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Sean Trane 
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 Posted: March 14 2007 at 08:27 |
 pantacruelgruel wrote:
Unlike most posts so far, I can't say that I got "into" prog at a certain age. In my teens, my friends & I would listen to music we heard on the radio or read about, along with some older bands that uncles & aunts or older friends(big catholic families eh ) would have in their collection. So you find Yes "Close to the Edge", Billy Joel "The Stranger", Kiss "Destroyer", Rush "All the World's a Stage, some Led Zep, Purple, Alice Cooper, Strawbs, Supertramp's "Crime" and so on. A few would pick up the Sex Pistols, but not as punkers, but just music hungry youth.
Interestingly, we'd read year old issues of Creem magazine & see names like the above, Queen, Genesis & Bowie & plan future purchases or seek out friends who might have one of their LPs.
So genres never really figured into our growing up musically . One minute we'd have Klaatu's debut on, then Da Nuge with his live Gonzo.
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I had a similar experience to yours (and I suspect most Canadians our age had the same), as there was no sectarianism, we listened to whatever was coming at us through the Toronto radios (and fortunately a lot of it was prog, but that was due to the period). We even took punk as it came along. The main problem of musical segregation started when the male disco freaks started calling us names (loosers or rear guard) because of our unhyp tastes (we called them disco fa****s   , because even though they were dancing most of them couldn't get layed  ), then the punk lead into electro-pop new wave (Human League and such) and by then the music scene was really breaking up in slightly hostile crowds.
Although I started very early (11 ) listening to Supertramp , Tull, Floyd and Genesis, I certainly had no idea it was called prog and the only way to qualify this type of music was Art Rock. And if my three first album were Crime Of The Century, Wish You Were Here and Selling England By The Pound, I bought Priest's Sad Wings Of Destiny, Purle's In Rock, Bob Seger's Live album, Rory Gallagher's Irish Tour, Savoy Brown's Raw Sienna, TYA's Cricklewood Green etc. , and of course the local stuff Rush, Max Webster, Goddo, Triumph, Maneige, Harmonium etc....
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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darksideof
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 10:36 |
mystic fred wrote:
 the thread opener by darksideof is an amazing story ..!!!! that's what Prog is all about - beauty over adversity, though my own story is a humble one compared to that....
i was brought up in a comfortable working class home in London's home county of Middlesex, when i was five i was a very keen music fan (in the 50's) and as the years went by i found i was attracted to the "weird" side of rock from the Hippies and Beatles experimenting with sound to the Moody Blues mellotron magic, things just went along and brought me to where i am today - I'm exactly the same as then,.... though the world has moved on a bit, i must have a look sometime..
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Thanks buddy!!! it is amazing how prog rock changed our lives forever. I love every body stories. what a humble start.
I also noticed that most of us pretty much started with the same bands in the days of our childhood. Whoa!!!
RUSH
PINK FLOYD
GENESIS
KANSAS
KING CRIMSON
ELP
YES.
Even though we were miles ways and living totally different life's style. once we we convect to love prog we became like one family.
Edited by darksideof - March 14 2007 at 11:39
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darksideof
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 13:49 |
Christian wrote:
I have two distinct prog periods in my life, with a long (less active, but not dead) time inbetween:
First period:
It all started around 1972-73 timeframe. I was a music and record freak and was very much into Bowie, Alice Cooper, Zep, Deep Purple and the likes at the time. I was 13. Then prog started slowly to come into my world, first through Pink Floyd and ELP, but the big breakthrough was in 1973, with SEBTP, DSOTM and TFTTO, and the the ball started to roll!!!!
I was totally immersed in prog for the rest of the 70's, with all the classics (Genesis, Yes, ELP, Crimson, Floyd) and then always trying to find new (at the time) obscure and unknown artists. This continued with Triumvirat, Kansas, UK, PFM, RDM, Tai Phong, Jethro Tull and everything that was prog.
The period got inot to a coma for me as well as for the world when punk took over (I was not into it, but the lack of new good prog of course had an impact)
During the 80's and 90's I was following the development quite passively, busy raising a family and having a career. I continued to listen to Marillion and Pink Floyd but did not find any real interesting new bands.
