How old were you when got into prog? how
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Topic: How old were you when got into prog? how
Posted By: darksideof
Subject: How old were you when got into prog? how
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 19:15
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Posted By: Trademark
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 19:27
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I was 17. My older brother and I were playing in a band and sharing a house. We were into basic AOR hard rock and a dash of country rock at the time. I liked Nick Lowe a lot and had read an interview where he said "bands like ELP and Yes are about as exciting as used Kleenex", and that pretty much summed up our opinion at the time.
Another friend (our drummer) had expressed an interest in Genesis and since I lived in town (nearer to the record stores) he asked me to pick up Foxtrot and Nursery Cryme for him. I found them in a bargain bin for $1.99 each and bought them. The only mistake I made wasd deciding to listen to them before I gave them to him. Needless to say my friend never got his records. A few days later I was telling my brother about this radical discovery. I told him, "We've been wrong about this whole prog-rock thing." His reply. "Maybe you were wrong, I wasn't". We continued to play music together for several years afterward, but that was the end of me seeing my big brother as THE source of wisdom in music. |
Posted By: Ryth
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 19:37
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Christ, your family needs to chill a little.
Well, I first listened to prog when I had just become thirteen, a little over a year ago. My first albums were Pink Floyd's Meddle, Rush's 2112. and Coheed And Cambria's In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth - 3 (Yes, that is an odd man out if I've ever seen one xD). I swear, they were like magic. I loved all of them and soon expanded my collection. King Crimson, Yes, more Rush, more Pink Floyd, more Coheed, The Mars Volta, Tool, Ayreon, Dream Theater, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa, The Moody Blues, Wishbone Ash, Opeth, and well, I could go on all day. I'm still missing a good number of artists and albums, but thats ok. I have time. Prog is a wonderful genre and I can't imagine myself in the future not loving it. ------------- http://rateyourmusic.com/~Ryth"> 
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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 19:38
| Sounds like your brother needs a prog intervention. (or would that be an AOR intervention?) |
Posted By: Trademark
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 19:51
| He went hard into New Riders of the Purple Sage, Flying Burrito Bros. and all that Coutry influenced rock side of things. About as close as we could get to agreement for a number of years was Charlie Daniels and Lynyrd Skynyrd. |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 19:59
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I was really into Kansas when I was in the 7th grade. I recall asking for 3 albums for Christmas that year: Kansas' Monolith, Steve Walsh's Schemer Dreamer, and Styx's Cornerstone (I got all 3 that year, too). Within the next couple of years I started getting into Rush and Yes (Rabin era and worked my way back from there). So, I guess I've been listening to the genre since 1979 when I was 11 or 12.
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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:00
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Kansas leads more people to prog than any other band I know of, at least as far as the States' is concerned. EDIT: Rush is a a close second. |
Posted By: proggy
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:05
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I was always into Yes and Kansas and Rush during my childhood but a buddie of mine lent me UK - Danger Money in 1994 when I was 24. Next was King Crimson - Red, Chris Squire - Fish out of Water and Eddie Jobson - Zinc. The Rest was history......... |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:07
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I actually remember Focus Hocus Pocus getting airplay on the local radio, when I was about 8 or so, I think. My first prog albums were Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth and King Aurthur. I guess I was 11 or 12 then. I didn't become a real addict until the summer of 1978 when I was 13. I credit an uncle, my older brother, and his circle of friends who got hooked before me.
It was almost a family thing because my Mom really liked Kansas, Santana, and the Dixie Dregs. I was fortunate to get into see more than few shows in places I was too young to go to alone, including King Crimson (Discipline tour), Steve Hackett (Cured tour), Pat Metheny (Offramp tour). Being in the Atlanta area, I also got to see so many Dixie Dregs shows that I lost count.
Of course this site is a very dangerous place for me. Too much stuff to even digest it all. So much devil worshipping music so little time!  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: GentleGiant
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:10
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My first encounter with prog was in 1971 at 14years old.A neighbour lent me : East of Eden-Mercator Project (unusual for a beginner ,isn't it?
