How did you find Prog?

I     really      dont      know      whats        going        on. my computer it             tells  me things         it   shows      methings                 it tells me to prog        night and day            it          shows me things Colors ,Colors Colors. How many times have you played the random stream player for a particular progist? To the Progressive Nation. The United Archives Of Progressive States      Planet Earth.com And first of all when Jim Morrison sang light my fire. WE GOT LIT. (I was 11) What a holy blast that song was remember?

I think it was my immature relationship with the wonderful sounds of Dream Theater that spurred me onto prog originally.  I think i started to appreciate it properly when i was 17, and this led to loads of other bands.  Randomly, i discovered Marillion in South Africa, and just completely went mental for the band! I watched a few Marillion dvd's and the rest is history.

I'm gonna have to pin this one on my father primarily. I grew up being force-fed bands like Yes, Genesis, Rush, King Crimson, and Tangerine Dream. It didn't really hit me until I actually started to develop some musical sensibility around 17 or 18. I was generally disgusted with the repetitive and boring nature of most mainstream rock, so I eventually went back to some of these more interesting bands that my dad listened to and developed my tastes from there. While it's true that I do share a lot in common with my dad's musical taste, but there's also some significant differences between us as well. For instance, I'm not a particularly huge fan of Yes... though I can certainly see why he and so many others put them in such high regard.

I've always been astounded by how versatile progressive rock can be, and continue to be on a regular basis. That does, however, exclude a lot of the so-called "progressive" bands you see pop up every now and then that sound like they're trying to relive the 70s era of progressive rock rather than... you know... progressing further. But that's a whole 'nother story.


Edited by AgentSpork - December 09 2009 at 18:50

Not necessarily a "progressive" musical moment, but nonetheless a major experience of feeling and open-breathing spelling of tonality with a great impact and made me stand there and shudder was when I heard a certain album for the first time in my room with my buddy. We were 17 . And when the album finished, my buddy said "well I bet your'e not gonna play that album again" O' Contrere Monfrerre. I absolutely loved it especially the ending: