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Posted: March 30 2012 at 15:40
I heard some things about 2112 when I was 15/16 and decided to buy it on a whim. I was completely blown away by the title track, even being a huge thrash metal fan at the time it was the most powerful thing I had ever heard and then I got a lot of Rush's other albums and went from there
Joined: April 19 2011
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Posted: March 30 2012 at 15:33
Slartibartfast wrote:
Can't help but reminisce whenever this thread pops up. I'm sure I've posted here already a while back. We're talking '70's so there was a lot of established prog out there that even made it to the mainstream. Focus Hocus Pocus got played on the radio but that didn't do it. The theme from Tommy was also getting air play, but that didn't do it. I remember hearing ELPs Toccata at a time when I was big into monster movies and sci-fi, but that didn't do it. I got Wakeman's Journey and King Arthur because I like the concepts but that didn't do it. I think I have to give credit to Genesis Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot, which my brother had packaged into a double album.
Dude,
You had so many "that didn't do its", its a miracle that itever happened.
Foxtrot & NC are both singles, how did your brother get them to fold like a double album?
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Posted: December 24 2011 at 08:11
in the womb, more or less. ok, it was not prog yet then, but proto-prog. I was eight month old when my parents attended Woodstock and of course took me with them. they were avid fans of prog, but also of prog-related bands like Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the Doors, Deep Purple or Led Zeppelin. they were especially fond of Krautrock; a friend of theirs, who did military service in Germany, provided them with all the new records. they were stoned out of their wits most of the time when I was a kid, and I probably was too under all those billows of sweet smoke.
A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Posted: December 21 2011 at 06:38
Can't help but reminisce whenever this thread pops up. I'm sure I've posted here already a while back. We're talking '70's so there was a lot of established prog out there that even made it to the mainstream. Focus Hocus Pocus got played on the radio but that didn't do it.
The theme from Tommy was also getting air play, but that didn't do it. I remember hearing ELPs Toccata at a time when I was big into monster movies and sci-fi, but that didn't do it. I got Wakeman's Journey and King Arthur because I like the concepts but that didn't do it. I think I have to give credit to Genesis Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot, which my brother had packaged into a double album.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: December 16 2011 at 21:57
There are a handful of nominally progressive bands I've been interested in since a very young age. I was listening to the Moody Blues at the age of 5. Got into Pink Floyd and Camel by the age of, oh, 10 I guess.
But I first really got into prog as a genre once I was in college (1987). I made friends with a guy who not only liked the Floyd, but also Genesis and ELP, both of which I knew about but then investigated further. After buying a favorite Camel album on CD, and reading the liner notes, I learned about Caravan and the whole Canterbury thing. I sought that stuff out, and before long I was in over my head!
Upon graduation from college (1991), this thing called the Internet was starting to bring together progressive rock fans from all over the place. Soon I discovered that places like Italy and Sweden had their own prog scenes, and they were just as rich and varied as the US/UK scenes. My cup runneth over, as they say.
I got involved with Expose' Magazine, wrote some reviews for them, and got exposed to even more stuff, old and new.
Things have slowed down for me in the last 10 years, and I don't seek out as much prog anymore, but it's still a huge part of who I am.
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Joined: August 09 2005
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Posted: December 16 2011 at 11:51
I think the first time I really was left shell-shocked, amazed, speechless, well, whatever you call it, by prog music, it might have been in July 1975 in Kaustinen, Finland. The concert wasn't a part of the famous folk music festival, but was arranged while it went on, in the Kalliopaviljonki Hall in Kaustinen.
It was an ad hoc group on tour around Finland. There were five guys trying to play each other off the stage with their virtuoso skills: Jukka Tolonen, guitars, Seppo "Paroni" Paakkunainen, saxes and other wind instruments, Esa Kotilainen, keyboards, Pekka Pohjola, bass, and Esko Rosnell, drums. The band didn't even bother to have a name, so famous were its members at that time.
How can music be like this? I had never known anything like that! That was a pure jazz-rock heaven! And I was 11. Only later I found out what a dream team there was on stage that evening. Some years ago, I talked about this gig to Paroni Paakkunainen (now nearly 70). His instant reply was: do you have a recording of that gig? Do you know anybody who might have one? Obviously it was an occasion which he thought was a very special even for that quintet.
