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Poll Question: Which of the following bands was your entryway into progressive rock?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
9 [5.81%]
36 [23.23%]
27 [17.42%]
15 [9.68%]
9 [5.81%]
7 [4.52%]
6 [3.87%]
2 [1.29%]
3 [1.94%]
5 [3.23%]
36 [23.23%]
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

There really was no single entryway for me.  I'd have to start with the top seven selections and add a few more.
 
 
 
 
???You got albums by all 7 bands at the same time and simultaneously got into prog by listening to them all at the same time?
 
commitment issues.......?
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Talk about a sensory overload. 
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It was Yes. My older brother had The Yes Album and Fragile in his record collection. The first record I bought on my own was Close To The Edge and it blew my young mind!
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Originally posted by Relayer09 Relayer09 wrote:

It was Yes. My older brother had The Yes Album and Fragile in his record collection. The first record I bought on my own was Close To The Edge and it blew my young mind!


Your avatar describes well that moments
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Although I had the Dark side of the moon (just cause you have to have it) and I liked it, it wasnt until I heard King Crimson that I got stuck with prog
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Had to be Yes.
 
I had earlier heard Court of the Crimson King, which got my attention but I didn't dive into it.
 
I first heard Yes at my very first rock concert (Mott the Hoople in Tunbridge Wells, Kent). They had been playing tunes over the PA during setup. Shortly before the band was ready, they played Yours is no disgrace off the just-released Yes album. I was absolutely blown away and hooked for life.
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Hi,

I started with ELP self-titled when it was released. After that I listened a lot of earlier music as well, Nice, Beggars Opera etc. but ELP was the one that opened "bandoras box" for me. And the box has been open since that.

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THE GROUNDHOGS - SAW THEM AT THE TENDER AGE OF 17 ON TOP OF THE POPS PLAYING THEIR 'SIGNATURE'  CHERRY RED. WAS ONLY USED TO TRACKS LASTING 3 MINUTES SO THIS AT 6 MINS WAS REAL 'UNDERGROUND' STUFF - AND TS MCPHEE IS STILL GOING STRONG - PLAYING IN RUNCORN ON 31ST MAY AGED 64!
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Tool-I didnt even listen to music before i found tool
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A mixture of The Mars Volta and Coheed and Cambria...


yes my past didn't change since last time I posted in this thread.

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almost simultaneously, Genesis and Yes...Rush & Marillion followed shortly afterwards...Big%20smile
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Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord to be precise - had been listening to a lot of folk & psychedelic-pop up until then, but this album turned my head completely, more so than Sgt Pepper at the time.
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Real headscratcher that one...who could it be...?
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Well back when I was getting a band together in my earlier Junior High years, I was getting into all kinds of classic rock. I was downloading a lot of Pink Floyd off of iTunes, and I thought they were cool. So like all things I think are cool, I researched them. Wikipedia said they were categorized as something under prog rock. I looked up prog rock but really didn't get the Wikipedia defenition of it. It also mentioned something about a band called King Crimson defining the genre. So I listened to the song "In the Court of the Crimson King".
 
So back then, I thought prog was basically slow music with keyboards.

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Dream Theater.
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I found an old 8track player in a used speedboat that my parents bought and it had one 8 track with it (some Motown crap if I remember correctly.)   I promptly went out and bought John William's soundtrack to the Star Wars film.  (Yep this dates me.)  That Christmas my parents bought me four 8 tracks and two of them were Fragile and The Yes Album.  I've been hooked ever since.
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Pink Floyd, although I think King Crimson made me love the genre.
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Originally posted by MisterProg2112 MisterProg2112 wrote:

Dream Theater.


Same for me.
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Yes.

My dad played me The Heart of the Sunrise and I haven't looked back since.

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