When were you infected by Prog?

progbethyname wrote: You know it's funny that when prog effected me at 15, I didn't buy my first prog album till I was 17. Why did I wait 2 years? What a crazy kid I was.

You didn't have a job, your parents didn't give you an allowance, and you didn't want to turn to a life of crime.

It was the late 1970s.

Tom Ozric wrote: Without disecting the gene-pool and psychological traits of the family-tree, I'd say somewhere around the mid-80's for me (born in '72)........My sis listening to Genesis' self-titled album of 1983 made me curious about this band and its style of music.  Then Floyd.  Same old story.......By the way, Genesis' album from 1983 really is impressive on many levels, a cut above 'regular'  commercial dross (not to say some parts of it aren't 'commercial'), but a decent amount of instrumental integrity is still intact, making it an interesting album (not a patch on the classic 70's albums of course...).  The rest was all KC, Magma, VDGG, Yes, Atomic Rooster.....then, Refugee, The Nice, Asia, Buggles, Kansas, Journey, Styx, then Arthur Brown, Sabbath, Purple, Amon Duul II, Tangerine Dream, Can, Kraftwerk, Eloy, P.F.M......................................then you all know how the story goes....................(this is by 1993 from memory...).  With Prog, the sky is NEVER the limit........

That's a nice story Tom. And I to love Genesis 1983. Love both HOME BY THE SEA parts. It's excellent.

Without disecting the gene-pool and psychological traits of the family-tree, I'd say somewhere around the mid-80's for me (born in '72)........My sis listening to Genesis' self-titled album of 1983 made me curious about this band and its style of music.  Then Floyd.  Same old story.......By the way, Genesis' album from 1983 really is impressive on many levels, a cut above 'regular'  commercial dross (not to say some parts of it aren't 'commercial'), but a decent amount of instrumental integrity is still intact, making it an interesting album (not a patch on the classic 70's albums of course...).  The rest was all KC, Magma, VDGG, Yes, Atomic Rooster.....then, Refugee, The Nice, Asia, Buggles, Kansas, Journey, Styx, then Arthur Brown, Sabbath, Purple, Amon Duul II, Tangerine Dream, Can, Kraftwerk, Eloy, P.F.M......................................then you all know how the story goes....................(this is by 1993 from memory...).  With Prog, the sky is NEVER the limit........

Pink Floyd have been my favorite band since I was super young and I grew up liking a lot of kinda proto-prog and psychedelic stuff, wasn't until high school that I was shown In The Court. Heard the title track once and that was it. My soul danced for joy from the magic music, and I began the neverending quest for prog and more prog.

I blame my Dad, used to play ELP all the time, and it got me. Then I found Genesis, and it all got worse from there...

Ohh yes, I do remember. Pink Floyd – The Wall changed my life. I was 15, around 1999, just moved to a new and weird city where nobody seems understand me (and they didn’t heheheh). I went in the Roger Waters worls like an orphan, really.

I HAD to understand each lyric on that double LP and translated them to understand (I’m brazilian), I had to learn each and every song on the acoustic guitar and so on.

That definitelly changed everything. Then came APP (Edgar Allan Poe), Renaissance (Ashes), Jethro Tull (TAAB) and Yes (Yes Album). Since them I dig each and every piece I could. My maniac side thanks all those forgotten albums from 70′s/80′s/90′s and why not 00′s 

Discovering live videos of Jethro Tull in 2010, it stuck me to my chair. I watched every video from the 70's I could find on youtube over and over and over again. I found PA shortly after and basically formed my prog culture from there.

Prog really changed my views on music. 

Think you mean '21st CENTURY SCHZOID MAN.'. And yes. A brilliant track indeed. Pretty much a track that started it all. 😏

I think I was 12 and Tommy Vance played a bit of 2112 on Friday Rock Show late 70's in UK so Rush was my gateway. Then the neo-prog revival thing happened with Marillion, IQ, Pallas, Twelfh Night etc and I was hooked.