About that age poll...

I'm 40, it starts when i was 11-12 my father played "Shine on you crazy diamond", after that i've listened to the Beatles "Blue album" until 14 and finally discovered Genesis ("And then there were three"), Santana ("Moonflower"), Supertramp ("Crime of the century")...and it goes on and on (last week i discover Soft machine !)

Sure is and mine is 17, first listened to prog as a 9 year old when Jon Anderson's voice caught my attention and I've never looked back since.Faves are too many but Yes and KC are neck and neck but there is so much great music but my absoloute fave is the magical Todd Rundgren.

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I love you, VB

you're so funny!

 = 53 years senile

Got into ELP, Yes and Genesis when I was 10 in 1971.

I'm now 45 and still into the same stuff. I've branched out into more diverse music but my roots are still firmly bedded in 70s prog.

What part of Wales are you from Snow Dog? I'm from Cardiff.

I have a bjillion ways I can be contacted in my profile.

I think I can see a pint or two in our futures.

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I don't know exactly when my history with prog began but there used to be a time when I listened to alot of thrash and death metal bands like Death, Atheist and Sepultura. I remember the only thing that caught my attention in this type of music was the intense drumming and it helped me jump to another type of music, namely jazz-fusion. But most of the jazz-fusion I listened to at that time lacked vocals, so prog was welcome and it started with Marillion and then followed the classic bands (that I couldn't understand in my earlier years, circa 9-10 years) Genesis, Yes, ELP... My brother found on the net a diagram depicting the various subgenres of prog and it helped me discover new bands. I began to appreciate other styles besides neo and symphonic prog, like electronic (TD, Synergy, Mike Oldfield...), Canterbury (National health, Caravan...), hard-prog (KC mainly), metal prog (the first time I heard 'Images and words' it didn't came to mind that it was prog...) and now I am particularly attracted by non-english speaking bands (first and foremost the italian scene, but also Sagrado, Pablo el Enterrador, Sintesis, Los Jaivas, some polish musical icons like Marek grechuta, Czeslaw Niemen, Skaldowie and Jozef Skrzek, the spanish prog scene : I just like the way these bands compile the musical roots of their country and traditional prog rock) and folk-prog bands (Jethro Tull, Renaissance, Iona, Maddy Prior, vermilion Sands, Harmonium...). However, I tried to enter the most weird sides of prog : Zappa, the RIO scene but it didn't click with me. 

I guess I'm somewhere in the middle here. I'm 35 and first got into prog at age 15 with Yes and then Rush and Genesis in the mid 80's. I've been into this stuff ever since(off and on but mostly on....in the mid 90's I took a short break from it then rediscovered it and got on the internet soon after and there's no looking back). I'm amazed at the fact that most of you are younger than me! Usually I'm one of the younger people at prog festivals and concerts. You guys should all come out to the shows!

 

PS Sorry for resurrecting this thread

16 now, got into prog with Close to the Edge and DSOTM at around 12...