How did you find Prog?

I found Prog in home. It was and optical prism, named "The Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, about ten years ago. "The Wall" followed. My discovery would be impossible without my father and one of my teachers, particularly in 2006 and 2007.

hawkcwg wrote: Yeah i love Black metal and Death Metal too and i hate most of Progressive metal cause a lot of it just sounds like Dream Theater imitations. Or wierd Power Metal, I usually stick to Heavy Prog, Prog Folk, Krautrock, and Cantebury.

I've also become a krautaddict!

I found prog through dream theater like probably 97-70942796193498347597 other youngen's. the rest i found through this site. its been a while and my tastes are ridiculously different but i thank this site for everything. amazing. 

tszirmay wrote: the Beatles (yes!), the Moody Blues, Procol Harum and early Floyd , Woodstock (I was 13 ) , then ITCOCK , then all the usual suspects= Zappa, Yes, Tull, Genesis, Giant, Focus . A huge 1972 hook with Roxy Music kept the "eclectic vibe alive" , the light has kept shining ever since. I wrote my pre-philosophy essay on progressive rock music in 1974, still have it today bound in plastic .    Cannot even count the number of times that prog saved my soul........ and fed the flame of passion .

damn, you are almost as old as my father (but he is older, lol)

A friend's father had albums by Genesis, Mike Oldfield, Jethro Tull and Marillion that we used to listen to. He also had some more, I remember Yes, Vangelis and Caravan albums also being in his collection.

Still I also have to credit Dream Theater, as little as I may actually like them, but immediately before I got into prog, I had a period where I listened to metal exclusively, and Dream Theater was the band that made me want to check out that guy's prog collection more thoroughly. So yeah... gateway band but little more. (I actually knew Fates Warning at the time, too, but had never considered them prog, just great, weird heavy metal.)

I didn't really start buying music until around 1977 so i missed the golden era of prog and didn't even know it.In 1978 i bought "A Farewell To Kings" and was intrigued with "Xanadu", the way the song changed within the song.Didn't know it was prog though.Anyway a couple of decades later i was reading through a guitar magazine that listed the top 50 guitar albums of the eighties,and i knew quite a few of them but this one by  FATES WARNING called "Perfect Symmetry" i just couldn't let go of.I needed to know more about this band i had never heard of.So for the first time i looked music up on the internet.FATES led me to DREAM THEATER then to SPOCK'S BEARD and the FLOWER KINGS and the rest is history. It was weird back then because i would read all these opinions about bands and music i had never heard of,and would dream of actually hearing these cds.Back then there was no MySpace or places where you could listen to samples that i knew of.

My parents played Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, jazz, classical and Zappa all-time in the car and house. At the age of 11 my brother bought me The Wall the movie, and wow! I was f**king shocked! I listened to Floyd's entire catalogue, and now I really don't have a barrier which can stop me of searching MORE prog bands.

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Liked it during the 80's but gave up on it as I thought it was dead.  But thanks to that much maligned album by Rush called Vapor Trails, I found it again.  Amazon told me I might like Dream Theater SFAM2 and Transatlantic BAF.  Then it was Unfold the Future and the hook was in.  It took a while to realize prog was still thriving (as it were) but the damage was done with Duel with the Devil and The Truth Will Set You Free.

A friend introduced me to Rush and Genesis, and then I started discovering more bands on my own. 

Prog found me.