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CyberDiablo 
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 Posted: June 12 2010 at 08:56 |
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My father has a huge collection of progressive rock. When I was 10 (or 9?) I grabbed a cassette from my father's music set. I kept it for months under my bed, and I forgot it. Until I find it there and listen it. After this I never listened anything else but pure music. (It was Pulse by Pink Floyd.)
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Music is some kind of art.
-- Anonymous
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Ore4444
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Posted: June 14 2010 at 01:32 |
About a year ago, when I was 17, the only prog album I knew was Genesis's Foxtrot. Of course I had no idea it was prog.
One day I decided to search Google for more rock long songs like Supper's Ready. I just loved it very much and knew nothing like it.
What I immediately found was: Yes - Close to the Edge, VDGG - Pawn Hearts, Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery and Gentle Gaint - Octopus.
After I knew these albums very well, I found out about ProgArchives and since then I constantly looking for new albums.
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Alberto Muńoz
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Posted: June 16 2010 at 15:53 |
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At 8 with the amazing cover art of Yes
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Canprog
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 20:57 |
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2 years ago I was 14 and I found some site with a list of the top 10 cover arts of all time. Number one on the list was In The Court of The Crimson King. I bought it and I have been riding highway 7/8 to progville ever since. Then I found this site and began a prog collection of CD's although it is still modest as I have so much to discover!
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Ronnie Pilgrim
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 21:02 |
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Shortly after the prosquito bit me.
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"The pointy birds are pointy pointy
Anoint my head anointy nointy"
Steve Martin The Man With Two Brains
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Oliverum
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Posted: July 06 2010 at 05:52 |
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In 2004 at age 17, with (the amazing beyond description) Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree. After that just went back and back in time to look for prog roots and to find an array of absolute legends.
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Kashmir75
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Posted: July 06 2010 at 06:30 |
 Oliverum wrote:
In 2004 at age 17, with (the amazing beyond description) Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree. After that just went back and back in time to look for prog roots and to find an array of absolute legends.
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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unexpect3D
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Posted: July 07 2010 at 16:56 |
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By collecting all Floyd albums during hum.. at the age of 14/15 not more, but mostly after listen Nursery Crime in the high school. So I would say since I am an adult person.
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Conor Fynes
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Posted: July 07 2010 at 17:26 |
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I was into classic rock since around the age of 8... in grade 6 (was I eleven years old perhaps?) I got Rush's Moving Pictures, and the year after that; Dream Theater's scenes from a memory... The rest is history!
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: July 07 2010 at 18:09 |
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I think the more important question is did you get it from the toilet seat?
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Noak
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Posted: July 07 2010 at 18:33 |
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I must've been about 13 when I first heard Pink Floyd. During that time I also discovered Zappa. After I started to get tired of PF I researched for some stuff that was similar, I stumbled upon Progressive Rock at Wikipedia and decided to check out King Crimson. After that I was pretty much hooked.
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nzproglover75
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Posted: July 07 2010 at 23:19 |
For me it was back in about 1995, a friend brought around Close To The Edge recorded onto reel to reel tape and said "Have a listen to this" and I did....at first I didn't get it, thought it was too 'way out' for my tastes, so I left it for a few days then one night I wasn't up to much, it was the middle of winter and had this urge to go and listen to it again and this time I kind of liked it, so kept listening and next thing I was hooked! Prior to being introduced to Prog I'd been listening to main stream rock of sorts but tired of it easily and got bored, so nothing really took my fancy until I heard Yes for the first time.  Ever since then its been a slow progression of Yes, Floyd, Genesis, KC, ELP, VDDG, Moody Blues, Camel, Caravan etc,etc and I'm still discovering gems out there and of course thanks to sites like Prog Archives it has really opened up the flood gates! When I listen to this stuff it takes me away to all sorts of far away places and kind of feels like I'm connecting with something old from a previous life? Odd.. I remember when playing PF's Echoes for the first time, it kind of freaked me out, but love it these days.
Edited by nzproglover75 - July 07 2010 at 23:35
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And the changes of no consequence will pick up the reins from nowhere...
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DomValela
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Posted: July 09 2010 at 01:02 |
It was spring break. I was 12. It was 197......2007! :p
I heard a Genesis song on the radio. No Reply at All from ABACAB  I became obsessed with Genesis and slowly worked my way back into the Peter Gabriel era. Some of my all-time favorite albums are still Selling England and Foxtrot, Genesis remaining my favorite band; albeit for vastly different material than what I started with, now that I've gotten to know all the material.  I was lucky enough to see them on September 14th, 2007 in Montreal just 5 days after my 13th birthday! Magical...
