How old are P.A. members?

Gerinski wrote: Mirror Image wrote: I'm 32 and I had my first experience with progressive rock when I was 4. Rush were the first prog band I ever heard. I believe it was the "A Show Of Hands" concert, but we also used to have 'dance nights' at the house and Rush would be featured on the turntable quite frequently. Not quite sure what you mean, can you remember what your were listening at 4? A Show Of Hands is from 1989, that's 25 years ago so if you are 32 now things do not add up, you were at least 7 when you heard it for the first time.

45.

Up to 35 = 45 responses
Over 35 = 75 responses

YOUNG'UNS - KNOW YOUR PLACE!

Jim Garten wrote: Up to 35 = 45 responses Over 35 = 75 responses YOUNG'UNS - KNOW YOUR PLACE!

Over 35 might be old or at least not young but the interesting thing is that there are still more fans who got into this genre after the 70's than during.

[I'm not surprised by the results, though. There is the new generation, who are pobably more on the 'metal' side of prog, there is the majority of 40+, the even older generation probably do not use internet that much, and the people between 25-40 are probably the Green-Day-generation... ]


Yeah, there does seem to be a "lost generation." My take on that is that in the eighties prog was still pretty visible with YES, Pink Floyd, RUSH and Genesis all pretty big so many people getting into those bands and discovering their back catalogs. Then in the nineties it was all about grunge and alternative and I think other than Dream Theater there weren't really any bands for people to get into prog through(imo). So lots of rediscovering prog online but not so much discovering it. Even I took a break from prog in the nineties for a brief period of time. Then because of the internet(but more specifically prog's presence on it) more younger folks gradually discovered prog. I also feel that the older folks now had kids who were old enough to appreciate the genre. This also might partly explain the big numbers of younger fans on here. Anyway, that's my take on it. ;)

Edited by Prog_Traveller - July 22 2014 at 16:30

My age is infinite.  The age of my current meat suit is 50 earth years.

51

HolyMoly wrote: Prog_Traveller wrote: I myself am 44 and finally voted. I got into this genre in the mid eighties(mainly through YES, Genesis and King Crimson at least initially). that's pretty much true for me too (i'm 45)

ProgMetaller2112 wrote: manofmystery wrote: Lot of youths on the site... no wonder there's so much godforsaken metal May God have mercy on your soul. Christ be with you!!!

Damn metal kids! Stay off my prog!

Dean wrote:  These two polls may look remarkably different but they are actually very similar. Of course the total number of members who answered the polls is vastly different and our numbers have depleted considerable since the site opened, I think that's to be expected and there are many reasons for it. But when you normalise the data to take that into account it looks like this: So ignoring the mahoosive under 18 spike in the 2004 results for a minute, the plots are not that different, (you can visualise a ten-year shift to the right inthe 2004 plot if you like to account for the fact we've all aged ten years since the first poll) so what we've seen (proportionally speaking) is a decline in the number of spotty oiks rather than a significant increase in the number of wrinkled prunes.