Prog Gateway Music
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Topic: Prog Gateway Music
Posted By: menawati
Subject: Prog Gateway Music
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 16:08
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Interested to hear how people got into progressive music in the first place and what was the first prog they heard that led them along the path. My gateway was heavy rock. Went from being a NWOBHM fan in my early teens, digging Rush and the neo-prog revival stuff like Marillion then moving on to Genesis, King Crimson, Camel and Floyd and by then I was hooked for life. First prog song I heard and liked - The Trees by Rush I think that many people move from heavy music to prog but maybe there are some that got stuck in straight away, came from a classical background or even went from listening to pop music to loving prog. Interested to hear. ------------- They flutter behind you your possible pasts, Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost. |
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 16:32
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My first musical love was the mid 90s punk rock and some metal classics. Perhaps on one end it was some bits from Metallica and Maiden that opened my mind for lengthier track structures, and the Finnish quirky progpoprock band Absoluuttinen Nollapiste opened my mind for general weirdness. This led to hearing and liking Dream Theater and Tool, and the stage was set for King Crimson, Rush, Camel and others to walk in. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 17:14
Hold on ... let me find a similar thread ... no, wait ...  ... there are two threads like that, if I remember correctly.
Those are kind of similar: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=84134&KW=story" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=84134&KW=story http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=89528&KW=first" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=89528&KW=first
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Posted By: menawati
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:11
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ye you are right, can i delete the thread or do i need admin to do it ? ------------- They flutter behind you your possible pasts, Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost. |
Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:14
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Three threads, huh? This phenomenon was described in Indiscipline: I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat myself when under stress. I repeat.. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:17
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If it has been a while since the subject was last broached, why not bring it up again? We get new people in all the time, and some of us don't respond all the time to these sort of things.
When I first got into listening to music seriously in the mid 70s, Prog was a major part of the music environment. Yes, Tull, ELP, Pink Floyd were all over the radio as were a lot of related bands. So, I was familiar with a lot of songs by these artists before I started buying albums. It was the prog-related hard rockers that were my gateway to Prog itself. These included Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Hendrix, and perhaps a few others. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Eria Tarka
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:25
| Iron Maiden was the first band I loved, along with The Beatles and Kiss. But my first real step towards prog was with Rush. When I watched Beyond the Lighted Stage when Geddy mentioned that they were into Yes and Genesis my first thought was "um.. Phil Collins?". So listened to "The Knife", "Roundabout", and "21st Century Schizoid Man" from there I got into ELP, Gentle Giant, VDGG, and Camel. So I think Rush is really a perfect "gateway" band due to their proggy composition style, but also with their accessibility ie. "Tom Sawyer" , "Closer to the Heart". |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:25
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I would not delete the thread....It can be difficult to search for a topic. It shows there are true new members coming to the PA...which is a good thing.
My gateway was thru Funk for the most part. I am a big Parliament fan, and their longer funk songs and concepts drove me to liking longer songs in general. I was already a listener of Genesis, PF and Yes...but Parliament got me then into KC, even though I really did not like them. Rush to me in the early days was more heavy metal, guitar driven...until Caress of Steel then I really started more along the prog lines.
And of course listening to Miles Davis and Coltrane pushed me into Soft Machine and the like. -------------   
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Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:25
| No gateway for me, I'm afraid. I just happened to notice back in the 1970's that the likes of Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush and Genesis (and to a degree ELP) were comping up with more satisfying music than others. I called the genre art- and/or symph rock back then. |
Posted By: Gallifrey
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:28
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Honestly who cares if the thread's been done before. I got in through a few things that sort of told me to search progressive rock on wikipedia. Muse were constantly called it, and the parts of their music that I loved (strings, odd sigs etc) were part of it. Another album, which is an odd one, is Linkin Park's 'A Thousand Suns', which I initially hated, but it grew on me, mainly because it's a 55 minute concept album that basically flows like one song, and that fascinated me. Anyway, a bit of searching and I found Porcupine Tree, a bit more then I found this site and then everyone else knows the rest. ------------- http://thedarkthird.bandcamp.com/ |
Posted By: menawati
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:30
Thats really interesting because its almost back to front compared to me, I'm only just starting to get into funk but started with heavy metal and heavy prog like Rush. ------------- They flutter behind you your possible pasts, Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost. |
Catcher10 wrote:Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:32
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When I was ten years old, I was flipping through my parents' LP collection and found Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell and thought the cover was awesome. I listened to it and was totally confused by the first track, which had nearly three minutes of instrumental music before the vocals came in. I didn't know you could do that! From there I moved on to Queen and by the time I discovered King Crimson in college there was no turning back.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:41
I grew up in the 'hood in So Cal....very ethnic neighborhood, so a lot of funk and R&B. But there was a lot of psych-art/symphonic prog on the FM back then.
