Your First Albums
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Topic: Your First Albums
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Subject: Your First Albums
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 13:27
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What was your first album from each prog sub-genre? My first albums were: CANTERBURY SCENE: Steve Hillage - Green CROSSOVER PROG: Supertramp - Crime of the Century ECLECTIC PROG: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King EXPERIMENTAL/POST METAL: Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second HEAVY PROG: Rush - Moving Pictures INDO-PROG/RAGA ROCK: Andre Fertier's Clivage - Mixtus Orbis JAZZ ROCK/FUSION: Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow KRAUTROCK: Faust - Faust IV NEO-PROG: Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear POST ROCK/MATH ROCK: Toe - For Long Tomorrow PROG FOLK: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick PROGRESSIVE ELECTRONIC: Tangerine Dream - Rubycon PROGRESSIVE METAL: Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence PSYCHEDELIC/SPACE ROCK: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon RIO/AVANT-PROG: The Residents - Not Available ROCK PROGRESSIVO ITALIANO: Libra - Musica e parole SYMPHONIC PROG: Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery TECH/EXTREME PROG METAL: Mastodon - Crack the Skye ZEUHL: Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh VARIOUS GENRES/ARTISTS: Golden Miles - Australian Progressive Rock 1969-1974 PROG RELATED: Black Sabbath - Paranoid PROTO-PROG: Deep Purple - Machine Head ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
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Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 14:40
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Only counting albums I have in a physical form (LP, CD, cassette tape) CROSSOVER PROG: don't remember - probably Radiohead - OK Computer ECLECTIC PROG: King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic JAZZ/ROCK FUSION: Blood Sweat and Tears - No Sweat KRAUTROCK: Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei POST ROCK/MATH ROCK: Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun PROTO PROG: The Beatles - Rubber Soul PROG FOLK: Jethro Tull - Stand Up PROGRESSIVE ELECTRONIC: Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) PROG RELATED: Queen - A Night at the Opera PSYCHEDELIC/SPACE ROCK: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here RIO/AVANT PROG: The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! ROCK PROGRESSIVO ITALIANO: Le Orme - Felona e Sorona SYMPHONIC PROG: Emerson Lake and Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition ZEUHL: Koenjihyakkei - Angherr Shisspa
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 15:26
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Damn, really can't remember. If I knew there was going to be a quiz I would have paid more attention. CANTERBURY SCENE: National Health - Of Queues and Cures CROSSOVER PROG: Roxy Music - s/t ECLECTIC PROG: King Crimson - Red EXPERIMENTAL/POST METAL: Mr. Bungle HEAVY PROG: Rush - Caress of Steel JAZZ ROCK/FUSION: RTF - Romantic Warrior NEO-PROG: Genesis - A Trick of the Tail POST ROCK/MATH ROCK: Polyphia - Rennisance PROG FOLK: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick PROGRESSIVE METAL: Dream Theater - Images and Words PSYCHEDELIC/SPACE ROCK: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon RIO/AVANT-PROG: Zappa - One Size Fits All SYMPHONIC PROG: Yes - The Yes Album TECH/EXTREME PROG METAL: Amimals as Leaders - s/t PROG RELATED: Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath PROTO-PROG: Hendrix - Are You Experienced? |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 15:35
| CROSSOVER PROG:- Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 15:35
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OK, I'll bite but I wish you guys stopped thinking along some of our bogus subgenre First is the year I bought it (+/-) 75- CANTERBURY SCENE: Caravan - Grey & Pink 74- CROSSOVER PROG: Supertramp - Crime of the Century 74- ECLECTIC PROG: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King 76- HEAVY PROG: Rush - 2112 90's- INDO-PROG/RAGA ROCK: Andre Fertier's Clivage - Regina Astris 78- JAZZ ROCK/FUSION: Santana - Caravanserai & Maneige - Libre Serrvice 77- KRAUTROCK: AD2 - Yeti 83- NEO-PROG: Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear 00's - POST ROCK/MATH ROCK: GYBE! - Fa#- 74- PROG FOLK: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick & Harmonium debut 76- PROGRESSIVE ELECTRONIC: Tangerine Dream - Ricochet 74- PSYCHEDELIC/SPACE ROCK: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon 78/9 - RIO/AVANT-PROG: (avant) Hot Rats & (RIO) UZ - Hérésie 90's- ROCK PROGRESSIVO ITALIANO: Celeste - Principe de un Giorno 74- SYMPHONIC PROG: Genesis - Selling England 76- ZEUHL: Magma - 1001° Centigrade - 75- PROG RELATED: Wishbone Ash - Argus 75- PROTO-PROG: Who's next (I think)
I'll bite and he'll bait  . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Grumpyprogfan wrote:Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 15:45
I don't have any Neo Prog albums - not unless you count Anathema and Porcupine Tree. 
