14-Year-Old and Prog ?!?!

As the father of a five-year old boy, it's good to hear that some of you picked it up from your parents. I don't know what I'd do if my kid grew up to like crappy music, or worse didn't care about music at all.

I got into prog at about 12 and I'm 40 now. The best thing about prog, it gets better with age. I have never bored of any album I've bought.

I'm feeling old here, suprisingly.

I'm 16, turning 17 next month. I have always been into music from age 5 or so, but it was at age 11 I started really listening to music intently.

Age 10-11: Classic Rock (Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Queen, some Pink Floyd)

Age 12: A very important year in music for me... Started listening to metal (I was a badass Grade 7, to be quite sure.) I can remember buying two VERY important albums in Grade 7 that really shaped me musically. 'Rising Force' by Yngwie Malmsteen (a f**king CLASSIC) and 'Transcendence' by Crimson Glory, which was also my first foray into prog metal

Age 13: Getting into Prog now. My first day of grade 8 wasn't so important as being the beginning of high school, as it was the day my copy of Metropolis Part II: Scenes From A Memory (Dream Theater) came in the mail. I always remember that day as my first dream theater day, nothing related to school at all =P

Age 14-15: Getting into extreme metal (black metal, death metal, extreme prog metal), alot of different styles of metal, and at age 14 i started really getting into PORCUPINE TREE.

Age 16: finally, avant-garde metal, post-rock, experimental, ambient and drone.

The Quiet One wrote: Bj-1 wrote: Started at 4 with Supertramp and Pink Floyd (got into Henry Cow and Captain Beefheart when I was 12)   Welcome aboard! ..........*runs away*

I got into Zappa when I was about 7.

Hmm for me significant moments were:

This is my musical adventure thus far:

Pre - My parents constantly played The Beatles and other classic rock...

Age 2 - I went to my first concert... Raffi. :P I've since seen hundreds of bands.
Age 4 - I became obsessed with Smashmouth (who I also saw at that age). It sounds stupid but they were the first band I was ever truly obsessed with.
Age 10 - I saw School of Rock... it entirely changed my life, seriously. My mom bought me AC/DC's Back in Black, this got me into rock. I listened to mostly classic rock back then. I also started to play guitar then.
Age 11 - I bought Master of Puppets by Metallica which introduced me to metal.
Age 12 - I got heavily involved in Grunge and other metal. Introduced me to the darker side of things.
Late 12 - I was into Nu Metal briefly... bad period of musical taste. :P
Age 13 - I got into Tool which introduced me to prog (even though I wasn't really aware of it), and to other metal.
Age 14 - I started to get into extreme metal... the most significant band being Opeth! Opeth broadened my musical taste so much it's not even funny! I found prog because of them! And they're still my favorite band... I also started to collect CDs and vowed to never buy any music digitally again.
Age 15 - I started listening to all different genres of music from minimalist folk to funeral doom metal. I tried to be as eclectic as humanly possible.
Age 16 - Pretty much the same as 15 hahaha... I bought my first turntable and began to collect vinyl and now have over 300 LPs...


Edited by Jake Kobrin - July 09 2009 at 01:13

It's one thing to grow up with prog, but it's an entirely different thing to grow up with ProgArchives. 

Edited by stonebeard - July 10 2009 at 12:02

Eh, I don't know if I'll be a musical contributor to that... I'll do some of the album covers and listen intently at least. Hey, at least you already have Devy's approval in a sense. 

To all younger members of PA, I made this group on Facebook for young people who are interested in Prog! It's very exciting to meet other young people who are interested in this generally obscure music genre and now we have a place to do so exclusively. If you're 18 or under and interested in Prog then please join!

NEXTGEN PROG

- Jake

I started listening to prog when I was thirteen thanks to my older brothers (they are musicians). Thanks to them I own a great vinyl collection of the genre and a huge addiction to prog.

The more I'm getting older (I'm 28 now)the most I'm looking back to find forgotten LPs, lost gems, live performances , everything relevant, and I'm buing as much new records as possible.

Welcome! Same to any young proghead 

Good to see another young progger like myself. I am 17 and I wish more of my friends understood prog (and I'm not talking about the modern prog bands)

Hello,

I'm not listening to prog so much like classic rock, but I like it. It's much better than other music. I found the way to prog couple of years ago and for this years prog never bored me.(In fact, I'm 15 and I loved this music since I was 7) I listened to Pink Floyd, Yes, Jethro Tull and so on (Are Queen prog ? I don't think so, but I had to write them here, they was my first rock band). But for last year I listen to prog more and more ... and it's still better. From newest I like bands like Beardfish or The Decemberists. People in my life don't understand music so much, but my boyfriend love music a lot, so I can speak about music (and especially prog) with him.

Progarchives rulez ! 

Edited by Mary Lou - August 05 2009 at 16:20