Prog listeners from Poland! Help needed!

I was born in 1980 so I cannot really help. My parents listened to Niemen, Niebiesko Czarni, Czerwony Gitary...in the sixties. My father had a friend of his who collected vinyls from Australia, and this way he could discover a lot of "western" artists. They heard of Grechuta, Breakout, Rodowicz, Skaldowie through radio and television I guess. Also, depending where you lived (I am from Przemysl area) I am not sure it was possible to purchase easily this kind of stuff back in the days of Communism; My parents left Poland at the time of Martial Law because of this rotten system (a system that many proggers, among which Robert Wyatt, were praising in the western countries)) and I think they had far more worries than buying progressive rock records.

Thanks for this b4usleep, I meant something exactly like these, but unfortunatelly I HAVE TO write about "PRL" (Polish People's Republic), but I'm looking for exactly this kind of stories. I'll keep digging, later will write here how it went.

well, I could, and I most certainly will search for already existing stories in those forum's. But I asked the question here, as I know this to be the most competent source, and I know the people here really KNOW what prog is. :)

/I don't know if it's a right thread - if not, simply move me somewhere else, I won't make a scene :> /

I'm currently writing a work about progressive music in 70's Poland, or rather about listeners. So I need stories from people who were living back then (microhistory) - how did you found out about progressive music, where did you go to listen to this music / buy western records and so on. Maybe you remember what some polish critic said about some polish progressive record? Just write whatever you remember.

I don't know if there're many polish prog listeners that age here, but it's worth trying. If you don't want to share your stories in public, you can write on my e-mail: [email protected] , I won't need your full names, or nothing like that as it's not very serious work. So anyway, I would really appreciate your help. :)