Which prog band was your initial entry into prog?

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!

For me it was TOOL,The Mars Volta,Rush

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.

 ^ 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

kibble_alex wrote: It was undoubtedly Yes: i dunno about anyone else here, but it was the keyboard solo from Roundabout that got me into prog. i'd never heard anything like it in my life, and i loved it! i wanted more, so i searched and found a lot more of it, and my love hasn't changed.

It was undoubtedly Yes: i dunno about anyone else here, but it was the keyboard solo from Roundabout that got me into prog. i'd never heard anything like it in my life, and i loved it! i wanted more, so i searched and found a lot more of it, and my love hasn't changed.

Am I the only one with Crimso?  There were some proggish or prog related bands before it, though, but they don't count.

I kind of grew up with all sorts of music, my elder brother and sister would play Camel, Alan Parsons Project and PFloyd, but they are 9 and 10 years older so I didn't really take much notice, my Dad was playing music and another brother was playing disco...........

I got into Pink Floyd from the Alan Parsons Project, so Pink Floyd it is.

I would be very surprised if anyone got into prog through Magma.  That would be really, *really* awesome though.

Edited by Pnoom! - May 09 2008 at 16:27

'Twas JT of course. I saw them play live, it was the famous one you'l see everything is from on youtube for instance. My mom told me that was prog and Iwas intrigued. So I went to the library and she told me which of the vinyls there were classics and the rest is just history ;)