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Chipiron

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Joined: April 05 2005
Location: Spain
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Points: 780

Posted: December 01 2005 at 15:02

Age: 35

Progged in: 14

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Deliriumist View Drop Down

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Joined: November 25 2005
Location: Estonia
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Points: 342

Posted: December 01 2005 at 15:03

When I was too young to know my age I heard "Money" from Pink Floyd. Got this strange relationship with "Dark Side..."
3 - 9 I liked pop artists like M. Jackson or Chris Rea.
9 - 13 I went to music school but sill listened to pop/rock
13 - 14 I was given 90125 for the summer to listen (I liked it - recognized "Owner...")
14 - 17 I saw the sheet music of "Heart of the sunrise" (I was astonished)
Meanwhile I got into Yes, King Crimson and finally Genesis.
Kept on progging ever since.

By the way I'm still 17.

TimothyLeary View Drop Down

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Joined: November 27 2005
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Points: 56

Posted: December 01 2005 at 15:19

56 years old fillmore east free this that and the other thing one of the first concerts i was at the eagles and yes yes was great the eagles were the eagles

Big Ears

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Joined: February 08 2005
Location: Hants, England
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Points: 727

Posted: January 07 2006 at 07:08

I was born in the same year that Elvis Presley was conscripted into the army, in order to stop his hip-thrusting antics. It worked! I clearly remember listening to the Beatles and the Kinks as a child. I was an adolescent in the nineteen-seventies and I yearn for the days of ELP, Yes, Pink Floyd, etc.

A'swepe

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Joined: December 08 2005
Location: United States
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Points: 590

Posted: January 07 2006 at 07:33

52 at the moment - have been listening since about 70 or 71. Saw Yes live in 71 & was hooked. Fragile has just been released & Roundabout was all over FM radio.

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Atkingani

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Joined: October 21 2005
Location: Terra Brasilis
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Points: 12288

Posted: January 07 2006 at 08:39

utah_man wrote:

Sheesh...
Maybe I should leave this forum due to "old" age

OK...is there anybody here who was born before April, One-Thousand, Nine Hundred and Fifty-Seven A.D. ?

November, 1956 AD... and the 3 folks above are kids just like us!

Guigo

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Hesselius

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Joined: December 20 2005
Location: Spain
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Points: 76

Posted: January 07 2006 at 08:58

I was beggining to feel a little embarrasing with so young people

48 years old

got into prog about 16-17 (hard to remember by now). Not much prog at
the beginning, John Mayall, The Doors, CCR, soon discovered Jethro Tull,
Genesis ... and got lured by the prog, until now.

This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper

West End Ken View Drop Down

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Joined: January 02 2006
Location: Canada
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Points: 59

Posted: January 08 2006 at 11:39

I'm 38 years old. First Prog album was probably Rush - A Farewell to Kings, around 12 years old.

From there Yes,Pink Floyd,etc.

Cheers!

Lyrics of the week
Cast out a spell rendered for the light of day
Lost in lights array
I ventured to see,as the sound began to play

el böthy

Prog Reviewer

Joined: April 27 2005
Location: Argentina
Status: Offline
Points: 6336

Posted: January 08 2006 at 14:56

Age 18

Started proging at age 16

And I know two years is not much, but prog takes pretty much 70% of my life right now...its creepy...but I dont complain!

"You want me to play what, Robert?"

Marwin

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Joined: December 13 2005
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Points: 166

Posted: January 08 2006 at 15:21

age 18 started listening to prog and metal around 14-15 first bands: black sabbath, rush and dream theater

Bartvarium View Drop Down

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Joined: December 26 2005
Location: Italy
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Points: 52

Posted: January 08 2006 at 15:22

I'm 16 and I'm in Metal/prog from 14!!!

Before I was in italian Rock!!!

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Raise your sword mighty warrior

Ed_The_Dead View Drop Down

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Joined: April 29 2005
Location: Poland
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Points: 4928

Posted: January 08 2006 at 15:37

I'm 16 in 2 days...

been into prog for almost 2 years now...

Before that I was just your everyday metalhead

Rosescar

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Joined: October 07 2005
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Points: 715

Posted: January 08 2006 at 15:38

5-10: Listening to the Beatles (my father has their whole CD collection) in the car, Classical music mainly from piano lessons

10-12: Most of the mainstream stuff, I didn't like it a lot. I seldom bought a record, I think the first record I bought was Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory", back then I thought it sounded very original. Thanks to that album I know how drums work x_x

12-13: Bought 'Absolution' by Muse and 'Meteora' by LP. I thought Meteora was terrible, but I fell in love with Muse.

13-14: My mother forced me to buy Muse albums, I got interested in music from the 60's and 70's and buy stuff like Led Zep, Pink Floyd and Hendrix. Later on I stumble upon Radiohead via Muse. Looking for a review of The Wall I came upon the prog archives, but was shunned away because it didn't include Led Zep or the Beatles

I came there later again when looking for an OK Computer review, and somehow I remembered that.

15: I joined some music forum. One of the users was called 'KingCrimson250'. He started a thread about progressive music, and eventually that made me download some King Crimson. "Epitaph" completely did it for me, and when I remembered this forum I came here and started looking for all the others.

I'm fifteen at the time of this writing, turning 16 in 4 months. Now that I see this resume, I realise that prog is the first genre that fully satisfies me.

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