I listen to everything.....its my genre!  -------------
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Posted By: MuzikLuva
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:46
| I guess it started for me when I listened to the albums leading up to Sgt. Pepper. Then one day while browsing through the record department of a department store, I saw this album with a band that had a ton of different instruments and bought it as I felt I had to hear what they had. My friends all thought I was crazy but I knew I heard something special. It was Ummagumma by Pink Floyd. Years later, after getting into Yes, ELP, Genesis and Tomita, I was visiting with those friends who were all amazed at Dark Side Of The Moon. I just sat there and smiled. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 18:53
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The Beatles, Led Zep and Black Sabbath led to Pink Floyd, Yes and Jethro Tull |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 19:01
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For me, it was probably either Dark Side of the Moon or Camel's "Breathless" album, probably around 1979, when I was ten. I was a big fan of both groups for several years after that, before getting into King Crimson, Zappa and Beefheart in high school. In college, upon getting Camel's Snow Goose on CD, I read the liner notes which pointed me to all the Canterbury bands. Quite a thrill. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 19:10
Threads can't be deleted (to my certain knowledge), but they can be locked. But now that people started posting their responses ... there is no stopping it. 
But those other threads are not locked yet. 
That makes sense, especially the "it can be difficult to search for a topic" part. That way the same idea can have more than one title and be easily found with any appropriate keyword.
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Posted By: Master of Time
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 19:14
| My friends turned me on to Rush and I got into them huge. Then my dad turned me one to his favorite band, Yes. After that my uncle turned me on to Gentle Giant, Camel, and Gilgamesh, then the internet turned me on to Gryphon, Glass Hammer, Spock's Beard, and Kevin Ayers. After a few years of getting into blues, various types of world music, and the like I decided to plug Yes into Last.FM and discovered Anthony Phillips which led me to Steve Hackett. I then finally conceded to try out some Genesis which I had been avoiding for a long time for some reason. Looking for reviews I discovered this site and my interest in the genre became an obsession. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 19:15
| For me, I was first interested in Pink Floyd, because they were such legends and didn't know them so well, so I started getting music from them. At about the same time, I was searching for Vinyls that my grandmother had and borrowing them, and among them I got into Focus's "Hamburger Concerto" (which she said was great), and Harmonium's "Si on avait besoin d'une cinquiem saison" (which I believe se didn't even recall having), and I got to love them both. I also borrowed Jethro Tull's "Live, bursting out", and Yes's "Relayer", but they didn't quiet click at the moment, so they had to wait to be rediscovered. On the other hand, there was a friend who lent me some music she got... first it was because I wanted to know Pink Floyd, and thus she lent me some tapes from them, and then she lent me another tape, from some Rick Wakeman (who was this guy?), about King Arthur... she said the music was interesting, but he didn't sing very well (it took me some time to get to like it, but then I loved it and got some more from him, and I found out that he was the keyboard player, not the singer, and he was one of the best keyboard players in rock, and he played with Yes... so I had to get some Yes too). And also, this friend lent me some Alan Parsons, which I happened to like (and buy his albums, later on). By the time I was investigating about Yes, and searching for their albums, I found Prog Archives, and it's been my main source for searching for new music ever since. |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:04
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This is an easy one for me. The Main gateway to prog was DREAM THEATER and RUSH. especially RUSH. I am Canadian.....what do ya want? Lol ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:53
Undoubtedly more recent than I would guess, or remember, not that I would take the effort to look or anything.  At least this new one is a fresh look, even if the issue is not that old.  ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 20:55
I just got a copy of Funkadelic's Maggot Brain, and it actually rocks. There is even some killer guitar on it. I nominate it for best album title ever. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: RedNightmareKing
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 22:10
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I owe Rock Band as my gateway to prog. There was a cover (not a bad one either) of "Tom Sawyer" by Rush, and was arranged under the genre "prog" by the game along with Coheed & Cambria's "Welcome Home". In Rock Band 2, Kansas was featured with "Carry On My Wayward Son" and Dream Theater with the mindblowingly hard "Panic Attack". I was glad to see Rush back in the game with "The Trees" as well. So, I guess you could say my gateway to progressive rock was Rush, really.
