First Prog Experience
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Topic: First Prog Experience
Posted By: AerosolKid74
Subject: First Prog Experience
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 17:48
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When did prog first draw you in? I remember sitting in school when I was about 10 by myself with a crappy mp3 player i got off ebay that could only fit about 10 minutes of music on it and I just listened to Roundabout by Yes over and over again and that was a truely magical time, I unfortunately didn't really discover Yes for another 3 years ------------- Prog Rock: Founded on a fundamental misunderstanding of the word virtuoso. |
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Posted By: TheOppenheimer
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 18:13
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like many people, my first contact to prog was my dad, listening to Genesis on his car. he had Seconds Out, but i wasnt really conscious (i was about 3 years old). He lost that cd, and many years later, my second contact with prog: drumming classes. The guy showed me O Baterista, and I read the songlist of that dvd (it was huge) Many years later: the important. Guitar Hero (lol) I was amazed at YYZ, and Carry On Wayward Son. But i stopped at YYZ, "hey, I know this song." I bought the Rush In Rio dvd. Then I started buying classics of prog, with the "i like rush, rush is prog, i like prog" idea. I bought Dark Side Of The Moon(Pink Floyd), Fragile (Yes), Aqualung (Jethro Tull), and Red (King Crimson) Some years later, after completing Rush's and Pink Floyd's discography (and buying many many other albums), I found my dad's lost Seconds Out copy. I was like "oh god, i can sing all these songs, but i dont even know their names, WTF!" well, and the rest is basically "hmm that band is prog? *presses download*" ------------- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// A veces es cuestión de esperar, y tomarte en silencio. |
Posted By: dtd350
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 18:31
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I always listened to classic rock with my parents. Within that there was alot of Rush and whatnot. I am the only really big fan of music in my family. My parents just listen to the radio and stuff...no CD's. I randomly bought a Dream Theater CD (Systematic Chaos). I didn't know anything about it really other than the fact that I had heard of them. Now, well I lost track of the number of CD's in my collection now...I would say 250+ would be an estimate. I want to start collecting vinyl someday. I know that around half my collection is loaded onto my Windows Media Player and I have about 15 days worth of music. HAHA. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/dtd350 |
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 18:33
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Pink Floyd when I was very, very young, I guess. But I didn't like them until I was maybe 13.
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Posted By: DreamInSong
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 18:58
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Lazy Sunday morning, break out my ipod and listen to The Wall all the way through for the first time. Definitely a defining moment, if not the defining moment, in my journey towards prog. That was two years ago.
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Posted By: Faces and Traces
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 19:41
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Mine Seems to follow the same pattern as most peoples...i grew up with my dad playing genesis and rush bootlegs in the car every time we went anywhere And then one day, when I was about 13.... it just clicked.. "man..this is awesome". I think everyone has that point where they start properly noticing music, and i knew all the words, but none of the song or band names, so my dad took em to see rush, jethro tull, deep purple and "anderson and wakeman" in the space of a year...i havnt looked back and have been steadily building a record collection spanning everything with the "prog" label I can get my hands on
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Posted By: beebs
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 20:12
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I have an uncle with cerebral palsy who had the biggest record collection (talking vinyl now...) back in the mid- to late-60's, and it was mostly Beatles, The Who, Rolling Stones, etc. Then came bands like The Doors and Iron Butterfly. It was all really fascinating to me. I think I got my first "stereo" (turntable on top of an AM/FM tuner with detached speakers) in 1971. I bought my first album that year as well: "13 Greatest Hits" by The Doors. I also bought the first album by Santana (the white one with "Evil Ways" on it). Using money from my paper route, I bought every album by The Doors and Santana (probably 10 or 11 albums total) before I bought an album by another band. The next two albums I bought were "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" by The Moody Blues and "Fragile" by Yes. Both were pretty much brand new. The Moodys scored with "The Story In Your Eyes" on the radio, while a shortened version of "Roundabout" made Yes a known commodity. So this was my foray into the realm of progressive rock. Among my next purchases was "Lizard" by King Crimson, and this album really challenged me. My younger brothers were pretty much right with me in what I was buying. They were digging it too. But Crimson kind of threw a monkey wrench into the works. Here was some offbeat, sometimes a little twisted, pieces of music that were hard to fit into the extended mold of pop music. I reveled in it, while they reviled it. My son plays bass guitar for Between the Buried and Me. He is interviewed occasionally by the local music beat writer who tries to keep tabs on local musicians (like the singer from Train, who is from Erie, PA), and he did a phone interview with Dan once and asked him, "Where do your musical influences come from?" He answered, "Well, when I was little, my dad was listening to stuff like Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, and other nutty, nutty stuff like that." I didn't know if he was complimenting my musical taste or just putting the best words he could to it. I know he truly loves listening to all those bands, but when it came to describing it, the words "nutty, nutty" were all he could come up with. ------------- "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of one's own mind" * Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Posted By: Wafflesyrup
Date Posted: August 12 2010 at 20:22
| Floyd I suppose, though I didn't perceive their music at the time as King Crimson later taught me to perceive music, being what I would consider my first prog experience. Larks' Tongues In Aspic. Had heard ITCOTCK prior to that as well, but that one night with Larks' was the big "Ohhhhhhh!" Come to think of it I have been listening to Rush's 2112, and tons of Yes through my pops since before I can remember. Still, for me that dawning of understanding really defines the experience for me. |
Posted By: sydbarrett2010
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 05:38
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when i was 13 i was sitting in my brothers room and he was listening to chop suey (system of a down) i liked the band so i searched it on the internet and i saw a whole world of rock and metal music in front of me so i searched and searched 'till i found all the great and famous bands and my cousin were into music and especially prog so he had all the bands downloaded and he had pink floyd too so i listened to dsotm and that's how i went in the world of prog |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 05:53
I saw this cover in the library as a teenager,  and then I took it home and played it. i was astounded but it didn't get me into prog. Pink Floyd some years later are to blame with The Wall in 1979!------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 06:34
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I was actually into prog before I was really really into prog. I remember really liking the Who's instrumental Tommy theme. Hocus Focus Pocus. ELP's Toccata (A cousin had BSS). My first two prog albums in my collection were Wakeman's King Arthur and Journey. I was enjoying other stuff on the radio like Genesis Follow You Follow Me, Mangione's Feels So Good. I think the thing that finally tipped it over for me was my brother, three years older, and his friends were all big into prog. My brother had this double album that was a combo of Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot. (Didn't have the original cover art, boo!!!).
