How did you find Prog?

Long, long story...

manofmystery wrote: Funny though I'm still young (mid 20s) I prefer the old stuff and dont care for the new.

Edited by T.Rox - November 22 2008 at 05:58

It was 1973, I was eleven.  My friend was the youngest in a musical family.  He played Yes's Fragile and Close to the Edge for us one day.  I barely knew rock music, and this blew my mind.  It almost sounds like a cliche.  The rest of the classic bands and artists followed, mostly the Brits....

Was always a fan of Pink Floyd long before I even knew what prog was and my fathers two favorite bands from his college years were ELP and Genesis (ELP love was passed on to me, Genesis not so much) but we never discussed music much till while listening to the local classic rock station Zappa's Montana came on and it was so different from everything else they played and I thought it fantastic.  Montana got me heavy into Zappa and through a friend I'd meet in college that also appreciated FZ I flew head first into prog, collecting artists and albums I've found on this site and through word of mouth.  Funny though I'm still young (mid 20s) I prefer the old stuff and dont care for the new.

Edited by manofmystery - November 20 2008 at 18:13

88 melter wrote: 88 melter say  perennial quest 's story is a good example of the current generation of prog fans. I appreciated seeing the progression, no pun intended, from one music to the next. Dates and years, even!  In some ways he is more adventurous than I am, and I am a professional musician.

I remember, back when I was about 14 or 15, having a lot of trouble getting into death metal. It was all noise and yelling for me, until I had a revelation with Brutal Truth's first LP. The same happened for black metal, I had trouble with keyboards in metal (I guess I wasn't ready for prog back then). And the same went for 70's prog.

My point is, I sound very adventurous today, but everything was gradual, hence the years and ages I mentioned. It took me quite a few listens to get into extreme metal to the same degree that I needed a minimum of 10 spins to get into Genesis.

Alberto Muñoz wrote: perennial_quest wrote: Born in 1981, my earliest memories was putting on Tubular Bells at the age of 3. Of course I didn't know what prog was back then. My dad had a good collection of classical music, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, you name it, so I listen to that as well. .   WOW did you remember what was you doing at 3...   I remember very few of age 4

Well the thing is I moved into a new house at age 4, and I clearly remember putting on Tubular Bells a year before, in our old appartment. Of course I don't remember the details of my childhood, but music-wise I am able to recall quite a bit. Music has been the most important part of my life, so putting things chronogically is easy for me. As for discovering Crimson at age 7, that cover art alone leaves an undelible mark in your brain.

Q6 wrote: I sort of grew out of rock into prog. I loved guitars but found most rock fun but lacking in substance. I was also partial to a bit of classical and loved bands like ELO who mixed genres. ELO progressed to Yes and then the story grows on..., Nowadays I am still being introduced to bands by friends and I find myspace is a great place to source new bands.

You're right ,too bad Rupert Murdoch owns myspace.But since he doesn't care about music we like,he leaves bands alone.Many bands like Morkobot,Danava,White Hills,Turzi,Acid Mothers Temple or Aqua Nebula Oscillator are worthwile(if you dig psychedelic stuff)

I was very surprised and amzed with the eccentric (I felt at that time) sound and beat.

Before, in many cases, the radio let me know a lot about music, including progressive rock.

 

Recently I have friends with great knowledge of rock and mine is increasing by discussion with them.

I'm so looking forward to the discussion.

Thanks, my fellows!

I didn't know of the term prog-rock yet, but I found Yes - Fragile and Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards in my dad's vinyls and realized that I liked this kind of music a lot.

Wow, this takes me back.

I saw a picture of Mike Portnoy's Siamese Monster kit in a issue of Modern Drummer and the first thing I thought was that it was a piece of pretentious BS that anyone would make a kit like that for themselves (at that time I hadn't seen Terry Bozzio's kit yet ;-) ). I saw he was in a band called Dream Theater, but didn't really give the article a second thought.

I was a huge metal fan. Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura, Tool, etc were pretty much all I listed to. So one day I was looking through the metal CDs in the record store and came across Dream Theater. At the time I browsed the MD article I didn't realize that DT was metal (if I had actually "read" the article I may have, stupid, stupid me :-P) So on a whim I picked up DT: Awake just to hear this drummer. I will admit that at first all I could hear was this screetching singer, but the music behind the singer totally blew me away. I think it was the very next day that I picked up Train of Thought. Being from a metal background, ToT blew me away even more. By the end of the month I had picked up everything I could find by DT.

Then one day I was searching for DT info on the Internet because I was hoping to find more bands like them, and came across ProgArchives.com. My first thought was "What the heck is prog?". In my first few days of browsing PA I came across Opeth, Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, Orphaned Land, (thank you PA for the streaming MP3s, so I could get a little taste of each). This site really opened my eyes to the really great music that's out there. I find new stuff to listen to almost every day.

BTW my views about MP's kit have changed since I originally saw the article, I'm only being honest about what I thought at that time. But my views of James Labries voice on Awake hasn't changed though.