Quatermass-Same
E,L&P-Same
and few HR :DeepPurple-In rock /Black Sabbath-Paranoid/Grand Funk-Live ------------- BeGiantForADay "This British band is just the cup of tea for aficionados who demand virtuosity,progress and originality in their mix." http://rateyourmusic.com/~GentleG |
Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:14
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My story is typical: I was a teen in love with Zeppelin,Guns 'n Roses and other similar gritty rock and roll. One night I got bored and decided to go through my Dad's album collection (all vinyl) and pulled out a few records that looked interesting. One was the ubiquitous prism cover we know so well. This particular album was the only one that struck a chord with me, and I soon found myself in love with Pink Floyd, and bought everything I could find over the next two years (I lived in a small town, and in those days--1988 and 89--it was hard for me to find good music).
After I had exhausted all the PF albums, I began to search out other similar music, based on the recommendations of relatives, friends, even a boss I had. Within a few more years, I was a huge Yes, Genesis, ELP, & Rush fan. My progophilia then laid semi-dormant for several years, until I discovered this wonderful site. Bands that I have subsequently fallen in love with are Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Gentle Giant, Van der Graaf Generator, Camel...along with many others. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:14
I was 14, it was awesome. Read my collab profile for details: http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=2499">http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=2499 
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Drakk
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:15
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Unfortunately, very recently.
In the range of 2-3 years ago, when I was 15-16. Now I know what I was missing...  ------------- [QUOTE=darkshade] [QUOTE=Sckxyss] I'm disappointed - neither of these players are avant-garde! Al di Meola. [/QUOTE] haha i know. but the poll itself is avant-garde [/QUOTE] |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:22
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Mine was about 2 or 3 years ago. It all started when I asked one of my friends to lend me a Dream Theater compilation he made. ------------- 
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Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:23
Well, back then I just thought of them as classic rock. Progressive wasn't even a blip on my radar. E -------------
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Deathrabbit wrote:Posted By: Prometheus
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:23
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haha...i'll offer my story since i'll be the first person not from the 70's. a modern prog story: i was probably 14 and caught a listen of Tool...became obsessed with them for probably two years and then desperately wanted more. my girlfriend was learning The Mahavishnu Orchestra on the piano ("dance of the maya" --eccentric music teacher) and she burned me the CD..i loved it. then a friend of mine suggested Radiohead, picked up Kid A, as a fluke, and became obsessed with it. then, just by chance i found this site...and you people have made me spend too much money. (oh..and now i have a college roomate who listens to thrash and death metal...so being subject to his music allowed me to see the merits of extreme prog like Meshuggah and Ephel Duath. that's been the biggest evolution for me since prog itself; every other prog genre came easily) ------------- "Tell me why world, unfathomable and good, The beauty of everything is infinite and cruel." --Kayo Dot |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:24
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I was 10 when I really got into prog. Starting with albums like Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme and ITCOTCK. The whole experience was orgasmic and have been since! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 20:35
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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. |
Posted By: Reverie
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 21:05
| Probably Dream Theater when i was about 15 or 16, so that's 5 or 6 years ago. I remember listening to Scenes From A Memory for pretty much 3 months straight (as in barely anything else). I was obsessed. Rush came along too. Then it was Opeth and then i discovered this place somehow.... that's right, i googled The Flower Kings. And then came Zappa etc. |
Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 21:12
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I was into prog since I was 10 too, and with JT's Benefit... as a result of that I heard TAAB and Aqualung and fell into prog's charm... the fact that I was always a sucker for jazz helped ------------- Jesus Gabriel |
Posted By: Chus
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 21:14
Whoa... a girl who likes Mahavishnu?? I don't hear that often (unless it's Ghost Rider
 ) EDIT: oh she was just learning it?? damn  ------------- Jesus Gabriel |
Posted By: polyrythmic
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 21:29
| I got into Prog 2 years ago when I was 14, my aunt bought the Yes extended versions for me on Christmas. |
Posted By: Fight Club
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 21:36