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Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 06:57
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I went from Alternative Rock (Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins) to Classic Rock (Queen, Black Sabbath, Rainbow) to Prog Rock (Yes, Camel, Genesis). If we discard Prog-related & proto-Prog bands (as well as Kraftwerk), Roundabout by Yes was also for me the very first Prog song I ever heard. It had me mesmerized and hooked forever. This was about 11 years ago now and was around 18 at the time. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 07:05
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I forgot I had Autobahn in my collection before I went prognuts.
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Posted By: SouthSideoftheSky
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 07:21
My mother had Computer World on vinyl LP, I used to listen to that a lot when I was a young child. I recently discovered that she also had Genesis' Trespass, but she doesn't remember buying it, or ever hearing it! |
Slartibartfast wrote:Posted By: Darklord55
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 13:48
Me too. But I bought mine at a record store when I was a teenager in 1970 just because I liked the cover. 
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 14:23
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Hi,
In Brazil as a kid listening to Stravinsky, Debussy, Tchaikovsky and Villa-Lobos and so many others ... and the majority of stuff after all that was just pop music ... and still is! Including most "prog"! We're talking mid 60's here! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: besotoxico
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 16:27
My dad used to have a huge record collection (Which he gave to me  ). I remember being obsessed with Deep Purple's Machine Head, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, and Moody Blue's In search of the Lost Chord. I was always into Meshuggah but never made a prog connection. I always thought of them as Tribal Metal. Same with Emperor whom I just thought was a diverse Black Metal band (Never made a prog connection).I was and still am more into Jazz (Which inspired me to go to school for music) then anything so I didn't really get into Prog. until about six years ago when I was 20. I was sitting in a circle of friends passing the doochie around and a friend put on LTiA by King Crimson. Maybe it was because I was high when I heard it  but that became my favorite album for that year and got me hooked into prog. I started researching the band members and the albums. Listened to ITCOTCK and found out Greg Lake was in ELP. Researching Bill Bruford led me to UK and Yes. Researched ELP then found out Emerson was in The Nice. Listened to Relayer and found out Patrick Moraz was from The Moody Blues (Which I already knew but didn't really know) It seemed like every time I researched a band I would find reference to another band. It was a domino effect. In 2006 I stumbled upon this site and it was like a door opened for me. I never got interested in posting on the forums until now because there seems (at least to me) to be a bit of an elitest mentality with some of the big wigs on here. For someone whom identifies themselves with Jazz first and then Prog second I felt a little out of place. Still do a little bit. ------------- Lies, he only tells the truth, for he means it, means, not anything he says, eyes unseen, but everything is ........ So sincere, so sincere, so sincere, so sin. |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 16:53
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My first experience with prog was when I had got an Ipod 4 years ago or so. I was mainly into crap music at that time, and my plan was to download all kinds of sh*t and put in on my Ipod. However, my father didn't allow me to illegally download music. As I didn't really have any CD's to rip, I decided to rip some of my parents CD's on to my Ipod. Neither of my parents really are into music at all, but they owned some CD's, including Pink Floyd's WYWH. It took me some time to fully appreciate that, but for a long time it has been my favorite album ever. I did not know about this "prog rock" thing though. And then...
