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menawati 
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 16:08 |
Interested to hear how people got into progressive music in the first place and what was the first prog they heard that led them along the path.
My gateway was heavy rock. Went from being a NWOBHM fan in my early teens, digging Rush and the neo-prog revival stuff like Marillion then moving on to Genesis, King Crimson, Camel and Floyd and by then I was hooked for life. First prog song I heard and liked - The Trees by Rush
I think that many people move from heavy music to prog but maybe there are some that got stuck in straight away, came from a classical background or even went from listening to pop music to loving prog. Interested to hear.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 16:32 |
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My first musical love was the mid 90s punk rock and some metal classics. Perhaps on one end it was some bits from Metallica and Maiden that opened my mind for lengthier track structures, and the Finnish quirky progpoprock band Absoluuttinen Nollapiste opened my mind for general weirdness. This led to hearing and liking Dream Theater and Tool, and the stage was set for King Crimson, Rush, Camel and others to walk in.
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 17:14 |
Hold on ... let me find a similar thread ... no, wait ...  ... there are two threads like that, if I remember correctly.
Those are kind of similar:
Edited by Dayvenkirq - October 09 2012 at 17:21
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menawati
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:11 |
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ye you are right, can i delete the thread or do i need admin to do it ?
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They flutter behind you your possible pasts,
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Argonaught
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:14 |
Three threads, huh?
This phenomenon was described in Indiscipline:
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat..
Edited by Argonaught - October 09 2012 at 18:17
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:17 |
If it has been a while since the subject was last broached, why not bring it up again? We get new people in all the time, and some of us don't respond all the time to these sort of things.
When I first got into listening to music seriously in the mid 70s, Prog was a major part of the music environment. Yes, Tull, ELP, Pink Floyd were all over the radio as were a lot of related bands. So, I was familiar with a lot of songs by these artists before I started buying albums. It was the prog-related hard rockers that were my gateway to Prog itself. These included Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Hendrix, and perhaps a few others.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:25 |
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Iron Maiden was the first band I loved, along with The Beatles and Kiss. But my first real step towards prog was with Rush. When I watched Beyond the Lighted Stage when Geddy mentioned that they were into Yes and Genesis my first thought was "um.. Phil Collins?". So listened to "The Knife", "Roundabout", and "21st Century Schizoid Man" from there I got into ELP, Gentle Giant, VDGG, and Camel. So I think Rush is really a perfect "gateway" band due to their proggy composition style, but also with their accessibility ie. "Tom Sawyer" , "Closer to the Heart".
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:25 |
I would not delete the thread....It can be difficult to search for a topic. It shows there are true new members coming to the PA...which is a good thing.
My gateway was thru Funk for the most part. I am a big Parliament fan, and their longer funk songs and concepts drove me to liking longer songs in general. I was already a listener of Genesis, PF and Yes...but Parliament got me then into KC, even though I really did not like them. Rush to me in the early days was more heavy metal, guitar driven...until Caress of Steel then I really started more along the prog lines.
And of course listening to Miles Davis and Coltrane pushed me into Soft Machine and the like.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:25 |
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No gateway for me, I'm afraid. I just happened to notice back in the 1970's that the likes of Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush and Genesis (and to a degree ELP) were comping up with more satisfying music than others. I called the genre art- and/or symph rock back then.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:28 |
Honestly who cares if the thread's been done before.
I got in through a few things that sort of told me to search progressive rock on wikipedia. Muse were constantly called it, and the parts of their music that I loved (strings, odd sigs etc) were part of it. Another album, which is an odd one, is Linkin Park's 'A Thousand Suns', which I initially hated, but it grew on me, mainly because it's a 55 minute concept album that basically flows like one song, and that fascinated me.
Anyway, a bit of searching and I found Porcupine Tree, a bit more then I found this site and then everyone else knows the rest.
