How you got into prog?

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   With three older brothers listening to prog, how could I not listen to prog?

My oldest brother like ELP and ELO, and played Focus tunes on the piano.
My middle brother listened to Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull, Kayak and I think he listened to PFM as well.
My youngest brother liked Procol Harum.
Even my sister had a Focus album. All my siblings loved Focus, my parents liked Thijs van Leer and the Beatles...

Prog was all around me  

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Moogtron III Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616	Posted: October 30 2007 at 10:27
	With three older brothers listening to prog, how could I not listen to prog? My oldest brother like ELP and ELO, and played Focus tunes on the piano. My middle brother listened to Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull, Kayak and I think he listened to PFM as well. My youngest brother liked Procol Harum. Even my sister had a Focus album. All my siblings loved Focus, my parents liked Thijs van Leer and the Beatles... Prog was all around me

DAVA Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: July 13 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 27	Posted: October 30 2007 at 11:47
	I got in through the metal route. I didn't like Dream Theater for many years. But once a cousin was watching the special features on some DT DVD and I heard Acid Rain. The following week I bought LTE 2 and Black Utopia (Derek Sherinian). That was about 3 years ago, and I don't think I've bought more than a couple of non-prog cd's since.

explodingjosh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 10 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 507	Posted: October 30 2007 at 12:58
	Well its been about a year since I discovered this site, and before then, the only prog bands I knew of and liked were Pink Floyd, Tool, Rush, The Mars Volta and a little Dream Theater. I just began buying Top 100 albums and now I'm about 300 albums later.... Finding dollar-bin records and used CDs. Before prog, my favorite band was System of a Down, I went to see them with The Mars Volta, so they kinda helped me make the transition as well.


tormat1985 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: March 24 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6	Posted: October 30 2007 at 15:09
	I got into prog rock music from watching a movie called Buffalo 66 ... the movie kind of sucked but it had some good music in it such as King Crimsons moon child and Yes Hart Of The Sunrise ... ever since then i went out and search for this kind of music and it progressed to all kinds of band like genesis,gong,caravan,soft machine and ect

santiagomo87 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: December 04 2005 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 68	Posted: October 30 2007 at 22:36
	I actually listened to punk back in the middle school days and i thought i disliked metal but one day i listened to fear of the dark and changed a bit my mind but still refused to listen to most metal then i got into the wall because of my dad and one frend gave me scenes from a memory. on my first listen i fell asleep but then i woke up during the synth solo of home, feeling something i had never felt and it was weird because i alse felt like i rested a lot. At the same time my dad got an ipod filled with music from a friend and i looked under the genre progressive rock and found yes, genesis and a lot of neoprog and fell in love with most of it, then my interests moved further into jazz and funk because of my cousin and now back to pop, but now i can understand it and enjoi it in a different way (i only listen to that when i'm with my girlfriend). Anyways prog is now my favorite music and i listen to most of it moving back and forth to most genres
	Santiago

aapatsos Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 11 2005 Location: Manchester, UK Status: Offline Points: 9226	Posted: October 30 2007 at 23:01
	I think I got in from the back door... seriously, I did not know that Images and Words was called 'prog' back in 1992 obviously, through metal and then prog-metal

HailVibrania Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: October 30 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 10	Posted: October 31 2007 at 06:20
	Evolution thats how When I was about 14/15 I was into pop but as time went on my tastes changed as I was exposed to other types of music,I suppose at the end of the day John Peel and the other DJ's on Sounds Of The Seventies introduced me to other Genre' of music including Prog but there was no "Road To Damascus" conversion as such.

Moogtron III Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616	Posted: October 31 2007 at 09:12
	My former piano teacher once said that people often have the same pattern of musical development: metal -> prog rock -> fusion -> jazz -> classical music Maybe that's true for some people, but not for me. Even if he is right to some extent, I think most people who are really bitten by the prog bug, never stop listening to prog. In many cases they wouldn't listen to other music either. Not in my case by the way: there was a lot of classical music being played at our home when I was a kid, and prog did open my ears for fusion, and fusion opened my ears to jazz a bit... Hey, my piano teacher was right in some way after all

SilverEclipse Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 19 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 123	Posted: October 31 2007 at 12:35
	I would say a heavy dose of Pink Floyd got me into prog, as well as Queen's more progressive recordings (The March of the Black Queen, The Prophet's Song)
	"and if the band your in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"

Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Guest Group	Posted: December 14 2007 at 17:58
	I listened to Pink Floyd when I was a kid (8 years old), I simply liked them. Didn't know what type of music they perform. But Dream Theater turned my direction into prog seriolsy (and jazz also). I think that Dream Theater has this "special ability" to make people love prog.

Petrovsk Mizinski Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210	Posted: December 29 2007 at 09:34
	Well two years ago, i had a friend tell me not to buy a Dream Theater CD, as it apparently was just 'all guitar solos', i went out and bought Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory,and loved it from the second track. And i found Yes and Focus in my fathers CD collection and loved some of that as well, and of course not leaving out Pink Floyd

The Pessimist Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 13 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3834	Posted: December 29 2007 at 17:30
	i used to be a massive fan of classic rock like led zep and guns n roses, then i heard november rain and stairway, and fell in love with the epic. then my dad introduced me to echoes by floyd, then yes's yours is no disgrace and finally rush - natural science. they didn't really appeal to me at first, but after my dad took me to a yes reunion concert at the NEC when i was 12, i've liked prog a wanted to find more ever since.

