About that age poll...

Metropolis wrote: Im 19, most of the way through my second year at uni, got into prog right at the start of first year, a little over a year and a half ago

 

Did you get into prog or some of this new sh*t pawned off as Prog?

 

Im 19, most of the way through my second year at uni, got into prog right at the start of first year, a little over a year and a half ago

FuzzyDude wrote: after we played 'Even Dopefiends like Debussy,' they sort of lost their taste for our work.

I don't suppose you have any recordings?

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Sheesh...
Maybe I should leave this forum due to "old" age


OK...is there anybody here who was born before April, One-Thousand, Nine Hundred and Fifty-Seven A.D. ? 

Diary of a Former Freak

First concert: Genesis (sometime before The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was released)

First prog band I started: Bitter Squash Junkies (we were what you would describe as RIO today, though most people thought we were punk)

First time I set my guitar on fire onstage: maybe when I was 19

First time I urinated on a flaming guitar onstage: My 20th birthday

First time I was kicked out of a band: 20 and I think the band was called Melon Collie (no relation to the Smashing Pumpkins album)

First time I made out to 'Nights in White Satin' by the Moody Blues: 16

First time I heard the Wall and freaked out: Oh, boy... sometime in 1981.

First time I burned a picture of Ronald Reagan onstage and got arrested for it: I was 25, I think.

Only time I was in a band that got a record deal: I forget how old I was, but the band was called Stravinsky's Wet Dream (we were symphonic prog) and I was the bassist. We were dropped from the label though, once someone saw our live show. Our music had a sort of classical feel, and I think they dug it, but after we played 'Even Dopefiends like Debussy,' they sort of lost their taste for our work.

One and only time I ever asked Robert Fripp for his autograph and and was leered at and told 'No, thank you...' before his bodygaurds hustled me away from him: March 4th, 1982

Number of times I saw Frank Zappa perform: 6

Last album I ever heard and was overwhelmed by: Radiohead's Kid A

Being labeled a traitor by my prog fanatic friends for going to a Sex Pistols show and saying I loved it: Priceless

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Oh, well... I was a strange kid.

MY GOD! I'm almost scared to tell my age in this kid-circle here. If it's still tolerated to join over 40, well I'm 40+4. But I'm still listening to almost anything, if it's not commercial pop, especially hip-hop,rap or techno, or even worse: country music. And "music" which is defined more by its loudness and evilness, rather than its musical qualities like extreme Death and Black and most of the Thrash Metal. My favourites are Pain Of Salvation, Threshold, Spastic Ink, Sieges Even and Ark in the Metal genre, Isildurs Bane, After Crying, Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Citizen Cain in the symph.Prog and Alamaailman Vasarat, Hellborg/Lane/Sipe, 7 For 4, Brand X, Kenso, Discus, Iceberg and Nathan Mahl in the Fusion sub-genre. These are the three fields of my main interest, apart of this some Art Rock, some RIO (not all) and very little NeoProg (if it's something like Thieves' Kitchen).

When did I get into Prog? Well, I've got to think long way back, must have been 30 years ago or so with stuff like Jethro Tull, Floyd, Wishbone Ash and so on. Later on in my 20's and 30's I listened a lot of Indie, Punk and Alternative. Only recently after discovering this site Prog became my absolute top favourite and I found more and more interesting bands I never heard of before and learnt to love more intricate and demanding kind of music.

I was really positively surprised to find that many very young people here listening to prog music. Honestly the younger ones I usually know personally listen only to the  well-known commercial radio-crap.That's giving some hope for the future.

KEEP ON PROGGING!!!!

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43 (,some round here think I'm 16-well I act that age)

First prog album I bought was:

Wait for it.........

 

This is the absolute truth,ok!

Tarkus-ELP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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24.

My parents got me to play cello at the age of five, and years later (at 12/13 maybe) I was intrigued by the changes in time signatures that contemporary composers use. I felt that rock music in general lacked a lot, especially in the use of different (if not necessarily weird) time signatures, arrengements and, to tell a long story short, variety. Me and my friends actually had our first 'prog act' running before I even got to know that prog existed...
The first record that actually struck me as 'what I want to hear, listen to and play' was Czestaw Niemen's Aerolit (although I never fancied the polish vocals I couldn't understand...). After finding that one from my fathers pile of records (chose to listen to it because of the album art...), my father helped me out a bit - giving me records to listen, giving hints what kinds of groups I might be interested in (also buying such albums for himself, I think, although those records are "mine" now... My father and my uncle gave me a push to the right direction by introducing bands like Jade Warrior, Gentle Giant, Nucleus, Camel and the Finnish groups (Wigwam, Tasavallan Presidentti, Pekka Pohjola among others). My friends' found some records of the "greats" from their parents' records, but I was never too fascinated with them (and still am not). Maybe it was because I came to prog with a background of almost no rock at all (I remember listening to early Queen, 'Madman across the water' -era Elton John, Fleetwood Mac and Cream before I found prog, though). My parents listened to a lot of jazz and a lot of classical music, but I cannot remember a time when radio had been turned on (80s radio - any good memories, anyone?).

I could write pages and pages about this, and find that there's nothing of interest to anyone that I could say... So I better end this message before itäs too late...

Cheers

-Beau

43 (,some round here think I'm 16-well I act that age)

First prog album I bought was:

Wait for it.........

 

This is the absolute truth,ok!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tarkus-ELP