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imoeng 
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 Topic: Who turns you into prog???
Posted: June 08 2006 at 20:38 |
Back in 2001, I was in year 8, I have to prepare some songs for year 9's farewell party... That is when my guitar teacher said I have to play Another Day, Dream Theater... Well, to be honest, its a piracy CASSETTE!!  not even a cd... but thats not the main issue... Since then, I listen to prog rock...
What about you??  You friend? family? teacher? or maybe shopkeeper? or maybe yourself??
Edited by imoeng - June 08 2006 at 20:39
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The Wizard
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 20:41 |
I heard an edit of Thick as a Brick on the Radio and got the album. The rest is history.
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Zoso
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 20:45 |
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I got into Pink Floyd about 3 years ago, which led to Yes, and progressed (no pun intended) from there.
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James Lee
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:06 |
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My mother says that my sister made me cry in terror by playing Animals when I was very little. Maybe ever since then I've been chasing those same unspeakable feelings.
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Viajero Astral
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:15 |
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A friend show me some Dream Theater and another friend show me more of them and Yes, after listen Close To The Edge I become an adict.
Edited by Viajero Astral - June 08 2006 at 21:16
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The Miracle
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:20 |
My dad when he recommended me DSOTM 
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:32 |
My uncle when he let me listen to KC's Discipline. 
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Hierophant
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:49 |
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I very long, steady progression starting with techno/dance music
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 21:49 |
My uncle when he bought me 2112 one christmas (and the Division Bell as well). 
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chamberry
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 22:00 |
My friend when he let me borrow a mix of Dream Theater songs when we went up a little mountain to listen to music and to smoke some weed... I listened to Metropolis pt 1: the miracle and the sleeper when I was "under the influence" and it blew my mind away. So I went a got all of the DT albums to experience again those feelings without the drug and then I discovered Progarchives and prog along with it. So I can say that weed actually maked me like prog 
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imoeng
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 22:04 |
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^ wow, nice one... I know bubble gum could subtitute cigarette, but i didnt know prog could do the same thing with weed!! I really like your second last sentence... hhehehehe
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Padraic
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 22:27 |
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Actually, I remember my Dad had some random compilation of songs for
Atlantic records anniversary (maybe their 20th or something), and
"Heart of the Sunrise" was on it. Needless to say, that set me on
the Yes path. I actually bought 2112 in K-mart or somewhere
random because the cover looked cool, and the Rush addiction soon set
in.
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video vertigo
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 22:57 |
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heard a 4 song block of Rush songs on the radio, loved them all, bought their Spirit of the Radio compilation, bought all of their albums, began searching for anything remotely similar, found prog.
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"The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 23:00 |
Local library --> Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson
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Arsillus
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 23:26 |
My dad was watching the YesSymphonic DVD like 3 years ago and the "Wurm" portion of "Starship Trooper" was playing and I loved it.
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Zac M
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 23:30 |
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My personal decision to buy the Pink Floyd "Echoes" compilation, and look where I am now, pretty amazing in a relatively short amount of time (4 years or so).
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
-Merleau-Ponty
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chamberry
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Posted: June 08 2006 at 23:43 |
 imoeng wrote:
^ wow, nice one... I know bubble gum could subtitute cigarette, but i didnt know prog could do the same thing with weed!! I really like your second last sentence... hhehehehe |
Yeah wierd really. I liked the feeling that I experienced while hearing DT and prog in general also carries it so that's part of why I like this genre.
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crimson thing
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Posted: June 09 2006 at 07:21 |
At school from say, 1971 onwards. I had one friend who pushed Floyd onto me. Then, a couple of years later, a persuasive KC fan. Finally, later 70s, another friend who, along with his father, was heavily into jazz & introduced me to Return to Forever.
I'm sure it's pure luck, who your influences are, and being in a certain place at a certain time........
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"Every man over forty is a scoundrel." GBS 
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Blacksword
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Posted: June 09 2006 at 07:36 |
A freind leant me Exit Stage Left by Rush in 1983, insisting that I listen to something other than mega heavy metal.
Thanks 'friend' wherever you are. Things got much better for me after hearing that album!
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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dude
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Posted: June 09 2006 at 12:02 |
WHATS A PROG? AND HOW DOES ONE GET TURNED INTO ONE? IS IT CONTAGIOUS?....IS THERE A CURE?!!!..WHY DEOSNT ANYBODY TELL ME THESE THINGS DAMMIT!!!!!!??
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