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    Posted: August 16 2018 at 13:41
I've been on the site for about a year now.  In that time I have delved deeper in to some bands I was only a little familiar with  (Gentle Giant, Camel, Soft Machine) & discovered some I didn't know at all (Ozric Tenticles,  Big Big Train, Riverside, Caravan..) It's been a fun journey so far. 

   So what bands have you discovered as a result of joining the site? 
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Haken, Riverside, Big Big Train, Pendragon, Ozric Tentacles all spring to mind. All brilliant bands.

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Too many to name, I typically hear about bands either here, PE, FB or at festivals. I pretty much always come here after that to explore discography, read reviews, check threads and decide where to start exploring. Some that spring to mind include Thinking Plague, Miriodor, Chrome Hoof, Hyrrokkin, Secret Chiefs 3, Cardiacs, elephant9.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Man With Hat Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2018 at 14:29
It would be easier to mention the names of bands I knew before finding this site (Genesis, King Crimson,Zappa, Gentle Giant, Spock's Beard, Brand X, UK, Dice, Lift, Kayak...that's about it I think) than naming the ones I've found because of the site. 
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^ Same, I knew Pink Floyd, Focus, Gryphon, ELP, some King Crimson and Frank Zappa, Tangerine Dream, Can, some Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator, Rush, Gentle Giant, Camel, some Cardiacs, one Henry Cow song.... Not much.

Way, way too many to name that I discovered thank to this site. Before I joined this site, I spent a year trying to familiarise myself with the categories and music here (spent countless hours doing that). I knew very little before then, I was pretty ignorant. I used the service we had for listening to tracks from a great many albums throughout the categories. When a track sounded interesting to me, then I would investigate further.   I quickly found an affinity for certain types of music here. I've also received many great recommendations from people here.

While I have found a lot of music outside Prog Archives through my own research, I still ultimately owe much of that to my time spent on Prog Archives as it set those kinds of musical interests and associations in motion (and I used to like to find music to suggest for Prog Archives inclusion). I don't use the database to discover bands now, and I haven't for over a decade, but I still discover music at PA thanks to certain posters in the forum.

If I hadn't found PA, I don't know what I'd be listening to or doing know, but I think I might have had a much more productive life. ;)
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Mostly lesser known bands, like some of the electronic genre, or the Italian and Swedish scene. I would say it's a lot of bands, hard to mention or remember exactly.
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I originally came to PA to help me find more music outside of the UK and English speaking world; I have taken a punt on so many lps on what I have found here and on recommendation and most of it has been a joyous illumination.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote noni Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2018 at 15:01
Lots of Itailian bands or artists from Italy.    My list of such bands as PFM and NOVA has grown enormously since the 70s...Big smile....  Italy has to be one of my favourite countries for Prog.
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Over the years - probably hundreds.
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PA is my main source of prog groups discovery so far. May be one or more new group per week. I've been very active in purchasing prog CDs for five years now (an average of one per day) because I had not enough time to spend hearing music before my retirement. PA has been a very usefull source of information to complement my old collection of prog vinyls from the 70s (and earlier).
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Too many to mention from both classic and post-classic periods. I limit myself to a dozen of my recent favourites and bands that topped my contributions to AotY lists:

Anekdoten, Big Big Train, Discipline, Deluge Grander, Hamadryad, Gnidrolog, Neal Morse, Alejandro Matos, Akt, Echolyn, Days between Stations and Nine Stones Close.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Rivertree Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2018 at 15:49
many ... many ... many ...



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Motis, bébé!
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Too many to count. I was out of the prog music loop most of the eighties and nineties, and in Argentina a big chunk of groups from the seventies never reached our shores, so imagine all the music I was missing.
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I've been hunting and gathering prog albums since '75, first at the import sections at Tower Records and later at the more esoteric import sections at Rasputins, Amoeba & Streetlight Records.  The bands below came directly from researching the PA database and trying them out.  I consider some major finds and get frequent listens*, some still under investigation, some just OK, but all worth spinning from time to time Wink 

Amenophis 
Ash Ra Temple
Astra
Atmosphera *
Bacamarte *
Bobby Beausoleil
Brainticket
Bubu *
Caravan *
Carpe Diem
Jose Cid 
Circus
Clearlight
Jean Cohen-Solal
Druid
England 
Et Cetera *
Edgar Froese *
Fuhrs & Frohling *
Gazpacho
Goblin 
Haken *
Harmonium
Michael Hoenig *
Jean-Michel Jarre *
Kaipa
Magma
Mastadon
Memoriance *
Nightwinds
Nil
Oniris
Pentacle *
Pierrot Lunaire *
Plat Du Jour
Quarteto 1111 *
Ripaille
SBB 
Gunter Schickert
Solaris
Synopsis *
Tantra 
Terpandre
Igor Wakhevitch
Wallenstein 
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I have been following this site every day for a few months, and it is always a revelation. Just to name a few off the top of my head Phideaux Riverside Wigwam Mastadon and countless I keep forgetting.. Right now I am listening to Land's End, another cool find!
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Many bands, but one is more special because of the sub-genre. I mean, I would have never listened to Opeth if not because of PA reviews. I like prog-metal, but the extreme metal with growling vocals has never been my cup of tea. However, after reading PA reviews, I discovered a great band. As of today, Blackwater Park remains their masterpiece.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote tempest_77 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2018 at 18:26
Honestly so so so so many, it'd take forever to name all of them, but a few favourites include The Dear Hunter, Ozric Tentacles, Kayo Dot, Sieges Even, Oceansize, iamthemorning, and The Decemberists. All are now some of my favourite bands, but I never would have discovered them without PA. Also Cardiacs and Beardfish are two worth mentioning.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ForestFriend Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2018 at 18:56
I can't remember any specific bands since I hear about them from a few different sources, but most of my discoveries on PA come from browsing the Italian, Canterbury or Zeuhl categories. For whatever reason, I don't tend to browse the other genres for "hidden gems" like I do those, even most of my favorite artists probably fall under Symphonic.
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too many to name
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