How did you get into prog?
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Topic: How did you get into prog?
Posted By: Rabid
Subject: How did you get into prog?
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 01:40
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Just interested.
My big bro got me into it..............
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 03:22
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A friend. Though I did like some prog bands before I even knew what prog was. Symphony X, Dream Theater, and I guess Pink Floyd. Also had prog tendencies, like my love for SoaD and general weird/anti mainstream/technical music. Just took someone to introduce me to actual world of prog and a while to put it all together.  |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 03:50
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mostly listening to the early 70's album-oriented radio and in a way school friends helping out as well. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 03:52
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Big Brother
Initiations being Led Zepp II, Deep Purple in Rock, Mirage, In The Land Of Grey and Pink, Trespass ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 05:16
| The internet. None of my friends or family listen to prog. |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 05:50
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I listened to some of it.
Oh yes, I also liked it.
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 09:15
Me too. |
Vompatti wrote:Posted By: Zebedee
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 09:35
It all began when I saw this on VH1.  ------------- 
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 12:13
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My mother. She got me into Tool and Pink Floyd which was my start on prog.
But then I got into metal, came across DT, and thats what got me to LOVE prog. |
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 13:34
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Nice one Zebedee! As for yours truly, it was the pater familias. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 13:47
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None of the above. I bought a Kansas Greatest Hits CD at a used shop just for "Dust in the Wind" and had no idea what a treasure I'd just discovered. Not long after I went to see Kansas on Yes's Masterwork Tour. That experience sealed the deal for me. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: June
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 14:01
Me three. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 14:03
| On one of those tube radios. We didn't have this internet thingy back in my day. |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 14:13
| t3h interwebz |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 16:33
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None of the above.
Uncle. Let me listen to FZ, Genesis, UK, GG, and a whole host of the classic prog bands. Then I found PA and started exploring on my own. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 16:44
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My dad, raised me on prog.
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Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 16:45
Same situation here ------------- 
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 16:48
If he'd raised you on steak and potatoes, maybe you'd be taller.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 17:04
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Wow so much of the internet. Granted thats how I got into metal. But only imagine the old days before internet, and how people managed/discovered/acquired their music *shutters* |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 17:25
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Prog In The Family: My older brother really kicked things off. Me infected my Mom and turned into a huge Kansas/Santana/Dregs fan. Most of his friends were into prog and pretty much none of mine, so some his friends became good friends with me. I think my Dad had some slight interest before my parents divorced and then he went off into country western territory with my step mom. (When they were still married he used to sing along to John Denver, very frightening. ). I think the only prog concert my sister's been to was when Steve Hackett came to the Atlanta Agora on the Cured tour. Prog never really caught on with her.
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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 21:26
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Three Older Brothers and Alan Fluff Freeman Saturday Rock Show .
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 23:25
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Hmm...very indirectly, probably Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Through that game, I heard Primus. I loved them, so I bought all of their albums. Then I started exploring other projects with Les Claypool, and I bought the live Frog Brigade albums. One of those happens to have a cover of King Crimson's "Thela Hun Ginjeet" on it. I loved that more than any Primus I heard, so I had to check out the original band, which I discovered thanks to the liner notes was King Crimson. From there, the internet, but I can't say that Internet would be my choice for the poll.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 17 2010 at 23:29
And to think, Tony Hawk introduced me to SoaD which got me into metal! |
Posted By: caretaker
Date Posted: August 18 2010 at 08:00
| When I was about 12 years I got a transistor radio for my birthday and accidentally discovered our local college radio station. I heard all these bands with weird names playing this music like I had never heard before. Some of it sounded sort of like my dad's classical music but with different instuments. Also, the first time I heard Mason Williams' Classical Gas. It got me searching for more music that sounded like that. |
Posted By: NecronCommander
Date Posted: August 18 2010 at 08:53
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Teh interwebz. Shortly after discovering their music, I looked on Wikipedia, which said Dream Theater was a "progressive metal" band. Further Googling led to this site. -------------  
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: August 18 2010 at 12:18
| Freshman year in high school, new friend played me Aqualung, which I liked, then handed me Thick as a Brick, told me to listen to it uninterrupted, and the rest is history. |
Posted By: Mr Greeen Genes
Date Posted: August 18 2010 at 15:40
| My mom's terrible Rolling Stone Rock n' Roll Encyclopedia and Ratings books. so books for me... |
Posted By: Adams Bolero
Date Posted: August 19 2010 at 15:09
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None of the above. My tutor gave me Nursery Cryme by Genesis and one by one introduced me to all of the classic Prog Bands like King Crimson and Yes and also to more obscure bands like Henry Cow and Egg. I owe my love of Prog Rock and indeed to being on this forum to his guidance. ------------- ''Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.'' - Albert Camus |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: August 20 2010 at 11:33
 Wow -- here's one we haven't seen before! 
