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hawkcwg 
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 Topic: How did you find Prog?
Posted: November 05 2008 at 22:23 |
Who really helped you find progressive muic?
Family?
Friend?
Time period?
What Band?
Or Artist?
For me I watched a youtube video of Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater playing drums and was so amazed and blown away and the fact that i had never seen anything like that, that kind of aproach to drums. After watching that i found his band on the internet checked out Dream Theater and Found other amazing prog bands like Porcupine Tree and King Crimson. I think King Crimsons song In the Court of the Crimson King that really led me to a lot of prog. Then i later found progarchives and was impressed with its archive. then I got into Krautrock after hearing Amon Duul and Cantebury music after hearing Gong and other amazing Cantebury bands.
So what really influenced you?
Edited by hawkcwg - April 03 2009 at 00:42
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CCVP
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Posted: November 05 2008 at 23:24 |
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Definitely Dream Theater, what made me realize that prog was not dead, and my uncle, who in some kind of guide. Also PA, where i find lots of crazy bands to look for, but anyway. . .
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 00:24 |
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a blind guy in a record store.
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 00:55 |
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Hocus Pocus byFocus on Ktel and local AM radio.
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RoidRageOnStage
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 01:01 |
I was born into it, when I was just a baby my father was playing records for me, well he was a hippie and a junkie.
For me as a kid getting mocked because of what I listen to was an all day happening.
He played the likes of Pink Floyd, ELP, Deep Purple, Moody Blues, Black Sabbath, Beatles, Ten Years After, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep etc. etc.
Then when I was a young teenager I was more and more drawn to heavy metal and death metal, leaving all the old stuff behind me.
One day in 1999 at the age of 20 I was searching on napster (you know one of those days when you're totally bored out and a bit down), I browsed a guy and I found a band named Iron Butterfly... at the first sight of the name I started laughing, when the laughs was gone I was thinking about downloading and try it out.
I got about 20 songs down and started listening to them, I was hooked, and I started to listening to 60's psychedelic pop and rock.
From that way I've grown back into it, I was reborn back into it and I'll never let it go, I'm listening to it almost all days (not days with migrane).
Later on I was digging in to prog and I'm listening to 15+ sub genres.
One thing though, I still sometimes listening to Death Metal and Black Death Metal though I can't stand Progressive Metal... I simply hate it.
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 01:23 |
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I found it way before I loved it.. it was a long process of hearing it as a kid in the 70s, buying an album now & then cause I liked the cool, science fictiony covers, not really understanding the music but hearing something special. I had my metal phase, Rush phase, Zeppelin phase, then Yes, Crimson, Tull but only on the side... finally I re-heard Tarkus one day and it floored me, and I've been chasing the form ever since.
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JesusisLord
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 01:28 |
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1972- A friend named Moto Munson and an album called Nursey Cryme.
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And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phillipians 2:11
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mobby
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 03:16 |
When I heard the bass line from Eloy's Land of Nobody, and the lyrics,
We just leave the earth ground
On the way to see new stars
We forget the past times
Released from our imperfections..I was totally hooked and never looked back ...
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paulindigo
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 03:56 |
I discovered prog via radio, around 1978/1979. Back then I was mainly into Bee Gees, 70s pop (Al Stewart, Gerry Rafferty, NIcolette Larsom etc) and some soft rock (Eagles). The first song by a prog band I remember listening to was Genesis' Many Too Many. Then came King Crimson, other Genesis' songs, Mike Oldfield, Jethro Tull (who I didn't like much at first), Yes and many others. The radio played a huge role in shaping my musical tastes until the 90s, then for some reason it fell off my radar and got replaced with the net until recently when I discovered a prog broadcasting on a local station. And with it, a pinch of the old magic... 
