Who really helped you find progressive muic?

I was born into it, when I was just a baby my father was playing records for me, well he was a hippie and a junkie.

For me as a kid getting mocked because of what I listen to was an all day happening.

He played the likes of Pink Floyd, ELP, Deep Purple, Moody Blues, Black Sabbath, Beatles, Ten Years After, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep etc. etc.

Then when I was a young teenager I was more and more drawn to heavy metal and death metal, leaving all the old stuff behind me.

I got about 20 songs down and started listening to them, I was hooked, and I started to listening to 60's psychedelic pop and rock.

From that way I've grown back into it, I was reborn back into it and I'll never let it go, I'm listening to it almost all days (not days with migrane).

Later on I was digging in to prog and I'm listening to 15+ sub genres.

One thing though, I still sometimes listening to Death Metal and Black Death Metal though I can't stand Progressive Metal... I simply hate it.

When I heard the bass line from Eloy's Land of Nobody, and the lyrics,

My favorite bands back in the High School days were Yes, King Crimson, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull, and a few others from that time period.   After graduating I got into Classical and Jazz and pretty much quit listening to anything rock.  A few years ago I found  PA and was shocked that Prog was still alive.  I started buying based on some of the reviews here. 

A good friend who play drums give me a lot of prog rock bands! Also from PA i find many artists who blows your mind up! Thanx to everybody!

My dad's favorite band since the late 70s has been Rush. One Christmas when I was about 8 or 10 or so, he gave me Rush's 2112. Instant love. Kind of odd, considering it has a 20 minute song, but I couldn't deny how sweet that song was. I have memories of jumping up and down on the furniture in the basement belting out the lyrics, proud that I could remember all of the words to a 20 minute rock song. My dad eventually gave me A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Chronicles and Geddy Lee's solo album (and I totally stole Fly by Night). I listened to them a lot but I don't have much memory of doing so. Following in my dad's steps in taking care of CDs... they got scratched up and I guess I kind of stopped listening to them. 2112 always remained my favorite song though!

Once I got a computer and into downloading music (don't worry, I buy more often now but I may have never gotten into prog if it weren't for such activity) when I was a freshman in high school, I fell back in love with Rush. While listening to Rush one day, one of my online friends suggested I check out Genesis' The Knife and Camel's Lady Fantasy. Did so and loved them. I didn't fall for Genesis as a whole until much later, but Camel and King Crimson soon reached my top 10 lists of favorite bands I made all the time. 

So thanks dad! You helpd me fall in love with the genre you call circus music! Haha!

HEY! I had asked the same question once...

I was 13 almost 14 years old when I discovered progressive music. I remember when my dear uncle brought some Maxell tapes into the house. He went into his bedroom; Actually it was all the men in the house bedroom. We were very poor and we had to share beds. So anyway the first tapes I remembered listening was YES: Drama, Rush some compilation from moving pictures to hemispheres. Pink Floyd: animals Genesis: Second out and them they were three and Kansas: Two for the show. At that time as a kid I was into what was current beside Caribbean music because that where I am from. I was into Michael Jackson and that 80's stuff . I vividly remember listing those tapes it was like religious experiences. It brings tears to my eyes just to remember the great joy and unbelievable satisfaction that this music brought into my life. I never was the same kid ever again. Since that day I can’t live without listening to progressive music. I even got a couple of kids from the neighborhood into these prog-bands JA!. Seriously From that day on I never stopped listening to prog Years later I stared building a rich and varieties collection of progressive and Jazz, Fusion.

the  first it sounded  so weird specially pink Floyd animals and some genesis songs. I loved Rush since the first time I listened to them as well as Kansas. Floyd and Genesis had to grow on us for awhile.

Now I listen more Floyd andGenesis  more that any other prog band.

 

 Well, not everything was perfect and still isn’t .I had to deal with the same things over and over until these days. My family was not too happy specially my grand- mother because she thought that me and my uncle was getting devil worshiping music. Imagining all these people( my family) that were only expose to their only kind of music their  whole life. That sh*t was too weird for them. My uncle and I felt like outcast every where we went with the family and in the neighborhood. We still feel like outcast  all these 22 years .

 

Prog means so much to us that we had to tolerated bad comment and criticism from everyoen how knew all the time., but  we did not give and still  we don’t give a f**k what people think, because the joy we get from prog is incomparable, wel,l maybe I can compare  it with sex.

We live to listen this kind of music that's  all!!!!. May God Bless Progressive rock musicians and the fans all around the world we are a big family and an international one? http://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley1.gif -

It was when I was having a look at my dad's vinyl collection and came across ITCOTCK and it's fantastic cover art. I listened to it and liked some of the songs. Then I discovered that my dad also had the Red album and I loved it! At that time I was a hard rock/heavy metal fan who played the drums and I was grabbed by the jazzy style of bill bruford's drumming. I asked my drum teacher about it and he gave me names of bands like Rush Genesis and Yes, but never really like them. Then I searched on the internet for King Crimson music and came across this website.. from then on I was swallowed by prog

Google search for rock forums.   So here checking around.

Found myself back in '82.   The formation of a "supergroup of progressive rock" Asia.    I wondered what the hell was progressive rock?  So I explored the earlier works of Asia's members.......discovered Yes, UK, Uriah Heep, ELP and of course, King Crimson.     Delved into it ever since and haven't come up for air. 

I started listening to a prog radio station on the internet.  I was enthralled with what I heard.  I did a little more research into prog and eventually came across a list of prog bands.  I picked Camel randomly from the list and downloaded The Snow Goose.  I was instantly hooked and began devouring all the prog I could get my hands on.