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Back a few years ago (13-14) I used to listen to stuff like Linkin Park. After a little while I got an interest in music and started exploring classic rock. I discovered all the important bands like Zeppelin and Floyd and dove into "good rock". I was into Rush and Floyd and certain popular prog bands for a while, but I didn't really know what progressive rock was and didn't explore it. Then one day I was exploring a site called digitaldreamdoor.com which basically compiled lists of rock's greatest musicians: guitar, drums, bass, etc. I noticed that these guys from a band named Dream Theater were pretty high on all the lists. Petrucci being like #14 in rock's greatest guitarists, Portnoy being like #8, Myung being like #20, etc. I was like damn these guys sound really damn talented but how come I have never heard of them? So I downloaded a song called Pull Me Under. That hooked me instantly. After that I went out and bought Images & Words and Scenes From A Memory. It was instaneous amazement. I just listened in awe and thought "what the hell genre are these guys considered? This is like metal, but incredibly technical and atmospheric, with techno or something!" Discovered they were included under Progressive Rock. The rest is history. ------------- 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 22:23
| When i was in 7th grade, Rush and Yes came on the scene simultaneously. They were just so much better than pretty much anything I had been exposed to at that point. This was around 1990. |
Posted By: NJprogfan
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 22:26
| I can remember vividly! It was 1977 and I was 17. Our english teacher allowed us to listen to the radio, (can't remember why). When "Roundabout" started I was immediately immobile. Mesmorized, hypnotized, I was rivited. I never heard anything like it. Of course, after the song was over, the DJ played another song without mentioning who the previous band was. I asked one of my classmates who the band was and of course the rest, for me, is history. I will say that I listened to Kansas having both "Leftoverture" and "Point Of No Return", but neither album gave me the reaction that this one particular song did. In hindsight, maybe listening to Kansas made me appreciate longer songs, kinda softening me up for more complex song structures. I remember going to the local record store, buying "Fragile" and had to have everything else Yes did. I never did thank my english teacher ;-) |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 22:27
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When I was 7, my dad bought me a CD player for my birthday and he gave me a bunch of his CD's to listen to, namely the Yes, Pink Floyd, and Jethro Tull remasters. I really got into avant stuff when I found my grandpa's vinyls in his storage room in his basement. The rest is history I guess. ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 22:31
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About 2 years ago, I wasn't terribly into music, just barely stumbling my way through some really shallow classic rock. My friend recommended I picked up this really weird album from 1969 by some group called King Crimson.
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Posted By: Floydian42
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 22:33
| 13, my dad showed me Pink Floyd. |
Posted By: enteredwinter
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 22:37
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My prog evolution had three distinct stages: Around age 14: Through friends and my father, I got into classic rock, which led me to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Pink Floyd. I also got into 80's thrash at this time. My only true prog album then was Selling England By The Pound. I also discovered Tool at this point. At age 21: I discovered Opeth, randomly while messing around on the Internet. This led me to Porcupine Tree, Meshuggah, Dream Theater, and others. At age 24: I was desparately searching for new music, and managed to discover Muse, The Mars Volta, Rush, Ayreon, Riverside, and others. I eventually stumbled upon this website in May of 2006, and now I have a 300+ CD collection that is made up of mostly prog, prog-related stuff, and metal. ------------- 
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Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 22:59
| I was about 13 and the older guy next door joined the Army. This was about '77 or so. He told me I could have all his LP's while he was gone. The first one I listened to was Relayer. That was it for me and I haven't looked back since. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 00:12
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Approx. three/four years ago.
Before then I knew of the popular stuff...Dark Side Of The Moon...Yes' Roundabout...etc...but that was all. Then one day, my unlce let me listen to KC's Discipline. I was more stunned then anything, and it didn't really sink it with first listen. But I knew there was something I liked about it. After that, he let me listen to a few more prog classics: Zappa's One Size Fits All, Spock's Beard The Kindness Of Strangers, Gente Giants Interview, Genesis' The Lamb...Eventually I started to buy the albums on my own...and the rest as they say, is history. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: Unix
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 00:20
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About 14 for me, I was already into Pink Floyd and Rush then, and a friend of mine helped me with the rest from there...
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Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 00:26
about 3 years ago, when i was in high school. i was in a friend's place and he apparently just bought Dream Theater's Train of Thought. after a few listening, the album clicked with me, and i bought one myself. ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: NotSoKoolAid
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 00:46
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How old? 11. How was it? Better than sex!
Since, I've gone progressive sub-genre to sub-genre. Eventually I dove into jazz and related it to progressive rock as much as I could. I do these things to this day.
