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The T 
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 Posted: May 09 2008 at 15:29 |
Dream Theater... After I saw their video for "Pull me Under" (and initially bashed LaBrie for "daring to wear a Napalm Death shirt, you hairy pop singer!  ) I decided to try again... bought IMAGES AND WORDS and it was it... then I had AWAke and all the rest... then I bough Liquid Tension Exp, then Explorer's Club and then other bands... Eventually I bought Yes and Genesis after visiting PA....
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dufman
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i was listening to Yes years before i knew what prog was. my dad had been a fan since the 70s and he didn't know either
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Next upon the bill in our house of vaudeville
Weve a stripper in a till
What a thrill! what a thrill!
And not content with that, with our hands behind our backs,
We pull jesus from a hat,
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Hercules
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 15:44 |
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Pink Floyd. I was a student in Cambridge in 1969 and knew people who knew members of the band (Syd Barrett and Roger Waters as well as Dave Gilmour), so I saw them quite a few times. Didn't like them much in the early days, but got to love their later stuff.
Genesis followed - true love!
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A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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tszirmay
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:08 |
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Hard for me to say, but I would say that Frank Zappa's "Peaches en Regalia" is what got me into seriously exploring progressive rock. |
First show : Frank Zappa in 1971 and it was all instrumental (or just plain mental)
The Beatles had really set the initial touch with their orchestrated material including harpsichord, strings, brass and choir. I mean Eleanor Rigby is such a classic
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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Prog-jester
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:11 |
Excluding Tool (I thought it was Alternative) and The Doors/The Beatles/Pibk Floyd (I regarded them all as Classic Rock bands), my first prog group was UK 
Not Genesis, not Dream Theater and not Crimson - it was UK whom I listened with a knownledge of listening to an ART-ROCK band (I didn't know the "progressive rock" term in those dark ages  )
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Mellotron Storm
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:15 |
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Rush for me, in 1978 i think.
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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN
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Passionist
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:22 |
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'Twas JT of course. I saw them play live, it was the famous one you'l see everything is from on youtube for instance. My mom told me that was prog and Iwas intrigued. So I went to the library and she told me which of the vinyls there were classics and the rest is just history ;)
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:24 |
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Coheed and Cambria.
If they don't count, it was the Mars Volta
This combination in to prog is a lot more common than one might think.
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Pnoom!
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:27 |
I got into Pink Floyd from the Alan Parsons Project, so Pink Floyd it is.
I would be very surprised if anyone got into prog through Magma. That would be really, *really* awesome though.
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Zargus
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:29 |
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Pink Floyd > King Crimson > Yes > Jethro tull......
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Wilcey
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:31 |
I kind of grew up with all sorts of music, my elder brother and sister would play Camel, Alan Parsons Project and PFloyd, but they are 9 and 10 years older so I didn't really take much notice, my Dad was playing music and another brother was playing disco...........
I was 14 when I first heard Marillion's Script and Pendragon's The Jewel. A friends older brother played them to me.......... that was 1985...............  The rest is history! It was love at first listen, it's like it all amde sense, think about what your average 14 yr old was listening to in 1985, it was an easy choice! |
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Philip
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:40 |
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Pink Floyd, when I was about 7 or 8 years old.
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Pekka
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:51 |
Am I the only one with Crimso? There were some proggish or prog related bands before it, though, but they don't count.
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proggy
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 17:30 |
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UK - Danger Money
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The Pessimist
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 17:36 |
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It was undoubtedly Yes: i dunno about anyone else here, but it was the keyboard solo from Roundabout that got me into prog. i'd never heard anything like it in my life, and i loved it! i wanted more, so i searched and found a lot more of it, and my love hasn't changed.
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"Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value."
Arnold Schoenberg
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KoS
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 17:45 |
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Tool but I didn't know what was "prog" until Dream Theater.
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Dr. Prog
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 17:47 |
kibble_alex wrote:
It was undoubtedly Yes: i dunno about anyone else here, but it was the keyboard solo from Roundabout that got me into prog. i'd never heard anything like it in my life, and i loved it! i wanted more, so i searched and found a lot more of it, and my love hasn't changed. |
I know what you mean. I had to think hard back to 1973-4 and try to place which I heard first----the Moody Blues, or Yes, no doubt from Roundabout on the radio. It was close, but I am positive it would have been Nights In White Satin, and I am sure Yes followed shortly after, then ELP and Floyd. Strangely enough, it would be a little while longer before I really got into Genesis, circa 1976. I think I was even into Kansas before I was into Genesis, as Kansas had some exposure on TV and radio and you never saw Genesis or heard them on the radio back then.
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micky
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 18:13 |
mine... oh yes... the one good thing my father did... was get me hooked on this album.. if there was a starting place for me.. it was here... 
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Atavachron
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 18:33 |
^ wow Mike, what an interesting starter ..this is always a hard question for me, my very first intro was hearing Tarkus as a little kid, loving that space-age cover but being rather confused by the music ..by about 11 I'd gotten Hemispheres - again cause of the artwork - but this time I like the music (though it still baffled me), it wasn't till high school I found out Rush were actually cool  , and from there it was a gradual immersion into Yes, Tull, Mahavishnu, KC, and the proggie metal of Sabbath and Maiden
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: May 09 2008 at 18:35 |
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