------------- I consider drone metal to be progressive... |
Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 22:11
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I encountered Rush in a classic rock compilation CD when I was 13 (the song on the CD was "The Spirit of Radio"). I was playing the CD while I had a friend over and he made a favorable comment about Rush, which led me to check out 2112 from my local library. After three listens, I was addicted beyond repair. My life has never been the same since. Rush was my gateway to prog (and to this site) and later, maudlin of the Well would open my mind to more extreme and avant-garde music. ------------- I love dogs, I've always loved dogs |
Posted By: Quirky Turkey
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 00:41
| Pink Floyd, Supertramp's Crime of the Century, and Silverchair (believe it or not!) to name a few. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 01:17
| It was about 1977 ,ELP and Tarkus especially. Massive choir , thunderous drums etc. I also heard DSOTM at about the same time and wondered where was the massive choir, thunderous drums etc. A bunch of alarm clocks going off? ..lame. I found Yes boring and Genesis were just a pop group in the late seventies. A general interest in prog only started to take shape in the early eightes when I fed up to the back teeth with music videos and bands that were clearly not bands pretending to be bands. |
Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 05:22
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Entered with YES. Tormato and 90125. (I know) -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 05:51
Why deleting it? People changes and even when doesn't change they can change their minds. People may have missed the previous two threads. It's good to have some references and eventually check them, but I see no reason in not asking again. BTW, I was mainly into blues and singer-songwriters. The first has given me the taste for long guitar riffs and improvisations, the second the taste for long ballads and concepts. Janis Joplin, Arlo Guthrie, Deep Purple and Fabrizio de Andre' are some of my personal "proto prog" artists. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 06:35
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I have both those CD's in my collection obviously - but I don't think that either will ever get a spin again as both are Yes's worst albums by a country mile..... ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 09:05
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Gateways are great. LONG LIVE RUSH!!!! ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 09:13
 90125. Worst YES? - Big Generator for me.I agree about Duke and Abacab, but also Howe and Hackett's GTR could have been a choice. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 09:15
Apparently, Opera is a bad gateway.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 09:17
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It's a Gateway of Delirium.
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Posted By: DJMarkuss
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 10:42
| For me and most of my friends at the time, which was 1973. We were in high school, and one of us had just heard ELP's Brain Salad Surgery. He was the first one of our group of friends that had discovered prog and was sharing it with the rest of us. My parents gave me Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for my birthday, played it over and over. While not prog, it was my first real exposure to recorded music. Just loved Funeral For A Friend, but wasn't sure why. This friend I mentioned was into Yes, Floyd, Genesis, Nektar, VDGG. We would gather at his place, and he would spin the vinyl from these bands that existed at that time. I remember just being blown away at the epic sound, the meat of it. Just so much content and substance to the music. It was then I was exposed to most of what is now considered to be epic, classic prog. I have preferred to listen to nothing but since that time almost 40 years ago. Long Live Prog! |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 10:48
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Because I am lazy, and because I once started a blog that answers this question I will provide a link http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43586&PN=1" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43586&PN=1 and if you are interested feel free to read about my Road to Prog Enlightenment. -------------
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Posted By: DJMarkuss
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 11:04
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I want to chime in here and state that Yes' worst album ever, in my opinion, is Talk from 1994. ------------- DJ Markuss, The Prog Rock Palace, KDVS Davis |
Posted By: menawati
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 11:22
I read it a while back, was a fun read I envy the guys on here that were teens in the early 70's prog heyday. I certainly feel I was born a decade too late. The NWOBHM I experienced was a poor substitute for the music scene you guys had. ------------- They flutter behind you your possible pasts, Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost. |
Posted By: WanderingLogician
Date Posted: October 10 2012 at 20:58
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I only listened to classical until my dad played Fragile on a car trip. I also bought Dark Side of the Moon because I thought the cover was cool. Everything pretty much followed from those. Interesting how many people started with Rush. On second thought, I just noticed the domain was registered from Canada so maybe not that surprising.
