| Author |
 Topic Search  Topic Options
|
A Person 
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 10 2008
Location: __
Status: Offline
Points: 65760
|
 Posted: November 30 2009 at 22:38 |
 Tarquin Underspoon wrote:
Count me as a member of the younger generation of prog fans. I grew up all around it, thanks to my dad.
I was listening to Close to the Edge, Thick as a Brick, and The Wall at age...gosh...maybe 6 or 7?.....I just thought of it as music, not anything special. I guess the concept of progressive music didn't hit me for about 8 more years.
On a tangential note, one of the best feelings in the world is being very familiar with an album, and then letting it gather dust for years before digging it out again. This happened with Close to the Edge for me....I knew it well enough, but when I listened years later, after maturing and being exposed to new music......the skies opened up. |
That is how I felt when I first listened to Wish You Were Here. I had heard "Shine On..." on my mom's cassette of A Collection of Great Dance Songs when I was young, but it was amazing to rediscover it.
|
 |
Tarquin Underspoon
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 12 2009
Location: USA
Status: Offline
Points: 1416
|
Posted: November 30 2009 at 22:30 |
Count me as a member of the younger generation of prog fans. I grew up all around it, thanks to my dad.
I was listening to Close to the Edge, Thick as a Brick, and The Wall at age...gosh...maybe 6 or 7?.....I just thought of it as music, not anything special. I guess the concept of progressive music didn't hit me for about 8 more years.
On a tangential note, one of the best feelings in the world is being very familiar with an album, and then letting it gather dust for years before digging it out again. This happened with Close to the Edge for me....I knew it well enough, but when I listened years later, after maturing and being exposed to new music......the skies opened up.
|
|
"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"
-The Great Gig in the Sky
|
|
Kashmir75
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 25 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 1029
|
Posted: November 30 2009 at 20:55 |
It was a slow evolution for me. I think I liked prog before I had ever discovered the word 'prog'. In high school, i just listened to whatever the 'cool' kids listened to. Nu metal, grunge, Nirvana, etc
I got into classic rock next. Zeppelin and the Who. I discovered Sabbath shortly thereafter. I was looking for something like Zeppelin (which I love) but harder. Sabbath led me to Maiden and Priest and 80s metal. Metallica became a favourite of mine. It was around this time that I heard of Pink Floyd and Yes. Although I eventually came to love this stuff so much, at the time I thought it sounded 'weird'. A friend at university was obsessed with Radiohead and Pink Floyd. So through him I got into those bands, and started seeking out other 'weird music'.
I told a friend I love music which is complex and has lots of instrumental stuff. He gave me Opeth and Dream Theater. I was blown away and wanted to hear more. DT and Opeth led me to more prog metal like Symphony X, Pain Of Salvation, etc. I heard Mikael Akerfeldt raving about a band called Porcupine Tree, so I checked them out, and I became hooked on PT. One of my fave bands.
My journey from grungehead and nu metalhead to progger took a long time. I'm not sure what it was that led me to it. Zep's 'Houses of the Holy' album was probably the first disc I heard which got me interested in hearing more trippy, experimental stuff. I still love all my classic rock and metal stuff, so prog hasn't replaced my earlier tastes, but expanded them. Music is a wonderful thing, and there are so many bands which make awesome music, both prog and non-prog.
When I discovered this website, I found that most of my bands were featured on here, either prog or prog-related. I guess I was always a proghead, I just didn't know it.
|
|
Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
|
|
silcir
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 06 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 190
|
Posted: November 25 2009 at 18:20 |
|
it was my father's influence.
i've always listened to great music since childhood.
i started listening jethro tull and GG at 13 as well as Deep purple and The doors.... it went from there to get to everywhere.
my dad is a great Genesis, Van der graaf, jthro, procol harum, GG, ELP, yes, zeppelin, doors, fairport convention, etc etc fan.
|
|
halabalushindigus
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 05 2009
Location: San Diego
Status: Offline
Points: 1438
|
Posted: November 25 2009 at 15:18 |
Somebody Save Me. The Pop music is so bad. There is absolutly nothing progressive at all.It all sounds mechanical, like a robot. Look out, here comes the crap parade/generation. It's finally here. So lets all take a moment to think about the excellent properties of THIS WEBSITE. I found beautiful awesome music in the 70's. Thank You Progressive Archives . I have found progressive music again
|
|
assume the power 1586/14.3
|
|
npoczynek
Forum Newbie
Joined: March 14 2008
Location: Texas
Status: Offline
Points: 22
|
Posted: November 25 2009 at 12:00 |
I wish I could remember exactly, I only have a rough recollection of my transition to a prog lover.
Back in middle school I was a huge Metallica fan, after that I got into nu-metal and modern rock... Then somehow I got into more extreme metal (Cynic, Children of Bodom, Emperor, etc.).
