Which prog band was your initial entry into prog?

Atavachron wrote:  ^ wow Mike, what an interesting starter ..this is always a hard question for me, my very first intro was hearing Tarkus as a little kid, loving that space-age cover but being rather confused by the music   ..by about 11 I'd gotten Hemispheres - again cause of the artwork - but this time I like the music (though it still baffled me), it wasn't till high school I found out Rush were actually cool , and from there it was a gradual immersion into Yes, Tull, Mahavishnu, KC, and the proggie metal of Sabbath and Maiden

I got my love of prog at an early age but didn't really go whole hog till the last 5 years or so..  my parents both loved music, of ALL types,  and had it playing all the time.. there are some albums.. that stayed with me.. through 30 odd years...  like ELO2  ...my mom had it on 8-track.  I mentioned it in my review... wow.. just completely blew me away as a kid.  I was taken away to place ...very very far away.  Damn... need to hear that album again.

For me it was TOOL,The Mars Volta,Rush

For me was Triumvirat; in the early 80´s he lent me his old D90 tape including the bands "Spartacus" and "Old Loves Die Hard" albuns.
I imediatly loved such kind of music. The funny thing is that the didn´t have any sticker identifying the band/albuns and even my brother didn´t remember who was the band on the tape. Then I walked by several record stores, putting the tape to play before the people and during a lot of time, nobody knew which band was... some bet on Barclay James Harvest, some even Jethro Tull. The curious thing is that the 1976 album "Old Loves Die Hard" was nº 1 at portuguese album chart at its time!

FLOYD with The Wall then Tull with TAAB and at the same time Yes classics.

Genesis.  First album that I ever purchased with my own money was the shapes album.  

I started with Uriah Heep, not knowing they were Prog or even what Prog was.

Then my official start was with Yessongs, when I became a moderate fan, after a year or two I listened Frágil playing Genesis covers and became a total proghead.

Iván

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: I started with Uriah Heep, not knowing they were Prog or even what Prog was.   Iván

Dream Theater initially, and Yes, Pink Floyd, Focus and Genesis very soon after.

Pink Floyd, but I did not know at that time that they are prog or something like that, and what is progressive rock at all.

zicIy wrote: Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: I started with Uriah Heep, not knowing they were Prog or even what Prog was. Iván hey, my first concert of some great band was Uriah Heep, in Belgrade, ex-Yugoslavia. i´v been 13 yrs old. it was "High And Mighty" tour, if i can remmember well. one great show anyway, but i´v been thinking that they were a hard rock band, untill i saw them at PA. Greetings!

Strangely I do feel the same with most of Heavy Prog bands, not being prog. This is for no discussion(please), just a thought of mine, that I really can't see Uriah Heep, Atomic Rooster, Black Widow being PROG. Even though long compositions, the label doesn't fit them, IMHO of course. Just maybe Heep cause the Roger Dean's cover. I love Salisbury but as an overall album none of there's are prog, they have 1 or 2 fabolous prog songs but that's it.