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Points: 7859 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2012 at 09:58
Holy god?!!! 500 CDs. Lol. That's a lot. Guess you got a lot of one hit wonders ;)
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Points: 7859 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2012 at 10:12
Originally posted by menawati menawati wrote:


Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Because I am lazy, and because I once started a blog that answers this question I will provide a link http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43586&PN=1  and if you are interested feel free to read about my Road to Prog Enlightenment.

I read it a while back, was a fun read Smile
I envy the guys on here that were teens in the early 70's prog heyday. I certainly feel I was born a decade too late. The NWOBHM I experienced was a poor substitute for the music scene you guys had.


Seriously. I would have been at every Genesis and Lazer Floyd show. Lol
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Points: 66515 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2012 at 10:23
Originally posted by menawati menawati wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Because I am lazy, and because I once started a blog that answers this question I will provide a link http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=43586&PN=1  and if you are interested feel free to read about my Road to Prog Enlightenment.

I read it a while back, was a fun read Smile

I envy the guys on here that were teens in the early 70's prog heyday. I certainly feel I was born a decade too late. The NWOBHM I experienced was a poor substitute for the music scene you guys had.
Cool!  Glad you enjoyed it.  Don't envy them too much.  They are even older and grumpier than me. LOLWink
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Pink Floyd -> Moody Blues -> Dream Theater -> Porcupine Tree -> 100 other bands, well maybe 40 or so... -> Present day -> Battlestations
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Originally posted by DreamInSong DreamInSong wrote:

Pink Floyd -> Moody Blues -> Dream Theater -> Porcupine Tree -> 100 other bands, well maybe 40 or so... -> Present day -> Battlestations


Nice equation.
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Originally posted by DreamInSong DreamInSong wrote:

Pink Floyd -> Moody Blues -> Dream Theater -> Porcupine Tree -> 100 other bands, well maybe 40 or so... -> Present day -> Battlestations
My version:  Brubeck "Time Out" > Blood, Sweat & Tears (self-titled) > Chicago (1 & 2) > Elton John (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road) > Kansas (Leftoverture) > Yes (Relayer - my high-school friend turned me on to this one!).  From there (which was the mid-1970s), full on into Yes, ELP, Genesis, Camel, Jethro Tull.  Later 70s:  UK & Brand X.  Then, a 'dry spell' until early 80s with Marillion...(I could bore you some more, but I won't...)
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Originally posted by DJMarkuss DJMarkuss wrote:

I want to chime in here and state that Yes' worst album ever, in my opinion, is Talk from 1994.
Funny as thats the only album by them featuring Rabin that I like. I also prefer it to anything else Yes recorded post Drama inc even Magnification.
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I started with Pink Floyd, then got into King Crimson and Magma. Then I kind of went backwards and decided that Coheed and Cambria was THE BEST BAND EVER. Then was some 3 and TMV, which lead to Gapacho and Beardfish.

Also Hawkwind and IQ were in there someplace.

My prog history is really weird.
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Originally posted by menawati menawati wrote:

Interested to hear how people got into progressive music in the first place and what was the first prog they heard that led them along the path.
My gateway was heavy rock. Went from being a NWOBHM fan in my early teens, digging Rush and the neo-prog revival stuff like Marillion then moving on to Genesis, King Crimson, Camel and Floyd and by then I was hooked for life.
First prog song I heard and liked - The Trees by Rush
I think that many people move from heavy music to prog but maybe there are some that got stuck in straight away, came from a classical background or even went from listening to pop music to loving prog. Interested to hear.


Similar for me. Started with metal. Was introduced to Rush and Marillion by a friend, and started seeking out bands said to be like them.
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by menawati menawati wrote:

Interested to hear how people got into progressive music in the first place and what was the first prog they heard that led them along the path.
My gateway was heavy rock. Went from being a NWOBHM fan in my early teens, digging Rush and the neo-prog revival stuff like Marillion then moving on to Genesis, King Crimson, Camel and Floyd and by then I was hooked for life.
First prog song I heard and liked - The Trees by Rush
I think that many people move from heavy music to prog but maybe there are some that got stuck in straight away, came from a classical background or even went from listening to pop music to loving prog. Interested to hear.


