What have you discovered through your love of prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I would Like to hear your stories about what you have discovered through prog. I'll share my story in another post

Prog rock made me Gay

To be more clear with my language, Prog made me discover that I was bisexual.

I'm rather young and have only been a prog rock fan for 3 years. I never watched the love performance of the artist on youtube since the quality of most recording from the 70s usually low. Prog in the 70s was a sausage fest, and it is still extremely male dominated today. I enjoyed the 70s atheistic of the artist, but never cared to much about it. I never learned about Peter Gabriels costumes until a 4 months ago when I came across this video which is in the bottom of this message. I never never understood being gay. The stereotype that was in my mind was of liking strong muscular men that are extremely athletic. I never thought that you could like more androgynous or feminine guys. Until I saw this vid. I was amazed at the beauty of Peter Gabriel. The Close up shots on the face really got to me and made me blush. I tried to deny it for a while, that I wasn't gay, but I keep coming back, not for the music, but to see him. I know this might sound strange to Heterosexuals that grew up with this, but Peter Gabriel is pretty hot IMO. I started to look at more prog artist, not caring to protect my fragile Heterosexuality. I looked at John Wetton, and Jon Anderson, (when they were young of course) and It fully convinced me. and thats how prog made me gay. I know this must be extremely strange to hear, For most of you reading this are neither gay or young. Yet I'm happy that I did realize it this way. Now the problem is that I doubt I will find any man that looks like a 70s prog star, but I can still dream. Thanks for reading my story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qMsr7jjQF0&list=PLBX7aixn0YAe5qh9eYsNC2mua5uSQcMbQ&index=4&t=980s

The basic answer is: Nothing.

There is more to prog than prog.

mathman0806 wrote:

There is more to prog than prog.

That makes no sense. LOL

There's certainly more to music than prog though.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I'm not really sure what you mean exactly but through prog I have discovered and explored a bit more in classical, jazz, fusion, electronic (to some degree), and heavy metal(which I wasn't much into for a long time). It has also helped make me more open to the arts in general as well as learning in general (I know that sounds weird).

I concur.

I've discovered I'm superior and can look down at all the plebs that only listen to 3 minute songs. Pah.

To paraphrase a couple of lines from the film 'Caligula' 'Everything and nothing, but you can't have both for the same price'.

"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

I suppose in many ways I have prog to thank for opening the floodgate of wonderful music to discover - from all over the world, in all styles and genres and from all ages.

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

I discovered just how bad the mindless pap played on the radio today is compared to REAL music... i.e. Progressive Rock!

I mean, after a day hard work, I would see why people would turn their brains off and listen to mindless garbage. It must requires some effort to listen to some prog rock albums, what comes to mind is Gentle Giant and 80s era King Crimson. I don't think the average person want to give that effort challenge their tastes. I didn't like Discipline for while, but after listening it to a-lot, its one of my favorite album.

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