Fortunately I'm not the only one.  I went to a record store and if I recall correctly I bought my first CD ever there. YYZ had blown me away on Guitar Hero and I really wanted a CD with that on it, so I bough Exit... Stage Left, not even knowing it was a live album. I also remember buying Radiohead's OK Computer in a record store because there was an offer of 3 CD's for €20 or so, and a friend of mine who was with me was buying 2 CD's. I had heard about Radiohead and decided to add OK Computer to the bunch to make things cheaper. It also took me a while to get into that one, but eventually it got me. The next while I collected nearly the entire PF discography and I listened to very few bands for about a year. Then I got familiar with he thing called "progressive rock" and I started to discover more and more bands. ------------- 
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Posted By: omardiyejon
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 16:53
wow, as far as i read you all look lucky guys whose at least parents were interested in prog music. my parents, unfortunately, are not even related with rock music, they always listen to some sh*tty turkish folk music or some arabesque influenced weird kind of music. whatever, me meeting prog was not a classic one(except pink floyd part). one of my buddies sent me a dream theater song and my whole musical shapening turned up and down. i listened them, i liked them, i got bored with them and i went on looking for similar bands in the genre. of course at first much of the similar bands i got into was 'progressive metal' as you would guess. then things started to turn better; i started to go deep in the heart of this music which brought me to late 60s. i am sorry if i bored you ------------- http://www.normalisr.com/?username=omardiyejon" rel="nofollow - http://www.normalisr.com/?username=omardiyejon |
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 20:10
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I first heard Yes when I was maybe 7, because my dad was a big fan in his teens and he bought the In a Word box set (great buy btw). It didnt leave an impression on me. Then my brother bought Scenes from a Memory when i was about 9, and prog still hadnt really made its mark. but that album did change me (i like, as my avatar points out haha). By maybe age 12, I had bought most of Dream Theater's albums. That's when prog really set in, around when I was 11 or 12. When systematic chaos came out, I was all over prog rock. I got every dream theater album ever released (thus began my obsession), i had ripped a lot of my dad's old prog collection to my computer, and i was addicted to Pandora radio. It was all downhill from there. After dream theater, yes, genesis, and symphony x (a newly added favorite), came: rush, opeth, meshuggah, iron maiden, elp, camel, rhapsody, 3, andromeda, van der graaf generator, liquid tension experiment, various solo projects (rick wakeman, jordan rudess, derek sherinian, etc) and sooo many more. I currently have 143 progressive artists on my zune (microsoft's ipod) and over 2,300 songs. It been a great many years since i discovered prog  ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: chefrobb
Date Posted: August 13 2010 at 22:09
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Genesis....Roxy Theater....LA....1973.....6 shows....3 nites.....priceless ------------- chefrobb |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 08:58
My Father was secretly into jazz & wished he had been a drummer (Buddy rich & Gene Krupa were his hero's) so i in a weird way he laid down a thing of music being special and something you hold in your head and heart to get you through the mundane bits of life. in the early/mid 70's my older bro' went to boarding school and would come home with cassettes of Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman, Camel & Focus. He also talked of Stackridge, barclay James Harvest, Hawkwind etc.. I got talking to older boys at school (cos i knew a bit about the music they liked- this was good as they 'looked after me' when things got tough! ) & eventually got to go to Camel, BJH, Peter Gabriel etc concerts with them. Then got involved in local bands, got involved as a pro roadie (for a very short period..) went to lots of festivals etc. Built up a huge vinyl collection & still collecting today. Seminal moments?.. Listening to the Enid play 'Region of Summer stars' as the dawn broke at Stonehenge ... Camel, Lunar Sea live (about 78ish?), Hawkwind Levitation tour 80/81 (worked with 'em a bit) & the first time i listened to 'Farewell to kings' in a booth at a record shop in 1977. Theres plenty more but this ole Geezer could waffle for England
Keep in (un)real, y'all
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Posted By: AbrahamSapien
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 09:36
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When the guitarist from my band asked me to learn 6:00. |
Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 10:50
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I would say that Prog music has been a huge part of my life for as long as I can remember, even though I didn't recognize it as "Prog"; it was just music to me. I'd known Thick as a Brick from a very early age and discovered A Passion Play around age 6 or 7. My dad was a huge Tull fan and would listen to pretty much all of their albums around the house....he even took me to see them on their Roots to Branches tour when I was about 3! I actually begged him to let me go and I loved every second of it! Later on, I discovered more bands....particularly Pink Floyd and Rush...as well as some heavy metal and blues. However, something kept drawing me these bands I mentioned above, more so than the metal or blues groups. I even remember hearing Apostrophe (') from a very early age, leading me to discover We're Only In It For The Money at age 11 and to continue from there to grab up any and all things Zappa. Later, I discovered In Court of the Crimson King one night (ironically around the same time I picked up the flute) and eventually acquired all things Crimson, leading naturally for me to pick up nearly all of the ELP and Yes albums at my local Best Buy and buying all of the early Genesis and most of the Gentle Giant albums at amazon.com. It was later that I discovered this site, which oddly enough, had all of my favorite bands wrapped into one genre called "progressive rock", naturally encouraging me to collect VdGG, Magma, and an enormous amount of other fantastic bands. ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 11:41
| Other than hearing "I've Seen All Good People" on the radio when I was four, my first Prog experience was listening to Dark Side of the Moon two years ago. I found most Rock music boring and generic at the time, but DSOTM showed me what Rock music could do. Not the most interesting story, but that's how I got into Prog. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: August 14 2010 at 21:04
| It was in 1972, when a friend told me about Jethro Tull. I knew somebody who needed money and was selling the "Aqualung" album, so I told my friend, who suggested I buy it. I listened to it every day for 3 months. Then I went to a record store and found "Stand Up", got it, and became my favorite album of all time. After that, I heard of Yes, King Crimson, ELP, Pink Floyd, etc, and I truly believed I had found a gate to heaven. |
Posted By: Devonsidhe
Date Posted: August 15 2010 at 00:44
Same here. The first label I started hearing was art rock. But, as I have said before, the label meant music I already liked. So, I guess I can't really look back and see a first moment. It was more of a progression (pun intended).
