How did you find Prog?

For me Prog has been both a blessing and a curse.

Blessing in the light that it's brought me some great sounds, and something to play in my head when I'm in boring meetings, or waiting in an elevator, or just generally somewhere I don't want to be, with people I don't want to be with, listening to something I don't want to listen to. In that light, its wonderful. It's also a great escape from modern day Pop music that is just a god awful pile of dung, that untalented "artists" sh*t out after their morning cup of coffee.
It's also a Curse in the light that it's a total Social kill. I find myself not going out nearly as much as I did in my younger years. I mean, you don't see adults listening to Blink 182 countless times analyzing each song over the course of a few hours (maybe they do... ), i mean where else can you do that but in Progressive Music. Currently (as we speak) I'm trying to hear the greatness inside of Clepsydra's album "Fears". It's fancy, but Im not getting much here, ah well, a few more listens and I'll be satisfied.

With all the above mentioned, I got into Progressive Rock without even Realizing it, at first. I've been into Pink Floyd since the beginning of my time. I just remember thinking, there couldn't possibly be anything better then THIS. I mean, I could listen to the Wall all day and still keep getting so much from it. At the time my other interests were Greed day and Stone Temple Pilots, other bands of that nature. I was going through those like a Roll of toilet paper. I remember feeling that there HAS TO BE MORE. Then one day, my older brother came over with an Album entitled "Foxtrot", by GENESIS? Isn't that Phil collins? "Pft, I'm not going to like this" I told myself... boy was I so ever wrong. Watcher of the Skies, my delicate flower. Still my most treasured Progressve-Rock song. You were my golden doorway to everything that is beautiful.
Thanks for Reading. Have a wonderful day fellow ProgRockers.

the Who and Purple are considered Proto Prog here, not a full prog category but bands that impacted the prog movement .. Tull have always been prog, one of the crown princes, and I don't think Priest has a PA entry

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Edited by Atavachron - January 18 2009 at 20:06

i don't know whether I found prog or whether prog found me.  There I was, completely minding my own business for the first 45 years of my life, when I came across this mildly amusing web site, wherein I discovered the music that I loved was the focus of this website - strange but true. 

timesignature wrote: i thought i invented it. well more particular, i thought i invented jazz fusion metal. ive played jazz piano since i was 5. when i turned 14 i started playing guitar. the popular music was metal not jazz, but then i thought 'whoa! wat if u combined the ideas'. so i started writing all forms of jazz prog metal, and then googled it to see if i had invented it but instead i found a band called Extol and their song Confessions of Inadequacy. later found DT, BTBAM, and Opeth.

i thought i invented it. well more particular, i thought i invented jazz fusion metal. ive played jazz piano since i was 5. when i turned 14 i started playing guitar. the popular music was metal not jazz, but then i thought 'whoa! wat if u combined the ideas'. so i started writing all forms of jazz prog metal, and then googled it to see if i had invented it but instead i found a band called Extol and their song Confessions of Inadequacy. later found DT, BTBAM, and Opeth. 

hasheten wrote: i bought my parents a Jethro Tull comp and wound up enjoying it more than they did.

On the floor

In73 or so ,a friend brought a homemade mini  moog to school,I was new to the class so this progger befriended me.He turned me onto Maha V. [ I saw them live and was stunned] ,He had me listening to ELP in head phones [GREAT MEMORIES]. Rush ,Yes   Kansas,Utopia, any thing in these viens that came along,hooked me. I had no idea  new prog bands were out there untill I found Spock's Beard [95]. Then came the pc [about a year or so ago],  now I am blown away by all this excellent music at my fingertips. KARMAKANIC ,Neal Morse,Transatlantic ,The Flower Kings,Simon Says ,Frost...

I've been listening to my dad's Jethro Tull, Deep Purple and Pink Floyd LP's since I was 5 or 6 or something. I didn't know that was prog, but somehow I always thought the best songs were the longest and most complex ones! I became concious of prog when I was eleven and I read a Finnish magazine that had an interview with Steve Howe and some Yes album reviews in it. I thought it was very interesting, so I borrowed Close to the edge from library. Now I'm 14 and just about the only one in my school who thinks Gentle Giant is the best band ever.

Actually, a little time ago I played their song "Proclamation" to some of my friends and they seemed to like it. Maybe they will find prog too...

In 81 (I just know Beatles, Stones and other 60's bands that I still love), when I searching new sounds, groups and tendecies, I bought ANIMALS (Pink Floyd) and RELAYER (Yes).