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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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to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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toolis
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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...
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-music is like pornography...
sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more...
-sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue...
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Christian
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 04:39 |
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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mystic fred
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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..
Edited by mystic fred - March 14 2007 at 04:28
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Atavachron
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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: March 14 2007 at 03:55 |
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: March 14 2007 at 00:49 |
enteredwinter wrote:
At age 21: I discovered Opeth, randomly while messing around on the Internet. This led me to Porcupine Tree, Meshuggah, Dream Theater, and others.
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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. 
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NotSoKoolAid
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 00:46 |
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: 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.
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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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Man With Hat
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Posted: March 14 2007 at 00:12 |
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.
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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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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.
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