First albums for me were probably Sgt. Pepper, Doors 1st, Monkees' Head, Moodies DOFP and more.
For our kids, it was playing them the Moodies DOFP some nights for them to go to sleep by. (Tubular Bells as well) Still waiting for grandkids for the next generation to start. ------------- Even a man who stumbles around in the dark will influence those he does not see. |
Posted By: Devonsidhe
Date Posted: August 15 2010 at 00:49
Similar here though my parents' music was more Glenn Miller and Grand Ol' Opry. But, I have to admit as I got older, Glenn Miller doesn't sound that bad..... ------------- Even a man who stumbles around in the dark will influence those he does not see. |
Posted By: Dunn Khan
Date Posted: August 15 2010 at 08:33
| My father definitely got me into the prog music by playing Pink Floyd or King Crimson cds in the car on long drives and I always liked it but I started to get into it on my own when my father dropped Train of Thought on my desk claiming it was too heavy for him. Right then and there, got hooked, started exploring prog (mostly the prog metal branches) and found Opeth, Ayreon, etc... At this time, I'm the one who drops the cds on his desk, mostly from sniffing around in obscure albums on here. |
Posted By: johnfripp
Date Posted: August 15 2010 at 20:46
| Xmas eve and yes fragile never will forget that moment |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: August 16 2010 at 07:34
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I realy want to talk about this topic but I afraid. I'm sure after I write ANYTHING, Some guys attack to me and insult me without any REASON. I like to dicuss and I respect to opposite opinion but I cant undrestand why INSULT?
See you next time.
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: August 16 2010 at 10:09
Don't be afraid of me. I really would love to hear your experience and I will not be critical about it, since it's quite personal, and if it's something that brought you to be a pro fan, why would I do such a thing as insult you? |
Posted By: retrorocker
Date Posted: August 16 2010 at 15:29
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Two words: This Website.
I think I google searched for Pink Floyd or some other really really famous, mainstream band like Led Zeppelin, I really don't remember, and must've come across this site. That imbedded mp3 player saved my musical life! Shame that a lot of the tracks have gone now (no King Crimson for example), but that's by-the-by.
No-where else I knew of could I go on a website and listen to a 20 minute rock song before (It was Close to the Edge, in case you hadn't guesssed).
I think the top of my head blew off (in the words of Robert Fripp heh)!
I spent every spare minute I had at school on a computer somewhere, the library, the IT room, whereever, with a sh*tty pair of earphones shoved into whatever audio socket on the back of the PC shell that I could get to work. Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Van der Graaf Generator, all were introduced to me through the purple pages of these archives.
Seems like forever ago. :D ------------- "It's alright to lose your heart, but never lose your head!" ~ Phil Lynott RIP |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: August 16 2010 at 15:44
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My dad loves Supertramp and to please him, I bought 90125 and Tormato. Then I discovered Close To The Edge and I said goodbye to pop music ! -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: August 16 2010 at 15:44
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My dad loves Supertramp and to please him, I bought 90125 and Tormato. Then I discovered Close To The Edge and I said goodbye to pop music ! ------------- One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: ferush
Date Posted: August 16 2010 at 18:48
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... "when i was a little pretty baby my mama got rock me..." hearing Tchaikovsky. |
Posted By: Maulrus
Date Posted: August 16 2010 at 21:36
| I'm not sure. My first touch of prog was Dark Side of the Moon, but I didn't know it then. Then I got interested after I heard Days of Future Past, so I got some more Moody Blues. I loved that, but what I consider to be my first true step into prog was when my mom showed me Brain Salad Surgery. ELP became one of my favorite bands. Then I found Prog Archives, and I was hooked. |
Posted By: cjgone
Date Posted: August 16 2010 at 21:37
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First pseudo -prog bands were Coheed and cambria and fall of troy. Someone showed me Dream theater, didn't really like. I did mostly techdeath for a while then got into some bands like Opeth and then listened to Pink Floyd and became a prog fan. :) ------------- Technical death metal <3. |
Posted By: Raok
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 14:37
| I stole lots of albums from my bigger brother just to be able to listen to some music. At first it was System of a down and some other popular bands. But 1 day i found Scenes from a memory. Talk about a treasure-find, it blew me away |
Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 15:07
| I was on vacation in Florida a little over a year ago when I decided to get a guitar magazine from CVS. I then saw an article about Dream Theater that had an interview with John Petrucci about Black Clouds and Silver Linings. So that night I went on my dad's laptop in the hotel and downloaded the special edition, after that I kept on buying more Dream Theater albums and reading Wikipedia to understand more about progressive music and from there it just exploded. So now here I am, spending all of my money to add to my 70+ CD collection I have created in half a year. |
Posted By: G-Bombz
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 15:27
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I started listening to prog bands at a very young age. When i was about two, my dad would play his Pink Floyd albums as well as some Yes and other bands. I would also listen to the local classic rock radio station that played these songs and many other popular ones, so i just figured them to be classic rock.
