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ThyroidGlands
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I'm fifteen years old, and I discovered this wonderful genre about two years ago, thanks to the third studio album by Focus. When it comes to musical tastes, I'm the odd one out (both in my family and at my school). In Argentina (my country), the artists most listened to by teenagers are María Becerra, Tini, Lali, Peso Pluma, a sort of "new wave of cumbia" that includes artists like Ke Personajes, and other horrors that I can't recall right now.
There is also a large group that listens to our national rock. Artists like Calamaro, Spinetta, Charly, Cerati, Los Piojos, etc. Within that group, there is a fairly large minority that also listens to Argentine rock from the seventies (Pescado Rabioso, Invisible, Los Gatos, La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, Manal, Aquelarre, Sui Generis, Serú Girán, among others).
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Hrychu
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I'm 28 in July this year. I discovered prog rock circa 2013-2014 by looking up samples used by my fave hip hop artist Medium. I'm one of those super rare cases of people discovering prog rock online! Also, Spinetta's music is fricking amazing. In my country he's really little known and it's a shame. "El anillo del capitan Beto" is one of the greatest songs of all time imho. So, double high five I guess!
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ThyroidGlands
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Spinetta is one of those artists who should have enormous worldwide recognition. Our most well-known musician is Piazzolla (who should be in this forum, at least in the Prog-related category). I believe Spinetta should have the same recognition as Astor. They were the greatest musicians in our history.
Here in Latin America, "El Flaco" Spinetta is very well known, and outside the continent, he is a cult artist, but not as well known (which still makes me very happy). From your profile on the forum, I assume you are Polish. Despite there being a relatively large Polish diaspora in Argentina, Polish music is practically unknown here, and that is very sad. I can say that the little Polish music I have heard is amazing. SBB, Laboratorium, Cytrus, Niemen, Exodus, and Riverside (a band with quite a large following here) are fantastic artists who should have more recognition here and in the world.
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Hrychu
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Polish prog used to be on an inpressively high level back in the 70's and early 80's. Nowadays, it's a mixed bag and I feel my country's local music scene is really lacking in the more retro prog bands like Änglagård or Wobbler.
The thing about Czesław Niemen is that he was the first and only Mellotron owner in all of Poland and the fact he used it to make ambitious prog music instead of wasting it on schlager, pop or whatever, brings me to tears of joy. B) |
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I'm 57 now and discovered prog at age 12 in 1979 (when according to most it was just in full decline). Happy to see Astor Piazzolla mentioned; his Nuevo Tango Hora Zero is a top 5 of all time album for me. Otherwise I don't know much Argentinian stuff (Bubu are quite popular in this forum). Will check out Spinetta!
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ThyroidGlands
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In my opinion, Bubu was the pinnacle of national rock history, and El Cortejo de un Día Amarillo is one of the greatest works in the history of prog. Unfortunately, they are not known outside of this community.
Zero Hour by Piazzolla is a truly impressive album. The quintet at its best. Piazzolla's music in the second half of the eighties was superb in every sense. I recommend the music of Pescado Rabioso and Invisible (Spinetta's bands). Serú Girán and Sui Generis are worth at least a listen (both bands featured Charly García, another incredibly important figure in Latin American music). MIA is a spectacular progressive rock band that I highly recommend, especially their album Cornostípticum.
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I am 61. I discovered prog when a friend of mine introduced me to two Triumvirat albums-Illusions On A Double Dimple and Old Loves Die Hard in the spring of 1985, when I was a young 22 years old living in my hometown of Prescott, Ontario, Canada. I had been a little aware of prog before that but it was Triumvirat that opened me up to taking it seriously as an interest-in hearing that I felt I was in touch with "the real thing", and my life was changed.....
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62. I discovered prog when I was about 13 but didn't like it much. Became an ELP fan at 15 after they released Fanfare For The Common Man (this was played to death on the radio back in 1977 so you couldn't miss it!). I became more of a general prog fan after I started working in the 80's after leaving college in 1984/5 and had a bit of spare cash in my popcket. IQ, Marillion, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Yes and Genesis were well on my radar by this time but probably not a lot else. The process is ever ongoing...
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Fifty-seven. Bought Hemispheres when I was about eleven just based on the cover. Didn't understand the music but I listened in fascination, kept it, and a few years later I was glad I did.
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63. I've been listening to prog since I was 15, but it wasn't labeled prog, back then, where I grew up (Kansas). Zappa, Rush, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Steely Dan, and Yes were played a lot. Had many friends and great music stores that introduced me to much music.
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64 - The first prog album I heard was Brain Salad Surgery by ELP, borrowed and taped from a friend at school.
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I wish my 15 year old listened to prog rock
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Hi,
I was already into a lot of classical music, and specially some of the more adventurous ones of the modern days, that by the time I heard pop music (Brazil 1965) on a teeny weeny radio, I thought it was stupid, and silly ... but later amended the idea as more, and better works appeared. When I first saw that someone had done a version of Mussorgsky, I immediately went out and got the LP and I guess that brought me into what we consider "progressive" though at the time ... there was no such thing. To me, they were folks my age, doing something that they could not do on Sunday Nights on campus, when so many over rated classical music folks do their concerts and get paid more than a lot of rock bands ... it wasn't hard to notice that there were some greats in rock music that were not appreciated in classical music ... can you imagine Keith bringing Tarkus' score to a professor? Who do you think you are? And how can you consider that important when it has little theme continuity for us to follow? And what makes you think you can compose something like that and think it is a piano concert? AND, of course, Keith will be remembered and played far into the eons a lot more than that moron of a professor that had no ability or taste in music whatsoever! I've never looked back, since! No one can "define" or "specify" that something or other is not good, or is not worthy of being there.
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The first prog album I ever bought was Tubular Bells in 1973 and at the age of 64 now, I'm Too Old to Rock & Roll, Too Young to Die.
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I'm 65. Back in the early to mid 70's, there was no such thing as prog. It was all just rock 'n roll. The FM airwaves were filled with Yes, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, ELP, etc. and they filled arenas and other concert venues just like any other rock band of the time. I don't recall when I heard the term "prog" or "progressive rock", but it was much later.
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I'm 29. I've listened to Rush and Camel and a few other bands since early childhood (my dad isn't really a proghead but still likes some artists in the genre and made sure they were played regularly during family car rides) but I didn't really become aware of the concept, let alone become a fan of progressive rock until late 2012, approximately; I was 18 at the time.
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I'm 60 this year and a mate introduced me to Rush around 1979/1980.
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Became aware of prog in 2004l when a friend who was really into King Crimson, Tool, Peaches, etc.. and I swapped mix CDs. I thought his tunes were interesting but it wasn't until 2007 when I got a copy of 'The Yes Album' and 'Duke' that I really started to think as a genre it was something different, and in 2008 a copy of 'Fragile' sent me deeeeeeep into a Yes obsession that lead deeply into prog.
I am 36 now. I still listen to prog (Moon Safari are playing in my headphones now) but I am long past the point when whether or not something was prog was in itself a selling feature of the band. In fact I find I am finding it harder to connect with most new prog releases, and I think the change is in me more than the genre.
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I'm in my mid thirties and I've been into prog since I was 12. I've been on this site for most of the time. Almost 20 years!!!!
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I am 59 and was introduced to GFTO by my cousin when I was 13.
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