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    Posted: September 11 2005 at 19:07
When I was 14 at a Rush concert.
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i got in to it at 15(in fact i got DSOTM on my birthday) and im still 15 for two more days so im pretty new to prog but i already have about 15 prog cd's (without a job)
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15 Dream Theater, Ayreon
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If you'll allow "Wish You Were Here" as prog, then it was when I was 18. It wans't until a year later that I got to hear things like "Can- Landed" and "High Tide".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2005 at 19:32
Hmm I onlyt started to listen to it just over the summer and im 15 now so i guess 15
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14/15, got me a Fragile cd.

Took a year for me to work up to the rest of 'prog', I was too scared it would all be less than Fragile.
Epic.
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14....with Floyd

Now, I'm 18, and my tastes definitely have expanded
"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."

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Hi!

For me it started with DSOTM when I was 15 or 16. I thought I would give that album a shot because I liked the song Money a lot. Although, as a matter of fact, the first Pink Floyd tune that caught my attention was Welcome To The Machine, and that's because the first time I heard it was while watching the amazing video for the song on late-night MTV a long time ago.

I remember also buying Tool's Ænima back then and thinking "What a load of crap are all the nu-metal bands flooding the scene right now... specially when compared with Tool!"

After a couple of years I "progressively" began to discover the rest of the bands I love today: Yes, Rush, Genesis (Gabriel's era), King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, (you name it)...



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If you count Jarre and Kraftwerk as actual prog I was 11.

But I started listening to Pink Floyd at the age of 18 and since then I decided I am listening solely to prog.
yet you still have time!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2005 at 13:36

 my uncle got me into it at 14 years old when he brought tapes of    YES''s drama Rush's moving pictures and Pink Floyd's animals. At age of   12-13 I was into 80's comercial Metal, but when I heard o f  Yes-Rush i neven went back  .  now i am 35 and prog-jazz-fusion is my pasion. what i live for.
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Around 11-12,with Yes and Rush.


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I was about 15-16...
I started with Jethro Tull -  "Aqualung" and King Crimson - "In The Court Of The Crimson King"...
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12 years old with Pink Floyd...

 
break the circle

reset my head

wake the sleepwalker

and i'll wake the dead
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14...  with Kansas.  
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14/15. Focus and Yes were the two that started the ball rolling.
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I got totally in to Pink Floyd at the age of 16 and spent almost two years only listening to them, I couldn't even mention another band I liked! Later (app. 1½ year) I desperately began looking for something I would possibly dig besides PF; without having a slightest idea about a genre called "Progressive Rock" I bought some Cream, David Bowie and Alan Parsons but wasn't totally amazed, though I like Bowie a lot. But in the summer of 2002, after being told it should be a bit like Floyd, I bought Genesis – Foxtrot, and a true progger was born! I was absolutely amazed and blown away.

     
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At 15-16 in 1979-80 - Genesis "Lamb lies..." and Hawkwind
"In search of space" by radio

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At 16 with Gentle giant - Acquiring the taste and power and the glory, Ekseption, and genesis - selling england by the pound
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It was in 1987 and I was 14. I bought "Animals" by Pink Floyd because a friend told me they were great. It blew my mind.
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