About that age poll...

5-10: Listening to the Beatles (my father has their whole CD collection) in the car, Classical music mainly from piano lessons

10-12: Most of the mainstream stuff, I didn't like it a lot. I seldom bought a record, I think  the first record I bought was Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory", back then I thought it sounded very original. Thanks to that album I know how drums work x_x

12-13: Bought 'Absolution' by Muse and 'Meteora' by LP. I thought Meteora was terrible, but I fell in love with Muse.

13-14: My mother forced me to buy Muse albums, I got interested in music from the 60's and 70's and buy stuff like Led Zep, Pink Floyd and Hendrix. Later on I stumble upon Radiohead via Muse. Looking for a review of The Wall I came upon the prog archives, but was shunned away because it didn't include Led Zep or the Beatles I came there later again when looking for an OK Computer review, and somehow I remembered that.

15: I joined some music forum. One of the users was called 'KingCrimson250'. He started a thread about progressive music, and eventually that made me download some King Crimson. "Epitaph" completely did it for me, and when I remembered this forum I came here and started looking for all the others.

I'm fifteen at the time of this writing, turning 16 in 4 months. Now that I see this resume, I realise that prog is the first genre that fully satisfies me.


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I'm 16 and I'm in Metal/prog from 14!!!

Before I was in italian Rock!!!

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Age 18

Started proging at age 16

And I know two years is not much, but prog takes pretty much 70% of my life right now...its creepy...but I dont complain!

I was beggining to feel a little embarrasing with so young people

48 years old

got into prog about 16-17 (hard to remember by now). Not much prog at
the beginning, John Mayall, The Doors, CCR, soon discovered Jethro Tull,
Genesis ... and got lured by the prog, until now.

52 at the moment - have been listening since about 70 or 71. Saw Yes live in 71 & was hooked. Fragile has just been released & Roundabout was all over FM radio.

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56 years old fillmore east free this that and the other thing one of the first concerts i was at the eagles and yes yes was great the eagles were the eagles 

Age: 35

Progged in: 14

TheProgtologist wrote: 39 here Have been into prog since hearing Yes-Fragile in 1976 when I was 10

You must have been seen as pretty uncool at that time lol did u get beat up by the punks

Until I was 11, I didn't listen to anything. Then I started to listen to pop (*NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, etc.). After all my friends stopped listening to that stuff (around 13 years old) I started to listen to their favorite bands. I got into blink-182, Matchbox 20, Three Doors Down, Lifehouse, and pretty much every alternative band there was.

By my freshman year of high school, I started to dig around my dad's cd collection and I found some Yes. I knew they were his favorite band but I had never really listened to them. I took his copy of Keys to Ascension and gave it a listen. It was awesome! For the rest of my freshman and sophomore years, Yes was almost all I listened to.

By my junior/senior years, I started to get into Queen, Van Halen, Rush (now my favorite band), Pink Floyd, Triumph, Dream Theater, and just about every prog band. I'm a freshman in college now and I'm always on the lookout for new prog. My favorite new prog bands are the Mars Volta, Tool, and Coheed and Cambria. I don't like Radiohead though. They suck.

Now 17

Started at the age of 14 by purchasing DSOTM (very original)

Then got into classics like Led Zep and Purple, along with some metal greats(Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth) Then came classic symphonic prog, followed by all prog subgenres. Now I almost don't listen to anything non prog, prog is so varied, you can never have too much of it.