How did you find Prog?

Did anybody else just straight up read through all nine pages of that?

1976, first wage packet well spent on Warrior on the Edge of Time, Neu! (1st) Yeti, Flying Teapot, Tubular Bells and Monster Movie. My friend owned a Record Shop, for years he let me buy Mud, Sweet, Gary Glitter et al. I never forgave him!!

For me it all started with Zeppelin and Sabbath then slowly winding my way through the Classic Rock genre I stumbled upon bands such as YES, ELP, Gentle Giant, and Genesis. Then I found Italian Prog through PA and after Banco del Mutuo Soccorso's Cento Mani o Centi Ochi (please pardon the spelling) I was hooked...

my mom always told me that I have to listen Rush, then I listened and here i am :P

...in the kitchen on a monday morning

I'd say i first got into it because of my dad.  He played kansas, rush, and yes around me all the time when I was a kid.  When I got older I started getting into metal and found bands like Dream Theater and Opeth.

himtroy wrote: And I'd also like to add (I gave my story about 400 pages back), that the first time I heard Gentle Giant it changed my life.  I'd heard progressive, but Gentle Giant is DAMN progressive.  Late at night, all alone, found Three Friends and Power and the Glory on vinyl.  Never the same again.

I had a similar experience with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, I fell in love with them from the first time I listened to the sample here on PA, I wish I remember who reviewed F#A#∞ the first day that I saw it on the front page so that I could thank them.

Like so many others here: my dad. I started riffling through his record collection when I was about six (1979) and it happened to include Yes, Tull, Uriah Heep, Zeppelin, Purple and a few others. And I never looked back. Even wrote a song about that experience a few years back.

I like Death Metal too and...hm...almost all type of rock! 

Hello, I'm new to this site so I'll probably start here, nice topic anyway.
In my childhood, I used to listen many classic & prog rock bands, there are marked as proto-prog, or prog-related. Deep Purple, The Beatles, Queen or proggers Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull. In my teen years, I went thru pop times, but still I've loved rock. But it was just one of genres. I used to go clubbing in these times too, but not with much success. So because of my not so bad relationship with rock (still not prog rock only), I've turned myself to books, quiet life and rock music. And it was caused by my dad, who gave me the basics about this genre. Who knows, maybe I was born with some gene, which takes me to highness, the heavenly good state of mind when I hear rock. Or I just like to doing something which I believe that is quality.
So I were moving thru classic/psychedelic/early prog/hard rock music and heavy metal too. I stayed there with almost no change for years till about one year ago.
Because in april 08, I've discovered Dream Theater and I instantly fell in love with 41 minutes epic from Score tour, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Then The Flower Kings, Ayreon and then long string of Porcupine Tree, Yes and others. You can say that I'm new in this whole business, that I'm too young to understand this, or to be good enough to bring something new here, or just talk about these things well. But you can be respectfull to newbie too. If I am one of course :-)
Well, I'm able to listen Script For a Jesters Tear (track) 10 times, or I didn't knew Rush two weeks ago and now I like them a most (because till now, I've loved their every record, from classic rock first ones, to this unique Rush sound of late 70s-80s or more metalistic/hard rock late 90s - just my opinion)