If you're younger than 18

rogerthat wrote: TODDLER wrote: It's interesting what ROGERTHAT had to say about SEBTP, and Fragile and the outside circles not  thinking of those records as Rock classics. Wow, that's really sad when society doesn't even consider the meaning of real facts. False information really influences people's minds doesn't it?   I think it's mainly because the critics never seem to have truly acknowledged these bands.  They couldn't stop people liking them in the 70s but they also made it as easy as possible for people to forget about them when prog faded away from the mainstream in the 80s by more or less pretending these albums were never made. Unlike those rock classics of which we are informed ad nauseum through various articles and lists. Yeah, it's a shame, if I had never heard of prog, I wouldn't know many of these amazing musicians existed, let alone know how great they were/are.

Thanks for your response! Great point! great observation

Finnforest wrote: Epignosis wrote: clarke2001 wrote: I'm surprised how many really young people we have here. Surel, it's great that you love prog, but... GET OFF THE INTERNET!! Go out, go to a gig, have a drink, kiss a girl, do yoga, go fishing, ride a bike, climb a mountain! Again and again! (I should be doing it too. I'm on computer because my girlfriend is in bed, snoring badly.) I'm 27 and on the computer at least 10 hours a day because I work at my home computer and I don't like crowds and I drink plenty at home thank you very much and I would kiss a girl but I'm married and I can't bend like I used to to do yoga of any sort and I can't fish worth a damn but I tried once and caught a leaf and I haven't owned a bike since I was 12 and the mountains are three hours away. Also, I'm lazy.  Good answer Robert Moris made me think though, we did have some extra time in our pre-Internet youth.  What did we do?  Probably just watched more TV and played Dungeons and Dragons.  I'm quite sure the time wasn't filled with more girls

For me, it was NES and playing outside (generally acting out whatever I had done on NES).

But from 12 years on, I was in a relationship with a girl pretty much everyday until I married at 19.    I only had like 6 girlfriends during that span too, so I was a pretty committed fellow.

clarke2001 wrote: Epignosis wrote: clarke2001 wrote: I'm surprised how many really young people we have here. Surel, it's great that you love prog, but... GET OFF THE INTERNET!! Go out, go to a gig, have a drink, kiss a girl, do yoga, go fishing, ride a bike, climb a mountain! Again and again! (I should be doing it too. I'm on computer because my girlfriend is in bed, snoring badly.) I'm 27 and on the computer at least 10 hours a day because I work at my home computer and I don't like crowds and I drink plenty at home thank you very much and I would kiss a girl but I'm married and I can't bend like I used to to do yoga of any sort and I can't fish worth a damn but I tried once and caught a leaf and I haven't owned a bike since I was 12 and the mountains are three hours away. Also, I'm lazy.  You're composing prog. You're excused.

Gerinski wrote: JS19 wrote: Gerinski wrote: Don't worry young folks, it is allowed to like prog-metal. We had Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Zeppelin... I confess that I listened to some early heavy metal when I was a teen, Judas Priest, AC/DC, MSG, UFO...  much of modern prog-metal is at least better than that. Don't forget other stuff though, diversity is one of the key ingredients of the prog genre itself.   ... and oh for gods sakes' Why the blazes to people think that: A. Prog metal is juvenile and simplistic B. That's the ONLY thing that us 'youngsters' listen to C. Were seemingly not mature enough to appreciate the classics Come on, get off your high horses. You need to understand that everyone is allowed to like classic prog whatever else they enjoy. It's not a genre reserved for die hards and it's not for just prog fans, and it's not something you earn the right to like...  The attitudes of some of these 'older fans' are really getting to me now    It was not meant badly, really, I was just meaning that it's perfectly OK to like metal from any time and at any age, there's quite a lot of metal in my music collection, from the earliest heavy rock to the proper heavy metal of Judas Priest or Van Halen to the prog metal of DT or Pain of Salvation and to the modern metal of Simphony X or Maudlin of the Well.

I've been a big fan of prog rock since I was little, but I really started branching out in Middle school (12-14) when I discovered bands like Camel and Genesis (which immediately became my favorite band after listening to Foxtrot in its entirety) and finding more material from Yes, ELP and Pink Floyd. I also became interested in neo-prog around this time (Marillion, IQ and Pendragon). So when I was younger than 18 I was much more interested in just prog rock instead of prog metal (and it remains that way, though my love for metal is almost as great as prog rock).

FOR THE RECORD (what with old geezers saying that us hooligans don't appreciate the classics) I have at least 10 Genesis, 8 Camel, 10 Crimson, 11 Yes, and 12 Pink Floyd records in my collection (and I mean vinyl here!) plus most of VDGG's, Gentle Giant's, and tons of other classic prog bands discographies. 

I like both 70s stuff and more modern prog music, which is mostly metal. I don't really like a lot of 80s stuff, though.

what i've learned on this site is that most peoples idea of prog is to listen to as many albums from each year since 1966 as is possible in a lifetime. 

I'm exactly 18, do I qualify? Since age 16, I haven't been able to listen to metal, so I think so!!

topographicbroadways wrote: what i've learned on this site is that most peoples idea of prog is to listen to as many albums from each year since 1966 as is possible in a lifetime.  I think what i've noticed is that young proggers tend to dwell on the classics while the older guys try to expand into the present rather than the other way round which i would have expected