When were you infected by Prog?

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   Pink Floyd was the introduction. 

I would rather ambient / trippy / jam type of prog, rather than overly technical stuff. I'm more into psychedelic/space rock, than prog rock per se. 

Hence, my comfort zone currently is Pink Floyd, Harmonium, early Porcupine Tree, The Flaming Lips, Stardeath and The White Dwarfs, King Crimson's more spacey songs, etc. 

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PinkRobot Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: June 08 2011 Status: Offline Points: 25	Posted: June 10 2011 at 06:59
	Pink Floyd was the introduction. I would rather ambient / trippy / jam type of prog, rather than overly technical stuff. I'm more into psychedelic/space rock, than prog rock per se. Hence, my comfort zone currently is Pink Floyd, Harmonium, early Porcupine Tree, The Flaming Lips, Stardeath and The White Dwarfs, King Crimson's more spacey songs, etc.

TheLionOfPrague Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 08 2011 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 1064	Posted: June 09 2011 at 18:55
	Mmmm, I think I started by the end of 2006, and beginning of 2007....Floyd was one of my favorite bands, so I decided to look for similar bands and I discovered prog rock. The first band I listened to was ELP (Trilogy album), and then I continued with King Crimson, Yes, Genesis and Jethro Tull.
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N-sz Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 28 2011 Location: NH Status: Offline Points: 344	Posted: June 09 2011 at 18:06
	The first time I really got into progressive rock specifically was when a friend of mine burned me a cd of Khan's Space Shanty. I thought it was very boring and couldn't imagine getting into it. But that one super groovy part on Mixed Up Man Of The Mountains got me to listen to them a few times, and I didn't know why, but eventually I loved the whole album and wanted to hear more like it. I give albums more chances now!

Sing To God Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: May 16 2011 Status: Offline Points: 18	Posted: May 16 2011 at 02:14
	Late 1973 - aged 13, I was a First Year in Secondary School in London then. And during our very first music lesson our young music teacher played us a song from a brand new LP. And afterwards directing us to loads of instruments and various articles on tables around the classroom, she said "I now want you all to recreate your own versions of that song called Money"

jsem Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: August 25 2010 Location: Stockholm Status: Offline Points: 25	Posted: May 15 2011 at 13:49
	Had always listened to Metallica and crap. Also a lot of jazz, as I was playing the sax it was sort of necessary to me. Had heard Trane albums and Miles Davis albums... (how some of those ends up at PA I don't really know). When I began playing guitar I saw a video of John Petrucci on youtube. Went and checked Dream Theater. I played a few tracks. When I heard Octavarium I was hooked. DT opened the world of prog to me. I was already half-into Rush at the time through a friend, but now I was ready for them for real. Then I got into the whole 70's spin of Yes, Genesis, etc... Haven't looked back since.

7headedchicken Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: April 21 2011 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 39	Posted: May 14 2011 at 15:21
	I grew up in the 80's and was always a fan of 80's Genesis, but then I started seeing their older albums in stores and thought the album covers were intriguing, noticed that Peter Gabriel was in the band and was then blown away by the unique worlds all the music belonged to. The first ones from the 70's I bought were "And Then There Were Three..." and "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway." It also helped hearing Yes and Rush songs on the radio. I'm not familiar with every prog band out there, but I quickly developed an interest in any rock that incorporated jazz or classical or world influences, or just something that hasn't been done before.

colorofmoney91 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: March 16 2008 Location: Biosphere Status: Offline Points: 22774	Posted: May 14 2011 at 06:57
	I remember being in high school, and being completely bored with the straight-forward music that everyone was listening to. I needed art, and I told my father, so he bought me a copy of KC's ITCOFCK, and I've been hooked ever since. But the prog I listen to now is too weird for everyone I know, and I can't play my music in front of my family because they think I'm too strange.
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Ludjak Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: August 31 2008 Location: Croatia Status: Offline Points: 73	Posted: May 14 2011 at 06:42
	I've been listening to The Beatles (with Abbey Road still as my all-time favourite record) since I was about five years old, but I didn't really 'get into' progressive rock until my dad played me In The Court of The Crimson King when I was 13. I was so terrified that I just pressed the 'play' button again when it finished.