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menawati
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:30 |
 Catcher10 wrote:
My gateway was thru Funk for the most part. I am a big Parliament fan, and their longer funk songs and concepts drove me to liking longer songs in general. I was already a listener of Genesis, PF and Yes...but Parliament got me then into KC, even though I really did not like them. Rush to me in the early days was more heavy metal, guitar driven...until Caress of Steel then I really started more along the prog lines. |
Thats really interesting because its almost back to front compared to me, I'm only just starting to get into funk but started with heavy metal and heavy prog like Rush.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:32 |
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When I was ten years old, I was flipping through my parents' LP collection and found Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell and thought the cover was awesome. I listened to it and was totally confused by the first track, which had nearly three minutes of instrumental music before the vocals came in. I didn't know you could do that! From there I moved on to Queen and by the time I discovered King Crimson in college there was no turning back.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:41 |
menawati wrote:
Catcher10 wrote:
My gateway was thru Funk for the most part. I am a big Parliament fan, and their longer funk songs and concepts drove me to liking longer songs in general. I was already a listener of Genesis, PF and Yes...but Parliament got me then into KC, even though I really did not like them. Rush to me in the early days was more heavy metal, guitar driven...until Caress of Steel then I really started more along the prog lines. |
Thats really interesting because its almost back to front compared to me, I'm only just starting to get into funk but started with heavy metal and heavy prog like Rush. |
I grew up in the 'hood in So Cal....very ethnic neighborhood, so a lot of funk and R&B. But there was a lot of psych-art/symphonic prog on the FM back then.
I listen to everything.....its my genre! 
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:46 |
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I guess it started for me when I listened to the albums leading up to Sgt. Pepper. Then one day while browsing through the record department of a department store, I saw this album with a band that had a ton of different instruments and bought it as I felt I had to hear what they had. My friends all thought I was crazy but I knew I heard something special. It was Ummagumma by Pink Floyd. Years later, after getting into Yes, ELP, Genesis and Tomita, I was visiting with those friends who were all amazed at Dark Side Of The Moon. I just sat there and smiled.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:53 |
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The Beatles, Led Zep and Black Sabbath led to Pink Floyd, Yes and Jethro Tull
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 19:01 |
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For me, it was probably either Dark Side of the Moon or Camel's "Breathless" album, probably around 1979, when I was ten. I was a big fan of both groups for several years after that, before getting into King Crimson, Zappa and Beefheart in high school. In college, upon getting Camel's Snow Goose on CD, I read the liner notes which pointed me to all the Canterbury bands. Quite a thrill.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 19:10 |
menawati wrote:
ye you are right, can i delete the thread or do i need admin to do it ? |
Threads can't be deleted (to my certain knowledge), but they can be locked. But now that people started posting their responses ... there is no stopping it. 
Progosopher wrote:
If it has been a while since the subject was last broached, why not bring it up again? We get new people in all the time, and some of us don't respond all the time to these sort of things. |
But those other threads are not locked yet. 
Catcher10 wrote:
I would not delete the thread....It can be difficult to search for a topic. It shows there are true new members coming to the PA...which is a good thing. |
That makes sense, especially the "it can be difficult to search for a topic" part. That way the same idea can have more than one title and be easily found with any appropriate keyword.
Edited by Dayvenkirq - October 09 2012 at 19:12
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 19:14 |
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My friends turned me on to Rush and I got into them huge. Then my dad turned me one to his favorite band, Yes. After that my uncle turned me on to Gentle Giant, Camel, and Gilgamesh, then the internet turned me on to Gryphon, Glass Hammer, Spock's Beard, and Kevin Ayers. After a few years of getting into blues, various types of world music, and the like I decided to plug Yes into Last.FM and discovered Anthony Phillips which led me to Steve Hackett. I then finally conceded to try out some Genesis which I had been avoiding for a long time for some reason. Looking for reviews I discovered this site and my interest in the genre became an obsession.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 19:15 |
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For me, I was first interested in Pink Floyd, because they were such legends and didn't know them so well, so I started getting music from them. At about the same time, I was searching for Vinyls that my grandmother had and borrowing them, and among them I got into Focus's "Hamburger Concerto" (which she said was great), and Harmonium's "Si on avait besoin d'une cinquiem saison" (which I believe se didn't even recall having), and I got to love them both. I also borrowed Jethro Tull's "Live, bursting out", and Yes's "Relayer", but they didn't quiet click at the moment, so they had to wait to be rediscovered. On the other hand, there was a friend who lent me some music she got... first it was because I wanted to know Pink Floyd, and thus she lent me some tapes from them, and then she lent me another tape, from some Rick Wakeman (who was this guy?), about King Arthur... she said the music was interesting, but he didn't sing very well (it took me some time to get to like it, but then I loved it and got some more from him, and I found out that he was the keyboard player, not the singer, and he was one of the best keyboard players in rock, and he played with Yes... so I had to get some Yes too). And also, this friend lent me some Alan Parsons, which I happened to like (and buy his albums, later on). By the time I was investigating about Yes, and searching for their albums, I found Prog Archives, and it's been my main source for searching for new music ever since.
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Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:04 |
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This is an easy one for me. The Main gateway to prog was DREAM THEATER and RUSH. especially RUSH. I am Canadian.....what do ya want? Lol
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