Typical ages of the Forum members here?..

Blacksword wrote: But where would they have heard prog rock in the first place? What would lead a teenager to investigate prog on the web?

I'm 19 and I'm here thanks to videogame music...

Two years ago, I was in high school. We were watching "The Wall" (yes, the Pink Floyd movie!) and I heard "Is there anybody out there?". I inmediatly recognized the note sequence: it was almost identical to "Succession of Witches", a song from the game "Final Fantasy VIII" (you can hear a midi here, if you don't believe me: http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/sony/ps1/index-classic. html).

So, I started an investigation regarding Nobuo Uematsu music (and his influences...).

And here I am, listening to Camel, ELP, Focus, Pink Floyd, and many, many others...

I'm 19 for those who wanted to know but couldn't be arsed to, y'know, click on my profile or anything...

I am 46, and it is an excellent age to really know what you are talking about when it comes to prog. I grew up with music, starting with Beatles in the 60's, moving to rock, and glam in the early 70's, and then to prog, via Genesis, Floyd and Yes.

I still like most music genres, not so much rap/hip-hop though... This site has really revitalized my music interest in general and prog specifically. I am currently deep in an Ayreon-mode!

Prog-Brazil wrote: I'm 31 and I love symphonic prog. I think young people goes mainly to prog-metal. Or am I wrong?

I think you're right.

I'm 24. I started listening to heavy metal etc. about 12 years ago

In that time Metallica and Maiden were the top in Greece.

Then I moved to DT etc. so I would say I first listened to prog metal

I have 'discovered' prog rock fairly recently, sth like 3 or 4 years ago

Im 17

I recently turned 52 & have been a prog fan for well over 35 years. I saw YES & ELP way back in the early 70s. I saw Genesis in 1986 (Invisible Touch Tour).

Prog continues to be my genre of choice, although I will admit that I'm not very up-to-date with a lot of the newer stuff. That's part of the reason why I'm here.

I enjoy Spock's Beard, Flower Kings, Glass Hammer & Transatlantic & am always looking for recommendations. I've heard a lot about Mars Volta here & on other forums & plan to check them out.

The Ryan wrote: stonebeard wrote: I think you'll find at least half or maybe more of the regular forum members are under 20. Gives prog hope, no? I'm 17. Laugh! Perhaps it gives prog-metal hope.

so you say we people under 20 (I'm 17 by the way) should be directly associated as listening to prog metal? ...damn... I really like Floyd )I was convinced Floyd was not really prog, but since there are a great many fans of Floyd around, I'll cross those formalities)... and Genesis... but wait, only Gabriel's Genesis...

hey, seems there's a great number of proggers under 20! ja...well, I'm just a newbie, but there are people of 14 years old!jaja I am amazed, at my 14 I could bearly write in english...

evidently I haven't got any better at that!...