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Kryodus

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Posted: August 24 2005 at 23:59

21 here

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 00:04

Well im 17.

My mom and dad loved rush so they would play it all the time. I didn't really get into prog until about a year ago. I thank Rush and my parents.

They Dream in Middletown...

yesman72

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 00:43

I'm 18 and i've loved Aqualung and Dark Side of the Moon for about 5 years. Though now I hardly even consider them to be progressive. A while back my guitar teacher(the most awesome guitar teacher ever) played me Close to the Edge. Concerto. At the time I DID NOT get it . But then later I rediscovered it and loved it because of Uriah Heep oddly enough. But yeah prog is the best music ever. Thank God other people my age feel the same. He also told me about Focus' Hamburger Concerto and Uriah Heep Gentle Giant. At the time I had no idea I'd ever like those bands.

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 00:55

I'm in the heart of mass media terribleness EXPLOSION....NEW YORK CITY! I go to school at Manhattan College!

I am a prog fiend, prog is just...omg, amazing. Music today isnt, well, music at all. THIS was music, PROG was music!!! Im only 18 years old, I love prog because of a simple album known as "In Search of the Lost Chord" which strung my nerves after not hearing it for over 10 years, and remembering childhood road trips to the beach from when i was young. Epic.

No one likes prog around me, cept for people i showit to...im a loveable guy, so all of my friends are heavily influenced by me, and they all are starting to love prog also! Amazing!

Anyway, long live prog, it will be around FOREVER

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 01:28

Im 22 years of age and have been listening to prog since I was 19 years of age. I know nobody of my age who enjoys prog or any kind of non rap related music

"He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water"
John 7:38

Starette

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 01:42

fender101 wrote:

I'm 18 a long time pink floyd fan but just starting with prog rock. Its the same thing with genesis for me as well.

I think its great and I only wish I could have been born in about 55 so I could have been around to see all the great albums come out and more importantly all the great concerts.

You know what really irks me? My parents were shut up in a hole at our age during the 60s and 70s...MEANING- they were so conservative/ short-sighted that the Progressive Revolution sped past them like a train going at 1000km/hr. And guess what they were listening to instead? Friken Jazz and Caberret (if that's how you spell it). One album of Deep Purple (Machine Head)- that's as close as my mum got to prog/ music from her OWN generation. And it saddens me...she's a piano teacher....she would've loved ELP! My Dad continuously listens to 1900-1950s jazz........because of him I had to grow up with that crap. Fredastair and Ginger, Louie Armstrong, Bing Crosby etc etc. He was before his time and now my fascination with prog is labelling me before MY time! Oh that my parents knew what was going on around them in the 70s...what better music I could've grown-up with, what a better life this would have been...

50 tonne angel falls to the earth...

Temujin

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 01:55

Hey all, I've been lurking here for a long time. I am a 17 year old prog fan. When I was 13 I heard ITCOTCK but really couldn't listen to anything off it except Schizoid Man, the beginning of Moonchild, and the title track. I was always into classic rock and the blues. Then, about a year and a half ago, I was on the schoolbus on my way to school. My bus driver was playing a classic rock station on the way there, and this station decided to play "Lucky Man". I was listening to it and thought to myself "Hey, this is pretty cool, kind of CSNY" until they got to the moog solo, at which point I was like

. As soon as I got home that day I went and downloaded that song, and also saw a song called "Tarkus". I think to myself "Wow, thats a pretty long song, I have to hear that" and proceeded to have my mind blown! I immediatly asked my dad if he had any ELP stuff, and he told me he hated that band, but in browsing old record stores, I found a few albums by them. I then went onto all the other major symphonic bands, and am still in the process of expanding my tastes from there!

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 02:46

I was fourteen as I got interested about prog. I'm 29 now.

Pearl101

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 03:15

I'm 13 but started at 12... Started with Yes from my dad's CD collection, I loved them, and only them for a few months, I then decided to push the boundries, and I tried other early prog, Genesis, King Crimson etc. I loved all that and started to call Prog my favourite genre at around that point. All this lead to D.T, which I fell in love with, this lead to Pain of Salvation, Evergrey, etc. etc. Now I own 80 plus Prog CDs!

I'm pretty much all by myself with my tastes, which sucks.

Prog Is Better.

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 04:00

Rayzl

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 13:40

FOrgot to say, I-m 19, and started with prog since I was a Sperm, when my mom and dad listen to good music around the 70's smoking *eed, and as I saw on a pic from someones signature (People playing guitar, smoking (assumed), and drinking tea!!!(But waht kind of tea...??? Could it be black, maybe a m*shroo** tea psilocybe..... Nahh.... jajajaja

Open your mind....

Dan Yaron

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 14:48

Actually, I can find atleast one person at every course at my school that can relate to progressive music, but that doesn't surprise me since the israeli society consists of many weed smokers lol.

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 14:52

I'm nearly 16, and I love prog, fusion and post rock.

If it weren't for file sharing and the internet (in particular, this site

), my musical tastes would be completely different.

However my guitar teacher got me intro Dream Theater, and the ball started rolling from there.

"If the company of tumbleweed is unexpected fun, you're a cactus..."

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 14:53

I'm 18 now, I first started getting into Genesis when I was 12 or so.

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 15:07

my god!!! I thought I was YOUNG!!! I'm almost 28....I'm starting to sense the stream of time...

anyway, I started to listen to KC when I was 18, so it's nearly ten years, but the interest in prog came and went until a couple of years ago, when I decided to listen to all the classics, starting from Genesis's Foxtrot. I have to admit that my cd collection is fairly small, I am (still) a student, so I don't have enough money to satisfy my musical curiosities BUT I KNOW THIS IS GONNA END SOME DAY AND I WILL OWN THE HUGEST PROG CD COLLECTION EVER

"my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III")

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 15:09

I'm 19, and discovered prog through Pink Floyd (like a lot of people it seems!). I only started exploring the realms of prog rock about two years ago, and it's the greatest discovery that i've made

pale moon

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 15:44

my introduction to prog actually came from a magazine. there was this article "the symfo top 40" which was a progrock top 40 chosen by readers. i thought symforock was rock or metal with an orchestra (you know, like metallica did on S&M). was i surprised to see a list of mainly pink floyd, early genesis, mike oldfield and even opeth. i liked the music a lot but didn't know it was called symfo or progressive till i saw that article. i asked my parents about this great music but they were not interested. i had to ask some teachers at my school who mainly hooked me up with some great dutch '70's progrock (focus, earth & fire, alquin, ekseption etc). thank god for the internet who got me this site and the rest is history...

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Posted: August 25 2005 at 16:04

I was in the womb while my parents were at a 1987 Genesis concert

I guess you could say that is the beggining