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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 14:58
I am a member of Metal Archives.  I was listening to some Dream Theater one day and asked myself, "I wonder if there is a Progressive Rock Archives?"  I am here now.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 15:08
Originally posted by M@X M@X wrote:

I did'nt found it so I had to create it Evil Smile
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As for myself... I must have found this site back in 2005 or so, where I made an account under a different name, but only ever wrote one review for myself (it's for Crimson Glory's 'Transcendence,' if you're interested in seeing what my writing looked like when I was 11 or 12!) but I let it alone for a few years and came back to it in 2009 because I was starved to find some new music, and share my opinions with people.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 15:11
There are many links available for Prog Archives and so I stumbled upon the site in that way. I noticed a high volume of musicians belonging to the site and thought I would run across the musicians I worked with during the "Mad Times". So far I haven't had the best of luck as they would surely know me from my posts. However, the members on the site are truly informative on a diverse amount of music and that will do just as well. I consider myself lucky if anyone communicates with me because I am a jabberbox.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 15:36
Local radio station/Late 2004
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 15:59
It was in the fall of 2004. In these days I have just become fond of Traffic (after more than 30 years of listening to prog). A Google search directed me ProgArchives.com and I found a lot more to my liking, which re-kindled my smouldering love for prog. I visited this site regularly, but I remained true to my principles concerning internet anonimity for some 43 months before I finally signed up.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 19:58
In the pursuit of new music I think I was looking up older bands that I liked such as YES and PINK FLOYD and a link brought me here. I remember thinking to myself I had hit the jackpot when I discovered the archives. All of my favourite bands were here and so many bands I had heard cited as influences were here as well. I just began a daily quest to check out new and old bands and I haven't looked back since. A BRILLIANT RESOURCE FOR ALL THINGS PROG. 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 20:16
as I recall, it was between viewings of porn


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 20:17
OW!!!!!!!!! crap, it bit me in the ass, dammit!!!Angry

Edited by Slartibartfast - December 26 2010 at 20:18
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 21:27
I was a member of yesfans, a forum for fans of yes ... and having exhausted most of Yes' discography, was looking for recommendations. I found a topic of a guy who recommended a band called Pulsar, linking to their PA page because of the streaming track there. I clicked through and not long after was addicted to this site and had left yesfans behind.

As a side note, since I joined this site I have been continuously behind on my wishlist. I haven't yet found the time to purchase Yes' Magnification yet, for example, nor that Pulsar album that brought me here in the first place...or a few hundred others. XD
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 21:38
It was in spring 2008. I was in my school's computer lab. We were supposed to be doing a math excel project, but I got bored and typed up "top prog albums" on google and this came up. I learned SO much about prog, it still makes my head spin.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 21:39

I googled myself and found the introduction from my ELP review page being discussed in a thread.

"History of Rock Written by the Losers."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 21:52
A link for a review on the old Flower Kings website.  I had found them on Amazon after I bought a Rush CD. They recommended DT, then Transatlantic then I tried Unfold the Future.  Went to the TFK website and on to PA.

I guess Vapor Trails was good for something after all.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 26 2010 at 22:27
on the internet
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 27 2010 at 02:47
My cousin (younger cousin!) introduced me to Uriah Heep's music so I started to look for some info about this band in Internet. After I typed "Uriah Heep" in Google, progarchives website was one of the results.... And this is how my prog-rock journey started Approve
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 27 2010 at 02:57

Wow I'm impressed you all remember about this. I don't have a clue really.
I only know it was by searching for reviews via Google, about 4-5 years ago.

But I didn't register till a year ago, thinking "let's do a couple of reviews", and see what happened next...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 27 2010 at 03:09
it was 2004. I was looking for some prog bands to discover and found this site. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 27 2010 at 03:13

GOD LEAD ME HERE

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 27 2010 at 03:38
Originally posted by Andy Gilmour Andy Gilmour wrote:

Also The Mighty Google - thanks to a few folk posting some nice things about Citizen Cain, a (very obscure) band I was part of back in 1993/4.

I was trying to find out what had become of the other guys in the last 15 years or so, and up popped ProgArchives...

Cheers!

Andy

p.s. Still making noises, a bit "ECM jazz" with some odd-bass-noises-looping, but not what ye'd strictly call "prog"... :-)

http://www.andygilmour.com
 
Andy, I must be one of the biggest fans of CC's Somewhere But Yesterday out there, as you can guess by my 5-star review here in PA. An absolute masterpiece, you've got my deepest admiration.
 
As for the OP question, I am not sure if it was by a link on the site DPRP (Dutch Progressive Rock Page) which I frequently checked out, or simply by some Googling. Great find either way. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 27 2010 at 04:22
Googling. At first I preferred www.progwereld.org (a Dutch website about modern progressive releases), but soon I began to understand the genius of PA.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 27 2010 at 08:16
Google. Was searching for more prog info, bands, etc. and came across the site. It's been a great find!
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