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Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: October 11 2012 at 06:27
Hmmm you could be right - I have Big Generator in my CD collection...but have NEVER listened to it !!!!
Is anybody else in this same situation - I need to do an audit and work out how many CD's I have that I have never listened to, could be as many as 500 perhaps....
I know I have that many that I'll never listen to again.....
Hope my wife doesn't realise this - she HATES clutter  ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: menawati
Date Posted: October 11 2012 at 06:54
500 you've never listened to ?  If your wife hates clutter rip them onto a network drive as FLACS then stream them ? Can stream to a Squeezebox or a higher quality version of it. I did that years ago and never looked back, DAC in those things is really good and beats my old audiophile CD player for sound. ------------- They flutter behind you your possible pasts, Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost. |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: October 11 2012 at 09:58
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Holy god?!!! 500 CDs. Lol. That's a lot. Guess you got a lot of one hit wonders ;) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: October 11 2012 at 10:12
Seriously. I would have been at every Genesis and Lazer Floyd show. Lol ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 11 2012 at 10:23
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Posted By: DreamInSong
Date Posted: October 11 2012 at 20:06
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Pink Floyd -> Moody Blues -> Dream Theater -> Porcupine Tree -> 100 other bands, well maybe 40 or so... -> Present day -> Battlestations ------------- 
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: October 11 2012 at 20:16
Nice equation. ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: October 11 2012 at 22:24
My version: Brubeck "Time Out" > Blood, Sweat & Tears (self-titled) > Chicago (1 & 2) > Elton John (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) > Kansas (Leftoverture) > Yes (Relayer - my high-school friend turned me on to this one!). From there (which was the mid-1970s), full on into Yes, ELP, Genesis, Camel, Jethro Tull. Later 70s: UK & Brand X. Then, a 'dry spell' until early 80s with Marillion...(I could bore you some more, but I won't...)
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 01:21
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Posted By: My Dreaming Hill
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 04:49
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I started with Pink Floyd, then got into King Crimson and Magma. Then I kind of went backwards and decided that Coheed and Cambria was THE BEST BAND EVER. Then was some 3 and TMV, which lead to Gapacho and Beardfish.
Also Hawkwind and IQ were in there someplace. My prog history is really weird. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 07:50
Similar for me. Started with metal. Was introduced to Rush and Marillion by a friend, and started seeking out bands said to be like them. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 09:23
 looks like you have an appreciation for THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON as well. LIFEFORMS is a great album dude. ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 09:25
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I don't really get Lifeforms.... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 13:32
------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 17:34
You never know when you'll want to spin another album again, so it always great to have the hardware just waiting for ya anytime you want. And I know how you feel, AMAZON and EBAY.....man those prices are irresistable!! I would say 80% of my cd collection was bought on line. Nothing wrong with that. I say, enjoy your collection anyway you like. ;) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Quirky Turkey
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 19:18
Holy crap thanks for reminding me, I totally forgot! I remember listening to Funeral For a Friend continuously and loving it when I was about 5 years old. So I guess that was the first sign.
