young proglovers

i discovered prog when i was 16... and that was two years ago! being just 18 years old i find it hard to find people of my age who also like progrock. when i talk about genesis most of my friends only say: "yeah isnt that that lame band from phil collins with that awful song i cant dance?" when i tell them they have huge epics with beautiful songstructures from their early period they are not interested just because phil collins is in the band! when i go to a concert from an artist i like (like jan akkerman) i only see people more than twice my age. that's ok but it makes me think: is music today listened by youth all about greenday/50cent/DJtiesto/Jenniferlopez? are there any young progrocklovers out there who have the same experiences as me (not being able to discus the early king crimson stuff with your friends during your break at school)? or is this beloved musicgenre mainly known and loved by 40+ men and women?

 

woooooooow! thank god!

that was more than i ever hoped for

I discovered prog at 13 years,now I'm 15...

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Ricochet wrote: I discovered prog at 13 years,now I'm 15...  I'm twice as old as you, and I always thought I was a relatively young prog fan ...

Well,guess what...The new generation can like prog...
 

I'm 22 year old, and have loved prog for 7 years now (has it realy been hat long??). Fell in love with yes and dt at the age of 15

I guess I'm a member of the "Prog-Metal generation". I'll make a poll - I have the theory that many young prog fans (who are now between 10 and 20 years old) don't like Prog-Metal (statistically speaking) ... I think it had it's peak in the early nineties, when I was 15-20 years old.

I`m 20 and I discovered prog only a year ago thanks to my friend Karolina - she gave me Dream Theater`s "ToT" to listen and I loved it. After that it all happend quick: PoS, Symphony X, Porcupine Tree, Riverside, the Flower Kings... then I discovered Zappa and the prog gigants of the 70`... but it`s a still log road for me. And I know what you mean exept for Karolina none of my friends have interest in prog they are more punk/metal so they don`t dig more complex music. But this forum shows that many young people like prog music and that`s one thing to be happy with

pale moon wrote: by the way, how did you young progfans came to listening to progmusic? was it your parents (not in mine case! haha)? were it reverences from bands you liked? please tell me

I'm 17, and I started listening to prog music at about 16.

I used to be a big fan of metal (well... i still am) and on a metal forum i frequent i was introduced to bands like Dream Theater and Pain of Salvation. I absolutely loved the way both bands made epic songs and albums which were much more deep than mainstream music, I especially loved the way that PoS albums told a specific story. I was searching for bands similar to these, and stumbled across this site. Eventually I got convinced to listen to older symphonic prog bands like Yes and King Crimson and the like. And that's pretty much where I am today.

pale moon wrote: by the way, how did you young progfans came to listening to progmusic? was it your parents (not in mine case! haha)? were it reverences from bands you liked? please tell me

I was lucky, because my father had almost all the classic albums: Foxtrot, Selling England, Red, Starless& Bible, Tarkus, Trilogy, Close to the Edge, Fragile,.... so I had a lot of material to start with! The first  prog song I listened to was Epitaph (I began listening to the Young Person's Guide vinyl, then In the Court), and Crimson it's still my favourite band (prog or non prog) 14 years later (now I'm 28).

Edited by Mr Krinkle

I'm 16 now.  I first discovered prog when i was about 10 years old (Kansas was the first band I liked, and I went from there).