What decade did you first get into prog?

ExittheLemming wrote: Are you just highlighting the perceptual confusion of the Swedes?

Yes, it was an answer to Prog_Traveller and my point was that even if Floyd and their ilk wasn't called prog in the 60s, it was still prog. Just like Dean so eloquently pointed out before me. I think we put too much importance into a word and it can be misunderstood in some parts of the world.

And yes, I'm afraid I know a lot about Swedish progg, too much in fact.

I'm 52,so it was the 70's for me.At the time i had no idea it was "prog".Just thought of it as great music!

Prog_Traveller wrote: ^ Yes but even now most of those bands are not considered prog these days but instead proto prog. Just playing devil's advocate here. ;) I personally think in retrospect many of them are "real prog" whatever that means if you consider how all the song oriented stuff and neo prog that is considered prog these days. Not to knock neo prog or anything but much of it has very simple song structures and is in verse chorus. So yes Dean if it's important to you then you win this conversation. :D I was just saying people didn't think of it as prog or progressive rock at the time(probably)but you are right that it doesn't really matter and what matters is what they were listening to. Anyway, I'm wondering if any of the 9 people who voted 90's on here are following this thread. I have a couple of questions for you. One, how did you discover prog in the 90's and what band or album got you into prog in the 90's? Also, did you get into prog in the 90's because of the internet.

Actually, I voted 2000's, and kind of explained this on my post. But really, I started knowing about prog bands since the 90's, just didn't know they were prog, and I started following prog as a genre until the 2000's, thanks to Yes and this site (thus, thanks to the internet).

However, in the 90's, when I started getting interested in music (just about highschool), one of the first bands I got really interested on was Pink Floyd, so that's a start in the prog direction. Then, I was checking out some vinyls my grandma has, and found some very nice things there... among them, Focus' "Hamburger Concerto" and Harmonium's "Cinquiem Saison". My grandma really liked Hamburger Concerto and was interested on my reaction to it, though she didn't seem to care much for Harmonium. I did like Focus sooner, in part because of puting the wrong speed once or twice when playing it, so it sounded even weirder, but eventually I came to love both and getting their albums too (though I'm afraid I got the Harmonium ones downloading them because they weren't available on CD when I wanted them... now I think I can buy then through Amazon, but I still have that among my things to do). I got to listen to many other nice things from my grandma, most notably Jethro Tull's "Live, bursting out", and Yes' "Relayer", but those ones didn't click at the time and came back at them until the 00's when I was checking out those bands respectivley.

Then, there was a friend also on Highschool, who helped me find out about Pink Floyd lending me some tapes from them that I recorded before buying the albums. She also lent me a tape from Rick Wakeman's "King Arthur" album, which I did came to love too... though I had no idea who this Wakeman guy was, nor what he played, or if he was the singer, etc. She also got me interested in Alan Parsons, from whom I later got their discography.

And so, after getting some Wakeman albums too, I got interested in Yes because of that connection, and was looking for information about him, and Yes, and so on, and ended up in PA and prog by the 00's, and the rest is history. So, yes, it was because of the internet, but even before that there were people who knew and liked prog that pointed me into that direction, even if they didn't know about the genre as such too.

And there were some other potential posibilities for getting me into prog at this times that didn't get a hold at the time, like an aunt of mine that really love The Moodie Blues and I listened to some albums once I went to visit her at the US... and I did like them, but didn't get much further into them... until now, that I got a 4 CD compilation and am planning on getting "Days of Future Past" too (more than 10 years later, even 15 perhaps).

I hit the big 60 a mere 5 weeks ago - so I cut my teeth on In The Court Of The Crimson King! 

After the British Invasion I bought my first album which was The Rolling Stones Now. My second album was Meet The Beatles.

Got the addiction in 2013.
Before that i was into PF, Classic Rock, Metal, Alternative Rock, Grunge.. From all i noticed that i was more fond of the songs that were somewhat different.
That "Different" led me to Prog.
Voted 2010's.

Edited by addictedtoprog - December 31 2014 at 23:53

First introduction for me was mid 70s, Deep Purple's "Fireball" and soon migrated on.

Discovered Dream Theater in 2009 then checked out similar bands and influences and now I'm here.

Thanks to the Alan Freeman Saturday Afternoon Rock Show on Radio 1 (sorry non UK readers) my gateway into prog!! 

Of course, it was generally known as 'contemporary rock' back then...

Age Discrimination!! Shame on you PT.   I first got into prog in 1969 listening to Abbey Road immediately followed by ItCotKC.

Edited by SteveG - January 03 2015 at 11:41