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    Posted: November 25 2012 at 19:14
for me it was about the who. i was (and still am) a fan of rock and pop music of the 60's. albums like tommy and who's next put me onto the classic prog bands
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Originally posted by Nick Dilley Nick Dilley wrote:

I think a lot of metal guys get into prog because of their appreciation for technical wizardry. As soon as they realize that there are things that are technically difficult besides just shredding, they turn their ears to prog. For me, ...And Justice for All by Metallica got me into prog-ish stuff. It's their only proggy record, and it's awesome. Total gateway experience, as far as moving toward prog in increments.



Yup. METALLICA is a huge gateway to deeper prog experience. MASTER OF PUPPETS , AND JUSTICE FOR ALL are METALLICA's best prog related material. ;)
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I think a lot of metal guys get into prog because of their appreciation for technical wizardry. As soon as they realize that there are things that are technically difficult besides just shredding, they turn their ears to prog.

For me, ...And Justice for All by Metallica got me into prog-ish stuff. It's their only proggy record, and it's awesome. Total gateway experience, as far as moving toward prog in increments.
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My mom introduced me to Yes. I bought Fragile. Crimson, Can, and Zappa came not long after. From there, it was downhill.
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Ed Sullivan was my gateway to prog.
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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I listened to a lot of Metallica when I was in high school, particularly ...And Justice for All. Also, Tool released Lateralus, which I loved then and now. I had a Yahoo Launchcast page which played music based on the bands I liked, more or less like Pandora now. Though that, I discovered Liquid Tension Experiment, Dream Theater, and Opeth, and I started searching for the bands that inspired them.
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First introduction was my year 8 music teacher playing us Rick Wakeman's "Catherine Howard". This was in 1989. I think I was the only one in the class who liked it.
 
I got into Queen in the early 90s (their 70s material, I hated most of their later stuff). I was reading rock magazines like Juke, and they used to routinely dismiss Queen's 'art-rock' as 'pretentious', 'pompous' and 'self-indulgent'. I started noticing references to other 'art-rock' bands who were dismissed with the same words - 'ponderous' was another one that got used. Bands like Yes and ELP. After one article I read described Tales From Topographic Oceans as the worst double album ever (precisely because it was so 'pretentious', 'pompous', 'ponderous' and 'self-indulgent'), I was sufficiently curious enough to go buy it. It was like nothing else I'd ever heard. 
 
From there - Close To The Edge and Fragile; ELPs first album, Genesis Nursery Cryme, King Crimson's In The Wake of Poseidon, Jethro Tull's Aqualung. Another teacher lent me the McDonald & Giles album, and Tully's Sea of Joy (which started my interest in Australian bands). Kept collecting - went off 70s prog for a while in favour of the pre-prog 60s rock scene, but gradually found my way back. Discovered the Strawberry Bricks website (and later, this one), which introduced me to many more bands than I ever realised existed. 500 or so albums later...
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Thanks for the post it had all of the rerquired informations
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Before i knew about prog.
The Beatles
Gasolin
Sebastian
Shi Bi Dua
Led Zepplin
Rod Steward
Elton John
Nazereth
Slade
 
My early gateways was Jethro Floyd Genesis Gentle Oldfield and Yes.


Edited by tamijo - November 01 2012 at 12:02
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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I see how the CURE can lead a lot of people to prog. The CURE give ya little Tastes of prog Rock here and there, and gang my friends can lead ya to greater exploration of the prog sphere
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For me it was The Moody Blues DOFP & Peter Green's Oh Well in 1967, then King Crimson- ITCOTCK, Blodwyn Pig- Ahead Rings Out & Frank Zappa's Hot Rats in 1969.
Soon after :
 Soft Machine,
 Stawbs ,
 Tonton Macuote,
 Gravy Train,
 Quintessence,
 Gentle Giant,
 Maharishnu Orchestra
And of course Pink Foyd.
 


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I guess for me being a teen in the eighties(I know I'm an anomaly like that on hereBig smile)and getting into music in a big way in the decade I was first exposed to prog rock via classic rock and all the usual suspects. Yes was the first band who I know were referred to as prog rock who I really got into. Before them I was into Led Zeppelin in a big way so I suppose that made it easier since I know some of their songs were long. But really it was Yes then Genesis, Rush, Pink Floyd, King Crimson and ELP then from there the dominoes just fell. Smile At one point my ex step mother's brother who was a musician and a dj told me if I was into that stuff to check out a band called Gentle Giant. Eventually I did. I don't think he was much of a prog fan but he had one good recommendation with GG.  After kind of moving away from prog, I got back into it in the late nineties thanks to the internet and books like "the progressive rock files" and "the music's all that matters."
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The first group I remember really appreciating in the 70s was Mott The Hoople, followed by Roxy Music and Sparks, which probably led me to appreciate the more experimental music and prog groups such as Curved Air, VdGG, KC, Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind and Amon Duul 2. As keen as I became on punk and new wave in the late 70s, I carried on listening to these and still do.
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Looking back if I'm honest, it would have to be Rush.   But I also credit Zep with being great at progressing their material - mainly live but also over their career - something Rush doesn't do, at least not very well.






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Just to get back to the topic: my story started with American oldies rock-n'-roll. Heard Boston, Jefferson Airplane, Floyd, 60's psych, etc. Floyd led me to the term "prog rock", which led me to King Crimson's "The Court" (the title track, of course), and ever since then I was thinking and hearing music every day, just like Neo thinks and sees the Matrix every time he gets plugged in.


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Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

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its definitely a time travel one i remember now from reading those responses, i think they go back to the 50s and got to change history that ring thing speaks its like a time travel machine
They flutter behind you your possible pasts,
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
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Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Perhaps the one where Spock has top go through some religious thing and ends up having to kill Kirk. Kirk plays 'dead' thanks to some clever drug. Spock feels terrible until he sees Kirk is alive and smiles for the one and only time. (or it might be a completely different episodeTongue)

Spock kills Kirk? I wonder why. That gotta be a must-see episode, even though I'm not a Star Trek fan at all.
Not only. At the end of the episode Spock SMILES!!!!
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