Then in December I discovered Pink Floyd...I explored them thoroughly and Everything between Meddle and The Wall is in my island list!
And then...King Crimson's "In the Court" in late 2008...that set off the explosion.
In no particular order, I've fallen in love with the entire works of many artists...Yes, ELP, Camel, Marillion, Dream Theater, Gentle Giant, Todd Rundgren & Utopia, Supertramp, Rush, etc....to name a few in no particular order. Over the last few months, I've been really getting into Magma. I'm beginning to scare friends and relatives when bursting into song in full-fledged Kobaļan! Oh, that Christian Vander...:p
It's 2010, I'm 15. The owner of a small Prog specialist shop I go to once told me "One of the Beauties about this music is that the more you know; the less you know. No, that's not discouraging." He's right. The music I have come to love is still unfolding before my eyes day by day...there's always more of it to hear! I'm proud to say that there's a good chance that I'm hooked for life. heheheh...
I'll be at the Steve Hackett and Renaissance concert tommorow @ Place des Arts in Montreal! Hohohoho...The Firth of Fifth solo played right before my eyes by the master himself! I can't wait!
-Dom
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sgt wilko
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Posted: July 09 2010 at 14:26 |
Being aged 52 now, my first recollections of getting into prog are somewhat hazyy. However I do recall thre first Floyd albumn I heard was Umagumma. My 6th Form maths teacher was into this band called The Pink Floyd, I asked him who they were, he told me about a track called Several Species of Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict, to which I replied "Whats a Pict" sir !!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone brought the Moody Blues Seventh Sojourn into the 6th Form Common Room and played it constantly, curious, I explored and bought the other 6 Moodies albumns. Have replaced them all on cd and still play them.
A mate was really into Deep Purple but he he also loved Jethro Tull. I'd passed up on their first albumns but when I heard Minstrels Gallery I was hooked on them also.
As with most folk of the time I spotted a Yes albumn cover in my local record shop, - possibly Fragile or Close to the Edge, - great albumn covers were things to treadure in thise days, it was part of the package. Anyway, thats how I got into Yes.
Still love my prog, even subscribe to the Classic Rock Prog mag, what else would I spend my money on?
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40footwolf
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Posted: July 12 2010 at 03:25 |
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I think it was when I was 15 and I heard "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" for the first time. The vastness of it, the grandeur...I thought to myself, "I need to get more like THIS!" And thus, a big place in my heart for prog was born.
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IGNEO1991
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 11:55 |
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I saw a video of Opeth's 'Windowpane'.. and said to myself 'This sounds just like the sort of music my dad likes '(an avid prog rock lover). From then i just discovered the music of Opeth and then moved onto Porcupine Tree.. and i also thought that progressive music was actually becoming cool and not just corny 'Yes' stuff that my dad had been fond of, and which also put me off prog a couple of years earlier.
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Marcusmax
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Posted: July 13 2010 at 18:07 |
Well, I am probably the same age as most of the Dads referred to here so I was a teenager when it was all happening for the first time  . My older brother, yes even older than me, was into all the latest music and was always arriving home with a new LP. I lapped it all up but I think the first really prog one to grab me was ELP's first, (their best as far as I'm concerned). Defining moments after that were hearing Time And A Word by Yes for the first time and realising while listening to Foxtrot one night that I was completely into this music and that I always would be.
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Lark the Starless
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 20:07 |
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I was probably around 14, about 5 years ago. I was big into Pink Floyd (Atom Heart Mother) and was just fooling around on Wikipedia when I discovered the progressive rock page. I then discovered Yes, Genesis (through a friend), and about a year ago, I discovered this wonderful website. Since then, my progressive horizons have expanded greatly.
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GY!BE
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 20:13 |
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For me prog began when I was 9, I was going at the grocery with my mom and I found a CD in the middle of the street but still in his case. It was written Thin Lizzy on it but I didn't even know it was a band so when I got home I played it and I found it pretty good so, with my curiosity of seeking for more interesting music, I looked in my dad's cassette collection and I picked the first album I saw,,,it was Breakfest In America from Supertramp. But then I began to listen to all his collection and there was all the famous prog band from the 60s and 70s. But at that time I didn't even know how the music style was called...prog meant nothing to me, But when I was 12, my frien told me: Hey, there's a nice band I just discovered it's called Dream Theater....when I listened to the first song of the album: Pull me Under, I was amazed because I recognized all the old prog influences from my dad's collection but with a nice metal touch so I went on the internet looking for what is called this kind of music on wikipedia and I red: Progressive Metal...that's where it all started...
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GY!BE
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 21:50 |
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HA! Just after I wrote these lines I went for a walk and I found a vinyl in the middle of the street and it was Breakfast in America!!!
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