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 15:48
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Some kind of wax cylinder put out by Thomas Edison. Can't remember the artist though. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 16:15
I wonder if you could help me please. I want to buy a gramophone... |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 17:07
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Posted By: Spaciousmind
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 17:49
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This was harder than I thought, in some categories I had trouble remembering which artist I bought first. CANTERBURY SCENE Gong - Camembert Electrique CROSSOVER PROG Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells ECLECTIC PROG Van Der Graf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other EXPERIMENTAL/POST METAL Anathema - Eternity HEAVY PROG Uriah Heep - Sailsbury INDO-PROG/RAGA ROCK Lamp of the Universe - Echo in Light JAZZ ROCK/FUSION Santana - Abraxas KRAUTROCK Can - Tago Mago NEO-PROG Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear POST ROCK/MATH ROCK Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun PROG FOLK Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick PROGRESSIVE ELECTRONIC Fripp & Eno - (No Pussyfooting) PROGRESSIVE METAL Queensrÿche - The Warning PSYCHEDELIC/SPACE ROCK Hawkwind - In Search Of Space RIO/AVANT-PROG Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica ROCK PROGRESSIVO ITALIANO Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin SYMPHONIC PROG Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer TECH/EXTREME PROG METAL Opeth - Deliverance ZEUHL Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh PROG RELATED Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV PROTO-PROG Cream - Live Cream Nick
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 18:49
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CANTERBURY SCENE Caravan - If I Could Do It...... (80's) CROSSOVER PROG Supertramp - Crime Of The Century (70's) ECLECTIC PROG King Crimson - ITCOTCK (80's) EXPERIMENTAL/POST METAL Tool - Laterus (00's) HEAVY PROG Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You (80's) INDO-PROG/RAGA ROCK Third Ear Band - Music From Macbeth (00's) JAZZ ROCK/FUSION Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Blue Nights (00's) KRAUTROCK Can - Future Days (00's) NEO-PROG Asturias - Birds Eye View (10's) POST ROCK/MATH ROCK Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun (00's) PROG FOLK Jethro Tull - Aqualung (80's) PROGRESSIVE ELECTRONIC Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (90's) PROGRESSIVE METAL Liquid Tension Experiment - s/t (90's) PSYCHEDELIC/SPACE ROCK Pink Floyd - DSOTM (70's) RIO/AVANT-PROG Captain Beefheart - Mirror Man (80's) ROCK PROGRESSIVO ITALIANO Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Io Sono Nato Libero (00's) SYMPHONIC PROG Genesis - Trespass or Yes - CTTE (80's) TECH/EXTREME PROG METAL Cynic - Focus (00's) ZEUHL Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh (00's) ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Bowchicawowowtapeco
Date Posted: March 29 2021 at 22:20
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Canterbury Scene - Khan - Space Shanty Crossover Prog - Supertramp - Even the Quietest Moments Eclectic Prog - King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Experimental/Post Metal - Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle Heavy Prog - Yes - Relayer Indoprog/ragarock - Secret Chiefs 3 - Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws Jazzrock/Fusion - Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Krautrock - Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun Neo-Prog - Yes - 90125 Post/Math-rock - Idiot Flesh - The Nothing Show Prog Folk - Jethro Tull - Aqualung Progressive Electronic - Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk Progressive Metal - Meshuggah - I Psychedelic/Space Rock - The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream RIO/Avant-Prog - Frank Zappa - Lumpy Gravy Rock Progressivo Italiano - Goblin - Profondo Rosso Symphonic Prog - Yes - Close to the Edge + The Yes Album (bought them same day) Tech/Extreme Prog Metal - The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity Zeuhl - Magma - Kobaia Prog Related - Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica Proto-Prog - The Doors - A hits compliation of some kind. (7 of the above albums I don't actually have, but they are burned into the my mind as if they were 'my first'. For example when a friend showed me Hot Rats, that was the first time I'd heard anything remotely close to fusion, and it blew my mind. That I got a copy of Bitches Brew in my vinyl collection ten years later feels like a footnote in my development in comparison) ------------- Chaperone of brown and decidedly un-hip music in Ontario. https://www.instagram.com/bowchicawowow.tape.co" rel="nofollow - Bowchicawowow Tape Company |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 00:04
