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Which band first got you into prog?
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Poll Question: Which of these bands is most responsible for getting you into prog?
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Yes, ELP and Pink Floyd but I heard Yes first (by a few days...)
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Probably The Moody Blues and Tull in '68 and '69....though I also liked early Procol Harum and Traffic.
After I heard the first KC in the spring of 1970...it had come out in the fall of '69....I really started to look for other bands/ albums in that style.
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Muse was first

Then Queen

Then Pink Floyd

And at last, Yes.
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First it was Dream Theater and Steve Vai (about 20 years ago).

Before that the closest to prog was Queen and Vangelis.


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Manfred Mann's Earthband (and Floyd in second place).
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toss up between Tull (Stand Up at age 6) Supertramp (Crime at age 11) and Floyd (nearly all of them existing at the time  at age 12)
 
EDIT: f**k ,Censored I voted and answered already on page 1


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There was no group that made me think "This type of music is much better than the crap I've been listening to previously, I'll continue listening to that from now on." And although it wasn't the first prog rock music that I had heard or even liked, Pink Floyd was the prog rock group that had the greatest early influence on me.


 
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Absolutely Pink Floyd.
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My guess would be that Pink Floyd probably has by far the most non prog fans. ;)
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Thinking way back, it was probably Pink Floyd. My dad had DSOTM, WYWH, Ummagumma and Animals, and I branched out and got Meddle on my own. It really whetted my appetite for extended works.

Edit: hang on, I didn’t notice the Moodies as an option. I was listening to them avidly as early as age 4. I just didn’t think of them as prog. They were more like the Beatles to me.

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Other: Santana... you know, the early stuff, not "Smooth"
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First progband I heard was Yes, but I was then four or five years old. Can´t really say Yes got me into prog then, it was Pink Floyd much later when I understood how great music prog was.
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Gotta be Fink Ployd, followed by the usual other suspects (Yes, KC, ELP, Genesis, etc)
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Floyd was first at an early age. But it were weren't for Soft Machine and Crimson and Yes and Rush and many of the other earlier bands listed it is hard to say how things would have turned out...
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My prog fire was first sparked by Muse, Pink Floyd and Tool, it slowly burned with psych/stoner/doom bands, got fueled by guitar virtuosi like Buckethead/Vai/Satriani, then finally burst into flames with King Crimson, Soft Machine and Yes. The fire has only gotten stronger since then, though these days I'm so used to it that unless I turn the radio on prog music doesn't sound that mind-blowing anymore. Kinda wish I could go back to the first time I listened to these bands to experience that wonder again.
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

The Doors
they aren't prog.
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Originally posted by REXFORD REXFORD wrote:

Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

The Doors
they aren't prog.

what they were doing is seen by many as proto-prog. I kinda agree. :)
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^^The OP asked which band...didn't say prog only, but then listed prog bands on his list., but did have a spot for 'other'.
I always liked the more 'atmospheric' bands like The Doors and Jefferson Airplane when growing up over say Credence or The Stones, though I listened to all of them back then and bought many single 45's. and later the lp's. I really didn't have a single 'prog' band that led me into that direction(and I think that's true for a lot of us old timers...)..it was a combination of many interesting bands...
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