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My parents had very conservative 50's style music tastes, I was born in '64 and I don't think I ever heard anything like the Beatles or Rolling Stones. It was all male voice choirs or old hollywood musicals. They couldn't stand anything I was into as a teen. I was stunned when I went round a friends house and her dad's record collection was full of Floyd, Yes, Zeppelin, Sabbath and the like.

My daughters have had differing involvements in my music tastes, the eldest is more into the mainstream classic rock stuff. Though she has been to see King Crimson, Magma & Porcupine Tree with me. The younger one is much more involved. She's into a lot of the stuff I listen to, she has been to Nearfest (her first festival), 2 ProgDays and a Rock In Opposition festival in France. These weren't me dragging her along to events, she'd been begging me to take her for a number of years. I flew her into Boston to see Magma. 


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My kids knew that I spent a good deal of my adult life working with straight up rock artists and that prog was an escape for me. You can't listen to some metal band doing 10 takes of some metal song or hard rock song and go home and listen to metal or hard rock music. It's like taking your work home with you. Even if they recorded something great. You just need a change. Lucky or not I never recorded too many prog groups.

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My Dad had introduced me to Pink Floyd at a young age. He played DSOTM and WYWH on a regular basis. He was also into the Moody Blues (This Is the Moody Blues was in regular rotation) and ELO (A New World Record, Olé ELO, and Out of the Blue were in regular rotation). He was also into Motown, Big Band, Neil Diamond, and Fats Domino. 

My Mom was also into ELO, but also was a big fan of the Carpenters and disco. When I was a little older and figured out how to use the turntable, I also found a bunch of Beatles records, Pink Floyd's Animals, Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti, and ELO's On the Third Day in their collection. I remember seeing some stuff from Helen Reddy, Steve Miller Band, Three Dog Night, Seals and Crofts, the Doobie Brothers, a bunch of records from the Oldies but Goodies compilation series, and a bunch of K-Tel compilations of 1970s hits.

My Uncle Eddie also was into prog. He loaned my Dad a copy of Yessongs on 8-track and I remember listening to this in the car. I think he was also a fan of 10cc and Jefferson Airplane. The three of them went to an ELO concert together for the Out of the Blue tour. My brother and I were too young to go to that. Uncle Eddie sadly passed away in 1979 in a car accident. My "coming of age" in music came not long after he died and I think we would have had a lot of similar interests in music.

We went as a family to a 1988 Pink Floyd concert together. My brother is also a big Pink Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult, Deep Purple and Scorpions fan and is more into prog metal than I am.

So it runs in the genes I guess. I'm the only one that gets into the quirky and avant stuff. They think that's just noise.
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My folks have been gone for more than 10 years now, but when I was in my twenties and renting the basement from them my dad heard me listening to ELP, a lot...ok almost non-stop, leave me alone.Big smile

He came to appreciate them and actually said he'd like to see them perform. Unfortunately that never happened.
My mom couldn't stand it, just like Star Trek TOS used to freak her out, " Why is his skin all blue?" in an almost hysterical voice, god bless her.

They both liked and came to a few shows of the band I used to mix, but it as a pub juke box type bar band for the most part. Some prog, mostly R'n'R.
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My mum liked easy listening and country music, and my dad liked some classical music and brass band stuff, but never really cared for music that much. Ocassionally there would be a pop song that caught his ear, but bearing in mind he was 41 when I was born in 1969, the 'swinging sixties' meant nothing to him. He'd also had a very conservative upbringing, so was actually horrified at some of my musical tastes as I went into my teens.

I was obsessed with music from a very young age, and slowly grew into prog out of a love of heavy metal in the early 80's. My introduction to prog was Rush and Floyd I guess, but there is no shared family love of my musical choices.
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My two younger brothers have no affinity for Prog-Rock whatsoever. Shock horror! They've never even heard of King Crimson, although I'm sure they've both heard of Toyah Wilcox. Tongue
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None whatsoever really, my parents were into classical and Perry Como, my sons are more into modern guitar bands that I've never heard of. My intro to prog came from my older sister who borrowed Nursery Cryme from a friend of hers, but strangely she's never been a prog fan.
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,

Generations are very different and their tastes are dependent on the social environment.