Similar for me. Started with metal. Was introduced to Rush and Marillion by a friend, and started seeking out bands said to be like them.


looks like you have an appreciation for THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON as well. LIFEFORMS is a great album dude.
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I don't really get Lifeforms....
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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Holy god?!!! 500 CDs. Lol. That's a lot. Guess you got a lot of one hit wonders ;)
Perhaps -  but Iv'e been snapping up "bargains" from ebay - for about 10 years - a helluva lot of those CD's are just impulse buys (from a prog perspective - all of them are progish) - Maybe I'll catch up when I retire - and seek out the "lost" gems in my (by then) colossal CD collection.Big smile
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Points: 7859 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2012 at 17:34
Originally posted by M27Barney M27Barney wrote:

Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

Holy god?!!! 500 CDs. Lol. That's a lot. Guess you got a lot of one hit wonders ;)

Perhaps -  but Iv'e been snapping up "bargains" from ebay - for about 10 years - a helluva lot of those CD's are just impulse buys (from a prog perspective - all of them are progish) - Maybe I'll catch up when I retire - and seek out the "lost" gems in my (by then) colossal CD collection.Big smile


You never know when you'll want to spin another album again, so it always great to have the hardware just waiting for ya anytime you want. And I know how you feel, AMAZON and EBAY.....man those prices are irresistable!! I would say 80% of my cd collection was bought on line. Nothing wrong with that. I say, enjoy your collection anyway you like. ;)
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Originally posted by DJMarkuss DJMarkuss wrote:

For me and most of my friends at the time, which was 1973.  We were in high school, and one of us had just heard ELP's Brain Salad Surgery.  He was the first one of our group of friends that had discovered prog and was sharing it with the rest of us.  My parents gave me Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for my birthday, played it over and over.  While not prog, it was my first real exposure to recorded music.  Just loved Funeral For A Friend, but wasn't sure why.  This friend I mentioned was into Yes, Floyd, Genesis, Nektar, VDGG.  We would gather at his place, and he would spin the vinyl from these bands that existed at that time.  I remember just being blown away at the epic sound, the meat of it.  Just so much content and substance to the music.  It was then I was exposed to most of what is now considered to be epic, classic prog.  I have preferred to listen to nothing but since that time almost 40 years ago.  Long Live Prog!

Holy crap thanks for reminding me, I totally forgot! I remember listening to Funeral For a Friend continuously and loving it when I was about 5 years old. So I guess that was the first sign.
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I repeat myself here as this is a newer thread than the old ones....


Early prog memories: 

I remember my dad coming home from a late night shift with a King Crimson  vinyl  tucked under his arm. It had the Red faced screamer on the cover and it scared me but he said I might like it, knowing I was into horror.... I loved parts of it such as 21st Century SM and parts I hardly played. I also remember the Black ELP cover of Works and I only liked Fanfare for the Common Man. I also had Take A Pebble on cassette but cant remember how I got it. Yes' Roundabout and Long Distance Runaround were Also on cassette somehow. I have no idea where I got them as I had no Yes albums. I also knew Jethro Tull's Bungle in the Jungle lyrics off by heart at the age of 8 but it was taped off radio!

My first purchase? It had to be in the 70s when I was a teen and got into particular artists and didn't know they were prog. I bought many Kraftwerk albums beginning with "Man Machine" so that counts and TEE.

I had "Aqualung" vinyl given to me but too young to appreciate it though i played the title track many times. I somehow got hold of "War of the Worlds" by Jeff Wayne - birthday I think and played it ad infinitum!
From there i got into Moody Blues and had 2 compilation albums. 

I also had JMJ "Oxygene" and played it often after seeing "Gallipoli". I had many soundtracks of movies so I was kind of into weird classical dramatic stuff. 

This was in the late 70s and from there i began to get hold of all Pink Floyd starting with The Wall cos I saw the film and someone at college told me it was the best thing he had ever heard. Strangely enough I didn't get Dark Side until the 80s, but did get Animals, A NIce Pair, and The Final Cut. I didn't really like them much at first but they kept my interest up and i finally grew up and loved them. When I heard DSOTM I was  addicted for life! 

Compilations have a lot to answer for! I had one song by Hawkwind Silver Machine and also some Marillion, and ended up buying the vinyl of Misplaced Childhood and loving it. I don't know why I didn't buy anymore Marillion up till recently.

I had heard of Genesis but only Invisible Touch and Duke. I was at a friends place who played Yes' Owner of a Lonely Heart and the rest of 90125 and I had to have it!

My big Prog splurge happened when I discovered the term actually existed. I bought all of Rush, having discovered them in a magazine, and they became my favourite artist. Then all of Hawkwind, King Crimson box sets and individual CDs, Yes including box sets, all Atomic Rooster and all ELP and VDGG. ...and many others since....


And there is my gateway to Prog....
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^ Where is that shot from?
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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq Dayvenkirq wrote:

^ Where is that shot from?

I might be wrong but that looks like an old star trek episode.


Edited by menawati - October 15 2012 at 09:47
They flutter behind you your possible pasts,
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
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Looks like a Roger Dean set creation for YES. ^
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Points: 3136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2012 at 12:49
It does look like a start trel set to me as well....wasn't ther one about greek or roman gods?
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Points: 28968 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2012 at 13:33
Perhaps the one where Spock has top go through some religious thing and ends up having to kill Kirk. Kirk plays 'dead' thanks to some clever drug. Spock feels terrible until he sees Kirk is alive and smiles for the one and only time. (or it might be a completely different episodeTongue)
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