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Poll Question: Which of these bands is most responsible for getting you into prog?
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Rush.

Exit stage left changed how I listened to music. It changed what I considered t be important I rock music. I had heard and enjoyed Floyd before then, but it was this Rush live album tha really got me into prog rock. Genesis, caught my ear next, and that was me hooked, and confirmed a prog rock fan.
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I loved prog metal when I was in high school (Angra, Dream Theater,etc.)
ELP got me into full-blown prog.rock
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Pink Floyd came first, but Dream Theatre got me interested in the actual genre. Surprised there weren't any others though, maybe the website needs some younger users? :P
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Kansas. Leftoverture was there first album of any kind I ever bought. Big fan of Carry on Wayward Son, but the rest of the album sounded weird to me. Oddly enough the first of the deeper cuts I took a looking to was Magnum Opus.

As my taste grew, Genesis became my favorite. But I sort of got into Hackett via Walsh's vocals on Narnia, played by my local AOR station. And whether or not I knew it was him, Hackett's guitar drew me to Genesis.
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1974: Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman, Camel, Focus, Stackridge, BJH, and Genesis.

But the first 'band' that really pulled me in has to be Camel and the lp 'Mirage' 

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Rush all the way... maybe it's because I'm Canadian and quite a bit younger than many of the people here. Started listening to them in the mid-2000s, around the time of R30.
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Other:  The Beatles.  

For me, the innovation of Sgt Peppers makes it by definition the first "progressive rock" album and opened the flood gates for all innovative prog that followed. 
The Doors were doing songs like "The End" before Sgt Peppers.


Ya, The Doors were very cool and The End is brilliant and unlike any song that came before, but the album as a whole hardly stands up to the musical innovation of Sgt Peppers where multiple styles, unusual instrumentation, odd time signatures, cutting edge production techniques, introducing recorded samples of other material and album cover design all combined to create a cohesive work of art that changed the entire musical landscape.

Besides, I doubt The Doors could have gotten away with printing the lyrics to The End on the album cover LOL


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I probably should have included more proto bands(of which I do consider the Doors to be a part of)but I guess I didn't think most of them would have turned music fans into prog fans. Still, I suppose I could have included the Beatles, The Doors, The Nice, Sot Machine, Procol Harum, Traffic, MOI(or even just Frank) etc.

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Originally posted by ForestFriend ForestFriend wrote:

Rush all the way... maybe it's because I'm Canadian and quite a bit younger than many of the people here. Started listening to them in the mid-2000s, around the time of R30.


Good to see that someone else was reeled in to the world of prog by Rush, like I was.

I'm reasonably old though - 48- but still missed the 'golden era' of prog, so the Moving Pictures/Singals era was my introduction.

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Queensryche, Dream Theater, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Rush, Genesis, Progresiv TM, Sfinx, Magellan, Vander Graff Generator, etc
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Keith Harris & Orville.

closely followed by King Crimson.
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Genesis. Had heard 'Moon, but things stuck with 'Tail.

Edited by Rednight - September 04 2017 at 13:50
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I got into a bunch of bands roughly around the same time(this was the 80's).. Genesis, Yes, ELP, Rush, Pink Floyd.. Hard to look back now and put them exactly in the order that I discovered them lol. 

Other bands I discovered MUCH later.. Camel, Caravan, Soft Machine, Gentle Giant, Marillion, Eloy, Barclay James Harvest, etc. 
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Floyd for me, shortly followed by Oldfield, Yes & Genesis.
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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Genesis. Had heard 'Moon, but things stuck with 'Tail.

Mad Man Moon or Dancing with the Moonlit Knight? Wink
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My older brother went away to University in 1972 and came home with a cassette tape that had Fragile on Side A and Meddle on Side B.

So I voted Yes. Had he inverted that it would have been Pink Floyd.

Either way, my life was forever changed.

(Although I was already in love with the first two Chicago LP's and was deep into We're Only In It For The Money. Does that count?)

Maybe it was the "Englishness" of the two bands on that fateful cassette tape that just made them feel so different. So important. So awesome.
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voted Yes

I was also listening to Tull and Kansas around the same time
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followed by Zappa, GG, Genesis, and Yes. 
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Fates Warning got me into Prog.
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