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mellotronwave
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Posted: February 04 2022 at 14:27 |
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Genesis (Live of 1973)
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Back in the day, we didn’t have wads of dough to drop on albums, so we made radio requests by rotary dial telephone, waited and taped songs from the radio. Some of the ones I distinctly remember recording were Freewill by Rush (which annoyingly overlapped with the tail end of Cradle Will Rock by Van Halen), Long Distance Runaround by Yes, and Don’t Cry by Asia (with a Casey Kasem introduction!). I remember playing Freewill over and over because that song has so many amazing elements: odd but well placed time signatures, lovely arpeggiated chord progressions, snappy rock riffs with well-voiced chords at higher register, and one of the best guitar/bass solos you’ll find anywhere in Progdom. But, I didn’t know it was Prog. I just knew it was intricate. So, Prog just sort of seeped into musical pores.
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No band in particular - it was listening to Alan Freeman's Saturday Afternoon Rock Show on BBC Radio 1 from about 1973 onwards. The 'prog' label was not really around at that time and not one I identified with.
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Psychedelic Paul
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I'd forgotten about Renaissance. I was into them three years before Camel, starting with "Ashes Are Burning" (1973) for Renaissance and "Moonmadness" (1976) for Camel.
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I'm not sure. Marillion, Jethro Tull or Pink Floyd. The first prog album that I bought was Pink Floyd - The Division Bell. But, around those years, I also listened to Marillion's debut and Jethro Tull's Heavy Horses. The first prog album that I bought and enjoyed thoroughly was Dream Theater - Awake. So, the answer should be this band.
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Probably Renaissance was the first. When I was a kid my brother had Live at Carnegie Hall. I use to listen to it a lot.
After that it was Yes. A few years later I went to a Yes show & I was hooked. |
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Dream Theater here, but also Yes and Pink Floyd.
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The Moody Blues got me into music, and ELP got me into prog. Tarkus was unlike anything I'd heard before.
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Believe it or not, it were The Flower Kings, Spock's Beard and Dream Theater for me
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Queensryche (Operation Mindcrime) and Fates Warning (No Exit). I was a teenager thrash metal maniac and those albums blow me away and open a new world to me
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Asia! No, just joking, it was Floyd + a bit of Dust In The Wind on the radio + a couple of local bands, like Sui Generis and Pastoral.
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Hi,
I'm going to say ... NONE OF THESE ... mainly because I was into it from the very first days, of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, and then Bob Dylan in 1965 when I came to America. A couple of years, and the psych's stuff got me interested and when I moved to California it was history. I was already "progressive" without listing any of those, and things like The Nice, were in my collection, and I had heard JT and Fairport Convention, but so were Moodies, Procol Harum, Crosby, Still and Nash, Spirit, Jefferson Airplane, and even some Grateful Dead although I did not realize it was them at the time. Chicago, The Sons of Champlin, The Doors, Janis, Quicksilver Messenger Service, It's a Beautiful Day and Jimi complete the program. I was ready for 1972, so to speak, and when it came, to me, it was a SERIOUS EXTENSION of what a lot of the stuff that you heard at the Fillmore was all about ... not a song ... a wonderful piece of music. And I went to it, since the American Record companies made sure to kill everything that was "music" except what they determined were "songs" that could bring in the money. To this day folks don't see that, when all the advertising and SW excitement notices shows you what is supposed to be good! By the time things were starting to be called "progressive" and eventually "prog" I was way further out and up from this list ... many of them ended up in my collection, but they helped me determine that this whole thing was not accidental, nor was it a wonder hit that got to the radio, or some ridiculous single that sold more than a million farts and pisses. All in all ... I couldn't possibly identify you one ... they were all a part of the history of the music for me, not some separate this or that by folks that don't always look at history for the answer. To them I keep feeling this is just a bunch of "songs" and who really cares about anything else!
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I bought Spertramps COTC when it came out. It was my second album I purchased after a Beach Boys compilation that was my first. Had saved up birthday money for it and the reason was the hit single dreamer which I loved. The music on the album was not indicative of dreamer though. I found COTC to be an extremely different, involving, darker and more interesting album.
A friend gave me a copy of Yes CTTE and that was it. Third purchase was DSOTM I was still listening to Led Zep/Bowie/ Purple etc ( my brother had these albums and I thus had them on tape) but my prog collection was about to grow.
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I agree. The OP's question really doesn't apply to those of us who lived through the formative years. It was just "there", on the radio, at dances, at concerts, everywhere. What we now call prog was just part of the mainstream. "Prog" did not exist as a separate genre at that time, so there was no differentiation -- although some FM radio stations did focus more on the longer, artsier, more rebellious tracks that the AM stations found less commercial. And I also agree with the omission of Genesis. I grew up in the Pittsburgh area, and they just didn't have a following.
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Pendragon and IQ.
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Supertramp, even though I was already aware of Pink Floyd, Rush and the more accessible (a.k.a. Trevor Rabin) stuff by Yes.
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Genesis, Selling England by the Pound.
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I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
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Camel, without a doubt. Moonmadness was on constant "heavy rotation" on my turntable.
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