When were you infected by Prog?

I was infected by Prog at a very very young age of 9. 

When i was a 14 year old kid, i remember when i was first introduced to Emerson, Lake and Palmer by my keyboard mentor, The first prog song i listened to was The Barbarian by ELP, then i got introduced with more prog bands such as Yes, Gentle Giant, etc. Now i'm a 15 year old who hast vast collection of Prog

Edited by JellySucker - November 17 2013 at 01:52

My dad was playin' Fugazi and Script for A Jester's Tears all the time. I think that ruined my sanity and so I came out to e as loved up as I am now.

well i`ll take you back to `73. i`m 13yrs old around a friends house. our frist girlfriends there too!. so we need some music. so we went to his brothers albums. i pick up this album with a fox in a red dress. it looked so cool. i put it on the mellotron kicks in watcher of the skies. i lost both the friend/girl too!. as i would`nt let them turn it off. played both sides supper`s ready ending. they gone out. i was all on my own. but i had prog!!. i went rushing to the local record store with paper rounds wages and brithday monies. two weeks wages. i walk out with foxtrot/trespass/selling england by the pound. oh i was really lucky my antie was in there to she said i have`nt give you anything for your brithday is there something here you would like. oh boy was there.  it was a choice of two.  they were by. group i add not heared a note of the cocers where moving and amazing. the group was. yes. fragile and the just released. close to the edge. antie got me fragile. roll along xams and she an gotten edge too. i went on a prog rock seeking mission then. finding many new magical times. i`ve been here till i die. that one of the things which is where i gotten the geekfreak name from. just add trians, sci-fi, bookworm and prog!!!!!!.  

I didn't really have any sudden enlightenment it was more of a gradual thing. I tended to like the more interesting and complex songs on various albums I listened to, and that just led to me in the right direction over time. I came to prog through Queen, maybe some Mike Oldfield and Sky, Deep Purple, Rainbow and so on. I couldn't even tell you the first classic prog album I picked up. It was probably Genesis, but it might have been Pink Floyd.

If you really pushed me I'd probably pick Prophet Song by Queen as the closest thing to a defining point, but even that was something that took a while to realy grab me.

My way into prog was Rush, especially the 2112 album. I first heard Rush on a compilation album from "The Spirit Of Radio" which I loved, and then a few years later after I'd sort of forgotten about them, I rediscovered them on an article where I looked up YYZ which led to Red Barchetta and then, as said, 2112. To this day, it's still one of my all-time favourite albums altogether and I'm so thankful I found them

I grew up with music like Pink Floyd, And most of my friends listen to prog so we share a lot of music with each other. 

Hmm, I guess I *really* got into prog when I went to uni and got access to the internet, thus realising that my existing interests in rock (from my friends/dad) and jazz and classical (from my mum) had actually been combined about 30 years previously into some of the best music around! I'd already had Dark Side of the Moon and Zeppelin/etc for years, and had got hold of some Can via reading about influences on post-punk and some Opeth from some friends into metal, but around then I learnt about the Canterbury scene (from some Opeth interview, possibly?) and went out and bought Third by Soft Machine and In the Land of Grey and Pink by Caravan, still two of my all-time favourite albums of any genre, and with that I was finally convinced that 'real' prog (outside of specific krautrock and prog metal groups) was also great. At first I still only really liked the Canterbury scene, krautrock and prog metal, but it wasn't long til I succumbed to the charms of Genesis, Yes, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, Van der Graaf, etc. I'm still not a huge fan of much recent prog outside of prog metal, but I'm still discovering...

RKTolbert62 wrote: My music library now consists of about 5000 CDs and another 1000 downloaded albums (with no duplication) and probably 1/4 of it is only prog. And as for King Crimson, the band that got me hooked? I own every single band album and side project album (including every one of the King Crimson Collector's Club releases) as well as every solo album form each former or present member, as well as their OWN occasional side-project bands. And I thank my old friend to this very day by sending him new releases from his favorite prog bands (such as Nektar) as a gift when they are released.

Quite an impressive collection and history. Welcome to PA!