boysmithers Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: May 14 2011 Status: Offline Points: 24	Posted: May 14 2011 at 06:16
	Hmm, early 2000s in my early 20s I decided to buy "The Yes Album" as I'd read about this band but never heard them and couldn't imagine what they sounded like! Wasn't too impressed but when I got "Fragile" a couple of weeks later it all made sense! I think the next albums I bought were "Selling England by the Pound" and "In the Court of the Crimson King" and I loved them both!

kub Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: April 22 2011 Location: Bratislava Status: Offline Points: 3	Posted: May 14 2011 at 02:26
	Probably, when I was firstly listening to VDGG's Pawn Hearts. I promptly develop passion for epic, dark and mystical thoughts. Hammill gave me a new sensibility and reveal me exciting world of nearly uknown poets and musicians. This was the beginning of my interest in progressive rock music.

darkshade Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: November 19 2005 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 10964	Posted: March 28 2011 at 19:40
	i was gradually exposed to prog during 2004/2005, until during the summer of '05 when I discovered this site and the word "Prog" and realized I was already listening to stuff that was considered "prog". Once I found this site I explored so much new and exciting music and I havent looked back. I owe 90% of my music tastes to this site, whether it's music that is listed on this site or not.
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sondresae Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: March 26 2011 Status: Offline Points: 18	Posted: March 27 2011 at 06:25
	Hmm, I think it started with Muse... "Knights of Cydonia" if I remember correctly. Then, after being a big Muse fan for a year or so, I got into Radiohead and Mew. My guitar teacher is also a prog fan, so he showed some Van der Graaf and King Crimson, and then I got into Genesis, Yes, Rush, U.K. and all the like.

Pastor Rex Cat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 28 2010 Location: Western Canada Status: Offline Points: 2205	Posted: March 27 2011 at 00:22
	The Moody Blues "In Search Of The Lost Chord" back in 1967 or '68. And why not add a second one which is King Crimson "Lizard" when the 1970s had just arrived.
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Jozef Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 17 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 2204	Posted: March 27 2011 at 00:18
	I'd say I was "infected" at an early age. My father always listened to bands like Pink Floyd, Yes, Jethro Tull, and Genesis. I inherited my love for progressive rock from him and then when I was 19, I really started to explore the genre and discover bands such as Camel, King Crimson, Caravan, and many others.


Tamogen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: March 26 2011 Location: Sydney Status: Offline Points: 1	Posted: March 26 2011 at 23:52
	Simple. On my second listening of CLOSE TO THE EDGE by Yes. The whole album that is. The first listening I wasn't quite sure what I had just listened to. But, the second listen brought tears to my eyes (quite literally) and I was then hooked. Of course I didn't no it as progressive, or anything else, at the time. I just loved it! This then started an avalanche of listening experiences, from ELP (Brain Salad Surgery, Trilogy, Tarkus), Genesis (Selling England by the Pound, Nursery Cryme, Trick of the Tail), everything from YES. I though Tales from Topographic Oceans was a milestone. But my contempories just didn't get it and thought it stank. This I consider to still be a landmark work approaching that of tyhe Close to the Edge album. The came King Crimson. Pink Floyd (early albums influenced by founder Barret and the transition period with Gilmour). At the time I was playing in a Rock band. But nobody else seemed to "get" progressive rock although there were some close influences on some of the other band members. Artists like Wishbone Ash were appreciated by these other musos. However they did not really realise that these were bordering on a "progressively influenced" type of music anyway. My love of progressive music has never stopped or stayed in "the past". Current artists like Dream Theater , Steve Wilson (Porcupine Tree) , are right at the top of my list. Transatlantic??? Not sure about the "religious" undertones wrapped in environmental acceptability. However, inventive and great music with a symphonic pattern. The key for me is in the use of the "symphonic" scale of the music. In the sense of the music being thematic and revisits and recapitulates in the way the great "classical" symphonies did. I think this is the essence of great progressive rock music. Pieces must therefore be quite long and not just songs. Yet they still have the elements of songs within them. The music must also bring in new (hence progressive) ways of constructing the music around themes and or "concepts" to be truly progressive. I just love the really good stuff.