It wasnt until about '07 or '08 that i was browsing iTunes and found bands i had never heard of related to these bands i already knew. so i bought Freefall by Camel, and once i started checkin them out on the internet, it was then i started to discover what prog rock is. From '08 on i kept gathering songs and now i have over a thousand great prog songs on my iPod!
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Posted By: Johnnytuba
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 21:08
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My first experience listening to progressive music was tool's Aenema album back in high school. After that I discovered Rush's 2112 in college. ------------- "The things that we're concealing, will never let us grow. Time will do its healing, you've got to let it go. |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 21:14
Well, that explains a lot!
Kidding. Welcome back, Johnny. Been a while??? |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 21:14
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Posted By: Tengent
Date Posted: August 18 2010 at 09:04
| I have a friend who lives in Ohio who I talk to about jazz and Led Zeppelin a lot. About a year ago I was stuck with classic rock artists like Zeppelin, Sabbath, Jethro Tull, etc. Then my friend sent me a video of And You And I - Yes. I kept coming back to it to listen to it until I went out and bought Close to the Edge. I knew what progressive rock was but I always avoided it. Yes introduced me to a series of other bands and so on. I went to see Yes last July. Great experience. |
Posted By: maniax976
Date Posted: August 20 2010 at 05:49
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i was 16 when i heard first time deep purple - made in japan. after this experience i jump in the middle of the 70' music and there i found king crimson , yes , van der graaf etc. ------------- don't give up |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: August 20 2010 at 11:18
Pink Floyd and ELP was my first Prog experience. Now Progressive music is most important part of my life and my family and friends undrestand me. Atmospher of Iran is very better than 80's and we can buy our fav music . BUT finding Progressive music is difficult yet. If you living in free countries, you must thanks god
for this. Sorry for this long story and forgive me because of poor English.
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Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: August 20 2010 at 15:47
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: August 20 2010 at 16:55
All my respect to you. I don't think any decent person would try to insult you for your story. On the contrary, you are indeed a real prog fan. I had it hard in Central America, since prog was not popular, or even accessible, but I never risked jail time for listening or buying prog, just some of my friends though I was weird or crazy. I must say you are indeed a very remarkable person. |
Posted By: O666
Date Posted: August 21 2010 at 14:22
Thank you friends. Fiest time I arrested for Jon and Vangelis( The friends of Mr cairo) and second time for Frank Zappa (Sheik Yerbouti), Jane ( Live ), Mahavishnu ( Birds of fire) . We copied albums on 90 min cassettes and 2 albums in each cassette. In second time I was 16 and they shaved my hairs!!! I remember clearly and this time is one of my bad memorys. Now I have long hairs!!!!!! I realy Thank you.
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Posted By: Progatron
Date Posted: August 21 2010 at 20:09
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Probably around eight years of age - so, 1981-ish, I discovered my older brother's LP collection that he kept in milk crates, as I suspect many people did. I was fascinated by the cover art, the gatefold sleeves, the lyrics and song titles, the band photos... he had a lot of prog, but only because those bands were big when he was growing up (12 years older than me). He also had lots of other stuff like Kiss, Queen, Elton John, etc. etc... But it was the Genesis ones that drew me in. Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, The Lamb, Seconds Out... those are ones I remember staring at for what seemed like hours. When he moved out a few years later, he left a lot of those records at home, and I became the proud owner of them.  That split-second of the needle meeting the vinyl to reveal the opening strains of "The Musical Box" was the moment my lifelong love affair with prog began. ------------- Genesis/Yes/Rush/Marillion/VDGG&PH/The Flower Kings/Zappa/Änglagård/Wobbler/PFM/Banco/Le Orme/Jethro Tull/Spock's Beard/Transatlantic/Ayreon/Beardfish/IQ/Dream Theater/Opeth/P.Tree/Arena/Camel/Kaipa! |
Posted By: rod65
Date Posted: August 22 2010 at 09:30
| 1977. I was 12. Rush's "Closer to the Heart" was all over AM radio,and I asked for the album A Farewell to Kings for Christmas. It was the second rock album I ever owned, and it was love at first listen--a defining experience in terms not only of musical appreciation but of overall aesthetic sensibility. |
Posted By: Niv
Date Posted: August 22 2010 at 10:03
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Mum's a big PF fan so I was listening to them pretty much from the womb. But I didn't starting listening to them willingly until 2006 odd, and I didn't start liking them to 2007. I found out they were prog around the time I was 16/17, so 2008 And I've only became a prog addict in the last 6 months or so, I was a bit late on music obsession ;) -------------  |
Posted By: SebK
Date Posted: August 22 2010 at 10:45
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I was taking electric guitar lessons in Iran, and my teacher (Reza Yazdani) taught me a few songs by Pink Floyd and Camel. I fell in love (with the music)  ------------- SebK "The aim of a joke is not to degrade a human being, but to remind him he is already degraded." – George Orwell |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: August 22 2010 at 19:38
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It was 1973, I was in high school and had just discovered music in the last year (Zeppelin, Doors, Sabbath, CSNY, early Elton John, Spirit, etc).
