About that age poll...

FuzzyDude wrote: Uhm... *cough* Aside from Zappa and Beefheart, Dark Side of the Moon was probably my first taste of the prog scene at the age of around 15. And yes, I thought it was the single greatest musical statement to grace all of rock music...     Oh, come on, it's not like you didn't too, at some point!!

No, as a matter of fact, I have NEVER thought that.

43. First got into prog as a mere, still wet behind the ears, 9-10 years old ('70-'71). I have two older brothers who played KC, Yes, ELP and Zappa. I may have even been a bit younger, but I never really went through that little kids age of listening to pop music. I was weened on the Beatles and the Stones, straight into the hard stuff. I remember laying in the back of the old station wagon with my brother cranking Roundabout on the cheap little speakers while we cruised across Michigan highways to a lake for a day at the beach.

 

Im 16 now and have been listening to Rush since I was 13, my first album was All the Worlds a Stage, but sadly I cant make those special associations to progressive music...yet. (I and five other friends are going to Germany WC 2006, and man there is gonna be memories.)

(Actually my first contact with progressive were SX and DT, but I dont count them as they doesnt put me in the mood as real progressive rock does..) 

Sorry... but I'm ALMOST your age. *born 1963*

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MY GOD! I'm almost scared to tell my age in this kid-circle here.

 

Yeh there's a lot of kids,can't you tell with the crap they post about.Jeus.

 

Afraid not. After we broke up, I'm afraid someone else had all the demotapes. I believe the tune resembled something by Procol Harum and part of it went, "My dopefiend baby, that needle's sure looking fine, and with some Debussy, I would do the time" We ripped off one of Debussy's piano pieces for the song, but I forget which one. The song was sort of an homage to Procol Harum and the Rolling Stones.

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Well, my first purchase was Dream Theater's A Change of Seasons, but the downward spiral was sharp and swift starting with progmetal (for i was previoulsy a metal head) I bought up loads of DT, PoS, Devin Townsend, Ayreon, Ark, Threshold, Symphony X, Opeth, Dead Soul Tribe, Evergrey as well as much Porcupine Tree.

Then i started getting hooked on more symphonic stuff, once again starting with the more recent stuff, Arena, IQ, Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, The Flower Kings, Sigur Ros et al

And anyway this all culminated in me discovering and getting hooked on the classics, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, VDGG, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Camel, Caravan etc, and EVEN some people known as ELP


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43, or 3 14 and a bit year olds (which gives a better impression of my level of emotional maturity). Been into prog for 30 years now, next year will be the 30th anniversary of my first Genesis concert. My first prog purchase was Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, which I now find unlistenable - DSOTM, Tubular Bells, SEBTP and Ommadawn all followed quickly, along with many more.

Prog wasn't my first musical love - I was buying solo Beatles records before that - and I've enjoyed a lot of other styles since (though relatively little mainstream pop since the late 70s) but it was the first musical style I discovered for myself

My female dog , Harriet, is 4 human years old and Ozzie is 6. My wife is 27 years old and I am a dirty 42½ years old. I have been into music since I made my rude entrance into this world. I think there was a piper present to add to the pomp and circumstance of the whole important even. There were no speeches. Guru Guru and ABBA are two of my favourite music groups. Tom Waits and Charles Bukowski are full of suprises and explosions. I have never been a good typist myself.

People who live in Scotland definitely have TOO much time.