I've often thought that perhaps without that experience, I wouldn't have become so open minded with progressive music.
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Posted: December 16 2011 at 09:41
I always used to listen to stuff like DT, Genesis, Yes, Supertramp, but I never considered them more than great rock bands, until a day I was listening to DT's Images and Words and I realized that stuff was not only great music, but pure awesomeness..
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Posted: December 16 2011 at 09:38
looking through my father's LPs I recognised "Tubular Bells" as something special from its cover, and listened to it three or four times in a day, diligently turning the disc over every time it finished until I was asleep.
Now i like spikier, more vicious music, but Tubular Bells always stays with me, stays important.
Joined: December 01 2011
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Posted: December 16 2011 at 09:18
I was already into popular metal like Metallica and stuff, but one day I pillaged my step father's tape horde. I was playing stuff from it, like Motley Crüe, Extreme, Ratt, didn't really like it. Than I popped in Nothingface by Voivod and my mind was blown. The rest is a blur.
Joined: December 10 2011
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Posted: December 12 2011 at 12:46
My dad had a somewhat similar introdution. His older brother had been a fan of Rush for a few years but he was too young to really like it. But in 1980 he braught home Premanent Waves and he showed it to my dad who instantly fell in love with it became a HUGE Rush fan and then got into more bands like Yes and (Phil-era) Genesis. Then, as I got older I got into that stuff and now i'm a bigger prog fan than he is.
Joined: December 10 2011
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Posted: December 12 2011 at 07:53
It's hard to say as that was mostly before I can rember. I can rember when I was seven and I really got into Rush, thanks to my Dad. The Beatles, Yes and many more bands followed as I went online and listened (listening to Yes' Prepetual Change right now). Now I'm 13 and have an exstremely vaired musical tastes.
Joined: December 03 2011
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Posted: December 11 2011 at 11:04
I initially got seriously into music around the age of 12 listening to Mott the Hoople, but the first real shock came with hearing Street Life by Roxy Music with all the weird noises and discordancy, after which I was more interested in finding something out of the ordinary than being tied into any particular genre. Punk and New Wave at the end of the 70s gave me plenty of new and experimental music to explore, but I never saw any reason to reject the older stuff and some of the prog rock has stayed with me since then, such as Curved Air, Van der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Amon Duul 2, Can and Tangerine Dream. Having been through Heavy Metal, Goth, Psychedelic, Thrash / Death Metal and Industrial, I stumbled across an article on Krautrock in Record Collector magazine in the early 2000s, followed by the Krautrocksampler book and found this type of music most to my taste. In the last year I have been listening to the Krautrock - music for your brain box sets - all 24 CDs of them - and buying more of the early 70s German rock music featured. This has been a wonderful experience - hearing all this 70s music, but for the first time, like being transported back through a time warp. Having discovered this site, I am also looking forward to checking out some of the other material that has evaded my attention for the last 30 or 40 years, and having another listen to music I didn't particularly enjoy back then, but may now be in a better position to appreciate.
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Posted: December 07 2011 at 17:26
It seems to me that I have always had an affinity for music; I recall being three years old, and there were all these days when I would march around the room and pretend to be a trumpet player while listening to Herb Alpert. (The irony is that the first instrument I took up was trumpet)...
But, I think that the Prog "infection" began for me in 1969 with a little known song called "In the Court of the Crimson King", by this obscure and forgotten band called (oddly enough) King Crimson.
It appears to me that the "disease" remained dormant until 1972 when a song called "Roundabout" happened, and then the floodgates just entirely burst forth... After that; I was ENTHRALLED by just about anything Prog.
And so it remains to this day...
I love so very many forms of music, but I have almost always considered myself first and foremost a "Progressive" Guitarist". (This was before we had umtpy-nine g'jillion sub-genres). And while I find myself listening to so many forms of music, Prog remains my favorite.
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Slartibartfast wrote:
when i was a kid his Pink Floyd used to wake me up every morning :)
