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    Posted: December 26 2010 at 07:29

How did everybody find this website in the first place? I'm sure this has been asked before at some point; did a quick search and didn't find anything. For me, in January 2006 I typed "can magma henry cow" into a search engine and one of the links was for the album page for Cow's In Praise Of Learning. I was tired of reading about Yes, Genesis and Dream Theater and wanted info on less well known prog acts. This website was a great resource of information to me; I discovered a lot of great music here.

Don't know if this is the right section for this. Feel free to move it if not. So, what about everybody else? How did you learn of the existence of ProgArchives?
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Points: 2555 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 07:33
It's a big story!I'll tell you other moment. 

Edited by Prog Geo - December 26 2010 at 07:33
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 07:36
I was trying to look up something musical (I don't remember what it was) and it came up in Google.  Go to Google and type in Brian S. Lindsey and see what comes up.  LOL

By the way, all the others are inauthentic.  Tongue
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 07:41
I think I was looking for a discography of someone. Then I saw the Prog Radio links and used that for a while. Then I started to read the forum. The next step is obvious.
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Points: 382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 07:47
By the power of Google! (While searching for stuff about prog rock when I first started listening to it.)

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Points: 4028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 07:56
I did'nt found it so I had to create it Evil Smile
Prog On !
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Points: 15 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 07:57
Also The Mighty Google - thanks to a few folk posting some nice things about Citizen Cain, a (very obscure) band I was part of back in 1993/4.

I was trying to find out what had become of the other guys in the last 15 years or so, and up popped ProgArchives...

Cheers!

Andy

p.s. Still making noises, a bit "ECM jazz" with some odd-bass-noises-looping, but not what ye'd strictly call "prog"... :-)

http://www.andygilmour.com
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 07:59
^Thanks Andy.

I love Citizen Cain by the way.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 08:00
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

I did'nt found it so I had to create it Evil Smile

And on the first day M@X created the database.....


Edited by Snow Dog - December 26 2010 at 08:01
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 08:05
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

I did'nt found it so I had to create it Evil Smile

Somebody had to do it and you were just the guy to do it.
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Points: 12625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 08:06
In early 2005, through a link from the Israeli progrock website made by Uri Breitman called Mitkadem (progressing). 
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Points: 1438 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 08:23
I believe I Googled " Calling All Stattions" by Genesis and it pointed to www.progarchives.com

assume the power 1586/14.3
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 08:31
Heard some flamenco Prog in a tapas bar in Winsor (in the old railway station just by the castle) - I asked the staff who it was, they said it was Triana and this was the only site that had any info on them.
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Points: 133 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 08:34
Well, in 2006 I remember that I was searching for some info related to Savatage. In the first place I didn't realize what kind of site it is. But very fast it became one of my top 5 from the entire Internet(beside wikipedia and a few others).
Thanks to PA I've learned a lot about progressive rock and I'm grateful for this. The last almost 5 years were a beautiful journey in to this unknown realm. Hopefully this will continue in the years to come.
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Good o'l world-domination tool called Google
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Points: 181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 08:52
Surfing the net during office hours.
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Points: 15 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 09:05
For me it was also Google. I think as soon as I got into Prog music, I found this site. 
I got my first Prog recommendations from the great moderators.
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Points: 13351 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 09:19
I was reading "Progression Magazine" and somebody mentioned this site. The rest is history, and an excellent one.
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Points: 679 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 09:20
My maths tutor directed me to Prog Archives.
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Points: 19535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 09:26
I was writing reviews in "Rate Your Music", so a few days later Ronnie first and M@X a bi later contacted me and invited me to the site, I believe I joined a month after PA was created.

Before this I used to visit many sites, after I joined PA, my compromise was almost exclusive.

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