What decade did you first get into prog?

First introduction for me was mid 70s, Deep Purple's "Fireball" and soon migrated on.

Got the addiction in 2013.
Before that i was into PF, Classic Rock, Metal, Alternative Rock, Grunge.. From all i noticed that i was more fond of the songs that were somewhat different.
That "Different" led me to Prog.
Voted 2010's.

Edited by addictedtoprog - December 31 2014 at 23:53

After the British Invasion I bought my first album which was The Rolling Stones Now. My second album was Meet The Beatles.

I hit the big 60 a mere 5 weeks ago - so I cut my teeth on In The Court Of The Crimson King! 

Prog_Traveller wrote: ^ Yes but even now most of those bands are not considered prog these days but instead proto prog. Just playing devil's advocate here. ;) I personally think in retrospect many of them are "real prog" whatever that means if you consider how all the song oriented stuff and neo prog that is considered prog these days. Not to knock neo prog or anything but much of it has very simple song structures and is in verse chorus. So yes Dean if it's important to you then you win this conversation. :D I was just saying people didn't think of it as prog or progressive rock at the time(probably)but you are right that it doesn't really matter and what matters is what they were listening to. Anyway, I'm wondering if any of the 9 people who voted 90's on here are following this thread. I have a couple of questions for you. One, how did you discover prog in the 90's and what band or album got you into prog in the 90's? Also, did you get into prog in the 90's because of the internet.

Actually, I voted 2000's, and kind of explained this on my post. But really, I started knowing about prog bands since the 90's, just didn't know they were prog, and I started following prog as a genre until the 2000's, thanks to Yes and this site (thus, thanks to the internet).

However, in the 90's, when I started getting interested in music (just about highschool), one of the first bands I got really interested on was Pink Floyd, so that's a start in the prog direction. Then, I was checking out some vinyls my grandma has, and found some very nice things there... among them, Focus' "Hamburger Concerto" and Harmonium's "Cinquiem Saison". My grandma really liked Hamburger Concerto and was interested on my reaction to it, though she didn't seem to care much for Harmonium. I did like Focus sooner, in part because of puting the wrong speed once or twice when playing it, so it sounded even weirder, but eventually I came to love both and getting their albums too (though I'm afraid I got the Harmonium ones downloading them because they weren't available on CD when I wanted them... now I think I can buy then through Amazon, but I still have that among my things to do). I got to listen to many other nice things from my grandma, most notably Jethro Tull's "Live, bursting out", and Yes' "Relayer", but those ones didn't click at the time and came back at them until the 00's when I was checking out those bands respectivley.

Then, there was a friend also on Highschool, who helped me find out about Pink Floyd lending me some tapes from them that I recorded before buying the albums. She also lent me a tape from Rick Wakeman's "King Arthur" album, which I did came to love too... though I had no idea who this Wakeman guy was, nor what he played, or if he was the singer, etc. She also got me interested in Alan Parsons, from whom I later got their discography.

And so, after getting some Wakeman albums too, I got interested in Yes because of that connection, and was looking for information about him, and Yes, and so on, and ended up in PA and prog by the 00's, and the rest is history. So, yes, it was because of the internet, but even before that there were people who knew and liked prog that pointed me into that direction, even if they didn't know about the genre as such too.

And there were some other potential posibilities for getting me into prog at this times that didn't get a hold at the time, like an aunt of mine that really love The Moodie Blues and I listened to some albums once I went to visit her at the US... and I did like them, but didn't get much further into them... until now, that I got a 4 CD compilation and am planning on getting "Days of Future Past" too (more than 10 years later, even 15 perhaps).

I'm 52,so it was the 70's for me.At the time i had no idea it was "prog".Just thought of it as great music!

ExittheLemming wrote: Are you just highlighting the perceptual confusion of the Swedes?

Yes, it was an answer to Prog_Traveller and my point was that even if Floyd and their ilk wasn't called prog in the 60s, it was still prog. Just like Dean so eloquently pointed out before me. I think we put too much importance into a word and it can be misunderstood in some parts of the world.

And yes, I'm afraid I know a lot about Swedish progg, too much in fact.

Dean wrote: Yay! I win.  At last. I can't think of a reason to continue posting on music subjects in this forum any more.

Yeah, well don't forget that I let you win. Anyway, it's all in good fun or at least should be. It's only prog and know all but we like it.

^ Yes but even now most of those bands are not considered prog these days but instead proto prog. Just playing devil's advocate here. ;) I personally think in retrospect many of them are "real prog" whatever that means if you consider how all the song oriented stuff and neo prog that is considered prog these days. Not to knock neo prog or anything but much of it has very simple song structures and is in verse chorus. So yes Dean if it's important to you then you win this conversation. :D I was just saying people didn't think of it as prog or progressive rock at the time(probably)but you are right that it doesn't really matter and what matters is what they were listening to.

Anyway, I'm wondering if any of the 9 people who voted 90's on here are following this thread. I have a couple of questions for you. One, how did you discover prog in the 90's and what band or album got you into prog in the 90's? Also, did you get into prog in the 90's because of the internet.





Edited by Prog_Traveller - April 05 2014 at 14:59

Dean wrote: Prog_Traveller wrote: [Not in America anyway. ] Not anywhere anyway.  That term wasn't used until the seventies which was kind of my point. Immaterial. Doesn't matter what it was called, it does not change the music. If we were listening to Crimson, Floyd, Moodies, Renaissance, Family, Tull, Soft Machine, Van der Graaf, The Nice, etc. in the late 60s then that is when we first got into Prog.  However, as I have stressed repeatedly in many threads, the name did not appear out of nowhere and it was not instantly adopted as a term universally over night. There is documented evidence of the term being used in the UK in the late 60s yet in some parts of the world it wasn't used until the 80s and later. During my high school years (1968-73) in the home counties of the UK the term was in common usage and that's good enough for me.

Amen.

I might add that the term Prog is still not in general use for this kind of music in Sweden today. That word makes people think of a different genre, very left oriented political rattling.
When I try to explain what I listen to I have to describe it as "British progressive, Pink Floyd and Genesis, you know".


Edited by silverpot - April 05 2014 at 08:31