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Mine was actually looking for information about the new Dream Theater album at the momment, Octavarium. It was in April or March of 2005. Lurking for so long until I decided to join on October

I read the forums and reviews more than I post, but I found this looking for information on ELP.

I googled progressive rock and found myself in prog heaven, with plenty of great artists to discover, what a great day that was.

Found a link on one of the band's sites (if memory serves, it was Mostly Autumn web-site).

At school in early 2005, I was looking for somewhere to get Yes mp3s (I'd heard Roundabout on the radio and grabbed that, but I wanted more) since my school had blocked the use of DC++. I came here and found myself an mp3 of Close To The Edge (back when you could download the mp3s from here) which I didn't care for at first. However, I stayed around when I noticed all of the love for Genesis (whose discography I already had at the time).

Time passed and now it's my favourite site.

I was looking for info on a Karmakanic album and google "progressive rock".Never even looked in the forum for about a year,just used the archives as a resource. I was laid up for a bit after getting severe chemical burns(hydroflouric acid)at work and was bored and my daughter said it might be fun for me to join this forum.This was my first forum experience,and the only one I go to.

I searched info about TREES!

Via Google. I was searching for a place where some of my favourite yet not much popular bands may be listed together (Spirogyra, East of Eden, Tonton Macoute, Gryphon etc). And I have found this site!!!

About one year ago I found the link on another prog website (it may have been Sea of Tranquility, but I'm not sure). As soon as  I saw the forum, I had to register at once, so great it looked to me! And now, here I am... the bane of all DT fans!

I had been listening to Swallow the Sun quite a bit... my son had turned me on to them. I decided to go to their website to see what they are all about. By the way, the website is really good. They link to numerous bands, and most, if not all of those bands have their band members list their influences. This one band in particular, Red Number Two, all loved, and listed Oceansize as one of their major influences. I fell in love with Oceansize the moment I heard the first song I listened to... Catalyst hooked me right away. One day I was reading that Oceansize was going to support this band called Porcupine Tree. I had never heard them so I googled Porcupine Tree..... and here I am, and am going broke buying PT.