Can you remember the first ever prog rock band you

Hi,

I think this complicates things a lot, but if we do not have the guts to know/understand the history of the prog music and where it came from, then the Beatles and Rolling Stones, way back in 1964 didn't mean crap! In fact, they revolutionized the music and radio, specifically, in many places, and I was in Brazil, to give you an idea.

As such, it was extremely progressive, although these days, most folks that post on PA have no idea what that means or have any kind of conception as to what that meant in the first place. It was VERY DIFFERENT then, and a couple of years later, in America, I got to see and hear BLONDE ON BLONDE tear up radio and AM disk jerks in Madison make fun of him and not playing anything he had ... until the following year the FM radio exploded and that album was a massive one on it!

This changes the story quite a bit ... since the only one you are wanting to hear about it the top ten in the late 60's and early 70's, who had become many of the bands that were played on FM radio in America, though their exposure in Europe was quite different, even when you read Dave Cousins book!

Essentially, "rock", prog or not, started when it went electric ... so seeing some of the listings here, it is really difficult to not see that they are merely voting for their favorite, because you were not going to exactly hear Uriah Heep on many stations on the FM dial ... though some did play it, and they made their money off the sales in America for a long time. That states that the person also heard a few other things that he/she is not mentioning, that might not be considered "prog rock" ... but I really doubt that UH was played next to AM dial crap ... so the comment and choice is weird to say the least. At least from the history I witnessed in Madison WI (to 1971) and then Southern California from then on. I was very well aware of the FM radio band as early as 1968 in Madison, which played things like Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, and many other bands that AM hit/radio would never touch. However, the FM radio dial in Santa Barbara and Southern California was far more advanced and creative than many other places, is my thought ... there were stations in LA (KNAC to name one!) that played IMPORTS a lot during the day, and many bands got a lot of attention from it, and some that were included a wee bit later, would have been Golden Earring, Nektar, Hawkwind, and many others which are now considered "prime" when it comes to the definition of "progressive" anything.

The only sad thing from your OP is that it lacks history ... leaving only one thing for folks to mention ... their favorite band ... heck I could tell you that I first heard AD2 in 1972 (Carnival in Babylon) but it wasn't until 3 months later when I got Wolf City ... that it really jumped my bones beautifully! But that is not to suggest there there was nothing else then ... I was already listening to Hawkwind, for example.

I was 12 I think, I didn't consciously check genres out, my father played Manfred Mann's Earth Band's Watch as a tape in the car and I was absolutely stunned by it. A friend got me into Pink Floyd a few weeks later. From then I started to check out and look for many things, also read stuff to get ideas... for example I "gave this jazz rock genre a go" like you said, within one year I had become this kind of person.