I went to visit a friend with my just-purchased copy of Led Zeppelin's House of the Holy and he said he wanted to play something for me. He played King Crimson's Court of the Crimson King and I was totally blown away. I'd never heard anything like it. When the song Epitaph came on, I knew I had to have this, that this was music that went right to my soul.
So I asked my friend if he'd be willing to trade, KC for my LZ. And he did it. The fool!
I remember walking home, clutching that record in my hands, thinking how I'd ripped him off!! ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: KyleSchmidlin
Date Posted: August 22 2010 at 21:41
| I was always into classic rock, and my dad, although not into prog as such, was a huge Pink Floyd fan and when I started playing guitar, he encouraged me to listen to them. And from there I think it was primarily Internet browsing that turned me on to a lot of the other stuff. I learned on AllMusic, for example, that there was a band "related" to Pink Floyd called Camel. So I looked up their MySpace and loved the song "Never Let Go" and followed links to King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Catapilla (overlooked!!), and others. I didn't like Gentle Giant at all, but a guy at a concert had a shirt on and I recognized the Giant and said something. He nearly flipped his sh*t that I had ever even heard of the band at my age and I thought if this guy is that fanatic maybe I'll give them another listen, and so much the better - they're one of my favorite bands now. |
Posted By: Johnnytuba
Date Posted: August 23 2010 at 09:12
Indeed it has. I do some posting over in the polls section, otherwise it has just been a crazy summer! Lots of concerts and camping! ------------- "The things that we're concealing, will never let us grow. Time will do its healing, you've got to let it go. |
Posted By: kawkaw123
Date Posted: August 23 2010 at 10:18
| my guitar teacher showed me Dream Theater. I payed 30 dollars for the lesson but we only listed to Dream Theater that day. Best lesson ever! |
Posted By: KingCrimson250
Date Posted: August 23 2010 at 10:32
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When I was younger, I guess around 12 years old, I found a copy of Turn It On Again lying around (a Genesis greatest hits CD). I thought it was pretty enjoyable. Anyway, a while after I was at the CD store and I saw Selling England By The Pound on sale for a very low price. I recognized it from the hits compilation, which contained I Know What I Like, and picked it up. I was instantly hooked. This was an entirely new kind of music that I'd never heard before and I was completely blown away by it. Never really went back to that hits CD. |
Posted By: mono
Date Posted: August 23 2010 at 11:36
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Some of you here are quite lucky... My parents and family listened to ZERO music. At home, my parents didn't own any kind of device that played music. I got into music with a friend who was as excited about listenning to new music as I was (around 14). I only really got into prog when I came to France (2003) for my studies. In 2003, I "absorbed" more music than I ever had known... ------------- https://soundcloud.com/why-music Prog trio, from ambiant to violence https://soundcloud.com/m0n0-film Film music and production projects https://soundcloud.com/fadisaliba (almost) everything else |
Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: August 23 2010 at 13:21
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I grew up with Zeppelin and Floyd but had no knowledge of the word prog. The modern music that surrounded me never caught my attention so I indulged in these two bands alone until...
At 13, I stumble across a strange concert on a sky television channel somewhere in the very high hundreds (the kind of channels that play the same few programmes on a rota, with lots and lots of advertising). The band played music that intrigued me. From memory, it was accesible (in the sense that it was played with instruments I recognised and it wasn't avant-garde or anything), and yet something caught my interest just as I was about to change channel; the beat was wrong. Every fourth bar had a beat missing and it really confused me. I thought at first that the band were making a mistake, but then realised that they must have been doing it consciously because they stayed in time with each other. It was, as it now seems obvious, just an unconventional time signature, one of the trademarks of prog rock. So I sat through this song and made a note of each instance this strangely-timed section was reprised. By the end of the piece, something else was on my mind more than the rhythm- the song was around 10 minutes long. I was even more puzzled, and emerged from the living room 3 hours later having watched an entire show of similarly obscure and lengthy music.
Because of the nature of the TV channel, the same show was on again the following night, and I would watch it again and again for about a week. I began to recognise the proggier elements, and even enjoy them. Eventually I made the effort to do some research on the band's name; leading to many Youtube listenings (when songs were still allowed on Youtube) and wikipedia referencing. Christmas was nearing, so I asked for a few albums by this band that had tracks on them I recognised from the TV concert.
The band was Yes.
And so my first prog experience would have been the 15/8 time signature in the main theme of Siberian Khatru.
My life has never been the same since.
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Posted By: O666
Date Posted: August 24 2010 at 06:14
 . I know "Reaza Yazdany" but I never like his music. Maybe he play another style but I listen to music that he released. Khodahafez.