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Posted By: asimplemistake
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 00:49
yaaa opeth and PT  . I have a similar story...kinda. About 3 years ago i was really into Yngwie Malmsteen (not prog obviously) and my friend and his brother (who was also my guitar teacher) told me about Symphony X. I listened to Symphony X for a while just cause it was awesome. I also listened to bands that were related to Symphony X but didnt quite discover Prog then. It wasnt until I found this website that I realized that Symphony X was part of a genre that had intelligence behind it that I discovered Prog. From then i got into Dream Theater, Adagio, Kamelot, and more recently I've gotten very into Opeth and Porcupine Tree (PT was recommended to me from my dentist!). I've loved actual Prog for about oh 1.5 to 2 years now and i dont think ill stray too far away from it. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 03:55
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I am from Barcelona. I was 15 in 1973 and I was into Cat Stevens or Don McLean . Once I read about ELP's Trilogy in a magazin. They didn't play progressive music in the radios in Spain back then. My friends weren't into music either. One day I was going to buy Elton John's Madman Across The Water but I decided to listen to that record in the department store. I got Trilogy, and from then on their previous records. Since I liked Lake's voice and I heard he was in a group called K.Crimson I got "In the court" . Then I moved to another school, bigger, and got in contact with other boys who were listening to the same music. I was lucky to see the first prog rock concerts in Spain: ELP in 1973 and Genesis in 1974. Those two concerts changed my life, in a way. At least musically.
After that.... well, I think I've written too much.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 04:19
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When I was quite young, maybe nine, I saw and immediately liked the Tarkus cover-- the music was way over my head but I loved that a rock band was using a space-age armadillo for a theme. About a year later I bought Hemispheres - again because of the cover - and though the music was a bit much for a ten year old, I kept it and enjoyed it years later when I began to appreciate the music.
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 04:26
 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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Posted By: Christian
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 04:39
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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.
As you may guess my favorite genre is Symphonic, followed by art/space/metal
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 04:40
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i was 16 and i bought Images And Words - DT and Parallels - Fates Warning.. it was so different sound to me.. it took me a while to get into it but have been a great fan ever since... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 08:27
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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Posted By: darksideof
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 10:36
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. ------------- http://darksideofcollages.blogspot.com/ http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Darksideof-Collages/ |
Posted By: darksideof
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 13:49
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 I think I also wrote too. Soory. Dream theater, Opeth, The mars Volta, IQ, TOOL, Symphony x, Anekdoten. ------------- http://darksideofcollages.blogspot.com/ http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Darksideof-Collages/ |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date 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 |
Posted By: darksideof
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 14:24
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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. ------------- http://darksideofcollages.blogspot.com/ http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Darksideof-Collages/ |
Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 14:28
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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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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 14:38
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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.  |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 18:36
| 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. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 18:56
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. ------------- '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 |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 18:58
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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
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Posted By: Harkmark
Date Posted: March 15 2007 at 13:44
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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 |
Posted By: xenuwantsyou
Date Posted: March 15 2007 at 18:23
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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. |
Posted By: wandererfromtx
Date Posted: March 16 2007 at 11:00
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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.
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Posted By: darkmatter
Date 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. |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date 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!!!) ------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: March 16 2007 at 18:31
| I got hooked on Rush about a year ago, at that time I was 16. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 16 2007 at 18:41
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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.
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Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: March 16 2007 at 18:44
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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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Posted By: Zargus
Date 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 By: Komodo dragon
Date Posted: March 21 2007 at 18:43
| 15 i took advise from good friend and buy a Jethro tull-Living in the Past |
Posted By: coleio
Date Posted: March 30 2007 at 06:37
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I was17 years old, just started getting into way heavier and complex music, stuff like Nile etc. But I found prog through Opeth, Dream Theatre, Symphony X and Tool. So that's where my Proggin' started haha :) |
Posted By: Allu
Date Posted: March 30 2007 at 09:05
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I was about 16, I got into true prog music via Opeth and some other proggy-metal bands. |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: March 30 2007 at 09:12
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i was 15 when i bought Images & Words by Dt and Parallels by Fates Warning... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: ebag7125
Date Posted: March 31 2007 at 17:39
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14. wait.... i'm still 14! AHHHHH!!!!!!