Via the
 Seriously, thanks to my dear, cool older sister. She played ELP (From the Beginning on 45, Trilogy, BSS, Genesis (Foxtrot), Tull (TAAB, Aqualung, PP), Yes (Yes Album, Fragile, CTTE), all when those albums were new and revolutionary -- I was 12-13, and previously into stuff like Alice Cooper and Purple (also thanks to her).From there, I soon found my own way to Crimson, Giant, TD, Nektar, Can, Amon Duul II, etc, etc. Circus magazine helped. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Sussano
Date Posted: August 20 2010 at 16:07
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A friend introduced me to Dream Theater and Riverside, and ever since then I've been in a constant search for new bands, so it's really a mixture of "school friends" and "Internet" [= By the way, non of my current friends, colleagues or family listen to anything even close to prog, or any kind of rock for that matter, which I find kind of sad. But, well, I can't control everyone, I guess. |
Posted By: spookytooth
Date Posted: August 20 2010 at 21:32
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My parents raised me on progressive rock. I have memories of my parents playing ELP, Yes and Pink Floyd mix tapes in the car for me when I was little. Of course later on in my life the internet and friends helped me expand my music horizons (prog being in the forefront) even further.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: August 21 2010 at 14:29
| Guitar teacher? |
Posted By: sydbarrett2010
Date Posted: August 31 2010 at 22:48
| my older brother followed by my cousin |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: September 06 2010 at 14:46
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Friday Rock Show
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Posted By: RoeDent
Date Posted: September 06 2010 at 17:12
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August 2006: I read something on a red button news service about Comfortably Numb being voted the best guitar solo of all time. So I came to the internet (the ultimate repository for all human wisdom and knowledge), listened to said solo, then listened to the live version on PULSE, and I was hooked on the Floyd. Two years passed, I still had the internet, and I stumbled across a 42-minute song. Being a fan of long songs in general, I had to try and find it. That 42-minute song was called Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by a group called Dream Theater. Then I heard Octavarium and I was hooked on them. A few more band discoveries later (Porcupine Tree in particular), and I've recently started to delve into the 'classic' prog epics. My favourite of these at the moment is Supper's Ready. I'm still on this incredible journey of discovery through this magnificent genre of music. Long may it continue! |
Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: September 16 2010 at 11:20
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It was a mixture of some of the options...
I'll rank them in chronological order:
4. Dad (rock music in general, FEW prog bands like Pink Floyd; he sort of laid the foundation and the very basics; 12, 13 years old)
3. Radio (Discovered a few songs from Rush and Yes, around 14, 15)
2. TV (VH1 Classic, saw a Genesis concert video and a Genesis doc and I was hooked! I was around 15,16)
1. Internet (I looked up prog artists on Wikipedia and ultimately, ProgArchives!  Around 16 - the day I die?  The rest is happening and developing everyday.)------------- 
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Posted By: progvortex
Date Posted: September 17 2010 at 00:02
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My buddy gave me a CD of Fragile. But it didn't really get going until I found and downloaded Pawn Hearts online, the CD release with the very avant-garde bonus tracks. Crazy stuff.
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Posted By: DeKay
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 11:10
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Read an article about the best prog rock albums ever when I was 13 (more or less). Most of them became my favourite albums as well. Not hard to guess which these were.
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Posted By: cemego
Date Posted: October 05 2010 at 11:25
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Bad poll. My influence was an older friend. ...and laugh it up folks... my introduction to prog was Supertramp-Breakfast in America, Genesis-Selling England BTP, Trick of The Tail, and ELP-Trilogy. The Genesis and ELP is understandable but the Supertramp is iffy. HAHA! ------------- listen to streaming stuff! no commercials! http://wmom.servemp3.com:8000/listen.pls |
Posted By: Chela
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 16:01
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School friend... then lover. |
Posted By: GY!BE
Date Posted: October 12 2010 at 19:18
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Basically my dad but also my school's friends and also a bit of internet.
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: October 14 2010 at 20:14
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My dad got me into Yes and Genesis, my older brother got me into Dream Theater. and there it all began.... ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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