I Love This

Prog Rock helps me to find my inner peace. Also I am a writer and when I'm writing I need to find rhythms and the most expanded rainbow of emotions that I can find for my characters... And I find this sensations just listening prog rock no matter what subgenre is... I think that I was very lucky to found prog rock when I was 13 (thanks to my dear friends OLL and JML) and I'm still feeling lucky because most of my friends enjoy the same kind of music and my girlfriend too... So my life is full of beautiful music and feelings...

And of course thanks god for give me the chance to write these in this amazing web page...

Peace and Love...

I used to be into classic rock like you wouldn't beleive, but once I started listening to Yes, I realized how much more there can be to rock music, and how many possibilities there are. I guess that's what attracted me to it.

I randomly bought the Pink Floyd Echoes compilation, and from then on out, I was hooked. I soon collected all of their albums and went on to discover Yes, Rush, Genesis, etc...and here I am today, with way more knowledge about the subject than I ever would have though I would have had. This being the case, I still listen to a wide variety of music, one of my favorites being Post-Punk, but Progressive rock is obviously still near or at the top. 

It all started with some Dream Theater and some little sprinkle of magic called marijuana. From that moment on I started listening to Dream Theater more. I bought a computer and then one day I started searching about information on the new DT album and BOOM!, I found this tremendous site and progressive rock in general. If it wasn't for this website I wouldn't even knew that progressive rock ever existed. My first prog album after that was Close to the edge and The power to believe and then kept looking for more strange and different type of bands and exploring the prog world. The list keeps on growing with bands from every genre listed in this site and others that aren't easily define.

My first experience with prog (didn't know it was prog at the time) was Undertow by Tool. Sounded like ordinary hard rock at first, but I began to notice subtle extra care and details and nuances within the music. It had a tremendous amount of care and emotion outside of it's rough exterior, and I thought that was just wonderful. Next I picked up the Pink Floyd Echoes compilation b/c I had heard some of their songs before, and I was so blown away by it (Particularily by Shine On You Crazy Diamond) that I promptly made like a cheap-ass disrespectful teenager and downloaded about 10 of their albums. I felt that even though I already had listened to most of them, I should give the artist the money they rightfully deserved for being so wonderful and critical to me. Over the next year or so I purchased all of them, (A Saucerful Of Secrets was $27.99 ) as well as picking up SEPtP, my first go at symphonic prog (still didn't know it was prog, though.) After really getting into Genesis and King Crimson, I stumbled across this website a few months ago, and discovered most of the music I listen to now. I've still only scratched the surface of what I hope to listen to, but thus far this website has got me to spend hundreds of dollars on; Magma, Hawkwind, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator, Camel, Yes, Opeth, Can, Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze, Zappa, Jethro Tull, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Anglagard, and way to many more... Horray for PA!!!
    

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Viajero Astral wrote: Prog is the best, its all I need. quoting to The Beatles: "All you need is PROG, all you need is prog, prog, prog. Prog is al you need, prog is all you need..."

It my dad who introduced my to prog a couple of years ago, when he put on a Van Der Graaf Generator record (although I can't remeber which one it was ), I was impressed by that but didn't really act on it until a few months later when I listened to The Wall by Pink Floyd (my dad's record collection again) and that really opened my mind. My prog collection then grew slowly until about 3 months ago, when I started buying as much prog as I could afford.

Well, I'm not all that young anymore, being already in my mid-thirties, but I am pretty new to progressive rock as I discovered it less than three years ago. Like with so many others here, it was the combination of Internet and a hunger for new musical adventures that eventually turned me into something of a prog-head  

sleeper wrote: it covers every emotion and subject that it can, its just unbalevably diverse.

sleeper wrote: Complex, emotional music is what atracted me to prog and the more I explore it the more that I find it covers every emotion and subject that it can, its just unbalevably diverse. Long live prog.