The caem the second prog wave for me: The entry of the iPod!!!! All of a sudden I had my entire music collection at my fingertips and a I relived a lot of the good moments from the past. Via the internet I found sites like this site and others and slowly started to bild up a hunger for new prog. The first band I listened to was A.C.T and then I got into Spock's Beard, Porcupine Tree, VDGG ( revival coming when Present came out), Transatlantic etc. And now the last two years have been like 1973-74 all over!!! I bought 100's of new prog CDs including the entire catalogue of Tangent, Arena, IQ, Pain of Salvation, Neal Morse, Spc
ock's Beard, and everything else I can find.
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Yeh, that funny, I can relate you story too. I also had a similar experience with Prog like you.
When I introduced to prog by my uncle it was in the early 80’s. We all know how dead prog was. All the pioneers of old pro-rock were more onto pop that prog. So because of the lacks of any prog music created in the 80’s well to my knowledge I never bother tried to discover or find out if there any new bands out there making prog-rock. So beside the classic prog rock bands of the 70’s I also listen to a lot American and European jazz in the 80’s.
Until the mettle of the 90’s. As a big pink Floyd fan I was so thirsty for new prog I was a subscriber of Brain Damage magazine (a pink Floyd fan’s magazine). In one of the issues they were highly recommending a new band form London that sounded so much like Floyd/ king crimson. And also they were reviews theirs latest album Signify. The review was so inspiring and highly praised the album. I said I had to listen to this band. In the early 90’s was not like these days that you can a goggle a band and you find a bunch of stuff. It was the humble days of the World Wide Web. I was kind of impossible for me to find their albums, basically because the band was not signed to mayor record labels. So on one of my many days of such for good Cd's in the Est. village vantage records store I happened to grab a promotional copy of this band. I was surprise that remember the band because that was about 6 months after I read the article. The band was Porcupine Tree and the albums were the same that was reviewed in Brain Damage. I toke it home, turn off the light grab some beer from the frig and sat down in the couch. In a very optimistic mood I placed the CD in the CD player. When the intro of the CD started I though this was a joke and stupid, but how amazed how awesome this band sounded I became a fan immediately and I informed my uncle about this great NEW prog band. It reminded me the early days when I stated to listen to porg-rock I was so a great joy to excitement to listen to new progrock music. The same thing was also when I heard Ozric Tentacles. As I much got into Porcupine Tree there was another highly recommend band this was Ozric Tentacles.
I think I also wrote too. Soory.
Now I also a big fan of these new prog rock bands
Dream theater, Opeth, The mars Volta, IQ, TOOL, Symphony x, Anekdoten.
Edited by darksideof - March 14 2007 at 14:15
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BroSpence
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 14:13 |
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I was 15 when it started. It was all the fault of those terrible Tabcrawler forums. I started buying Rush and Dream Theater albums. Then Yes, Pink Floyd, King Crimson. My reasoning was that it was cool and the people were so good at playing their instruments. Then I broke out of that phase. I sold my rush and DT cds. Kept the Yes, Floyd, Crimson of course. Then 2 summers ago I bought a box of 10 "unknown" prog band records from ebay. It had stuff like Locomotiv GT, the Blue Effect, Ekseption, Alan Markusfeldt, Harmonium, and some other goodies (I only paid 20 bucks for it!). Anyways, after listening to them I was like there has to be more to Prog than the big names like Yes, Rush, KC, PF, Genesis. So I went scouting for lesser known prog, or just prog in general! Allmusic had nothing helpful really (they don't like giving prog good reviews there anyways), so i typed Prog rock in google and it brought up Prog Archives. I was in heaven. It started my 2nd wave of Prog obsession which has lasted for a while. I don't think its a phase seeing that I'm much older now and in love with prog (and music in general), so its here to stay. I spent last summer buying all the PFM, Gong, Camel, Caravan, Soft Machine, Guru Guru, Amon Duul 2, and other relateds I could find from my local record stores.
That hunt continues today
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darksideof
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 14:24 |
yep I am just like you that how i found out about this website. a while back. even though I find it a little overwhelming for me. I Buy the prog rock and metal that I find really good. there some bands in the archive that I do not like much even though they are Prog.
