Which band first got you into prog?

Argo2112 wrote: Probably Renaissance was the first. When I was a kid my brother had Live at Carnegie Hall. I use to listen to it a lot. After that it was Yes. A few years later I went to a Yes show & I was hooked.

Back in the day, we didn’t have wads of dough to drop on albums, so we made radio requests by rotary dial telephone, waited and taped songs from the radio. Some of the ones I distinctly remember recording were Freewill by Rush (which annoyingly overlapped with the tail end of Cradle Will Rock by Van Halen), Long Distance Runaround by Yes, and Don’t Cry by Asia (with a Casey Kasem introduction!). I remember playing Freewill over and over because that song has so many amazing elements: odd but well placed time signatures, lovely arpeggiated chord progressions, snappy rock riffs with well-voiced chords at higher register, and one of the best guitar/bass solos you’ll find anywhere in Progdom. But, I didn’t know it was Prog. I just knew it was intricate. So, Prog just sort of seeped into musical pores.