muhamad dlai Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: December 29 2007 Location: panama Status: Offline Points: 11	Posted: December 29 2007 at 18:17
	well i was into metal... just 4/4, speed and attitude.... someday a friend, jordan said: listen this... it was a cd player. and a band whish name i never heard before, Dream Theater. it as a song, erotomania, but i coulnd understand what was happening... this cd "is scratched..." but whoa! it was love at first spin... he recorded me a cassete with many songs, metropolis, learning to live... a change of seasons, what awesome drumming... and the drummer sings!!! wow!! that year, for my B-day i bought my first cd, AWAKE. my drumming changed horizons... my taste also turned into the first prog band i loved before DT, RUSH. "Signals" was the first piece of music I enjoyed so, from the begining to the end, without being "popular songs" (except for -subdivisions) there was a band in my country, wich i wanted to play back then... Equinox. i wasnt hired but i meet their drummer, now he´s my best friend. i say Premiata Forneria Marconni, Focus, and other big prog acts.... i learned and understood many things about prog on tht era... and open ears to other generes, ideas and more since then... not just power metal madness....
	"llrr lrlr rrllrrlrl lrlrrlrlrlrr... at the end are just senseless letters... "

Exodizer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: January 01 2008 Status: Offline Points: 21	Posted: January 01 2008 at 15:40
	Through guitar I knew Satch and Vai, Malmsteen, Johnson etc.. and Then I found Petrucci. For a while I was convinced Dream Theater was the best band ever but ofcourse that doesn't last once you get into other prog (so through guitar I guess).

Mad Dog Moon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: December 11 2007 Status: Offline Points: 13	Posted: January 01 2008 at 17:28
	In my high school/early adult years, I didn't like prog one bit. When I was in high school, the term "progressive rock" seemed to be more of an FM radio format as opposed to a musical genre. The station I listened to would often play progressive rock as we know it, jazz fusion, folk-rock, etc. in the early part of the day, and the more harder rock like Ted Nugent and Aerosmith (my preference at the time), in the later hours. I merely put up with progressive rock. I do remember that during this time where the term progressive rock may of had a different connotation than today, The presently existing program called "Stone Trek" was broadcasting on that station; presenting an alternative to even the regular FM radio format hours that included much of what we consider prog today. This may even add more to any confusion of the term progressive rock (it does for me anyway). I think my first positive listening experience with prog was when an old friend of mine bought the "Breathless" album by Camel. I of course still like the album, although I certainly don't feel it's their best by any stretch of the imagination. Other than that, I think my eventual love for Classical music has contributed immensely to my interest in prog rock. That, and British Comedy, 50's sci-fi, and spacey jazz like Eric Dolphy and Sun Ra.

Leftoverture Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: December 27 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 31	Posted: January 02 2008 at 23:27
	David Bowies Pin Ups album w/ See Emily Play > Pink Floyd and Arnold Layne > Pink Floyd in general > King Crimson > SOLD! for 1 million dollars!

Sunhillow_ Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Brazil Status: Offline Points: 57	Posted: January 05 2008 at 16:55
	it was December 1985(!!!!!!!!!!) when this guy came to my parents house.. he was my sister boyriend.. and that day he had this lot of progressive rock Lps...Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons, ELP... and two albums by Yes: Tales From Topographic Oceans and Drama. Since I was 11 years old, Topographic sounded a little " strange". But Drama was THE thing. What was this music so rich , full of changing of moods, rythms, guitar and keyboard solos, great vocalizing? The guitar was great, the keyboards were great, the bass were great, the drums were great.. I HAD TO HAVE THIS ALBUM! So the next thing I know I proudly own this K7 with the Drama album, plus some Pink Floyd ( Summer 68 and Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts I-V) and some Queen (excerpts from A Night Of The Opera). Then I remember staying alone on the new year's night (1985-1986) listening to the whole Topographic Oceans and being totally infected with the " Yes thing" (and the Progressive Rock thing). Those were the days!

SilverSean Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: January 05 2008 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 21	Posted: January 05 2008 at 17:04
	My English teacher in 9th grade was doing a poetry unit, and we were allowed to bring in some albums that we believed had poetic lyrics. Someone brought in The Dark Side of the Moon, and we listened to a couple tracks. I loved it.
	Hold on to the Dream...

Utah Man Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 14 2007 Location: Utah Status: Offline Points: 1014	Posted: January 05 2008 at 19:57
	someone sent my dad, in 1970, a copy of ELP's self-titled album. my dad, aged 50+ at that time, didn't like it...I did & then... I got Tarkus...was very interested at the unique sounds & then... got Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste... Been hooked ever since...never looked back.

Draith Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: March 25 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 67	Posted: January 05 2008 at 23:49
	Ah, the story. I was pretty much raised on Rush, Scorpions, Supertramp, Kansas, The Police and popular late 70's bands of the sort that my parents enjoyed when they grew up in that era and they played it in the car on trips. I know Permanent Waves inside out because of that, it's still my Mom's favorite album. I wasn't really a prog nut though, in fact I started to get heavily into hair metal in my mid-teen years. However during that time, my best friend Justin was a pretty much bred into progressive music, and he showed me Yes and I showed him Rush. They would become among our favorite band because of that. Also my brother and I were discovering power metal, like Kamelot, developing my taste for prog metal as well. Justin gave me Close to the Edge almost exactly year ago, and that album made my intellectual nature click and I have been obsessed with progressive rock ever since. He let me borrow Gentle Giant as well; I didn't like them at first because of the vocal style but I soon acquired the taste for them. Quite soon he and I were the progressive rock fanatics of the school, along with our already pogger friend Kent, and the three of us have exchanged prog albums and discovered what band we like and don't. My more metal loving friends Josh and Anthony and I have come to like progressive metal like Dream Theater, Opeth, and Symphony X. Now pretty much all of my band geek friends at my school are becoming coverts with stories of their own to tell. It's just wonderful!