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Man Erg
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 14:28 |
12 years old - 1972
A friend who lived in the same flats,his brother was 3-4 years older and going to work. He was buying Yes,Genesis,Hawkwind,Krimson,Gong,Focus,Pink Fairies,Grounghogs,Led Zep...
When my friend's brother was out,we would sneak into his room and play his albums and Bob's yer uncle... Well actually, that was the name of my friend's brother. 
The first prog albums that I bought with my own (pocket)money were both Genesis albums. Nursery Cryme (Buddha import)£1.50 and the then new,Selling England... £2.30.
During the early to mid-seventies,Britain was plunged into darkness owing to power-cuts caused by,in part,the miner's strike. The gig-scene was badly affected as you can well guess.The Camden Roundhouse tried to get around this by moving gigs to Saturday afternoons.My friend, his brother and I would go along.These gigs (The Saturday Gigs;Mott the Hoople wrote a song in homage) would last for about 4 hours with as many as 5 acts playing in the one afternoon.I saw many prog acts during that time.
Thank you Ted Heath (Conservative Prime Minister) for helping a young 'heads' musical heducashun!
Edited by Man Erg - March 14 2007 at 14:43
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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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progismylife
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 14:38 |
13 years old - 2003 My dad bought my brother a Rush album. he didn't like it and I did so I got it from my brother. Then my dad bought us some Jethro Tull a few months later. 
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Moogtron III
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 18:36 |
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I think I was only about 7 years when my three older brothers (all teenagers) started to but albums from ELP, Procol Harum, Genesis, Yes, Kayak, Earth & Fire etc. I liked them already back then, but I only began to discover prog myself when I was about 19 years old.
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Syzygy
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 18:56 |
Man Erg wrote:
12 years old - 1972
A friend who lived in the same flats,his brother was 3-4 years older and going to work. He was buying Yes,Genesis,Hawkwind,Krimson,Gong,Focus,Pink Fairies,Grounghogs,Led Zep...
When my friend's brother was out,we would sneak into his room and play his albums and Bob's yer uncle... Well actually, that was the name of my friend's brother.
The first prog albums that I bought with my own (pocket)money were both Genesis albums. Nursery Cryme (Buddha import)£1.50 and the then new,Selling England... £2.30.
During the early to mid-seventies,Britain was plunged into darkness owing to power-cuts caused by,in part,the miner's strike. The gig-scene was badly affected as you can well guess.The Camden Roundhouse tried to get around this by moving gigs to Saturday afternoons.My friend, his brother and I would go along.These gigs (The Saturday Gigs;Mott the Hoople wrote a song in homage) would last for about 4 hours with as many as 5 acts playing in the one afternoon.I saw many prog acts during that time.
Thank you Ted Heath (Conservative Prime Minister) for helping a young 'heads' musical heducashun!
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Bob actually is my uncle, so there! Does anybody else here have an uncle called Bob?
