your favourite bands when you were achild

the first music ive listened to was pink floyd. i remember when i as five years old we lived in moscow cuz my father was studying there and he gave the final cut. damn i remember my joy when listening to it.. of course i could understand the lyrics and nothing else actually. it was just great music for me   then a few years later i got into my countys pop culture which was and still is probably the most terrible in the whole wide world. i youve seen eurovision you should know. lithuania usally takes the last place   then i discovered scooter (yeah i know) and it was my number one band for some time. than i got to prodigy and bands like that, i liked the glorious MTV stuff. at age of fourteen i played the PC game tony hawks pro skater two  it was then when i discovered the real punk - bad religion. i got into punk, listened manly to bad religion and nofx until my friend gave my the complete discography of blind guardian that are still one my my favorite bands. i started listening to all kinds of metal (power mostly) when at age of sixteen my drum teacher let me listen to dream theaters dance of eternity. it opened me the door to prog. i became a maniac of prog and still am   now im only seventeen and im into prog for only year and half or so... my favs are the grands of prog - king crimson,pink floyd,van der graff generator, dream theater,camel and many more. well thats my srory

I'm only 16 but I've gone through a good amoount of embarrassing changes I think. At first I was into all the boring crap my dad listens to like Jackson Brown, Peter, Paul, & Mary, and Alan Jackson. Then I began my Weird Al obssession (Along with Dr. Demento) in 3rd or 4th grade. Then in 6th grade began began my rap phase. Then at the end of 8th grade there was a short Weird Al revival, until I got into RHCP and the White Stripes along classic rock, and two autumns ago I discovered prog (which will hopefully last until the end of my life).

Peter wrote: Paulieg wrote:   I rarely listen to Maiden or Priest anymore.  I rarely listen to maidens or priests either!

You're right, you can't trust 'em these days!!

My favorite band when I was a youngin' was The Beatles, and they are still one of my very favorites today.

Let's see. I guess Raffi was a favorite when I was really young .

After that my parents always played Mary Black and John McCutcheon, so I got acquainted with folk type music...a little king crimson too!

Then I started finding my own music. I was born in '83 so I guess you could say that by this stage, I was becoming a product of "alternative rock." I liked Bush, Live, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, 311, Our Lady Peace, Semisonic, Blues Traveler, The Cranberries, Barenaked Ladies, Sarah McLaughlin and maybe some Static x, Dave Matthews, System of a Down and The Chemical Brothers as well as loads of classic rock (Allman Brothers, ACDC, Jimi Hendrix, Bad Company, Led Zeppein, Canned Heat, Joe Walsh, Van Halen, Peter Frampton, Boston) and some 80's rock too (Scorpions, Soundgarden, Dire Straits).

That's all I can really think of right now. I've really been all over the board.

Gianthogweed wrote: I've been a proghead all my life.  My first favorite band was Styx.  I remember when I was 3, I saw the video for Mr. Roboto and thought it was the coolest thing in the world.  Later on when I was 6, my aunt played for me Focus's Moving Waves album.  I fell in love with Hocus Pocus, and Moving Waves was the first cd I ever got.  It's still a favorite of mine.  Later when I was 12, I got into The Beatles and later the Moody Blues, and then I got into Led Zeppelin at 13.  When I was 14 I became a huge Pink Floyd Fan after seeing them in concert in 1994.  From there, I moved on to Yes and through them discovered King Crimson, Renaissance, Genesis, ...

you were progborn man  (I like this term, just invented it )