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Poll Question: Which of these bands is most responsible for getting you into prog?
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Aqualung then DSOTM then Relayer then ITCOTCK... after that it was a blur
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by REXFORD REXFORD wrote:

Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

The Doors
they aren't prog.

what they were doing is seen by many as proto-prog. I kinda agree. :)
Bands I listened before i got into prog were Creedence, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, the Beatles, Stones, Jimi Hendrix Experience and also the Doors. Really easy to think at least Zeppelin, Purple, Beatles, Hendrix & the Doors as a gateway to prog.
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ELP, Pictures, then Tarkus.
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Jethro Tull.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Tull, Yes, King Crimson, Moody Blues, ELP and Pink Floyd simultaneously. You heard them all on any given day in the early 70s. People didn't listen to music in a sterile internet vacuum back then. FM radio, unadulterated, non-corporate and rebellious, gave you the whole shebang. Often album by album.

This also covers my best thoughts: the perfect timing of my age (high school), the era of music (British "invasion" and vintage Prog) and the amazing Clyde Clifford with Beaker Street. What a combo!

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Jethro Tull
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Which of these bands is the most responsible for you getting into prog for the first time?


This is kind of a weird question because it presupposes that "prog" existed before you started listening to it. So it might only pertain to relative "youngsters".

Many of us started listening to this music in the late 60's or early 70's as the bands emerged, and it wasn't called "prog" then. That term came later. So for us, the question would be "Which band, currently recognized as prog, did you listen to first?". For me, it would be a tie between Crimson and Floyd. I simply can't remember which one I started listening to first.
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"Other (please specify(even if it's Asia ;)))"

In a way Asia did have a substantial roll to play in my prog journey.
Though the first prog bands I remember as a kid were Yes & Renaissance  
when I was a teen Asia was big & got me listening to more Yes, ELP, Genesis... and on from there. 
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Pink Floyd, in about 1972. Atom Heart Mother followed by Ummagumma on the same day. I was ten.
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Of the ones listed, Marillion (script, fugazi & misplaced childhood)
Prior to that though it was Dire Straits - Alchemy. The long pieces on there were great (telegraph road, once upon a time in th West & sultans of swing)
Also Jean Michel jarre - rendezvous.
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Originally posted by wiz_d_kidd wiz_d_kidd wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Which of these bands is the most responsible for you getting into prog for the first time?


This is kind of a weird question because it presupposes that "prog" existed before you started listening to it. So it might only pertain to relative "youngsters".

Many of us started listening to this music in the late 60's or early 70's as the bands emerged, and it wasn't called "prog" then. That term came later. So for us, the question would be "Which band, currently recognized as prog, did you listen to first?". For me, it would be a tie between Crimson and Floyd. I simply can't remember which one I started listening to first.

Yes, if you want to be pedantic you can word it that way. The bands are the most important not the label. Yes, the bands existed before you started to listen to them. I'm interested in knowing what bands eventually led you to discover the genre as a whole. I don't see how that's so difficult to understand.

If I said what heavy metal band did you first hear someone could say Black Sabbath even though BS weren't universally recognized as hm when someone might have first heard them. Same thing. But let's not get caught up in trying to prove revisionism or be pedantic about it. 


Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - October 07 2018 at 18:59
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First of all, my first sixteen years were only rocked by the classical music. My preferences went towards Borodine, Rimsky-korsakov, Moussorgsky and Ravel. At 13, I heard for the first time Miles Davis. I  was impressed by his inventiveness, but without money, I do not have to buy of records at that time. 
But my first meeting with the prog will really take place only at 17. A school friend make me listen : King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Caravan or Magma in some weeks.
My first purchase was for ELP (Classical roots for sure) and today, it was one of my favorite act.
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I strongly maintain that Procul Harum was the first prog band, so I voted Other: Procol Harum.  Even from the first album, how are Cerdes & Repent Walpurgis not prog?  Out of the bands listed, King Crimson which Scott Muni played on his Things from England segment before the LP came out here, but I'd already seen Procol Harum live 4 times (once at the Anderson Theater sharing a bill with Moby Grape and 3 times at the Fillmore East) before Scott played the KC on WNEW-FM.
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Hard to say. Where I lived when I were a kid there were a lot of students around ad friends older bros and sisters . So I heard KC's Lizard at one place, Tull's Living In The Past and Stand Up at another. Pink Floyd were probably the most significant (you can see what this little by was going to grow into). Add into that the sounds of the Beatles, Stones, Cream and the Doors... Oh loved the Moodies (Ride My See Saw. Also like jazz, the cool kind and bebop. Funny child. First..? No idea. Things just don't happen in sequential form.
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Between Rush and Yes for me.

Rush came first, but since it was while listening to a ton of Yes that I first found out what "Progressive Rock" was (and subsequently started exploring a lot more), I chose Yes.
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It would have to be Rush, the ultimate prog gateway band, the bridge between high school power-rock and the complex, thoughtful stuff.   How many countless young people did Rush attract to a larger world of rock music, we may never know.

Floyd?   Nah, too abstruse.
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^Rush is the ultimate prog gateway band? I think these days they probably are(along with Pink Floyd)but I think at one point Yes and Genesis were more so than Rush. I think most Rush fans were just hard rock fans. It wasn't until the internet and social media that Rush were labelled prog and the younger folks started picking up on it and exploring prog. 
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 ^ I was hearing prog on the radio when I was a little kid in the 70s, so though Floyd, Yes and Genesis were much bigger and getting a ton more airplay, they were too adult and arty for a nine-year old.   But Rush on the other hand had some kind of universal appeal that spoke to kids, teens, and adults all at once.   Floyd can't claim that, nor Yes or Genesis or even Tull.
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

It would have to be Rush, the ultimate prog gateway band, the bridge between high school power-rock and the complex, thoughtful stuff.   How many countless young people did Rush attract to a larger world of rock music, we may never know.

Floyd?   Nah, too abstruse.



Rush may serve that purpose,but you sell them way short when you suggest they are less thoughtful or complex than other prog groups.
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^ Well they are without doubt less complex than both Yes and Genesis, Tull as well.  That's quite obvious.  You sell them short by assuming more complex music is superior.
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