On topic, I was about 13 - there was a lad next door who was a couple of years older than me and was into Led Zep, Genesis and Tangerine Dream - it was hearing SEBTP drifting out of next door's living room window one summer afternoon that started it all off for me.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 18:58 |
I remember that I was heavy into Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Uriah Heep when I was 14-16 (I am from 1960). Then, at the age of 16, I was at the home of a football friend and he played Genesis Live to me. I had already listened to ELP and Yes the years before but it sounded too complex to me. However, Genesis Live turned out to be the first progrock album that I loved (no surprise that it is my avatar) because of the great tension between the mellow and heavy parts, in some way this mesmorized me and I left the the hardrock and heavy progressive in order to discover progressive rock: first the other symphonic rock dinosaurs Yes, ELP and King Crimson, then bands like PFM, Ange, Grobschnitt, Novalis, Jane and Eloy and finally all those interesting bands like Los Jaivas, Museo Rosenbach, Gerard, Ars Nova, Solaris, Atlantis Philharmonic and Lift. So at the age of 16 my progrock quest started and I am still searching for prog
By the way, that melancholic Van Gogh painting is one of my favorites Progismylife
Edited by erik neuteboom - March 14 2007 at 19:00
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Harkmark
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Posted: March 15 2007 at 13:44 |
Bought my first progalbum in 1987: Thule - Ultima Thule. I was 15. Did not know what prog was. I remember recieving a catalouge from Sweden, probably because I ordered the Thule album directly form the band, and they had contacts. The albums in the catalogue, such as Miklagård, Isildurs Bane and Myrbein hinted towards an unknown world that I would not know of until 10 years later... 1990: Thule - Natt and King Crimson - Red. 1993- Faust, Can, Ghost etc. 1994-95: Magma, Anekdoten, Landberk, Caravan, Gentle Giant, Strawbs, Tasavallan Presidentti, Høst etc through fellow freaks and quite a lot of jazz tobacco...  1998-99 - A mailing list called ProgRealAudio contributed a lot to widening my knowledge of prog, including Italian prog. From this period and forward it became pretty much an obsession, and still is 
Edited by Harkmark - March 16 2007 at 13:18
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xenuwantsyou
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Posted: March 15 2007 at 18:23 |
I was 15. Much like a lot of other people Tool was my first introduction to prog. This girl I knew burned me a copy of Lateralus. Eventually I heard Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree and it just kind of snowballed from there. It's amazing because I went from listening to bands like Linkin Park and other nu-metal to being a prog fan in a matter of months. I remember hearing The Mars Volta's De-Loused for the first time and being completely amazed. I don't get the same feeling when listening to it anymore but back then it was like a having a revelation.
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wandererfromtx
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Posted: March 16 2007 at 11:00 |
I begin listing to Prog in the late 60s, all the kids in
neighborhood were a few years older than me and so I was indoctrinated to heavy
doses of Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Genesis, and Yes. The neighborhood kids
called it underground music, because at the time none of this was being played on
the radio.
Turning 49 in July, a long time with Prog in my head. I am Normal?
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darkmatter
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Posted: March 16 2007 at 11:13 |
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I was 17, and that was in 2005. I had gotten Dream Theater's Octavarium in June or July, and I really liked it, I ended up listening to it a lot that summer. At the end of August that same year, I picked up Porcupine Tree's In Absentia because it was a recommendation on amazon for Dream Theater. I was blown away after listening to it. By the end of the year, I had collected all of PT's studio albums. For Christmas I had gotten IQ's The Seventh House, Oceansize's Effloresce, Riverside's Out of Myself, and PT's The Sky Moves Sideways. Early in 2006, I had gotten Oceansize's Everyone into Position and Riverside's Second Life Syndrome, and I was amazed by these two albums. As the year went on, I collected more prog albums, and I started using this website in August.
Edit: I forgot that I didn't get On the Sunday of Life... until April or May 2006.
Edited by darkmatter - March 16 2007 at 12:43
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Melomaniac
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Posted: March 16 2007 at 11:24 |
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I was five or six years old (1979, 1980) and discovered prog through my dad's record collection (Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, Santana, Triumvirat, Supertramp, etc...). My favorite back then was Pink Floyd, especially Animals, Wish You Were Here and Darkside of the Moon. Being exposed to prog at such a young age forged my musical tastes, and I have always searched for intelligent, creative and original music ever since (and do my best to make the sasme kind of music too!!!)
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"One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio
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Philéas
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Posted: March 16 2007 at 18:31 |
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I got hooked on Rush about a year ago, at that time I was 16.
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Blacksword
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Posted: March 16 2007 at 18:41 |
I was 15, into into metal and some Pink Floyd, although I didn't know what prog was. A friend of mine thought my tastes were too heavy and leant me Exit Stage Left by Rush and Script.. by Marillion.
I've not been the same since..  
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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glass house
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Posted: March 16 2007 at 18:44 |
From Sweet, Alice Cooper, UFO, Scorpions to Pink Floyd, Genesis and Kansas. Much later GG and VDGG, I began listening to prog at 16,17.
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Zargus
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Posted: March 19 2007 at 10:15 |
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17 or 18 i think i started to get intrested in music when i was around 13-14 before that i didetn lisen to anything and im 22 now.
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Posted: March 21 2007 at 18:43 |
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15 i took advise from good friend and buy a Jethro tull-Living in the Past
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