How did you find Prog?

I really liked Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight when it came out so I went to buy the album. The clerk suggested I might like Phil's band, Genesis, so I bought a copy of And Then There Were Three. I played the first song, Down And Out, and I thought the record was skipping, so I took it back. The clerk explained to me the concept of 5/4 time . . . . completely foreign to me at the time, but I was fascinated. Plus I really enjoyed the sound of Tony's synths so I explored more Genesis. The next one I bought was Foxtrot, and I was hooked and have been ever since. 

I was brought in by way of seeking out music that used Moogs - I was (and still am) addicted to the sound of Moog synthesizers...but I absolutely prefer it in the context of rock music, and I am also drawn to acoustic guitars and harmony vocals, so I began finding it in early Heart, Rush, Steve Miller Band, Styx, Pink Floyd, and quickly found a treasure trove of it in ELP and Yes...

Metal is were I have ended up, after months of symphonic prog.

Through Metal.

Dad had old Pink Floyd, Who and Jethro Tull records. They were way more interesting than what I hearing on the radio growing up in the 80's.

Never ever been interested in Rock music or 'bands'. Had been into electronic music since i was 15 and thought everyone else were 'moshers'. Im 30 now and about 6 months ago I downloaded Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here. That was it...... i now have a couple of hundred albums... AND I LOVE PROG ITS THE BEST MUSIC EEVVEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Back in 1985/86, I was a metal head teenager just starting to really get into guitar. I met a drummer (in high school) who played methe first King Crimson song I'd ever heard "Industry/Dig Me"  (on cassette), which opened up a whole new world of music to me far beyond just Metal.

I heard Les Claypool's Frog Brigade's cover of Thela Hun Ginjeet on their first live disc and had to discover the band behind the song, and from King Crimson I branched out every which way.

My brother show me the Awake album, THE Awake album from DT and that was it really... funny that my brother don't listen to DT... didn't like their heavy sound, but for me it was really everything that I've dream of and never found... so I start digging, and now I enjoy  Prog metal and neo-prog a lot more than the classics... but enjoy most of the prog... DT was the inception...

For me, it was slow growing. I listened to Pink Floyd a lot, and got into Yes through Owner of a Lonely Heart. I actually bought a lot of Yes records, including Close to the Edge, Relayer, and Tales from Topographic Oceans, but I just wasn't sure how to understand the long form songs. I was not at the point where I considered listening to music as something that required active participation, so while I thought they were neat (Relayer especially always had me thinking it was the work of a genius) I could not grasp them.

I noticed a few bands I liked being labelled as prog, such as Supertramp, Genesis, and Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and a friend showed me King Crimson, which I enjoyed but could never find in the record stores. Then one year, I got The Yes Album, and I had matured musically enough by then to pay enough attention to realise why it was awesome, and it was a bit more digestible then the twenty minute stuff. Later in the year, I found Fragile, and picked that up. Even though most of the songs were on Live at Montreux 2003, which I had loved, they sounded so good on the album, and the way that the album was lined up, it was pretty much the only CD I listened to for a month, and I started listening to all my other Yes records with it. I started to notice things in them I hadn't before, and I was constantly thinking to myself, whenever I would think about my next musical acquisition, it would have to b something like Yes. There had to be more music that good.

I knew that older Genesis albums were considered prog, so I went in search of those, and picked up Wind and Wuthering, as it was the only one my record store had. Due to crappy selection, for the most part, my prog fix came from my Yes music, Wind and Wuthering, In the Court of the Crimson King, Demons and Wizards, and some random Rush records, until I finally got approved for a credit card. Still starving for more of this music, and now suddenly with access to amazon, my collection grew MUCH faster. I discovered progarchives this May and have been discovering even more new bands since then.