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: March 31 2007 at 17:48
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I was 14 or 15 and discovered either ITCOTCK or Nursery Cryme, then moved on to Pink Floyd and other classics. My tastes in music changed a lot after getting into Opeth - now I can listen to anything. ------------- sig |
Posted By: docsolar
Date Posted: March 31 2007 at 23:50
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I was listening to/appreciating Yes and the proggy side of Queen since I was about 12.
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: April 02 2007 at 17:11
Well, as with any type of music, prog is just not for everyone -- results may vary. (My older brother doesn't "get" it either, but we agree on lots of other great music.)
With me, I was 12-13, and it was the influence of my "cool" older sister
 , with albums like Foxtrot, The Yes Album and Trilogy.By 15, I was a seasoned, committed prog fan.  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: UncleMeat
Date Posted: April 05 2007 at 15:55
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I was influenced by my six year elder brother who loved Genesis, Yes, Camel an so on. He even went to the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (must have been 1975). When I reached the age of 12 (1976) I started bying my own Prog records: the first one was Genesis Live, soon followed by the like of Yes, ELP, Patrick Moraz, Vangelis, Frank Zappa. And I taped a lot of music in those days.
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Posted By: Mandrakeroot
Date Posted: April 05 2007 at 15:57
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At the age of 4 with "Eye In The Sky" by Alan Parsons Project and Delirium (ITA)!!!
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Posted By: progressive
Date Posted: April 05 2007 at 19:04
maybe 16 or 17, but somehow earlier, like age 13 or something (didn't know prog exists until at highschool  )Music teacher showed Tull's With yuo there to help me and Yes' heart of the sunrise. I had listened Metallica and had searched for other band like Metallica. But it's been maybe 3 years now, 300 albums.. what?.. Yeah, it's the library (I don't mean it's much, but before that I had about 20 albums. And I don't buy them a lot. Or shop anything. Not downloading or collecting all) ------------- 
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Posted By: Evandro Martini
Date Posted: April 05 2007 at 21:30
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I was 13, and started with Pink Floyd. My mother had some of their albums, Atom Heart Mother (which I, unlike most people liked since the first time I listened), Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle (I didn't like it... then I started to enjoy Fearless, Seamus, and finally Echoes!), and Wish You Were Here (It took me dozens of spins to get accostumed with Shine on... I noitced it was good, but couldn't really appreciate it... in the 30th or 40th everything became clear to me)... After Floyd, I started to look for other prog bands. My father had Yes's Keys to Ascencion DVD, which I borrowed. man, how I was amazed by Rick and Steve in Starship Trooper! It took me out of my head! Later, I took my father's Selling England by the Pound to listen. At first I didn't like it. I was obsessed with prog's instrumental virtues, and thought that Peter Gabriel sang too much, leaving no space for the musicians... Of course, after some time I changed my mind, first about Firth of Fifth, then Cinema Show, and when I noticecd I loved that album (though it has serious defects). |
Posted By: Christine
Date Posted: April 09 2007 at 06:19
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I was about ten going on eleven.My Dad showed me ELP first....& it wasn't until a couple of months later that I had really "aquired the taste"( Gentle Giant reference....LOL) & had a desperate craving for more! It actually took me longer to get into Pink Floyd than ELP......& my first prog album ever was Pictures at an Exhibition! ------------- catsfootironclaw |
Posted By: Tristan Mulders
Date Posted: April 09 2007 at 08:36
Uhm.. when I was 12 I received a copy of The Best of both Worlds by Marillion by an uncle, because I liked Kayleigh when I heard it for the first time (oh, is THIS Marillion?? An other uncle was a fan already)  .And the Marillionaddiction started then.. back in 1999 and via Marillion I discovered other prog artists and via the revelation that's the internet I discovered ProgArchives and via ProgArchives I expanded my musical knowledge as well as my CD collection ------------- Interested in my reviews? You can find them http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=784 - HERE "...He will search until He's found a Way to take the Days..." |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: April 10 2007 at 08:05
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I was about 11 IN 1973 when my cousin played me Foxtrot - Genesis. ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: April 10 2007 at 08:10
| Around 13 with PF, APP, Mike Oldfield. |
Posted By: paolo.beenees
Date Posted: April 10 2007 at 08:30
| My sister (seven years older than me) used to have Deep Purple and Pink Floyd as favourite bands. By the age of 9 or 10 I started going mad for Deep Purple, while it took me a little longer to acquire taste in Pink Floyd. During my early teens I used to be a metal freak, dressing in black and letting my hair grow (my hair, where is it now? If you see it around, please contact the local police department), with Rush, Mercyful Fate and King Diamond as idols (as well as early Black Sabbath). Therefore, having a foot into 1970s rock, it was very easy, when I was 17 yo, starting listening to something more from that period; so I discovered (in the right order) Genesis, Yes, Le Orme and PFM. Final step: when I started studying German at the University I discovered also Krautrock and Kosmische Musik and I went mad for Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh. Since then, I've been delving deeper and deeper into prog rock, and I wonder if I ever find its bottom... |
Posted By: Tiresias
Date Posted: April 10 2007 at 15:44
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My dad gave me a copy of The Wall when I was 14. From there I moved backward through Floyd and branched into the other big names. Then I found ProgArchives. Over 1000 albums later, I'm still finding new stuff. ------------- Wh'ghal ng'fth mglw'y Ry'leh, Cthulhu fhtagn... 