After that it gets a bit fuzzy. As a guitar player, I think I remember a friend suggesting I listen to Dream Theater. Through researching them, I must have discovered Ayreon because The Human Equation is one of the first prog albums I remember buying (quite a way to be introduced, huh?). Shortly after, I remember buying Fragile by Yes and my dad thought it was so funny that I was buying music from his childhood (he's not a prog listener, but is familiar with some of the bands).
Throughout high school I expanded my prog knowledge and now I've got a pretty hefty collection... Still getting more into it every day, which seems to mystify all my friends. I have yet to find a real-life buddy that loves prog, except for a select few albums or bands.
Edit: How could I forgot Porcupine Tree? I think this was about a year after I discovered Dream Theater, I remembered hearing mention of PT and saw Deadwing in a local Best Buy. That was definitely one of those life-changing albums, a perfect transition for me at the time from straightforward rock/metal into prog.
Another edit: I also forgot Opeth, which I guess came in slightly before Dream Theater, actually. I think Opeth was my transition from extreme metal to more proggy stuff like DT and PT.
Edited by npoczynek - November 25 2009 at 12:04
|
|
ColinRetzlaff
Forum Newbie
Joined: May 05 2008
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 9
|
Posted: November 24 2009 at 21:25 |
|
Hey American Khatru, (don't know the quote command so I can't quote you)
Yeah, I'm already into much of the Italian prog scene. Some of my favorites are Per un Amico by Premiata Forneria Marconi, and Lo Sono Nato Libero by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. I don't speak Italian either and I still love the sub-genre. Yeah, I'll try to get my dad into some of the stuff he may have missed if he's not busy. Thanks for the reply! I'll look up some of those bands sometime.
|
|
Colin
|
|
American Khatru
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 28 2009
Location: New York
Status: Offline
Points: 732
|
Posted: November 24 2009 at 10:06 |
ColinRetzlaff wrote:
I guess I've got an interesting story. I'm pretty young for being into prog (only 17) and how I got into it was through my dad. He was into Floyd, Genesis, ELP, Yes, the mainstream prog from the 70's. He downloaded some albums he owned when he was a kid (Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, Wind and Wuthering, Animals, Wish you were here) and I took a listen or two, could say I was that enthused. At that point I was listening mainly to more mainstream rock/pop bands. I think the 2 two big ones Meatloaf and Great Big Sea.
Eventually I actually gave those prog albums a real listen because I was bored with what I had at the time. Finally really got the music after some listening. Still didn't know the name of the genre, but I liked the length and the complexity. After listening to pretty much all of Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Tull (parents turned my onto aqualung), I found Gentle Giant, and prog archives. This site has been my way to find new (and usually old) music pretty much exclusively from then on.
Eventually got turned onto metal through Opeth
Wow what a long poorly written post...
|
 I love finding these from the younger generation who come around to really getting the classics. I'm probably your dad's age or just a bit younger, so this stuff always warms my heart.
Let me recommend to you the '70's Italian scene too (whole section on "Rock Progressivo Italiano" on this site, with links to other dites for cd's, lp's). Who knows, maybe you can return the favor and introduce dad to great stuff he doesn't know from back in the day (unless he does already know about it). You could not do much better than "YS" by Balletto di Bronzo, and, say, "Darwin" by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, oh, and "Intorno all Mia Cattiva Educazione" by Alusa Fallax will please the Tull lover. (Speaking of Tull, "Thick as a Brick"!) I don't speak Italian, most of us who are into it here don't, so don't let that stop you. If you did want lyrics in English, the self-titled album by Cherry Five is a great one (members of this group went on to form the famous Goblin).
|
 Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"?
|
|
moe_blunts
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 18 2008
Location: Austin, TX
Status: Offline
Points: 617
|
Posted: November 23 2009 at 23:29 |
|
I used to have a stigma against Genesis until, grudgingly, I actually listened to one of their albums. I was hooked.
|
|
|
|
ColinRetzlaff
Forum Newbie
Joined: May 05 2008
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 9
|
Posted: November 23 2009 at 22:57 |
I guess I've got an interesting story. I'm pretty young for being into prog (only 17) and how I got into it was through my dad. He was into Floyd, Genesis, ELP, Yes, the mainstream prog from the 70's. He downloaded some albums he owned when he was a kid (Dancing with the Moonlit Knight, Wind and Wuthering, Animals, Wish you were here) and I took a listen or two, could say I was that enthused. At that point I was listening mainly to more mainstream rock/pop bands. I think the 2 two big ones Meatloaf and Great Big Sea. Eventually I actually gave those prog albums a real listen because I was bored with what I had at the time. Finally really got the music after some listening. Still didn't know the name of the genre, but I liked the length and the complexity. After listening to pretty much all of Pink Floyd, Genesis, and Tull (parents turned my onto aqualung), I found Gentle Giant, and prog archives. This site has been my way to find new (and usually old) music pretty much exclusively from then on. Eventually got turned onto metal through Opeth Wow what a long poorly written post...
|
|
Colin
|
|
Citizen Erased
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 25 2009
Location: Scotland
Status: Offline
Points: 192
|
Posted: November 20 2009 at 11:07 |
|
I got really into Muse who have a progressive influence in their music without a doubt. A lot of Muse fans recommended Radiohead and then Porcupine Tree (who I fell in love with). I also became a fan of The Mars Volta and British new prog bands like Oceansize, PRR and Amplifier.
