young proglovers

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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 

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My parents always have always been playing PF, along with all other types of music, so I loved PF from the age of 8 or something. At the age of 14 I was realy into metall, and I heard the name Dream Theater somewhere, witch led me to buy Falling into infinity. I really loved this music, since it was a mix between the metal I loved and some elements from pink floyd.When my father heard this record, he decided it was time to blow the dust of his old records and gave them to me. This collection was small, but included some great albums like Going for the one, Tormato, six Wifes and YESterdays. Then I was hooked, and explored the rest of this genere myself. So now I introduce my dad to music he would have loved in his teens.

I'm 24 and I hear prog for 5 years now.

I started with Yes The Ladder, the previous boyfriend of my sister liked Yes alot so he made me listen and I fell in love. The rest of the story is logical: Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, ELP, Marillion,....

I'm 15, and I've gotten a lot of my friends to listen to prog (although many of them listened to bands like Rush and Dream Theater before I even knew what "prog" meant). There are a lot of people I know who still use the old "they're talented musicians, but they couldn't write a song if their life depended on it" line on me when I show them a good prog band, but the majority of people (especially the ones who are actually interested in music) like it a lot.

I started listening to it either late in my 14th year or early in my 15th; I can't quite remember (I'm now 16, btw). Initially, as far as prog goes I only listened to Pink Floyd, which I loved. Some of the other stuff still seemed to be incomprehensible to me: either too dissonant, or too cheesy (talk about that Genesis keyboard in "Firth of Fifth"), or in some cases, too... well... gay. Come on, just listen to "Knots" by Gentle Giant and tell me straight up that that isn't camp. My dad had quite a few of the classics, namely Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England, Close to the Edge, Topographic Oceans, Relayer, Trilogy, Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery, Octopus, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, Red, and Dark Side of the Moon, and he introduced me to them once I'd gotten used to Floyd.

I think the turning point for me in my appreciation of prog was "Larks' Tongues in Aspic." I had that album lying around in my room for at least 2 months, sometimes listening just to "Book of Saturday," the only track that seemed to make sense, and giving the other stuff a miss. It was too dissonant and too strange; much more so than any Pink Floyd album. Then, after listening to it several times, one day it just finally clicked, and I loved it. And really, once you can understand "Larks' Tongues in Aspic," which in my opinion is one of the most challenging rock albums ever made, there's no difficulty in getting your head around the other stuff. I soon fell in love with "Close to the Edge," and I remember when I first heard "Roundabout" and blasted it at maximum volume for 3 days straight. After a few listens I could understand and appreciate Genesis, and at my dad's recommendation I ordered Jethro Tull's "Aqualung." About 6 months on, and I now own 16 Tull albums, and I've bought many more prog albums of my own accord that my dad didn't have at the time, including 4 King Crimson albums, 1 Dream Theater, 7 Floyd, 1 Genesis, 2 Mars Volta, 3 Yes, 2 Camel, and a few others I might have missed out. I buy roughly 2 albums a week, so my collection keeps expanding. I've also recently gotten into fusion, with my favorite fusion acts being the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Pat Metheny, and Return to Forever. I also love blues and classic rock. Really, most of what I listen to is thanks to my dad's guidance, but I've gone even further and I now have an almost encyclopedic knowledge of 60s and 70s rock music of any kind.

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Next thing you know we'll have a dating ring on the archives!

just messin' wit ch'ya...

All hail PROG worldwide and age evading appeal

That's the ebst way to like prog really Damen. It shows you have always loved prog for what it is, and not just because it is prog and 'different'. You are a true prog fan!

I first heard The wall, at about 12 or 13, and got totally blown away. I had no idea it was prog though. Than for my 14th birthday me dad got me Fragile, by Yes, and I was hooked!!!

16 now and my collection is still growing as fast as i can afford...

pale moon wrote: 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?

Jean and I are only 30+. But yes, the music industry tries to keep young people stupid, so they buy their sh*t.

Paradox wrote: There are so few young prog fans around because there is little to no mainstream exposure. Where on earth would the average rock fan hear prog rock? It's not played on any music TV channels that i'm aware of, and most music magazines don't mention it at all.

I don't know about anywhere else in the world, but in Canada, Rush gets a lot of radio airtime, so I know a lot of people who are fans of that band. Most of the prog fans I know (including myself) got into it from the metal side of things - when a fellow metal fan lent me Scenes From a Memory, I was instantly hooked and wanted to explore this exciting new genre as much as possible. I ended up on this site and learned about all the classic prog bands who I had previously thought were just more generic old pop/rock. I then found some Yes, King Crimson, and ELP in my dad's record collection, loved it, and went from there.

I really can't get over how weird it is that most of you can't find any other fans of good music in your schools/towns/whatever. I spend a ton of time discussing good music with all kinds of different people, and I can't imagine what it'd be like to not be able to do that.


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I'm 17 and i discovered prog about six months ago although i listened to Dream Theater, Tool and Symphony X. Now I try to listen to everything thats prog.