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: October 12 2012 at 20:17
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I repeat myself here as this is a newer thread than the old ones.... Early prog memories: I remember my dad coming home from a late night shift with a King Crimson vinyl tucked under his arm. It had the Red faced screamer on the cover and it scared me but he said I might like it, knowing I was into horror.... I loved parts of it such as 21st Century SM and parts I hardly played. I also remember the Black ELP cover of Works and I only liked Fanfare for the Common Man. I also had Take A Pebble on cassette but cant remember how I got it. Yes' Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround were Also on cassette somehow. I have no idea where I got them as I had no Yes albums. I also knew Jethro Tull's Bungle in the Jungle lyrics off by heart at the age of 8 but it was taped off radio! I had "Aqualung" vinyl given to me but too young to appreciate it though i played the title track many times. I somehow got hold of "War of the Worlds" by Jeff Wayne - birthday I think and played it ad infinitum! From there i got into Moody Blues and had 2 compilation albums. I also had JMJ "Oxygene" and played it often after seeing "Gallipoli". I had many soundtracks of movies so I was kind of into weird classical dramatic stuff. This was in the late 70s and from there i began to get hold of all Pink Floyd starting with The Wall cos I saw the film and someone at college told me it was the best thing he had ever heard. Strangely enough I didn't get Dark Side until the 80s, but did get Animals, A NIce Pair, and The Final Cut. I didn't really like them much at first but they kept my interest up and i finally grew up and loved them. When I heard DSOTM I was addicted for life! Compilations have a lot to answer for! I had one song by Hawkwind Silver Machine and also some Marillion, and ended up buying the vinyl of Misplaced Childhood and loving it. I don't know why I didn't buy anymore Marillion up till recently. I had heard of Genesis but only Invisible Touch and Duke. I was at a friends place who played Yes' Owner of a Lonely Heart and the rest of 90125 and I had to have it! My big Prog splurge happened when I discovered the term actually existed. I bought all of Rush, having discovered them in a magazine, and they became my favourite artist. Then all of Hawkwind, King Crimson box sets and individual CDs, Yes including box sets, all Atomic Rooster and all ELP and VDGG. ...and many others since.... And there is my gateway to Prog....  ------------- 
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: October 14 2012 at 22:11
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Posted By: menawati
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 09:46
I might be wrong but that looks like an old star trek episode.
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Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 12:19
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Looks like a Roger Dean set creation for YES. ^ ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: M27Barney
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 12:49
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It does look like a start trel set to me as well....wasn't ther one about greek or roman gods? ------------- Play me my song.....Here it comes again....... |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 13:33
Perhaps the one where Spock has top go through some religious thing and ends up having to kill Kirk. Kirk plays 'dead' thanks to some clever drug. Spock feels terrible until he sees Kirk is alive and smiles for the one and only time. (or it might be a completely different episode )
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 13:39
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I thought it was used for time travel somehow, I only remember it vaguely though. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 13:59
Spock kills Kirk? I wonder why. That gotta be a must-see episode, even though I'm not a Star Trek fan at all.
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 14:00
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It does look like a bit like a stargate from the Stargate series. -------------
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 14:06
Not only. At the end of the episode Spock SMILES!!!! ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 14:28
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: menawati
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 17:06
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its definitely a time travel one i remember now from reading those responses, i think they go back to the 50s and got to change history that ring thing speaks its like a time travel machine ------------- They flutter behind you your possible pasts, Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost. |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 17:19
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 21:12
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 21:30
No. Just to get back to the topic: my story started with American oldies rock-n'-roll. Heard Boston, Jefferson Airplane, Floyd, 60's psych, etc. Floyd led me to the term "prog rock", which led me to King Crimson's "The Court" (the title track, of course), and ever since then I was thinking and hearing music every day, just like Neo thinks and sees the Matrix every time he gets plugged in.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 21:42
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Looking back if I'm honest, it would have to be Rush. But I also credit Zep with being great at progressing their material - mainly live but also over their career - something Rush doesn't do, at least not very well. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 15 2012 at 22:51
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Primus.
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Posted By: 2dogs
Date Posted: October 17 2012 at 13:55
| The first group I remember really appreciating in the 70s was Mott The Hoople, followed by Roxy Music and Sparks, which probably led me to appreciate the more experimental music and prog groups such as Curved Air, VdGG, KC, Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind and Amon Duul 2. As keen as I became on punk and new wave in the late 70s, I carried on listening to these and still do. |
Posted By: Prog_Traveller
Date Posted: October 31 2012 at 20:16
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I guess for me being a teen in the eighties(I know I'm an anomaly like that on here)and getting into music in a big way in the decade I was first exposed to prog rock via classic rock and all the usual suspects. Yes was the first band who I know were referred to as prog rock who I really got into. Before them I was into Led Zeppelin in a big way so I suppose that made it easier since I know some of their songs were long. But really it was Yes then Genesis, Rush, Pink Floyd, King Crimson and ELP then from there the dominoes just fell. At one point my ex step mother's brother who was a musician and a dj told me if I was into that stuff to check out a band called Gentle Giant. Eventually I did. I don't think he was much of a prog fan but he had one good recommendation with GG. After kind of moving away from prog, I got back into it in the late nineties thanks to the internet and books like "the progressive rock files" and "the music's all that matters."