When we came up in the late 60's and then 70's it was the time (in America) for the great run that FM radio had for 10/12 years before it was bought out by the corporate alligators. At that point, a lot of "new music" that eventually became known and appreciated as "progressive" ... all of which were the darlings of FM radio in America, kinda dropped into the bottom of the ocean and FM radio, SINCE, has been nothing but a bunch of sheepdip induced "classic" stuff that is for the most part on tape ... NOT EVEN LIVE ... AND ... worse today's audience doesn't care! It's in the background anyway!

Today, the "control" of radio, or the media is not as valuable as it was then, and the independence makes it difficult for a band to be better known than the others and probably get to a sales level that could rival any of those numbers in the past ... but I think that as the market "matures" that things will change and we will see something new, and probably big, although we probably will say ... it's proto this or that or neo this or that ... because we don't like to think that people can actually enjoy something new and totally different. It's "anti-social" you know?

My children and their friends, actually find that my large library of records and cd's are far out, even if they do not listen to some of that stuff ... and when they are bored with their stuff, guess where they come and ask? I don't tell them anything ... just look at the covers, and decide if you want to listen ... with one bit ... you have to sit there and listen for 20 minutes ... and it has helped their tastes ... many of them have become more attentive to new music, even if they always find "their own" version ... so it's not all "wasted".

I always use the idea that we don't sit here and think that our parents and their parents and anyone else thinks that they were stupid because they listened to Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Mozart ... and if all we see is that the parents are strange and weird and frustrated hippies that never bucked one of the girls ... really, my friends ... that's another story and has nothing to do with the music!

MUSIC ... just remember that!

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Well, when I was young(er) I blended in with both crowds...the ones who listened to music for reasons other than simply music and the ones who were music druggies.


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Hi,

Generations are very different and their tastes are dependent on the social environment.

When we came up in the late 60's and then 70's it was the time (in America) for the great run that FM radio had for 10/12 years before it was bought out by the corporate alligators. At that point, a lot of "new music" that eventually became known and appreciated as "progressive" ... all of which were the darlings of FM radio in America, kinda dropped into the bottom of the ocean and FM radio, SINCE, has been nothing but a bunch of sheepdip induced "classic" stuff that is for the most part on tape ... NOT EVEN LIVE ... AND ... worse today's audience doesn't care! It's in the background anyway!

Today, the "control" of radio, or the media is not as valuable as it was then, and the independence makes it difficult for a band to be better known than the others and probably get to a sales level that could rival any of those numbers in the past ... but I think that as the market "matures" that things will change and we will see something new, and probably big, although we probably will say ... it's proto this or that or neo this or that ... because we don't like to think that people can actually enjoy something new and totally different. It's "anti-social" you know?

My children and their friends, actually find that my large library of records and cd's are far out, even if they do not listen to some of that stuff ... and when they are bored with their stuff, guess where they come and ask? I don't tell them anything ... just look at the covers, and decide if you want to listen ... with one bit ... you have to sit there and listen for 20 minutes ... and it has helped their tastes ... many of them have become more attentive to new music, even if they always find "their own" version ... so it's not all "wasted".

I always use the idea that we don't sit here and think that our parents and their parents and anyone else thinks that they were stupid because they listened to Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Mozart ... and if all we see is that the parents are strange and weird and frustrated hippies that never bucked one of the girls ... really, my friends ... that's another story and has nothing to do with the music!

MUSIC ... just remember that!


Edited by moshkito - January 19 2021 at 07:25
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I was talking to some of my ESOL students about their tastes in music compared to their parents' tastes. As part of the ESOL lesson, I showed them this video and we haven't stopped talking about prog ever since. What are your affinities with parents and/or kids on this matter ??!
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