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Originally posted by sgrurru sgrurru wrote:

at what age did we start listening prog? I mean not just hearing a song that you later realized it to be prog, but at what age did you actually start enjoying prog music?

For me at 14, in 1972, in juke box, I often used to put coins to listen to One Of These Days, From The Beginning and I didn't like Deep Purple and even Led Zeppelin.
One year later I discovered In The Court of Crimson King, Brain Salad Surgery, Ummagumma, etc. etc.
But we teenager, between peers, very often used to remark our differences. Pop listener never had listened to hard rock, and vice versa.
The discussions between pop-listeners versus hard-rock-listeners were normal just like discussions between fans of different soccer teams...

 

 
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I was probably 10 or 11, a big fan of Beatles and Yardbirds, Kinks and Who. Then an older sibling turned me on to Zappa, Moody Blues and West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. I have always loved most music, but prog has been my favorite since the begining.
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Heard Supertramp when I was 4, but my true introduction was when I first heard Genesis' Foxtrot & Nursery Cryme at the age of 10-11.
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I think I was 12 when my sister brought home "Nursery Cryme". That was the start of it for me.
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14, Rush, Dream Theater and King Crimson
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Originally posted by fairyliar fairyliar wrote:

My parents conceived me listening to Procol Harum

I'm the youngest!

Hmm ok I'm defeated ...
but my parents have the original vinyls of "The piper at the gates of dawn", "More" by Pink floyd and some Jethro Tull...but at the time I was born they were not into music anymore .
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My parents conceived me listening to Procol Harum

I'm the youngest!
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I started at 9, with Genesis "I can't dance" and "Tell me why" , but once I got the album I was quickly more attracted by "Living forever", "Driving the last spike" and "Fading lights"...just can't explain why !
Then I had a friend who lent me "Wind & Wuthering" the same year and that's when it really started.

Did anybody started this younger than me ?
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i'd say at about 13, started with Zappa(have all his albums now)
i only just turned 19 yesterday so i'm still a relative newcomer!!
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15 or 16. Started with Close to the Edge, had to keep listening to it.
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13  - 14

started with pink floyd and yes
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12,I think...

11-12 for sure...
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at what age did we start listening prog? I mean not just hearing a song that you later realized it to be prog, but at what age did you actually start enjoying prog music?

for me it was at about 15, Premiata Forneria Marconi and Jethro Tull did it....
Da qui messere si domina la valle
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