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Posted By: Aquiring the Taste
Date Posted: October 31 2012 at 21:43
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For me it was The Moody Blues DOFP & Peter Green's Oh Well in 1967, then King Crimson- ITCOTCK, Blodwyn Pig- Ahead Rings Out & Frank Zappa's Hot Rats in 1969. Soon after : Soft Machine, Stawbs , Tonton Macuote, Gravy Train, Quintessence, Gentle Giant, Maharishnu Orchestra And of course Pink Foyd. |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: November 01 2012 at 11:06
I see how the CURE can lead a lot of people to prog. The CURE give ya little Tastes of prog Rock here and there, and gang my friends can lead ya to greater exploration of the prog sphere  ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: November 01 2012 at 12:00
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Before i knew about prog.
The Beatles
Gasolin
Sebastian
Shi Bi Dua
Led Zepplin
Rod Steward
Elton John
Nazereth
Slade
My early gateways was Jethro Floyd Genesis Gentle Oldfield and Yes. ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: coupons
Date Posted: November 05 2012 at 05:42
| Thanks for the post it had all of the rerquired informations |
Posted By: sl75
Date Posted: November 09 2012 at 08:20
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First introduction was my year 8 music teacher playing us Rick Wakeman's "Catherine Howard". This was in 1989. I think I was the only one in the class who liked it. I got into Queen in the early 90s (their 70s material, I hated most of their later stuff). I was reading rock magazines like Juke, and they used to routinely dismiss Queen's 'art-rock' as 'pretentious', 'pompous' and 'self-indulgent'. I started noticing references to other 'art-rock' bands who were dismissed with the same words - 'ponderous' was another one that got used. Bands like Yes and ELP. After one article I read described Tales From Topographic Oceans as the worst double album ever (precisely because it was so 'pretentious', 'pompous', 'ponderous' and 'self-indulgent'), I was sufficiently curious enough to go buy it. It was like nothing else I'd ever heard. From there - Close To The Edge and Fragile; ELPs first album, Genesis Nursery Cryme, King Crimson's In The Wake of Poseidon, Jethro Tull's Aqualung. Another teacher lent me the McDonald & Giles album, and Tully's Sea of Joy (which started my interest in Australian bands). Kept collecting - went off 70s prog for a while in favour of the pre-prog 60s rock scene, but gradually found my way back. Discovered the Strawberry Bricks website (and later, this one), which introduced me to many more bands than I ever realised existed. 500 or so albums later...
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Posted By: aphelorah
Date Posted: November 17 2012 at 20:54
| I listened to a lot of Metallica when I was in high school, particularly ...And Justice for All. Also, Tool released Lateralus, which I loved then and now. I had a Yahoo Launchcast page which played music based on the bands I liked, more or less like Pandora now. Though that, I discovered Liquid Tension Experiment, Dream Theater, and Opeth, and I started searching for the bands that inspired them. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 16:51
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Ed Sullivan was my gateway to prog.
------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Polymorphia
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 17:27
| My mom introduced me to Yes. I bought Fragile. Crimson, Can, and Zappa came not long after. From there, it was downhill. |
Posted By: Nick Dilley
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 21:38
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I think a lot of metal guys get into prog because of their appreciation for technical wizardry. As soon as they realize that there are things that are technically difficult besides just shredding, they turn their ears to prog. For me, ...And Justice for All by Metallica got me into prog-ish stuff. It's their only proggy record, and it's awesome. Total gateway experience, as far as moving toward prog in increments. ------------- Progging the Rock, Rocking the Prog. soundcloud.com/withinareverie withinareverie.blogspot.com facebook.com/withinareverie Twitter: @WithinaReverie |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: November 18 2012 at 22:34
Yup. METALLICA is a huge gateway to deeper prog experience. MASTER OF PUPPETS , AND JUSTICE FOR ALL are METALLICA's best prog related material. ;) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: 2WeeksInSpain
Date Posted: November 25 2012 at 19:14
| for me it was about the who. i was (and still am) a fan of rock and pop music of the 60's. albums like tommy and who's next put me onto the classic prog bands |