About that age poll...

6-10: Horrible music. Everything from rap to nu-metal and to pop. Ahhh, well, I was young and foolish.

10-14: Dream Theater, Symphony X, and Liquid Tension Experiment. My brother listened to them (he was around 16 at the time) and after hearing them for so long in his room or in the car, I grew to like it. I became obsessed with those three bands and refused to branch out.

14-15: Prog and prog metal.

Now (15 years old): Metal, prog metal, prog, fusion, jazz, funk, post-rock, classic rock.

Well, well... I read all posts and probably I'm the second oldest of the people who posted.

I'm 49 (made today, 27th November - same day of Jimi Hendrix ).

I started with prog long time ago, in 1971 when I started hearing some Floyd and Moody Blues tunes. I never give up! Prog forever!!!

 

P.S.: according to the age poll we have 5 people here with more than 65. I would like to know them! Do they fear the presence of so many young people here?

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I was obsessed with the Beatles apparently when i was as young as 2 i thought ringo was funny

7 i heard Elephant Talk was soon obsessed with this weird music

8 - 12 - conformed to what was popular

12 - rediscovered Yes And King Crimson got more deep into progresive rock

13 - became a snob and closing my mind to the genre everything else was garbage

15 - got into jazz,metal,grunge,hard rock other experimental music

16 - got into krautrock and Can which soon led me to get into Public Image Ltd which then led me to other post punk The Pop Group,Gang Of Four,Mission Of Burma which soon led me to listen to Black Flag and The Dead Kennedys now punk is one of my fav genres but prog is still at number 1

I started to get into prog this january. I started by hearing Dream Theater months ago before and then this year I new about this site by searching in google for information about Octavarium and fell across this jewel od a site. If it wasn't for progarchives I wouldn't even know the progressive bands that I've come to love.


THANKS PROGARCHIVES!

39 here

Have been into prog since hearing Yes-Fragile in 1976 when I was 10

I'm 20.. and my music history goes as follows:

before 7yo: Since I was a kid I grew up listening to Yes, ELP, Peter Gabriel, Jethro Tull thanks to my dad.
7-12: Basically KISS.. and mainstream music.
12-15: I listened to Cowboys from Hell by Pantera thanks to a friend of mine, from that on, I became a nu-metal junkie (Slipknot, Mudvayne, Coal Chamber, etc..) with very few real metal influences.
15-17: Got into death/black/doom metal... and prog metal for that matter thanks to Dream Theater, I found their odd time signatures reaaaaaally amusing and interesting :P
17-19: Jazz, funk and metal
19-20: I rediscovered prog music thanks to Rick Wakeman's Six Wives of Henry VIII I found in a pile of old CDs that belonged to my dad.. since then I've been obsessed with prog music of every kind, discovering new bands and expanding my horizons day to day..

Now 41 years 2 months and 25 days, proghead since 13 years old, fanatic since I was 15 and discovered Genesis.

Iván

Now 17

Started at the age of 14 by purchasing DSOTM (very original)

Then got into classics like Led Zep and Purple, along with some metal greats(Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth) Then came classic symphonic prog, followed by all prog subgenres. Now I almost don't listen to anything non prog, prog is so varied, you can never have too much of it.

 

Until I was 11, I didn't listen to anything. Then I started to listen to pop (*NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, etc.). After all my friends stopped listening to that stuff (around 13 years old) I started to listen to their favorite bands. I got into blink-182, Matchbox 20, Three Doors Down, Lifehouse, and pretty much every alternative band there was.

By my freshman year of high school, I started to dig around my dad's cd collection and I found some Yes. I knew they were his favorite band but I had never really listened to them. I took his copy of Keys to Ascension and gave it a listen. It was awesome! For the rest of my freshman and sophomore years, Yes was almost all I listened to.

By my junior/senior years, I started to get into Queen, Van Halen, Rush (now my favorite band), Pink Floyd, Triumph, Dream Theater, and just about every prog band. I'm a freshman in college now and I'm always on the lookout for new prog. My favorite new prog bands are the Mars Volta, Tool, and Coheed and Cambria. I don't like Radiohead though. They suck.

TheProgtologist wrote: 39 here Have been into prog since hearing Yes-Fragile in 1976 when I was 10

You must have been seen as pretty uncool at that time lol did u get beat up by the punks