How old were you when got into prog? how

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   I was a Tool fan at the age of 12. but i didn't really "get" into it heavily untill i was almost 15

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Faaip_De_Oiad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 18 2006 Status: Offline Points: 529	Posted: May 05 2007 at 23:37
	I was a Tool fan at the age of 12. but i didn't really "get" into it heavily untill i was almost 15


Atomic_Rooster Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 26 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1210	Posted: May 06 2007 at 01:51
	I'm pretty sure I was born playing King Crimson's Larks Tongues part 2
	I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers.

profskett Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: May 15 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 30	Posted: May 07 2007 at 09:07
	I think the first time I remember my mum playing me Dark Side of the Moon was when I was like 13, and it just went on from there. I really got properly into prog when I discovered Dream Theater, which was about a year and a half ago.


nightlamp Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 07 2007 Location: San Francisco Status: Offline Points: 163	Posted: May 09 2007 at 13:52
	I was 16 when I was introduced to the Cult of Prog. Another drummer in the HS marching band brought in a couple Rush tapes and I was hooked. Prior to that I mostly listened to Iron Maiden and a lot of speed/thrash metal, but those tapes introduced me to another world. From there I discovered old Genesis, Crimson, Yes, ELP, etc. and the snowball kept rolling...

Moogtron III Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616	Posted: May 09 2007 at 16:32
	My 3 older brothers all listened to prog when I was a kid. I really started buying prog albums at about the age of 20. Genesis did the trick. No trick of the tail yet, though: it was the hit single Abacab that made me ask Genesis albums for my birthday. I got Genesis Live and Duke, and after that I bought And Then There Were, Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot, and after I discovered Yes, I suppose I was really a prog rock admirer.

deathblack29 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: July 29 2007 Status: Offline Points: 18	Posted: July 30 2007 at 11:40
	I was 7 years old...my dad has the whole Yes collection on vinyl and used to play it all the time. He basically brought me up listening to prog, it's the first music I remember listening to.

Dean Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575	Posted: July 30 2007 at 13:11
	Much like Mystic Fred, I grew up with it. In the late 50's / early 60's my parents were 'Rockers' racing up and down the Arterial Road in Southend-on-Sea on a beat-up motorcycle, leaving me hanging out in the Blinkin' Owl cafe plugging sixpences into the Juke box. At night they left Radio Luxembourg playing in my room to send me to sleep listening to the Beatles and the Stones. By the time 1967 arrived I was a big Beatles fan and followed them into Psychedelic pop music, discovering such wonders as Traffic, Kaleidoscope and The Small Faces. After a brief sojourn into provincial folk music played in provincial folk clubs by provincial folk musicians with big provincial folky beards, singing with their fingers their ear, I discovered The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd and Van Der Graaf Generator from my school friends sometime around 1970, age 12.
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BaldFriede Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 02 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10261	Posted: July 30 2007 at 15:25
	I grew up with prog. My brother, who is 10 years older than I, was a big collector. I think the first song that really got me was "Carpet Crawlers". And all that other weird stuff he listened to - those early Tangerine Dream albums and other weird Krautrock stuff. I had never known such sounds were possible, and I was fascinated. There was always some sweet smoke in the air too in my brother's room. No-one bothered about me; it was ok for my brother and his friends that I hung around and listened. It was I who discovered Van der Graaf Generator for him when I was 7; I saw "Godbluff" in a record shop and liked the impossible letters of the VdGG logo.. Prog has always been a part of my life.
	BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.

ProgRobUK Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: February 12 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 76	Posted: July 30 2007 at 16:51
	From my newbies entry... My story goes something like this. When I was about 14 or so, a fried at school gave me a tape with ELP's Brain Salad Surgery on one side and Hawkwind's Astounding Sounds on the other. He followed it up a little later with a second tape with Queen and Queen II on them. So started my love affair with prog. Initially, I was in to Hawkwind (and various spin-offs), Genesis, early Queen (which is really quite proggy), Pink Floyd, Magnum, Peter Gabriel solo stuff, Mike Oldfield, early Steve Hackett solo stuff, Steve Hillage and, to some extent Yes and ELP. ... I never really got into any other type of music. For me there has only been prog! Rob