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CANTERBURY SCENE: Caravan - Caravan CROSSOVER PROG: Radiohead - The Bends ECLECTIC PROG: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King HEAVY PROG: Rush - 2112 INDO-PROG/RAGA ROCK: Third Ear Band - Alchemy JAZZ ROCK/FUSION: Miles Davis - A Kind Of Blue KRAUTROCK: Can - Tago Mago NEO-PROG: Marillion - Misplaced Childhood POST ROCK/MATH ROCK: Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden PROG FOLK: Jethro Tull - Aqualung PROGRESSIVE ELECTRONIC: Tangerine Dream - Phaedra PSYCHEDELIC/SPACE ROCK: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon RIO/AVANT-PROG: Frank Zappa - Hot Rats ROCK PROGRESSIVO ITALIANO: PFM - Per un Amico SYMPHONIC PROG: Genesis - Wind & Wuthering ZEUHL: Eros - Dun PROG RELATED: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 02:39
 Me too.First symphonic prog album - Genesis Live. I know this because it was the second album I ever bought and the first one was Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies. The rest? No idea. (btw - you didn't specify first album heard or first one bought)
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 03:14
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Ok, I don't normally think in terms of sub genres, but I'll have a go.. Symphonic - A Trick of the Tail - Genesis Neo prog - Script for a jesters Tear - Marillion Prog metal - Images & Words - Dream Theater Heavy Prog - Exit Stage..Left - Rush RIO/Avant - Hot Rats - Zappa Canterbury - Hatfield & the North - Rotters Club Prog related - Rising - Rainbow Psychedelic - The Wall - Pink Floyd Prog Folk - Broadsword & The Beast - Jethro Tull Prog electronic - Rubycon - Tangerine Dream Proto Prog - Sgt Pepper - The Beatles Jazz rock/Fusion - Moroccan Roll - Brand X Experimental post metal - Leaving your Body Map - Maudlin of the well Tech/Extreme Prog Metal - Ghost Reveries - Opeth Eclectic prog - Red - King Crimson Crossover prog - PG3 - Peter Gabriel ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 04:11
OK, sooooo you're doing some kind of debaiting, right??  . ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 04:17
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CANTERBURY SCENE: Steve Hillage - Fish Rising CROSSOVER PROG: ELO - Secret Messages ECLECTIC PROG: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King EXPERIMENTAL/POST METAL: Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient HEAVY PROG: Rush - Moving Pictures (this is a guess; it could also have been Grace Under Pressure) INDO-PROG/RAGA ROCK: still don't have anything from this genre JAZZ ROCK/FUSION: Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (this is a guess) KOSMISCHE MUSIK: Amon Düül II - Phallus Dei NEO-PROG - Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear POST ROCK/MATH ROCK: Goodspeed You! Black Emperor - F# A# PROG FOLK: Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave PROG RELATED: Asia - Asia (this is a guess; could have also been Styx - Kilroy Was Here or Vangelis - Albedo 0.39) PROGRESSIVE ELECTRONIC: Tangerine Dream - Phaedra PROGRESSIVE METAL: Altura - Mercy PROTO-PROG: Deep Purple - Machine Head PSYCHEDELIC/SPACE ROCK: Pink Floyd - DSOTM RIO/AVANT-PROG: Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 ROCK PROGRESSIVO ITALIANO: PFM - L'isola di niente (this is a guess) SYMPHONIC PROG: Yes - Classic Yes and 90125; Genesis - Genesis (bought these three at the same time from a record club in 1984?) TECH/EXTREME PROG METAL: Opeth - Sorceress ZEUHL: Runaway Totem - Andromeda ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 04:37
Before starting this thread, I did think about how "first album" is to be defined, but decided to leave it open. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 04:54
Brilliant! I love that. That could have been my dad in B&B HiFi in the early 80's. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 11:22
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The first prog album I paid for with my hard earnt cash was crime of the century which I bought in 76. The first prog album I owned was CTTE in 74 which a young lady i briefly knew gave me. The rest of my collection has been lovingly put together over many years on a myriad of formats ( except 8 track and downloads). I expect it to continue to grow as their is so much great music to discover. |
Posted By: Bowchicawowowtapeco
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 12:29
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Doing this exercise got me thinking... Shouldn't bands be listed under multiple genres, and instead the albums themselves be listed under the individual genres? Saying that King Crimson is "eclectic prog" seems like a bit of a cop-out, and Yes' 90125 is symphonic is just wrong. ------------- Chaperone of brown and decidedly un-hip music in Ontario. https://www.instagram.com/bowchicawowow.tape.co" rel="nofollow - Bowchicawowow Tape Company |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 14:10
