A question! Do your personal friends ....

I'm 18 and to be honest with you in my age group prog has made a real come-back. Just about everyone like Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Yes about 5 people I know like Marillion, I know dozens of people who are big Dream Theater fans, I also know loads of people who like Rush, they're another all time favourite. To be honest with you, I think there is a new-wave of prog appreciation from people about my age who are fed up of nu-metal, punk, R&B and want to see something with a bit more depth and emotion and as a result of this PROG WILL NEVER DIE!!!

For me only 1 other friend of mine is into prog and all it has to offer. Other then that, im pretty much the only prog head i know. We stick together to combat the haters! Long Live Prog

I'm the only one who listens to prog.  My best friend listens to metal and hard rock. He listens to a lot of the hard rock radio stations too .  In our high school days, we both listened to punk, then in my senior year I got into black metal, and he still liked punk.  From black metal, I started to explore other genres of metal, where then he got into metal, but I always liked the obsure stuff and he liked the "ear friendly" stuff.  When I was listening to metal with growls/screaming, he would only listen to bands with a good voice.  Now he listens to all types of vocals.  I feel like I've always been a step ahead with music.  I tried to play some prog for him, but he doesn't like it.  The music he likes has to have a distinct riff, and no "weird" stuff like keyboards.  He also doesn't like acoustic guitar in music, it always has to be loud and in your face.  I don't know about you..but I need some soft parts in music, or else I'd go crazy!

Im a teenager and my friends listen to prog only because I give them accesible bands to listen to but none have discovered prog bands by their own...yet

I'm a teenager, everyone knows/many listen to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and of course Pink Floyd. But that's just my crowd, most people prefer rap and pop-music over talent. I CAN believe a 51 year old doesn't know who Emerson Lake and Palmer is though. I can make a comparison, my mother (who is almost 51) did not know who Creedence Clearwater Revival was until I proved it to her one day. Many people forget the good stuff as time goes by, prog or not. I wonder if your personal friends would recognize Lucky Man if they heard it, Greg H..

... listen to Prog Rock? The best, I can claim is 'Pink Floyd' (yeah.... a few friends of mine know this band! Geeezzzzzz.). Few even know who ELP is. And; I'm 51 years old!!

That's about as good as it gets for me, folks!

So; how many of your personal friends get into this wonderful genre of Progressive Rock??!! 

And; of course, many of us remember when it was new!!!!!!    

 

Edited by Greg H.