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Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: August 24 2010 at 11:53
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At my first year of high school, I discovered progressive music. There were these three potheads (who got fired from the school very soon after I met them) who were only listening to Pink Floyd. One day, one of these guys lent me a few albums (Animals, Close to the Edge and Thick As A Brick) and that's how my fascination began. ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: Prog966
Date Posted: August 24 2010 at 21:27
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well, you can maybe find my history a kind of odd but.... It started in a class of music when the teachers wanted us to play coldplay's viva la vida and showed the video for us. Then some people were telling that the music was copied and put Satriani's If I could fly. I was fascinated of how he could make a song wihout lyrics sound so complete. After that, at home, I was searching the album on internet ( Is there love in space, wich sucks) when my mom noticed and gave me Malmsteen's Concerto Suite for Orchestra saying that if I would hear a guitarrist, that it needed to be more "progressive" (very disapointing to me not find malmsteen here, since he s completely prog. But im to lazy to make a request XD). I could never describe the feeling of hearing Icarus Dream Fanfare. After it, i decided i liked Prog Rock Saying that for a friend, he recommended Focus. I thought a little strange the hocus pocus yodeling, but i still loved it ( I even went to a show of them in my brother's birthday XD). And after Focus, i went "progressing" into other prog bands and eventually found prog archives...
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Posted By: petrica
Date Posted: August 25 2010 at 03:33
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I was born in Romania and was 13 back in '89 when communist regime fell. A listened to everything I could grab after '89. Few years later I discover bands like Roxette, Helloween, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Led Zep, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Satriani etc. I wasn't aware about what progressive rock truly means until 2005/2006 when I discovered this site. From that moment on the journey started and will for sure continue for the years to come. I'm grateful to all the effort you guys are putting in this site by promoting bands/artists, writing reviews or posting in the forums. |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: August 25 2010 at 17:47
 It must have been quite a shock!
Great that you liked it, I'm afraid many of those who did the same threw SEBTP away thinking it was from another band with the same name!
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Posted By: Entity79
Date Posted: August 25 2010 at 20:38
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My first prog experience...well, I, like many others here, heard the usual bands on classic rock radio. (Genesis, Rush, Tull, etc.) and I became a fan of Rush. I read an interview where Alex Lifeson mentioned Steve Hackett as one of his influences. Up till then, I had no idea who was in Genesis before they got to be a big band...so I looked Steve up online, and after listening to a few sound clips on Amazon, the next day I went out and bought Foxtrot. I loved that, so looked around online for other bands like that, which led me to KC, Zappa, Camel, Marillion, etc. |
Posted By: pitshack
Date Posted: August 26 2010 at 07:33
| I grew up listening to rock, thanks to my older siblings influence. Black Sabbath, Rush, Led Zeppelin etc. I can still remember waiting for my older brothers to leave for school, then sneaking into their room to play their records. I was so young I hadn't learned to read yet so I would use the pictures on the album covers to discern what was what. 2112 and Led Zeppelin 1 come to mind. By 14 I had headphones practically glued to my head listening to rock radio. For some reason the Moog solo in Lucky Man seemed to mesmerise me. Shortly there after I picked up ELPs first album and had my mind completely blown away. The rest is history. |
Posted By: athanatos
Date Posted: August 26 2010 at 15:36
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i knew prog rock thanks to pink floyd, when i was already 7 or 8 years old.after that i hear a band called "rush" even before i knew that they were RUSH. i liked before a few listens because their link with the hard rock cause at that time i was obsessed about everything of led zeppelin and deep purple, but i didnt understand all that "funny sounds" that rush made with their instrumental work. after that i met the mars volta, dream theather, genesis, porcupine tree, etc. |
Posted By: Majikthise
Date Posted: August 29 2010 at 10:51
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Haha, EXACTLY the same for me. A friend recommended Roundabout, and as soon as the band kicked in I was blown away. Gradually moved onto the rest of Yes' material and from there onto prog as a whole. Amazing stuff, but Roundabout will always hold a special place in my heart. |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 08:17
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My parents ahd a few Prog records in their collection These included Aqualung, Close to the Edge, various Moodies albums, and Dark side of the moon. Initially I resisted, but then it pulled me........the rest is history......
