amazed by how beautiful, emotional and heavy it was. From then on I was bitten by the prog-bug and it hasn't left me since! (all this happened when I was 14, so this is my 7th year into prog!)

E-Dub wrote: It was in the bottom of my sock drawer. It's always the last place you look!!!! E

That's funny, I found it over there in the corner next to the dust bunnies.  It smelled really nice.