When were you infected by Prog?

I was infected by Progressive Rock when I was in my mother's womb, My father played plenty of Yes, ELP, Automatic Man and more!!!! and when I entered the world, He played ELP's Tarkus!!! and for 28 years and counting, Tarkus is a masterpiece that will always be with me!!!

When i saw The Aurora Project live for the first time.

You know it's funny that when prog effected me at 15, I didn't buy my first prog album till I was 17. Why did I wait 2 years? What a crazy kid I was.

Wrong thread, man.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - December 07 2012 at 21:53

infocat wrote: progbethyname wrote: You know it's funny that when prog effected me at 15, I didn't buy my first prog album till I was 17. Why did I wait 2 years? What a crazy kid I was. You didn't have a job, your parents didn't give you an allowance, and you didn't want to turn to a life of crime.

Ha ha Nailed it!! Guess I should have begged more to get what I want, but I'm no beggar. I have too much dignity for that. Nobody likes a brat.

I've got to give my older brother credit for that one.  My first exposure was Rush - Moving Pictures.  My birthday present was to see them on the Grace Under Pressure tour.  A great gift indeed.  Thanks bro for introducing me to Rush and prog rock music.  Long live Prog!

I got infected by prog in 2006. I had just graduated from elementary school and I was still listening to what was on the radio. I've yet to develop an individual taste in music.
Although I've been listening to all kinds of music from a very early age, prog always stood out to me the most. There was something about the elements of prog that got to me.
I got into the works of Queen (I consider them somewhat progressive), listening to their music religiously, from their first album all the way to the last one. I noticed Queen was way more than Bohemian Rhapsody and Another One Bites the Dust.
But in 2007... that was the turning point. I began diving into the works of Pink Floyd. Growing up, I heard their usual songs (obvious hits as I call them), but it wasn't until middle school was where I began to really listen to the Floyd. I had a musical awakening. I was studiously listening to the Floyd and studying their history, from the Syd Barrett era to their Live 8 performance in 2005. I began listening to their back catalog and lesser-known songs. I began to appreciate every aspect of Pink Floyd, from the guitar of Syd and David Gilmour to the drumming, production, instrumentation, texture, Roger's lyrics, but one aspect stood out the most: Richard Wright's style and approach to keyboards.
Since that time, progressive rock did more than introduce me to different bands. It changed my perspectives and aesthetics to music. The ideas and concepts of prog introduced me to a completely different approach to how songs are made. It also showed me the way to discover experimental composers, most of which influenced prog one way or another.

Sorry if I've already told of my "infection" in some topic here...  Anyway, I think I was 13 -in the middle of 80's- and I was following music lectures in the junior high school and our teacher introduced us different forms of rock music and played maybe two minutes "slice" of the beginning of Genesis' 'The lamb lies down on Broadway' and it was love at first hear! From then on I have mostly listened to progressive rock. 

I began listening to Progressive music at the start of my highschool years, and it swiftly took over my best interests in music. I am now in my 20's and feel like I will continually search for more tasty prog for the rest of my life. 
My band is even taking off too!

My folks had lots of opera, classical, and musical soundtracks that they'd play all the time, and my mom served as a music appreciation teacher in school when they still cared about things like that. So I gained the ability to deal with complex compositions and themes early on.

Then the 80s hit, and since I was old enough to start making my own choices, I mostly got into new wave stuff. Something about the quirkiness of some of the bands appealed to me a lot. Not that I'd qualify any of that as prog, but I tended to be drawn to the more unique artists, although I have a serious desire to acquire as much new wave crap as I can now. And, hey, let's not forget the legitimacy Bozzio gave the genre. 
Oingo Boingo also became a lifetime favorite during those early years. My sister bought albums like "Abacab" and "Duke" by Genesis but she wanted them for just the pop stuff. I found I liked a lot of the rest of the songs as well and played them more than she did, but I didn't really explore older albums or bands until later.

A few more years passed, I branched out into metal, started hanging out with musicians who started really helping me reach back to the roots of prog, and I began looking forward to everything new. Still do.