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Posted By: ZowieZiggy
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 08:23
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If you look at the list of bands on PA, the first ones I listened to were Purple and Led Zep when I was 11 (it was in December 1970). I can go on with Santana (Abraxas, my first album) in January 1971 when I was alost twelve (I was born in February 1959).
More seriously (because none of those bands are prog IMO), the first true prog album I listened to was Aqualung in May 1971 or so. The first one I purchased was "Meddle" in December 1971. Almost twelve... Gosh! It sounds as if it was yesterday...
And I am still listening frequently to "Echoes". Actually, I have burned a CD-R with "Echoes" and the full "SOYCD" (part I to IX). So, for several weeks already, I listened the first one while going to bed, and I have programmed the later one to wake up in a good mood.
I just cannot get tired of these two jewels...
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 09:03
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I was 14 when discovered TOOL, PINK FLOYD, DOORS and URIAH HEEP (thanks daddy ).I was 15 when I heard DREAM THEATER and GENESIS. Later I explored almost every Classic Prog band, but fell in REAL love with the genre in 2003 - when got MARILLION's debut
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Posted By: wailingwailer
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 17:53
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Well, my exploring of prog is more strange.
At first I was listening to roots reggae and ska and some day I heard Queen on the radio. It sounded good so I decide to download some of their material. Over time I became their great fan and because on wikipedia I read they played some of prog I read the article and discovered prog elements. For me it sounded like an extremely intellegent music so I download ITCOCK and some PF albums and forced my self to like this stuff (it unusual to listen it for the first time if you're used to pop or reggae in my case). After a while I started to like this kind of music and I discovered ELP, Hidria Spacefolk, Hawkwind etc. At the same time I "discovered" jazz and rediscovered classic, because of progressive elements. And this is very important, because I already liked classic before but I didn't know much about it, because I wasn't so interested in music. But because of prog I read a lot of articles and reviews and I even started to play piano because of it. For example I started to interest in musique concrete because PF were using some of it on DSOTM, Ummagumma and others. And because this music is very hard to listen I've chosen another genre of hard-listening music: neoclassicism. This is in fact offtopic already, but what I'm trying to say is, that all the time I was listening to progressive elements not prog rock or prog jazz (=cool jazz) or ... So I'd recommend to others that u try to listen some of other progressive genres. Maybe you'll like it (even if you're already listening to fusion genres such as symph prog or jazz fusion). ------------- Wailer. |
Posted By: Faaip_De_Oiad
Date Posted: May 05 2007 at 23:37
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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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Posted By: Atomic_Rooster
Date Posted: May 06 2007 at 01:51
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I'm pretty sure I was born playing King Crimson's Larks Tongues part 2
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Posted By: profskett
Date Posted: May 07 2007 at 09:07
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/profskett/?chartstyle=OldPaperOArtist"> 
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Posted By: nightlamp
Date 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... |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date 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. |
Posted By: deathblack29
Date 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. |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 30 2007 at 13:11
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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. ------------- What? |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 30 2007 at 15:25
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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. |
Posted By: ProgRobUK
Date Posted: July 30 2007 at 16:51
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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
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