Your Growing Roots

Be prepared for some flak, since this is the second most common thread theme on the forums, just before "Which Dream Theater musician is best?" and "Phil Collins killed Prog!"

Anyway, for me it was the wall. I had no idea what prog was, and i did not know any Floyd at all, but i remember the exact moment i was totally blown away by what i thereafter considered the best album ever for about a year or so. So i tried to hear all i could by Pink Floyd, and then one day i listened to Peter Gabriel's "UP" and the opening track was so powerful for one who has never heard anything past Floyd and ELO in his whole life, and it made a real impact on me. Shortly thereafter i decided it was time for me to check into some Genesis, since someone had told me before that's where he had his roots.

But that was really it for me for a while, before i one day was on the imdb forum for "Pink Floyd's the Wall", reading an argument about something when one of the posters linked to this site. I started by reading the "what is prog?" introduction and then went straight into the hellfire.  : )

First there was a lot of Symph, all the classics, when i decided (like all noobs) to explore the avant-garde side of the genre, because it sounded so cool. Unfortunately, i never got much farther than VDGG and Kraut into that section before i discovered that i much preferred Led Zeppelin and Fleetwood Mac to all that... umm... "Challenging, progressive and intellectual" music..

There. You got more than you asked for, now i'm up way past my bedtime, hahaha...