About that age poll...

Got introduced to Supertramp at 4, got into the prog giants (Genesis, King Crimson etc.) at 10-11.

Im 15 years old.

Hierophant wrote: aqualung28 wrote: I'm sixteen now and have been a Beatle's fan since about 6 years old.  I got into prog when I was 14 when my Aunt gave me the Best of Zappa for Christmas.  I then bought the Division Bell which I thought and still think is crap, so I tried out Darkside of the Moon and I got Aqualung after that  and the rest is history.  I'm basically into most kinds of music now Your aunt gave you best of zappa?? wow kicka**

My Aunt yelled at me for playing Zappa when my cousins were around!

I'm 15.

Got into some Yes when I was 14, but got everything else and became obsessed about five or six months ago

I guess I'm somewhere in the middle here. I'm 35 and first got into prog at age 15 with Yes and then Rush and Genesis in the mid 80's. I've been into this stuff ever since(off and on but mostly on....in the mid 90's I took a short break from it then rediscovered it and got on the internet soon after and there's no looking back). I'm amazed at the fact that most of you are younger than me! Usually I'm one of the younger people at prog festivals and concerts. You guys should all come out to the shows!

PS Sorry for resurrecting this thread

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I don't know exactly when my history with prog began but there used to be a time when I listened to alot of thrash and death metal bands like Death, Atheist and Sepultura. I remember the only thing that caught my attention in this type of music was the intense drumming and it helped me jump to another type of music, namely jazz-fusion. But most of the jazz-fusion I listened to at that time lacked vocals, so prog was welcome and it started with Marillion and then followed the classic bands (that I couldn't understand in my earlier years, circa 9-10 years) Genesis, Yes, ELP... My brother found on the net a diagram depicting the various subgenres of prog and it helped me discover new bands. I began to appreciate other styles besides neo and symphonic prog, like electronic (TD, Synergy, Mike Oldfield...), Canterbury (National health, Caravan...), hard-prog (KC mainly), metal prog (the first time I heard 'Images and words' it didn't came to mind that it was prog...) and now I am particularly attracted by non-english speaking bands (first and foremost the italian scene, but also Sagrado, Pablo el Enterrador, Sintesis, Los Jaivas, some polish musical icons like Marek grechuta, Czeslaw Niemen, Skaldowie and Jozef Skrzek, the spanish prog scene : I just like the way these bands compile the musical roots of their country and traditional prog rock) and folk-prog bands (Jethro Tull, Renaissance, Iona, Maddy Prior, vermilion Sands, Harmonium...). However, I tried to enter the most weird sides of prog : Zappa, the RIO scene but it didn't click with me.