Bands that changed your musical taste....

Rush...and Moving Pictures was the album. I heard it one night on a midnight album hour and it changed my musical tastes forever. Saga came up quickly after that followed by Genesis and Pink Floyd.

Chris
http://www.echolynfan.com

The Beatles were my first musical love, in my single-digit years. But the Clancy Brothers and the Irish Rovers were what I remember from childhood, and those darn country music records my dad loved.

Prog has been with me since my siblings scared me with "Animals" when it was new, but Rush (and Led Zeppelin) was the first band that really got me involved, around junior high. A little later, Iron Maiden got me into metal (about the time "Powerslave" came out). Yes and King Crimson came to me around then too (between junior and senior high). Dr. Demento had already given me a taste for Zappa.

as a high school freshman, Zeppelin convinced me to check out Robert Johnson, who gave me a love for the blues (and the guitar). And the Grateful Dead came to me about the same time and hooked me for life...at the time, my favorite prog band was the Moody Blues. I went through a bit of a psychedelic phase...

Halfway through high school I started listening to Marvin Gaye and that led me to classic soul and R&B. Pink Floyd was my prog choice around then.

A couple years later, The Ramones introduced me to punk rock. Pretty soon The Cure got me ready for post-punk/ alternative/ goth bands which stuck with me through college and beyond...

Leftfield's "Leftism" (and the Trainspotting soundtrack!) is the album that got me to really pay attention to the electronic music thing...although Kraftwerk had laid the foundations, way back in their "Autobahn" days (which my brother had given to me in junior high).

Leo Kottke led me back to country music and Hank Williams got me to stick around. Hmm, my dad was on to something after all...

Finally, The Mars Volta brought me back to prog. And since I've been back, I found GYBE which opened up the whole 'post-rock' genre for me!

LET'S BEGIN TO THE BASICS...MY INTRODUCTION TO PROG ROCK WAS WHEN I REALISE THAT IN THE WORLD THERE WERE FOR ME THREE GREAT BANDS: THE BEATLES, LED ZEPPELIN, PINK FLOYD AND DEEP PURPLE.

WOW! THERE'S ONLY ONE PROG BAND, BUT THE RESULT WAS THAT THE TRACKS THAT I REALLY LOVE BY TB AND LZ WERE THIER MOST ARTISTIC (KASHMIR, IN THE LIGHT, STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, THE WHOLE SGT. PEPPERS, I AM THE WALRUS, STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER, AND SO ON), THEN I BECAME INTERESTED IN YES AND AFTER THAT YOU GOT ME HERE WRITING ABOUT THE BRANCH OF ROCK I LIKE THE MOST...

The Beatles were the first band that showed me that there was music this side of the 20th century. Naturally, I was immediately drawn to their later, more experimental side, and this fuelled the beginnings of my 'prog' side.

After that, I discovered bands such as Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, and other stars of the Heavy Metal movement. Then one day, my good friend recommended I listen to this awesome band, this group of canucks called Rush.

Around the same time, my brother lent me a bunch of CDs, among which were classics like Radiohead's Kid A, and The Velvet Underground's debut. The one that stuck in my mind the most was Dark Side of the Moon, an album that simply blew my mind every time I heard it.

Then, however, I put those classic albums aside for a while, and entered a Rock phase, listening to all the Classic Rock I could pick up off the local radio station. I still have CDs from ACDC to Alice Cooper to Metallica to Van Halen to ZZTop.

Then, one day I stumbled across this site.

Suddenly, I entered a period of pure prog delight. Ever since that fateful day, I have been introduced to many magnificent bands, including Dream Theater (A logical progression from my now-complete Rush collection), ELP, Genesis, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator, Yes, and many others. I don't know where I would be, if this site had not opened my eyes to the music that I could have been listening to.