What decade did you first get into prog?

The '80s for me as my parents used to have Rush dance nights and my dad would play Moving Pictures, Signals, or Grace Under Pressure on his record player. Ah, the smell of vinyl!

1969, when my brother (7 years older than me) came home one day with "in the court of the crimson king", played it really loud, and it blew our minds.

Edited by Gryphon - April 06 2014 at 10:30

Dean wrote: Prog_Traveller wrote: silverpot wrote: This poll makes me feel absolutely ancient. Only five dinosaurs voting the 60s.  I added it reluctantly and retroactively(I think). I realize there were some "progressive" albums in that decade but the genre wasn't really official until the seventies. I think of the sixties as the proto progressive era(the albums that led up to the full blown prog scene). I should have votededed 60s     Dean wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Dean wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Dean wrote: the 60s, so consolation vote in the 70s box Why not vote 60s? Because I didn't see the options weren't in numerical order.  Thought so. Deliberately confusing old people isn't on.

I'm personally glad you didn't vote sixties. As far as I'm concerned it would be almost like voting for which decade did you first get into heavy metal and then having an option for sixties. I think people got into music and bands that became prog in the sixties but I think most of it was psychedelic or proto prog. That's just my opinion of course. I only added sixties to the poll because there seemed to be a demand for it(a small one but it was there nonetheless).

"Hey man, we're going to see some groovy bands before we protest the Vietnam War then we're going to hang out and smoke some pot in front of a lava lamp. Yeah we'll listen to some prog too. " I guarantee that conversation never happened. Not in the sixties anyway.


Edited by Prog_Traveller - April 04 2014 at 18:12

dr wu23 wrote: Prog_Traveller wrote: silverpot wrote: This poll makes me feel absolutely ancient. Only five dinosaurs voting the 60s.  I added it reluctantly and retroactively(I think). I realize there were some "progressive" albums in that decade but the genre wasn't really official until the seventies. I think of the sixties as the proto progressive era(the albums that led up to the full blown prog scene). Sounds about right....I bought ITCOTCK in the spring of 1970...didn't hear it when it first came out. But I had already been buying the Doors, Moody Blues, Procol Harum, Tull, Traffic, etc since 1967. At any rate I was one of those here who listed the 60's as when I first started listening to 'prog'. Old yes.....but I hope I'm not a dinosaur.

Be proud to be a dinosaur, they are one of the most successful species to ever roam our green Earth.
It also seems very tough for the young acts to push their way into the upper part of PA top 100.

Prog_Traveller wrote: silverpot wrote: This poll makes me feel absolutely ancient. Only five dinosaurs voting the 60s.  I added it reluctantly and retroactively(I think). I realize there were some "progressive" albums in that decade but the genre wasn't really official until the seventies. I think of the sixties as the proto progressive era(the albums that led up to the full blown prog scene).

Dean wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Dean wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Dean wrote: the 60s, so consolation vote in the 70s box Why not vote 60s? Because I didn't see the options weren't in numerical order.  Thought so. Deliberately confusing old people isn't on.

verslibre wrote: I checked the '80s but I'm surprised there are so few votes for the '90s.

Me too. Most of those 9 votes were pretty early on. Since I rebooted this thread a few days ago nobody has voted for the 90's. I'm not sure why there are so few but my guess is that most people were getting back into prog in the 90's(ie rediscovering it and not so much discovering it). Other than maybe Dream Theater I can't think of any really major band that would have drawn someone into the genre for the first time in that decade. I know lots of prog fans discovered Anglagard, Echolyn, Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, Glass Hammer etc for the first time in that decade but I think most of those fans were already prog fans(from the previous two decades).

For me personally, I first got into prog in the 80's. In the 90's I was back and forth as to being into prog. There wasn't a whole lot going on in that decade. But then towards the end of the 90's I found two books on prog. One was called "the music is all that matters" and the other was "the progressive rock files." The latter book had links for prog on the internet and that is how I discovered prog online. This was kind of late though probably around 98/99. I had revisited and ordered some prog cds right before that though in the spring of 98 so that is when I started to get back into prog after taking about a three or four year break from it(my college years).

silverpot wrote: This poll makes me feel absolutely ancient. Only five dinosaurs voting the 60s.

I added it reluctantly and retroactively(I think). I realize there were some "progressive" albums in that decade but the genre wasn't really official until the seventies. I think of the sixties as the proto progressive era(the albums that led up to the full blown prog scene).

1987 with Pink Floyd The Wall on VHS. I rented the movie that summer from some newly opened video store called  Blockbuster, which I drove to with my new drivers license (I was 16).  

Edited by Tedhead - April 02 2014 at 19:03

I came into Prog in the 80's, with Pink Floyd's DSOTM and The Wall and the chileans Los Jaivas.

1954.