Age of PA folk

 

I assumed SBB must be an abbreviation for another well-known band, such as "KC" or "VDGG"

But then that begs the question how did your friend get into prog?  Sooner or later you can probably draw a line to somebody's parents. Even my dad who was too old to be into prog in the old days had a copy of "The Yes album" which served as some kind of reference point for me(sort of).

Being that I got into prog during the 80's it was a bit indirect also. Like I said my dad had TYA but that's about it for prog really(a lot of classic rock too and a lot of jazz). My cousin was into Genesis and Yes and at one point asked me if I ever heard of King Crimson. I believe my answer at the time was "no." Also, my uncle(who is now almost 90)got into Pink Floyd later life through some friends(I guess this was the early 80's)but that's just about the only rock band he ever liked. My brother had a friend who was big into Rush so I sort of got into them through him. Also, I sort of toyed around with the guitar and had a guitar book that mentioned Robert Fripp and King Crimson and I also had a rock encyclopedia book that mentioned some prog bands(no real logic behind the progressive rock choices in the book: they had Yes, Genesis, PF, Rush, JT and even Soft Machine, Gong and Marillion but not Camel, VDGG or Gentle Giant).Still, it did help me to get more into prog as did discovering a music magazines a little later. Things just snowballed after I became aware that the bands I liked the most were called "progressive rock."

This website helped for sure when I was extremely bored in High School, but I got into prog by searching what kind of music I wanted to listen to and I found some prog bands online.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: I'm always curious how those under 35 or so get into prog. Is it through their parents or Dream Theater or what. It always interests me because they are obviously to young to have gotten into it during the golden era(even those a little bit older).

I'm the wrong person to answer because I'm 50+, but everyone can listen to all kinds of older music, it's all around. When I got into prog it wasn't "golden era" anymore, but that wouldn't stop me from finding good stuff. A bright young person needs to hear one great thing somewhere, then do some research, and build their own taste. It doesn't have to be "through" anyone. (Admittedly I heard my first prog in my father's car, but he wasn't actually that interested. It was just a tape he had flying around. He even thought it was Elton John, but Elton John was on the other side. He reimbursed me because it was his fault I bought the wrong album first, Elton John's Greatest Hits. Actually it was Watch by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. True story, haha!)