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Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 13:38
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Like several of you fine folks, I started listening to prog a long time before I really understood what progressive rock was. Up until I was about 14, I listened to nothing but Celtic music (I was big into the Lifescapes compilations, if that means anything to anybody). My parents don't listen to music of any kind, so my growing passion existed in a weird vacuum. I didn't really have any friends that were big into music either, so I just endlessly played my albums of soft, ambient bagpipe drones without really thinking about it too much. When I turned 14, I made friends with a guy at my new school who listened exclusively to Queen. He got me into them in a big, big way, and for the next year or so I listened exclusively to Freddie and Co. The passion lasted for years, and Queen remain one of my absolute favorite bands...I remember when, during my freshman year in high school, we were partnered up with several classmates and given a faux newspaper assignment. We had to research and write the articles, and distribute the results to the rest of the class. My partners were two girls who were into Hanson every bit as much as I was in to Queen; the resulting paper was filled with combating Queen/Hanson articles. Personally, I think my story about finding Freddie Mercury alive and well and brainwashed, living in a Chicago suburb, took the blue ribbon in geekitude. From Queen I branched out into Def Leppard and Styx, both of which remain guilty pleasures for me. I still had never heard the term 'progressive rock.' Then, when I was 17ish, I went to see Kansas in concert at a local venue. I'd never heard a single Kansas tune (outside of the obvious hits), but the show blew my mind. This was right after the release of Always Never the Same; the band were backed by a full orchestra, and Steve Walsh was everywhere on the stage, throwing water bottles into the crowd and singing his fool heart out. I was amazed: I bought a copy of ANtS at the booth, and waited for over an hour until the band deigned to sign it for me. Sadly I didn't get to meet them, but a roadie took my booklet back to them and came back with every band member's signature (even the apparently elusive Robbie Steinhardt). I remember the roadie told me how unusual it was that kids my age would take interest in an 'old' rock band. I bought the whole Kansas discography. It had come to a point where I was spending every cent I could scrounge on music. My next big discovery was Jethro Tull, which (again) I was introduced to in concert. My uncle had been trying to get me into them for a while (though I think he was a little ill-advised in giving me A Passion Play as an introduction). I saw them on the supporting tour for J-Tull.com, and knew I'd discovered another true love. About this same time I started exploring Pink Floyd. When I was growing up my older brother had played The Division Bell and DSoTM obsessively, so these albums were already firmly grounded in my subconscious. I'd soon bought their entire discography, becoming especially enamored of Animals and WYWH. But I still didn't identify as a prog fan. So I staggered on, absorbing progressive rock acts without comprehending that I was showing exclusive preference to a specific genre. I found Uriah Heep, The Doors, Asia, Rush, The Beatles, ELP, The Mars Volta, Black Sabbath, Coheed & Cambria, Starcastle, Rainbow, The Decemberists, Morgan, Jimi Hendrix, Royal Hunt, Ice Age, and Lake of Tears. I thought of them as good, solid, quality music that made me feel transcendently happy. I knew the term progressive rock, but really didn't personally identify as a proghead. Then, stumbling around ye olde internets, I discovered Progarchives. The first band I explored due to this site was Birth Control. I quickly expanded my sphere of music, listening to any prog I could get my grubby hands on. It was akin to drinking your fill after wandering in the desert with limited rations: suddenly I was able to quench my thirst for amazing music without ever worrying about exhausting an artist or an album. Today I have over 30 days of music on my machine, the vast majority of it progressive rock. And my quest for music continues on a daily basis. I chronicle my latest finds on my podcast, along with revisiting some of the passions of my youth. Prog has made me my life far more livable, and the endless thrill of discovering new music is a sensation I doubt I could live without. ------------- Certified Obscure Prog Fart. http://scottjcouturier.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle |
Posted By: progvortex
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 14:24
Our first encounters are hauntingly similar. I first heard prog on an MP3 player at school and the song was Roundabout. ------------- Life is like a beanstalk... isn't it? |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 14:33
It's amazing the age range on this site. A lot of us old farts can remember a time when an MP3 player was but just a fantasy of a sci fi writer. We started off on vinyl. This, BTW, is not meant to be deprecating - I never cease to wonder and applaud the fact that there is a new generation of prog fans who will carry the torch for many years to come ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: September 26 2010 at 03:52
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 26 2010 at 08:57
I first got into prog in the LP/cassette age, you have no idea how peculiar your anecdote is to those of us who are older than dirt. Now you kids get the hell off my lawn!!!  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Antennas
Date Posted: September 26 2010 at 09:16
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I grew up in the 'Disco Era' (second half of the 1970's), when an older fellow in highschool (I guess he was 16, and I was 13, LOL!) introduced me to this band called 'Yes'. I was completely blown away!!! I had finally discovered "my" kind of music.
As it was in the days of vinyl, when you bought ONE album once in some three months time (didn't have that much cash to spend in those days, always had to beg my parents to allow me to buy something new...), I didn't get to hear all of the more obscure prog from those days, but in stead, completely lost myself in anything I could lay my hands on - Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Rush, but also bands like Styx, Kansas, and Foreigner and the like. I well remember enjoying one album for at least six months or so without trying out something else during that period - I absolutely cherished those albums.
Quite like how Steven Wilson always explains how 'different' the enjoyment of music used to be in those days - not surprisingly, we're of the same generation - nowadays, you easily stack up some 20 CDs a month, some of which never leave the cupboard anymore after having had its first spin. Yes, the times have changed...
How well said, and isn't that indeed great?  ------------- 
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Posted By: GY!BE
Date Posted: September 27 2010 at 10:10
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Supertramp and after DT
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Posted By: CloseToTheMoon
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 13:32
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I got into Pink Floyd as part of my classic rock initiation in high school (1999-2003) and am proud to say I heard Dark Side in its entirety on vinyl my first time. But my first conscious Prog experiences were hearing Yes' Classic Yes on CD and a cassette from my dad with Trick of the Tail on side A and Wind and Wuthering on side B. Heart of the Sunrise and Dance on a Volcano changed my life for lack of a better phrase.
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Posted By: esky
Date Posted: September 30 2010 at 14:55
| Tull's Passion Play tour in '73 although I didn't know it at the time that it was a prog piece. |