Basically I've grown to love music with ambition.
|
And lo, the mighty riffage was played and it was good
<a href="www.last.fm/user/jonzo67" targe
|
|
DrZom
Forum Newbie
Joined: February 26 2008
Location: Cleveland, OH,
Status: Offline
Points: 6
|
Posted: November 20 2009 at 10:58 |
I didn't find Prog; Prog found me. That was before anyone used the term. In high school I was going to see live acts like Cream, Hendrix, Zappa and Big Brother. Here in Cleveland at that time, every act that wanted to make it in Rock had to come to Cleveland. Late 60s, early 70s we had the best FM station, WNCR; on that station is where I first heard the term Progressive. It was applied then to acts like Super Session as well as Tull, Yes, or King Crimson. WNCR played them all.
I didn't find Prog, Prog found me.
|
|
hirszu
Forum Groupie
Joined: April 03 2009
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Status: Offline
Points: 46
|
Posted: November 19 2009 at 08:11 |
|
It's simple. I borrowed Theater's Live at Budokan DVD from my friend about three years ago. Didn't know what the heck that music was, but I remember I really liked Beyond This Life because of the improvisation part and following Hollow Years with the great solo. After some time I listened to Images and Words and Metropolis2 but I didn't become a fan until late 2008. The progressive aspect of DT brought me to Pink Floyd and Polish Riverside. I also got into prog because simultaneously I started to play keyboard, so I loved the technical side of this music.
Edited by hirszu - November 19 2009 at 08:12
|
|
mark kraken
Forum Groupie
Joined: November 04 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 53
|
Posted: November 19 2009 at 06:47 |
|
1971 I first heard ELPs first album ,then my life changed . prog forever.
|
|
Battlepriest
Forum Groupie
Joined: August 31 2009
Location: South Carolina
Status: Offline
Points: 40
|
Posted: November 16 2009 at 16:39 |
|
In the mid-80s a friend was telling me about a hair metal band called Lilian Axe (he knew one of the members). He mistakenly referred to them as being a progressive rock band. I had not heard the term before, but it did get me curious about what he meant (as all I heard in Lilian Axe was a mainstream metal/hard rock band). I did a little research in rock music books and discovered that progressive rock usually typically refered to bands along the likes of Rush and Kansas. I already liked these bands and sort of realised they had some common elements, but didn't know that they were considered to be part of a separate genre. I gradually became interested in Jethro Tull and Yes, and my taste in metal similarly drifted toward Queensryche and Fates Warning. Some 25 years later, I'm a well-rounded prog fan and have a taste for hundreds of bands and most sub-genres (with the possible exception of RIO).
|
|
The Block
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 01 2009
Location: St. Alfonzo's
Status: Offline
Points: 924
|
Posted: November 12 2009 at 18:55 |
American Khatru wrote:
Replace "a year" with "terrifying scads of time" and you have my mixture of feelings more or less. Now if only I could figure out a way to get paid for having my mind blown. |
We would all be billionaires.  
|
 Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
|
|
American Khatru
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 28 2009
Location: New York
Status: Offline
Points: 732
|
Posted: November 12 2009 at 18:50 |
|
Replace "a year" with "terrifying scads of time" and you have my
mixture of feelings more or less. Now if only I could figure out a way
to get paid for having my mind blown.
|
Why must my spell-checker continually underline the word "prog"?
|
|
The Block
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 01 2009
Location: St. Alfonzo's
Status: Offline
Points: 924
|
Posted: November 12 2009 at 18:45 |
|
Prog still continues to blow my mind, even after a year.
|
Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
|
|
halabalushindigus
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 05 2009
Location: San Diego
Status: Offline
Points: 1438
|
Posted: November 12 2009 at 17:34 |
In 1975. a friend of mine turned me on to Todd Rundgren's Utopia and The Ikon just blew my 17 year old
mind.
|
|
assume the power 1586/14.3
|
|
UndercoverBoy
Forum Senior Member
Joined: November 10 2009
Location: Tulsa, OK, U.S.
Status: Offline
Points: 5148
|
Posted: November 11 2009 at 15:25 |
My story is pretty simple. I wanted to check out "The Dark Side of The Moon" because I had heard a lot of great things about the album. Once I listened to it, I was on hooked on Pink Floyd. However, when I heard this album was when I truly understood what Progressive Rock was:
How coincidential that my first "true" Prog album, was also the world's first "true" Prog album.
|
|
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage")
How did you find Prog?
