At what age did you go PROG?
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Topic: At what age did you go PROG?
Posted By: sgrurru
Subject: At what age did you go PROG?
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 09:53
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at what age did we start listening prog? I mean not just hearing a song
that you later realized it to be prog, but at what age did you actually
start enjoying prog music? for me it was at about 15, Premiata Forneria Marconi and Jethro Tull did it.... ------------- Da qui messere si domina la valle |
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 09:54
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12,I think... 11-12 for sure... ------------- 
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Posted By: samhob
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 10:20
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13 - 14 started with pink floyd and yes |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 10:22
| 15 or 16. Started with Close to the Edge, had to keep listening to it. |
Posted By: holdsworth
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 10:24
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i'd say at about 13, started with Zappa(have all his albums now) i only just turned 19 yesterday so i'm still a relative newcomer!! |
Posted By: Flyingbebert
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 10:42
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I started at 9, with Genesis "I can't dance" and "Tell me why" Did anybody started this younger than me ? |
Posted By: fairyliar
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 10:50
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My parents conceived me listening to Procol Harum I'm the youngest! |
Posted By: Flyingbebert
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 11:00
Hmm ok I'm defeated |
fairyliar wrote:
.Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 11:26
14, Rush, Dream Theater and King Crimson 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 11:35
| I think I was 12 when my sister brought home "Nursery Cryme". That was the start of it for me. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 11:44
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Heard Supertramp when I was 4, but my true introduction was when I first heard Genesis' Foxtrot & Nursery Cryme at the age of 10-11. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: gabbel ratchett
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 11:49
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I was probably 10 or 11, a big fan of Beatles and Yardbirds, Kinks and Who. Then an older sibling turned me on to Zappa, Moody Blues and West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. I have always loved most music, but prog has been my favorite since the begining. ------------- dead things don't talk too well, they've got a shaky sense of diction. |
Posted By: rvalente
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 11:50
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For me at 14, in 1972, in juke box, I often used to put coins to listen to One Of These Days, From The Beginning and I didn't like Deep Purple and even Led Zeppelin.
------------- greetings from Italia Raffaele 
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Posted By: DACE
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 11:58
| It was in 1987 and I was 14. I bought "Animals" by Pink Floyd because a friend told me they were great. It blew my mind. |
Posted By: OldFatherThames
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 12:05
| At 16 with Gentle giant - Acquiring the taste and power and the glory, Ekseption, and genesis - selling england by the pound |
Posted By: Throgh
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 12:12
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At 15-16 in 1979-80 - Genesis "Lamb lies..." and Hawkwind
"In search of space" by radio |
Posted By: ummagumma08
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 12:24
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I got totally in to Pink Floyd at the age of 16 and spent almost two years only listening to them, I couldn't even mention another band I liked! Later (app. 1½ year) I desperately began looking for something I would possibly dig besides PF; without having a slightest idea about a genre called "Progressive Rock" I bought some Cream, David Bowie and Alan Parsons but wasn't totally amazed, though I like Bowie a lot. But in the summer of 2002, after being told it should be a bit like Floyd, I bought Genesis – Foxtrot, and a true progger was born! I was absolutely amazed and blown away. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 12:31
| 14/15. Focus and Yes were the two that started the ball rolling. |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 12:53
14... with Kansas. 
------------- https://soundcloud.com/erin-susan-jennings" rel="nofollow - Bedroom guitarist". Composer, Arranger, Producer. Perfection may not exist, but I may still choose to serve Perfection. Commissions considered. |
Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 13:00
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12 years old with Pink Floyd...
------------- break the circle reset my head wake the sleepwalker and i'll wake the dead |
Posted By: Shryker
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 13:05
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16 ------------- 
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Posted By: Pablo_P
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 13:08
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I was about 15-16... I started with Jethro Tull - "Aqualung" and King Crimson - "In The Court Of The Crimson King"... ------------- Pablo P. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 13:19
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Around 11-12,with Yes and Rush. -------------  |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 13:36
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YES''s drama Rush's moving pictures and Pink Floyd's animals. At age of 
Yes-Rush i neven went back 
. now i am 35 and prog-jazz-fusion is my pasion. what i live for.
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 14:11
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If you count Jarre and Kraftwerk as actual prog I was 11. But I started listening to Pink Floyd at the age of 18 and since then I decided I am listening solely to prog. ------------- yet you still have time! |
Posted By: Englar
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 14:12
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Hi! For me it started with DSOTM when I was 15 or 16. I thought I would give that album a shot because I liked the song Money a lot. Although, as a matter of fact, the first Pink Floyd tune that caught my attention was Welcome To The Machine, and that's because the first time I heard it was while watching the amazing video for the song on late-night MTV a long time ago. I remember also buying Tool's Ænima back then and thinking "What a load of crap are all the nu-metal bands flooding the scene right now... specially when compared with Tool!" After a couple of years I "progressively" began to discover the rest of the bands I love today: Yes, Rush, Genesis (Gabriel's era), King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, (you name it)... ------------- 
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 16:40
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14....with Floyd Now, I'm 18, and my tastes definitely have expanded ------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: JrKASperov
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 16:46
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14/15, got me a Fragile cd. Took a year for me to work up to the rest of 'prog', I was too scared it would all be less than Fragile.  ------------- Epic. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: September 09 2005 at 19:32
| Hmm I onlyt started to listen to it just over the summer and im 15 now so i guess 15 |
Posted By: sonic_assassin
Date Posted: September 10 2005 at 17:47
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If you'll allow "Wish You Were Here" as prog, then it was when I was
18. It wans't until a year later that I got to hear things like "Can-
Landed" and "High Tide". |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 04:28
| 15 Dream Theater, Ayreon |
Posted By: Arnold Layne
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 14:17
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i got in to it at 15(in fact i got DSOTM on my birthday) and im still 15 for two more days so im pretty new to prog but i already have about 15 prog cd's (without a job) ------------- HELP! |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: September 11 2005 at 19:07
| When I was 14 at a Rush concert. |