Fellow Rockers...

Welcome, young Shatterwolf. I got into prog around age 12 too, and look where it took me!

(Right back where I started....)

Good then, it's still good now.

Us teenagers are the only cool people in our age group

anyway welcome.

Welcome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aha! Another youngster to corrupt

Big welcome, Shatterwolf - enjoy your time here (but don't listen to anything Peter Rideout says, he's a twisted old English professor - and you know what they're like!)

Shatterwolf wrote: "They think I'm nuts for liking Kansas, Yes, Genesis, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd 'Hendrix... Psh, what do they know. I'd take "South Side of the Sky" over whatever the hell they listen to anyday. I started listening to Yes when I was about 12, and loved them ever since. I'm 15 now. Genesis, G.D, and everything else I listened to soon after. I just found my Kansas CD, so obviously I'm blasting "Magnum Opus" on my CD player."

That's music to my ears. it's good to hear that there are teenagers who actually like 'classical' Prog Rock. Before discovering ProgArchives I thought that such music was the preserve of the over-40s (no offence, guys!). Prog Rock may be a niche market, but it's a relief to know that there are some newcomers to that market.

 

Welcome to the Prog-nerd connection!

 

I think 12 is the turning point for many of us. The most influential stage.

Tell us. Who turned you on to prog? A kid doesn't just walk into a record shop and grab a Kansas album, they had to have someone say, "Check this out!"

Ahh, is it possible to quote these damn things here? This forum style is new to me.

Tell us. Who turned you on to prog? A kid doesn't just walk into a record shop and grab a Kansas album, they had to have someone say, "Check this out!"

My dad turned my on to prog. When I was very little, he would play Dust in the Wind and Terrapin Station when we were on long car trips. I thought it was cool, but I never went out of my way to listen to them. Then when I was 12, he took me to a Yes concert, and I fell in love with them. As soon as I got home, I took out Fragile and listened to it all night. From then on, I basically taught myself all I know about prog rock.

you are not alone my friend. i am 17 and only have a few prog friends at my school. me and my friend pete started it off and spread it to about 10 others. but me and pete overdose on prog many a day with insanely huge record collections.

remember us prog fans have an excelled musical taste over our green day and oasis liking fans. we can enjoy the music that they listen to but expand our horizons much furthur to the much more advanced music that is prog. we are gifted! only a few of my friends like prog and they reli know what music is, and can write their own pieces on guitar and keyboards etc.

Shatterwolf wrote: [quote]I wish I was half as lucky as you. Hell, people tell me that Dust in the Wind was written by a bunch of "peace-filled hippies" and that Phil Collins is a fag, and he sounds like a girl. *sigh* When will they learn?

They are from kansas so it is "peace-filled Hicks" get it right! 

Prog music is 'musicans musci' for the most part. THere are a a few who aren't that love it for what it is but most have some sense of how dificult it is top play this kind of music.  Glad to see another youngster here.

Christ! In my local we have Yes,Genesis,Rush and ELP on the old Jukebox!

I got into Prog when I was 11.One of my mates at school had an older brother who was in a band.He was into Floyd, Hendrix, Yes, Genesis, ELP among others and it was a great time listening to all his records on a very HIFI rack system.We were the coolest kids (honest) smokin' joints and drinking cider (aah) and going to concerts which made us appear very "hippy" and wild  to some of the others at my college.

Then we got a copy of 2112 on import in 1976 and we would play it non-stop for hours and hours at full volume. I still have brain damage from the head-banging and skull shattering volume levels. Marvellous!