Prog Gateway Music

Pink Floyd -> Moody Blues -> Dream Theater -> Porcupine Tree -> 100 other bands, well maybe 40 or so... -> Present day -> Battlestations

menawati wrote: rushfan4 wrote: Because I am lazy, and because I once started a blog that answers this question I will provide a link http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43586&PN=1  and if you are interested feel free to read about my Road to Prog Enlightenment. I read it a while back, was a fun read  I envy the guys on here that were teens in the early 70's prog heyday. I certainly feel I was born a decade too late. The NWOBHM I experienced was a poor substitute for the music scene you guys had.

Seriously. I would have been at every Genesis and Lazer Floyd show. Lol

M27Barney wrote: work out how many CD's I have that I have never listened to, could be as many as 500 perhaps.... I know I have that many that I'll never listen to again..... Hope my wife doesn't realise this - she HATES clutter

I only listened to classical until my dad played Fragile on a car trip. I also bought Dark Side of the Moon because I thought the cover was cool. Everything pretty much followed from those.

I want to chime in here and state that Yes' worst album ever, in my opinion, is Talk from 1994.

For me and most of my friends at the time, which was 1973.  We were in high school, and one of us had just heard ELP's Brain Salad Surgery.  He was the first one of our group of friends that had discovered prog and was sharing it with the rest of us.  My parents gave me Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for my birthday, played it over and over.  While not prog, it was my first real exposure to recorded music.  Just loved Funeral For A Friend, but wasn't sure why.  This friend I mentioned was into Yes, Floyd, Genesis, Nektar, VDGG.  We would gather at his place, and he would spin the vinyl from these bands that existed at that time.  I remember just being blown away at the epic sound, the meat of it.  Just so much content and substance to the music.  It was then I was exposed to most of what is now considered to be epic, classic prog.  I have preferred to listen to nothing but since that time almost 40 years ago.  Long Live Prog!

Apparently, Opera is a bad gateway.

Gateways are great. LONG LIVE RUSH!!!!

menawati wrote: ye you are right, can i delete the thread or do i need admin to do it ?

It was about 1977 ,ELP and Tarkus especially. Massive choir , thunderous drums etc. I also heard DSOTM at about the same time and wondered where was the massive choir, thunderous drums etc. A bunch of alarm clocks going off? ..lame. I found Yes boring and Genesis were just a pop group in the late seventies. A general interest in prog only started to take shape in the early eightes when I fed up to the back teeth with music videos and bands that were clearly not bands pretending to be bands.