Real name:  Fernando Raffani
Location: Brazil
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Age: 25

My story with progressive rock:
My first contact with progressive rock started long time ago. My father had some albums we can call progressive, like the late BEATLES albums. So, after a long time hearing these albums and very bad songs in Brazilian radios (even the good new ones they didn't play), I luckily found in a CD store near my house some CDs costing R$3,00 (approx US$ 1.00) with songs from seventies and eighties. Generally those CDs were compilations, so I've bought some and found new good bands. In the middle of those CDs, I found one MARILLION, one HAWKWIND, compilations with ATOMIC ROOSTER, URIAH HEEP and other Hard Rock bands. After that, I started to search for another progressive and hard rock bands and I found used vinyl very cheap. So, since them, I started a great collection of progressive rock.

Collection of original progressive cds:
I'm not sure, but I think that I have between 500 and 1000 original progressive CDs and vinyls. Unfortunately it's very difficult and expensive to get modern progressive material in my country, but I'm not a "stuck in the 70's" progressive fan.

My favorite bands/artists (5 to 10):
JETHRO TULL, URIAH HEEP, The MOODY BLUES, EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER, TRIUMVIRAT, RENAISSANCE, KING CRIMSON, PROCOL HARUM.

My favorite albums (5 to 10):
The MOODY BLUES - "On the Threshold of a Dream", "In Search of the Lost Chord" & "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour'; URIAH HEEP - "Magician's Birthday", "Demons and Wizards"; JETHRO TULL - "Thick as a Brick" & "Songs From the Wood"; RENAISSANCE - "Renaissance"; TRIUMVIRAT - "Old love dies Hard"; CAMEL - "Mirage".

Sub-genre Nb of reviews Avg rating 1 Symphonic Prog 79 3.76 2 Crossover Prog 43 3.77 3 Heavy Prog 33 3.52 4 Eclectic Prog 26 4.08 5 Proto-Prog 23 4.09 6 Psychedelic/Space Rock 23 3.87 7 Prog Related 15 3.20 8 Progressive Metal 15 3.27 9 Prog Folk 14 3.43 10 Rock Progressivo Italiano 13 3.31 11 Jazz Rock/Fusion 10 3.80 12 Canterbury Scene 7 3.86 13 Neo-Prog 6 3.17 14 Krautrock 5 3.80 15 Progressive Electronic 5 3.80 16 RIO/Avant-Prog 4 3.00 17 Indo-Prog/Raga Rock 3 3.33 18 Zeuhl 2 3.50 19 Experimental/Post Metal 2 2.50 20 Tech/Extreme Prog Metal 1 3.00