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valravennz
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 04:29 |
In 1969 at the tender age of 14(yes I am a senior member of the forum  ) I discovered King Crimson's "In The Court of the Crimson King". I remember going into a local record shop and seeing this LP with such an awesome cover - I asked to listen to it and was played 21st Century Sczhoid Man. It blew me away as I had not heard any music like this before. I fell in love with KC there and then and managed to wangle $4.50 off my parents to buy it. I had already been listening to Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Procul Harem and Pink Floyd among others at about this time and was intrigued by this form of music because of it's complexity and beauty (in most instances). That was a long time ago and since then I have delved into many of prog rock's subgenres. I have an eclectic taste in music but prog rock will always remain one of the most important musical forms for my listening pleasure.
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sigod
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 05:09 |
What a great question to ask Hawkcwg. 
It's fantastic to read people's discovery of progressive music. I'm not
sure if it's been asked before on the forums but even if it has, There are lots of new (and old) folk who have a tale to tell.
Speaking personally, it started with a mate of mine who bought two
albums as an 11 year old; Ian Dury And The Blockheads - New Boots And
Panties and DSOTM by Pink Floyd. We played them one after the other and
then talked about which was better.
We chose New Boots And Panties because it had swearing on it and as 11
year olds, we thought the swearing was very cool indeed. That said,
DSOTM had chords on it the made my tummy go all funny and gradually
over time I decided that all things considered, Pink Floyd were
possibly the better band.
 
Edited by sigod - November 18 2008 at 06:30
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I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 05:26 |
I found prog at a very early age, in the shape of RPI, the Italian progressive rock movement of the Seventies. Later, in my teens and early twenties, I got into the British classics, and beefed up my musical education. Then, after a longish stretch of time away from it, I got back into prog in the early 2000s, which led me to discover this site (by a mere chance). The rest, including my upcoming move to the US, is history ...
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omri
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 05:35 |
When I was 14 a friend asked me to translate for him a song he realy likes. The song was from an album of his elder brother. So, we went to his place and heared the song few times. It was "Melencholy man" by a band named the moody blues.
I knew that this is the kind of music I am looking for.
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June
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 07:12 |
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Via early Queen and Jethro Tull
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zappaholic
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 07:40 |
I can't pinpoint any one incident or album that sparked my interest in prog - I've been into music in general since I was about 10. After I went through a "metal and little else" phase I started drifting back toward prog in its various forms. My tastes can be summarized as "metal, classic rock and weird sh*t" - and prog just happens to be where the three intersect.
Edited by zappaholic - November 06 2008 at 07:41
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fusionfreak
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 08:30 |
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Jimi Hendrix and all 70's stuff such as Black Sabbath,Wishbone Ash,Blue Oyster Cult and first of all I was looking for something very different.I remember that The Wall rapidly grew on me when 8.Barry Godber's 21st Century Schizoid Man cover also provoked my interest in it.
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I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world
of searchers with the help from
crimson king
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Epignosis
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 08:30 |
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Kansas, Live at the Whiskey ("Miracles Out of Nowhere" blew my mind)
And then going to see Kansas during Yes's Masterwork tour. At that time I thought a six-minute song was long. During that concert, Yes played "Close to the Edge," "Starship Trooper," "The Gates of Delirium," "Leaves of Green," "Heart of the Sunrise," "Ritual," "I've Seen All Good People," and "Roundabout." Before that concert, I only knew those last two (and "Owner of a Lonely Heart). The whole show I kept asking my friends, "When are they going to stop with this one song?"
But the next morning, I had "I get up, I get down" and part of "Starship Trooper" still stuck in my head, so I got on Napster, and became an instant fan, not just of Yes, but of this thing called progressive rock music.
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hawkcwg
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 08:35 |
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Yeah i love Black metal and Death Metal too and i hate most of Progressive metal cause a lot of it just sounds like Dream Theater imitations. Or wierd Power Metal, I usually stick to Heavy Prog, Prog Folk, Krautrock, and Cantebury.
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hawkcwg
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 09:04 |
An amazing journey I'm glad you like my post. 
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hawkcwg
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Posted: November 06 2008 at 09:12 |
[QUOTE=zappaholic]I My tastes can be summarized as "metal, classic rock and weird sh*t" - and prog just happens to be where the three intersect.
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