Lappy57 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: March 22 2011 Location: Illinois Status: Offline Points: 3	Posted: March 26 2011 at 02:15
	I'd say it was 1982, I was in high school when I started to scrounge used record stores in Chicago for .75 cent records - Pink Floyd was my gateway group then Genesis, ELP, Yes, King Crimson . . . . In the early 80s i was able to see Yes, Genesis, Rush, solo's of Roger Waters (w/ Eric Clapton) and David Gilmore. The highlight concernt was King Crimson summer of 84, my two high school friends and I were the youngest people at the concert, the old dudes (people my age now 44) thought we were real cool for being Crimson fans wearing black concert t-shirts with cover of ITCOTCK on it . . . . What was odd about my prog journey was that I missed out on the whole Canterbury Scene when I was in high school.

StarMan2112 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: March 23 2011 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 28	Posted: March 24 2011 at 14:50
	Im 14 And I Was Infected with prog when a i was about 12 because i started listening to a lot of rush (wich is my favourite band since then) and i wanted to hear more music like that so i started exploring more and more....... LISTEN TO THE ARGENTINIAN PROG BAND SERU GIRAN ITS AMAZING

PinkFloydManiac1973 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: January 02 2010 Location: Mount Laurel Status: Offline Points: 26	Posted: March 05 2011 at 11:24
	Hahaha that seems to be a widely-held opinion by music critics, that Muse will bring a new wave of prog popularity on the charts. I doubt that the "Twilight"-crazed girls as a whole will dig it, but maybe their boyfriends who grudgingly go along with them to those movies will find Muse's music somewhat worth the agony of sparkling vampires. XD Interestingly enough I have trouble listening to Muse nowadays because it reminds me too much of the drama of artsy high school girls to enjoy the music itself. Anyway, my first exposure to experimental/art music was with The Beatles' mid-60s albums, but my first true prog experience was with Pink Floyd. I was hanging out with my Dad one weekend when I was 11 or 12 and he put on a copy of "Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd" on. All it took was "Astronomy Domine" to get me hooked -- and it just seemed to get better and better as it went on. I was blown away at the idea that you could go so far beyond the basics of rock that you heard on the radio at the time and incorporate all these different sounds and techniques. From there I explored everything PF had to offer and to this day they are still my favorite prog band of all time (and the only group to rival The Beatles as my favorite band of all time). Around the same time I was also listening to '80s Genesis and Peter Gabriel, and then I went back and fell in love with '70s Genesis. I stopped at that for some reason until my sophomore year of high school. Then I got into Yes, King Crimson, ELP.....I can't even count how many bands I was listening to by the end of 12th grade. Now I'm a freshmen in college and I've explored bands from other parts of Europe (thanks to Eloy) as well as newer prog acts (just listened to Anglagard's "Hybris" and was incredibly impressed). Not as unusual a story as some but it's one of my fondest memories.
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halabalushindigus Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 05 2009 Location: San Diego Status: Offline Points: 1438	Posted: March 04 2011 at 21:42
	when was I not infected by prog
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MoodyRush Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 04 2011 Location: Here Be Llamas Status: Offline Points: 383	Posted: March 04 2011 at 20:45
	First post ever!! Anyways... My first two exposures were when my dad bought a cd of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick and that my family owned the Time Traveler Compilation of the Moody Blues. I proceeded to purchase many full Moody Blues albums. Having mostly listened to classic rock (despite being a 90's child), I decided to look up Rush for some odd reason. Rush led to Yes, which led to Gentle Giant (and this site), and now I'm hooked! I've even been to a Rush concert!!