This is an oft-repeated question/desire. It will likely never happen, and there are more than a few people here who don’t think it would be a good idea anyway. It definitely makes senses to have albums defined by genre, rather than artists - as it is not at all uncommon for artists to produce albums across more than one genre during their career. Most websites do this, and some even allow multiple genre tagging per album. But even if the software allowed this change at PA (and a few people have suggested it won’t), the amount of time and effort to make the changes retrospectively to everything already in PA would be massive. Personally, I pay little attention to genres in general, and even less to the genres in PA. In fact the only time I worry about whether a band fits the PA genres, is when I am evaluating it for inclusion. I kind of have to care somewhat, there. But the idea of ascribing black and white genres and attempting to pigeonhole artists and bands into them just seems almost antithetical to prog anyway, to me. I take any genre tag on this site with a pinch of salt. And sometimes the whole mine.... ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 14:13
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I'm surprised people can remember that well! The first three albums I owned were ELP - Pictures At At Exhibition (symphonic) Paul McCartney and Wings - Band On The Run (not prog!?) The Who - By Numbers (proto?) After that not totally sure Neo Prog -Either IQ The Wake or Marillion - Misplaced Childhood Prog folk - could easily have been a Steeleye Span compilation RPI - possibly some Le Orme Prog metal - probably Dream Theater - Images and Words Eclectic - Peter Gabriel -Car (or has he been moved to another sub genre in which case King Crimson's debut) Prog electronic - Has to be Tangerine Dream I guess but would be a compilation - Dream Sequence (Virgin 73-83). |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 14:32
| Now that I come to think about it, I think my first Frank Zappa album might have been the outtakes compilation The Lost Episodes released in 1996 (and not Freak Out!). And for the Beatles: the Hey Jude compilation rather than Rubber Soul. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 30 2021 at 16:41
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: March 31 2021 at 03:39
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CANTERBURY SCENE: Soft Machine - Third (2013) CROSSOVER PROG: Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (2012) ECLECTIC PROG: King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (2013) HEAVY PROG: Rush - 2112 (2012) JAZZ ROCK / FUSION: Al Di Meola - Casino (2014) KRAUTROCK: Can - Tago Mago (2016) POST-ROCK / MATH ROCK: Tera Melos - Patagonian Rats (2018) PROG FOLK: Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (2013) PROGRESSIVE ELECTRONIC: Brian Eno - Another Green World (2015) PSYCHEDELIC / SPACE ROCK: Pink Floyd - The Wall (2012) RIO / AVANT-PROG: The Mothers Of Invention - Uncle Meat (2013) ROCK PROGRESSIVO ITALIANO: Area - Caution Radiation Area (2016) SYMPHONIC PROG: Camel - The Snow Goose (2012) ZEUHL: Ruins - 1986-1992 (2017) PROG-RELATED: Vangelis - Oceanic (2000) PROTO-PROG: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love (2012) ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: March 31 2021 at 06:30
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I didn't think of it when I created this thread, but adding the year you got each album is quite helpful. However, even without the year, I think one can reasonably guess when you got into prog just by the albums themselves for particular sub-genre (even with earlier albums present in the list). ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: March 31 2021 at 06:35
I had hoped that people would stay with the PA classification of albums, but I noticed that some albums are classified in an alternative way. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 31 2021 at 08:01
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As Steve said , something on an old wax cylinder..... But seriously I can't recall that far back....when I started buying lp's gas was 17cents a gallon and cigarettes were about 25cents. None of those categories existed and we didn't call anything prog then..... The first 'true prog' was Court by Crimson...bought that in April of 1970 but I had The Beatles, Traffic, Procol Harum, Moody Blues , Floyd, and a few other things including Zep and Sabbath. And the guys in the dorm played some interesting things like Touch and SRC so there were some cool things around. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 31 2021 at 09:55
Pretty much what Doc says goes for me, although I was only 6 in 1970........but we used to walk to Thrifty Drug Store and buy a single scoop cone for a nickel....if you bought a dbl your dad had a good job, and a triple meant you family was rich!!!!  -------------
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